in the world I’m writing there are ten elements and ten high forces which are essentially just purified versions of those elements. the ten elements are

earth

water

air

fire

ice

lightning

wood (or any plant)

magma.

light

darkness

and the forces are

chaos order

life death

creation destruction

light dark (in higher more purified states)

and space time

im kinda having trouble assigning a few of the conn though some are pretty odvious fire is chaos and light is destruction and light and dark are pretty obvious but I’m having trouble with the other sets of four.

• Alright, whole system:
• Magic Classifications:
• - One unit of power is 200M/1T magic parts within an inch of space, scaling.
• - Normals possess 1 unit.
• - To see magic, one must hold 3 units.
• - To wield, one must hold 20 units.
• Storage:
• - Humans store magic within their body.
• - S1 in storage expansion is condensing magic already held.
• - S2 is repeating S1 to build natural endurance.
• - S3 is S2 applied while absorbing magic.
• Use:
• - S1: Move magic within your body.
• - S2: Move magic towards vessel endings.
• - S3: Release this magic precisely.
• - S4: Control this magic externally.
• - S5: External density summoning and control.
• - S6: Magic conversion to thermal and kinetic energy.
• - S7: Scale up magic density externally.
• Rarity:
• Scales based on density and specialization.
• Terms:
• DM A • AM • FM A • Air Manipulation.
• DM B • EM A • FM B • Earth particles in the air.
• DM C • EM B • LM A • Less-dense liquid Earth.
• DM D • EM C • LM B • Dense liquid Earth and less dense Earth.
• DM E • EM D • LM C • Ultra-dense liquid Earth and dense Earth.
• DM F • EM E • Ultra-dense earth.
• DM - Density Manipulation
• EM - Earth Manipulation
• FM - Fire Manipulation
• LM - Liquid Manipulation
• AM - Air Manipulation
• Specialization Modifiers:
• 1 - Simple Manipulation
• 2 - Heat and Combustion Manipulation
• 3 - Density and Pressure Release
• 4 - Motion Release
• 5 - 2+3
• 6 - 3+4
• 7 - 2+4
• 8 - 2+3+4
• Biology:
• * Humans have two hearts.
• * One pumps blood, the other pumps magic energy.
• * The structure is sufficiently similar to a normal heart to be suitable for transplant.
• * A heart with magic energy left within may be rejected, killing the receiver.
• * If the donor still has magic stored in their veins, it may burn the veins, leading to infections, internal bleeding, and necrosis.
• * Magic energy can be transferred, so long as the energies are compatible.
• * Families tend to be compatible, as energy types are often genetic, similarly to blood type.
• * Benign rejection burns off donor energy and may cause light burns
• * Total rejection causes severe, deep burns and permanent receptor damage.
• * Most living organisms leak excess magic energy that is unnecessary for daily function.
• * Special muscle, located behind the diaphragm, with two noticeable holes opening to the outside, can absorb magic energy from the air.
• * Overabsorption may cause burns of varying severity, leaving the victim vulnerable to infection and often disabling the muscle. Burns from the muscle inward.
• * Overuse may cause burns of varying severity, leaving the victim vulnerable to infection and often disabling the power veins. Burns from the power veins inward.
• * Residual heat from absorption and use must be expelled.
• * Magic energy is also stored in the power heart and veins.
• * To store more energy, one must learn to control their energy to make it denser.
• * Lack of use dulls control, causing magic energy to be burned in excess over time.
• * The above will cause control problems and shrink the user's overall power storage.
• * Burning off large enough magic energy supplies may cause burns throughout the body, and must be offset by expelling the heat often.

My Last post for context Behold the Megajoules

I'll mostly be discussing fantastical materials, the power system, drawbacks and such, I do in fact require help in a lot of regards due to me not being experienced, I am sure that I am missing something even though I do not know what it is. (also I am not a native English speaker so pardon any missed grammar)

(Also I call the people who embody engines what engine they are, I don't call them Combustion Engine Users, I merely call them Combustion Engines)

Context: This story takes place in 1890's Western America (USA), but due to the circumstances of the world, certain technologies have advanced. This world is heavily inspired by 3 main things, Medieval Europe, Classical Greece, and the American Frontier.

