Writing World-building Exercise.

[SirDogeTheFirst]

Is it legal to catch pigeons in public parks and cook them in your world?

 

[Getterkuma]

Is it legal to catch pigeons in public parks and cook them in your world?

There are no pigeons, so there is no need to contemplate the legality of cooking them.

Is there a weapon of renown in your world story?

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I'm not knowledgeable enough about the difference between Smooth and Fresnal to give a reply here.

Smooth means Pi is infinite. Fresnel means Pi is not. (fun fact: If you calculate Pi for a square, it's 4)

You know glasses? They used to be thick as coke bottles. Then people figured out only the surface of the glass was important. It's called a fresnel lens and it allows you to make glasses much thinner.

So, if space time is smooth, it's one continuous wave, like coke bottle glasses. If it isn't smooth, it's like a fresnel lens.

Why does this matter?

Because the shortest distance you can go is one Planck. 1.616255×10^-35 m

You cannot go LESS than one planck. You can go 1.5 Planck, turn around and come back 1 planck to wind up .5 planck from the point of origin, but you cannot just go .5 planck. Why? Because that is the shortest possible wavelength of a photon. To make the photon's wavelength any shorter, you would have to add more energy and at that point it would stop being energy and become matter.

Why does this matter?

Well, quantum teleportation, quantum entanglement, quantun tunneling, all these "spooky" effects that happen at very small distances seem to occur because the universe is pixilated. The smallest possible pixel would be a tehrahedron of one planck on a side, give or take. if the universe is pixilated, then can these pixels move around? Overlap? if they do, it would explain a great deal of strangeness we see on a quantum level.

Why does this matter.

Because if you changed the plank distance from 10^-35 to 10^-28, Viruses could TELEPORT. Bacteria could possibly exist in MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AT THE SAME TIME. As far as matter would be concerned, the term "Solid" would be OPTIONAL.

Doesn't that sound like... magic?

So, if your universe is Fresnel, and thus pixelated, the degree of pixelization could vary from reality to reality, and the degree that Observation affected Reality would change DRAMATICALLY. If Planck Distance was 10^20, you could change where something was by STARING AT IT REALLY HARD.

We already know observation changes reality, but only on a small level. But if your universe was highly pixelated, that might explain why magic exists... consider you aren't including magic as a fundamental force in and of itself.

I went with Both. Gives me a greater degree of flexibility. The level of magic in a universe depends on the flow of the fundamental particles of Magic (monads) as well as the degree of pixelization of a given reality. (How much energy you have vrs how much energy you NEED.) I also borrowed from the quark model of matter A proton is 2 up, 1 Down. So positive mana is 2 up, 1 down, with negative mana being 2 down, 1 up. Magical "matter" is formed from 1 up, 1 down, and one of the other 4 monads.

So we have types of fundmental "matter", two types of Mana flow, and the degree of pixelization.

The best way to think about why pixelization can change is like this. Take a film projector. Project an image of an apple on a screen. Move the camera away. The apple gets bigger. However, the apple doesn't know that. It is the "same size" because it doesn't know it's projected. The further away it gets, the more fuzzy it gets and the more "magic" is possible because the Apple is less "certain".

Now walk up to the projector and put your hand right in front of where the light comes out. You get a tiny apple on your hand. A very well defined Apple. Magic requires "fuzzy" reality. So, if something gets in the way (like a cloud of dark matter) magic gets harder to pull off.

Which then leads to the various degrees of "magic"

Aura magic, or magic that just affects YOU, is the first type of magic to develop as you get further from the projector. Why? Because magic doesn't like to be observed. if you train your body to the point you do things, "Automatically", like a martial artist, you "don't think about it". In other words, Aura magic is magic you can do, without observing yourself.

Then you get to elemental magic. This is magic in a VERY TIGHT GROUP. Not just the four elements, but it needs a "Tight" group of powers. Fire, Water, Plastic, Sex, whatever.

Then you get Frameworks, which are basically a large grab bag of powers, but they have to be defined. Each power is learned, one at a time, and once learned it acts within it's limits.

Then you get cosmic. Cosmic can do... anything. You can redefine the framework on the fly. The only limitation is, Cosmic powers are tied to a single universe. You might be god-like in one universe, but you're powerless anywhere else. Well... Almost. There is an exception to this rule, but... spoilers.

Beyond that, everything is just... flavor. Local beliefs and conditions "flavor" how magic works, but you can always break it down, in one way or another, to these elements.

That's why I wanted to know if it was smooth or fresnel.

 

[SirDogeTheFirst]

There are no pigeons, so there is no need to contemplate the legality of cooking them.

Is there a weapon of renown in your world story?

