Wand dares and magic systems p1

SOURCE

Directly from the website A guide to writing magic systems by Michael Alwill; the original entry is an attempt of mine to explain in my own words (and in Spanish obv), what this guy says about basic bibidibabidi bu.

Thus, if you feel like skipping and going to the website, go. I’m going to try and rant about it anyways for the people who might stay wishing to read something that I hope is very similar to The good grammar book¹.

HOW MUCH OF IT IS THERE?

We can go from the scarcity to the overflow.In scarcity we have Howl’s moving castle². In this plot, Wynne Jones moves Howl from a place with no magic (how did Howl, the exception came to be?) to a place —Ingary— where magic is not for everyone but still as domestic as sewing and talking to hats.In abundance, the website speaks about never turning magic into something mundane and so overflowing that it becomes boring… Nonetheless, The magicians uses this notion as a metaphor of the have-it-all boredom of rich people (notice boredom of the rich, those who have a lot of magic, not the rest of the human race)… Then magic can be boring too and there still will be TV series about such books.

THE QUESTIONS

The abundance or scarcity can spark questions. Questions can be answered with plot. How did the exception Howl came to be? Was there a magic egg falling into a black hole landing in this magic scarce world?Is real magic something to be derised, mocked and pitied whenever it is mentioned as in Annasumanara?

THE CHOSEN ONE

Going on with the questions. Do we have a chosen one³? Scarcity is the key. Magic can be like vampirism. In Noblesse, not everyone bit by a vampire becomes a vampire, some go into «infection» as in zombifiying. They become mindless guys who drink blood without any other abilities. Just as in Hellsing.

TO BE CONTINUED

1. Long ago… In a country far away from the British islands, there was a Merriam who had to improve her grammar ipso facto (better if it happened yesterday). She read an English grammar for dummies. That was anything but for dummies. Just the intro required rocket science. Until she found a smart and simple book called The good grammar book. It was so simple, everything made sense! That’s how I learnt grammar. That I acquired a passable listening and speaking much later… That, that’s a different spin off. ↩︎
2. Yep, there is a movie and you most probably haven’t read the book cause I also talk manga and it wasn’t as well known until the movie. The adaptation is quite successful in terms of eliminating details and still convey most of the spirit of the novel, though it doesn’t deal with Howls origin ↩︎
3. More and more, a well known and predictable plot but still one of the favourites. ↩︎