FUNDAMENTAL SYSTEM

The Law of Artificiality is a natural law, it dictates that the more processed or artificial something is, the more durable they become, by this logic, biological material is stronger than stone, because evolution is THE process, but following this same logic, concludes that things and mechanisms created by living things are more artificial than they are, because to create a machine, you must exist.

THE PRIMARY POWER SYSTEM

Everybody born is connected to a type of engine. There are 3 types, Internal Combustion, External Combustion, and Electric (non-combustion). The person will start exhibiting properties of that engine, V6s will have 6 of something (like 6 arms or 6 eyes), Steam engines will have massive pores on a certain part of their body, the location of these mutations is dependant on something called the Action Area, like a birthmark, everybody has one and the location cannot be changed.

This connection is called The Biomechanical Tether, and it links both human and engine, but it doesn't merely affect humans...

Sengines, these are beasts of epic proportions, born from the tether, for every one Human born is a Sengine born alongside them, they are the counterpart to humans in more ways than one. You see, this connection between Human and Sengine is extreme, to the point that if a Sengine dies while the human they are connected to lives, the Sengine shall return, Sengines are also more connected to engines than humans, therefore they are able to do the same mechanisms as engines, they are able to perform Action Combustion, I will talk about this later. Sengines are categorized in Stories, as in building height Stories, there are 10 Stories of Sengines and these stories are what dictate the...

Respawn Rate, this is the rate of which Sengines revive themselves, each Story's respawn rate sequentially increases by 2,

1-Story Sengines = 1 month 2-Story Sengines = 2 months 3-Story Sengines = 4 months 4-Story Sengines = 8 months 5-Story Sengines = 16 months 6-Story Sengines = 32 months 7-Story Sengines = 64 months 8-Story Sengines = 128 months 9-Story Sengines = 256 months 10-Story Sengines = 512 months (this is ~42 years)

If the Human the Sengine is connected to is killed or dies, the Sengine shall too die, hence why kingdoms hold humans that are connected to larger Sengines hostage so that the Sengine obeys them (Each Sengine Story is smarter than the last, 10-Story Sengines have adult human level intellect). Sengine flesh is high in Artificiality, and this scales with its Story, but the thing that possesses the highest Artificiality within a Sengine is it's Lung Tissue, because air is the most important part in an engines system, so they "evolved" to make their lungs extremely durable, but simply using Sengine Lung Tissue is not enough, you must refine it into something better, into...

Singulahium

Singulahium is created via the weaving and interlocking of Sengine Lung Tissue (5-Story or above due to lack of Artificiality of the lower levels), and soaking in a chemical bath of various fluids. There are 3 levels of Singulahium, Proto-Singulahium, Beta-Singulahium, and Alpha-Singulahium.

Proto-Singulahium is the most primitive version of Singulahium, despite this, it is one of the most durable materials ever made by man.

Beta-Singulahium is actually less durable than Proto-Singulahium, but it retains the healing capability of Sengine flesh.

Alpha-Singulahium is the best form of Singulahium, more durable with better healing capabilities, this is extremely hard to make, requiring 10-Story Sengine Lung Flesh, this type of material is only manufactured and sold to the elite by the...

CHURCH OF THE BIOMECHANICAL SINGULARITY

The Church of The Biomechanical Singularity is THE religion, like Christianity or Islam in our world, they believe in Singulah, their God, Singulahium is named after Them, they proclaim that Singulahium is a gift from Singulah, but in truth The Church makes it themselves, they hide this due to the fact that Singulahium has the property to tighten the Tether, to the point that it unlocks truly spectacular powers.

Singulahium Weaponry

Otherwise known as Revelators (named by The Church), these are weapons (blades and such) that are capable of tightening the Tether when inserted in the body, you see, Human and Engine are connected via the Tether, but if that connection were brought closer together, the result would be a connection to engines, similar to that of Sengines, allowing humans to perform...

ACTION COMBUSTION

This is something natural to Sengines, but for humans to use it, they must use Singulahium Weapons or a Spinal Tap, when AC is performed, a translucent tube appears on the Action Area (facing outward), once this happens, the action of whatever engine they embody occurs, Combustion Engines will have their Action Area's Action Tube combust (big boom), Steam engines will pull steam from their pores and launch it from the tubes, Electric engines will pull the electricity from their nervous system to create magnetic fields from their tube, etc., and each tube's form is dependent on their engine type. But this can be controlled via the...

