TNPT Worldbuilding

[Linus Smallprint]

Not sure where to intrude on a form for worldbuilding, so I will just start my own for my series: The Narrow Path Trilogy.

[Linus Smallprint]

@thearcaneaxiom

Continuing our conversation from ‘Hello, there!’ in ‘Start HERE’.

I also support the not helping them thing, there’s lots of curses in scripture that are never lifted, such as the fall (of course this is lifted through Christ, and will be conqured in the end, but from a purely temporal prospective at least.)

That’s the idea. I hope a story where someone is stuck with the consequences of his actions will be an encouragement to some readers. I also think this will help show character growth for Alan. If he somehow severs his connection to magic and becomes normal again how do we know he learned to trust in The Saviour to overcome magic? Instead, it might look like he overcame it all by himself and did not need The Saviour. He can also rest knowing that in the next life he will indeed be free from his curse and magic and that he is forgiven, wizard or not.

Also, I was a little tired of endings where curses are reversed.

So perhaps if they don’t have the energy holder, they energy shatters them immediately, so they just turn into a monster from the get go. That could be a good narrative element.

Hmm. You are giving me some ideas here.

Connecting to a crystal without a feather would have to turn the user into a different sort of monster, considering that the featherless crystal would have no animal DNA in it to grab from.

But now I am wondering, why does the crystal turn the user into a monster? What if instead of cursing them, it is ‘healing’ them? This would explain why fully corrupted wizards are covered in lightning-shaped scars.  All spells might do this damage, but the crystal ‘heals’ the user, repairing the damage, but using the crow feather as a reference on how to heal.

When the wizard’s crystal shatters as he uses his last spell, the impact is greater on the wizard’s body. The crystal tries to heal to wizard, completing his transformation, but it cannot keep up with all the damage, resulting in purple lightning-shaped scars covering the wizard’s body. Fully corrupted wizards are often very thin and do struggle with health issues. Their scars could limit them as well.

If I were to have featherless crystals, connecting to one would then be dangerous, for the crystal would have not have anything to heal its users with. This may result in death for the users as the scars spread uncontrolled over their bodies.

However, this would be rare. Most crystals do have feathers by the mid-nineteenth century of Ehverwyld (in which my story takes place). These featherless crystals may not even exist anymore (having run out of energy as it spread through Ehverwyld and shattered on their own. Another idea I just had, this energy then collects in special storm clouds and is brought back to rain upon the area of the crystals. I want to explore the phases of matter idea a bit more now).

I should also tell you why Wizards are monsters. When their crystals shatter, it leaves an unbearably empty hole in their brains. This confuses and distracts them, and they are not able to think straight. It seems to them that the only thing to fill this hole is magic. Not caring what is in their way, they begin to speak desperately for objects that have magical aura in them, hoping to fill that hole. However, there is still some hope for them in this corrupted state, as wizards can deny this feeling, but they rarely do this since it is so unbearable.

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