There are several of them. A sentient battle-ax that gives a portion of its creator to its user if it finds them worthy enough, a blade forged from tears of angels that can cut through anything, even concepts like fear or anger. And my favorite, just a huge cannon, like a very very big one.

 

[Tabula_Rasa]

What does the general population feel about solar systems planers and galaxies?

 

[Getterkuma]

What does the general population feel about solar systems planers and galaxies?

Solar System

Around 6-7 planets depending on your definition of planet, with one gas giant, 2 frozen planets, 2 really hot planets, and Orbis (the planet). The star is similar to ours. Orbis has a slightly irregular orbit that makes longer summers and shorter winters or vice versa.

There are two types of Eclipse that are well documented. One of them is a classic Eclipse with the moon of the planet placing itself in between it and the sun. The other is a partial one, as there is a smaller satellite spinning around Earth, but technology yet has to create something good enough to spot it at such a distance.

The Magus Empire, the progenitors of the Viani, were pretty good astronomers, so they understood the concept. Other civilizations in the world had different interpretations until they found out the reality during the colonial times when the Empire conquered the continent of Centris.

The Urbani considered Eclipses to be the sign of passing for one of their ancestors. The Morbani had a more violent interpretation, thinking that the moon regularly tried to challenge the sun to a fight, only to lose. The Paho considered it a sign of the end of the world while the Saeuvs consider it a sign of their liberation, as their emancipation war began during an Eclipse.

Forgot to add your question

Is there any original sports in your world?

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Question for you

Is there any cultural media unique to your world? (Something like movies or theatre, but that only happens in your world)

Casual conversations with past familial generations through the use of artifacts or necromancers. Given how magic works in my world, people tend to do transfigurations and minor sculpting through object sculpting to gain levels passively.

More pure mass communication and/or broadcasting? I'd guess the rather recent development of public use portals and the improved advancement of technology from a new class being discovered. So, newspapers are a recent thing that has been put into mass production. Now that I think about it I should probably have my MC introduce some type of radio. Since I'm going with an early Victorian era introduction of electricity being magic adjacent for technomancers.

Question:
Do the stars have any meta-physical influence upon your world? And, if it does, do the stars themselves function differently than balls of melt yo face?

 

[Getterkuma]

Casual conversations with past familial generations through the use of artifacts or necromancers. Given how magic works in my world, people tend to do transfigurations and minor sculpting through object sculpting to gain levels passively.

More pure mass communication and/or broadcasting? I'd guess the rather recent development of public use portals and the improved advancement of technology from a new class being discovered. So, newspapers are a recent thing that has been put into mass production. Now that I think about it I should probably have my MC introduce some type of radio. Since I'm going with an early Victorian era introduction of electricity being magic adjacent for technomancers.

Question:
Do the stars have any meta-physical influence upon your world? And, if it does, do the stars themselves function differently than balls of melt yo face?

Stars are stars, with no weird influence or power. Just big ass balls of plasma burning away in the coldness of space.

You mentioned Necromancers, what's the mechanic behind Necromancy?

 

[EnoraTwilight]

Are there vampires or GL?

 

[Getterkuma]

Are there vampires or GL?

No Vampires and I'm guessing GL is what I'm thinking it is. One of the superior officers of one of the protagonists is married to another woman but is something that is just there, not super explored. Same-sex relationships are usually well seen in most cultures except in a couple and those are less about "morality" and more about pragmatic survival as they are small populations.

There are no humanoid monsters or energy-sucking monsters. The closest (And they're pretty far apart) are the Unda, horrible misshapen creatures that were the result of ancient alchemical attempts of creating a slave race. They are rabid, locked in the artic and thinking people are delicious, they're mostly made out of tendrils, spikes, eyes and mouths.

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Is there "holy magic" in your world? If so there is a religion that supports it?

 

[EnoraTwilight]

No Vampires and I'm guessing GL is what I'm thinking it is. One of the superior officers of one of the protagonists is married to another woman but is something that is just there, not super explored. Same-sex relationships are usually well seen in most cultures except in a couple and those are less about "morality" and more about pragmatic survival as they are small populations.

There are no humanoid monsters or energy-sucking monsters. The closest (And they're pretty far apart) are the Unda, horrible misshapen creatures that were the result of ancient alchemical attempts of creating a slave race. They are rabid, locked in the artic and thinking people are delicious, they're mostly made out of tendrils, spikes, eyes and mouths.

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Is there "holy magic" in your world? If so there is a religion that supports it?

Holy magic no. Religion is not very prominent. There are religions, but people usually worship local deities. There are lizardmen who worship a dragon. There is "Light Magic" though.