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OK, so I decided when I started this that it will be heavy on the magic. Why? Because whenever I engage in nerdy activities, I prefer to choose some mage or magic class. I just like magic in general. The thing is, there are some things about magic I like in some movies/books/nerddom, and there's some stuff I don't like. In Harry Potter, all the wizards have wands. I'm not partial to that a good wizard needs his staff, robe, and pointy hat. Staff, not wand. Also wizard =/= witch. Also, I feel there is too much magic in Harry Potter. Now, I haven't read the books, and I do understand it is fantasy in the modern setting, but where's the warrior or the archer? Getting a bit too nerdy about it I suppose. In Lord of the Rings, there's barely any magic, and when it is there, it's supremely powerful and only used by those who are not humans. Now, I could rabble through every fantasy-ish thing I've come across, but that would take forever.

There's too much magic in our world's varied cultures to choose one and go with it. So, since the story takes place in our future, I can easily justify putting all of it in. Plus I'm not too fond of... err... limits? The world is a large and ancient place. And by the setting's current day, the planet has had 3 generations to create a multitude of different cultures and mythologies.

I'll upload my drawings later. Magically, there are a few different alignments. The most "basic"
are the four cliche elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth. Below that are four lesser cliche elements: Ice, Rock, Electricity, and "Plant" or more apt, Life. There are another four important, but just as cliche, elements: Light, Dark, Void, and Holy. Beyond that, there are two more but they are the odd ones out. The first, Dream, only applies to the last two books. The final, may be the most common, and the most non-existent: Omni. It is anything from reading thoughts to moving things with your mind. Usually the least powerful and most common, it is usually thought of as mundane generic magic; it's generally accepted that everyone has at least a little bit. The other use is being known as God magic, and is supposed to be the most powerful and unobtainable type of magic. No one alive is supposed to have it. Unbeknownst to the characters in the story they are one in the same. Kind of obvious, but characters in stories have the uncanny ability to be completely ignorant to obvious things.

Usual stuff applies: Fire and Water are opposite, Earth & Wind, Light & Dark, etc. Once pictures are up it's easier to see things. The four main are set up in compass format being the cardinal directions. The sub four are between the main ones. Electricity is between fire and wind, rock between fire and earth, so on.

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Before the story, there was a story...

I began working on the following "epic" 6 years ago. In that time many plot twists, events and characters have crawled out of the shadowy crevacies in my brain. Input from other people tend to lure them out in the open, but since no one will read this but me, it will merely be a place to finally get some of this down in a concrete form, even if the concrete form happens to be non-concrete.

The story is set to be five books in length each book touting a good 500-600 pages each. Whether or not I can meet this quota remains to be seen, but I'll try my hardest.

The story takes place in what starts out as a fantasy setting with cliche magic and dragons. As story progresses, the reader finds out that it is actaully a telling of future earth after the "Apocalypse", more truthfully, two "Apocalypses". Each of the first four books center around a main character (Book 1 -> Char A, Book 2 -> Char B, etc.). These four will the sub-major main characters. In each book, each main character will have four other minor main characters or "party members" (Char A -> Char A1, A2, A3, A4; Char B-> Char B1, B2, etc.). The fifth and final book will be the conclusion containing a "raid" party containing the four previous parties.

If it is not noticed already, the number 5 is a common theme in the books. There will be five books which is the final number. I like five for this because I feel a trilogy is very overused and plain. Six is just two trilogies. Four is an even number, it doesn't feel right. Five is the way to go, a little oddity. The length that four has, but with the conclusion book of an odd number.

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