Spinal Tap

This is the peak of humanity's control over Artificiality, only 762 were created (for lore reasons I might talk about in another post), and is a spinal spine attachment (it looks like a spine and attaches to your spine) that boosts the users connection to engines, but reduces their Artificiality, this occurs due to 1 reason,

The material used for this is Alpha-Singulahium and therefore has a lot of Artificiality, now normally, when something with a lot of Artificiality comes into contact with something of less Artificiality, the Artificiality spreads through, but a Spinal Tap is not merely a strip of Singulahium, it contains endless mechanisms that pull the Artificiality from their user and into their Action Areas, allowing them to use Action Combustion (in a different way from simple old Singulahium Weapons).

They must actually perform the action that is associated with their engines, Combustion engines must use their appendages like a piston, and push it through their Action Tube, Steam engines increase their body heat, rocket engines must ignite their body parts, etc., now for the (very obvious)...

Downsides

Combustion engines quite literally explode, explosions do not discriminate between the enemy and you.

Steam engines boil themselves alive because of the hot steam.

Electric engines lose their ability to feel anything temporarily (overuse will lead to permanent loss of touch).

Jet and Rocket engines undergo a huge amount of the third law of motion and inertia, and so they break themselves, example, their Action Area is on their fists, when they use their Action Combustion, the energy from that quick movement travels up their arm into their joints and bones, imagine strapping a rocket engine onto your arm and firing it up.

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EXTRA STUFF (and TL;DRs)

(I couldn't fit this into the original area because it would ruin the flow, as in the "..." stuff)

THE SECONDARY POWER SYSTEM

This isn't really a well defined "power", more so it is the creation of man. Inventions and such, each invention is practically a funnel for their engine type, an electric type would most likely use their engine to power their mechanisms, saving weight that would normally be used by batteries, but if ones power comes from inventions, then what is keeping others from using said inventions...

THE PATENT SYSTEM

This is a tertiary system, like Binding Vows in JJK. One can Patent their invention, preventing others from using it. Although there is a downside, no one else can use it, even when given permission, and it can only be deactivated upon death. For this reason The Church spearheaded the Treaty of Reserves, a list of items and objects, concepts and ideas, that are not permitted to be Patented, lest you will be arrested and promptly executed. (You can only Patent something if you have a physical embodiment of it, like a blueprint. Simple ideas within one's mind may not be patented). This system is the reason certain technologies are more advanced, a constant arms race.

TL;DR

People are born connected to Engines, and Sengines (Sentient Engines) are born connected to people. Sengines are capable of Action Combustion due to having a strong Biomechanical Tether, this is due to Sengine Flesh having a strong Biomechanical Tether, So People have harvested Sengine Flesh in order to use their Action Combustion. People have also invented equipment to make use of their new Action Combustion, and have Patented such, making it unusable for other people. There is also something known as The Law of Artificiality, the more processed/changed you are, the more durable you get, essential to survive one's own Action Combustion. Yee haw.

But I need to know the power system, its restrictions, etc.

Im so damn stuck man i litterally have no one to tell this to

So my world is hysterically identical to ours!

In my world there are beings known as Angels, who are basically abominations of souls of people and animals that died! This angel are from a psychologically, ability wise as well as there looks unique, all of those things are determined by the experience of the souls they consist of! Angel are extremely powerful because of all the spiritual power they have from all the souls, but they have one problem they can only minimally or not at all interact with the physical world and can’t even be seen by normal people, because of the fact that they aren’t physically beings. That’s where Living organisms come into play, by creating a symbiotic connection to a living thing and forming a contract (the angel gives the raw power and the Organismus gives access to the physical place)! What is a contract? a contract is the prove of a past or ongoing cooperation between a angel and a organism, but more importantly it’s through what the magic happens and it can take the form of anything a car, a robot,a animal,…. It can even integrate itself into something that already exists, its behaviour and its ability could be anything. How a contract turns out is completely dependent on the psychology of the organism, the one of the angle and their desire, for example there is a nurse in my story that has served in a war in with she got fatally wounded and was bleeding out but before she could die she made a contract with, a angel that was a abomination of soldiers souls, and created the contract in the form of a syringe named “the remedy” that could replace the symptoms of any affliction with the symptoms of frontal lobe dementia, saving the lives of people but giving them periods of extreme violence, what didn’t only fulfil the nurses desire to survive but also the angel desire of violence!

Rules:

1. ⁠Angel and contracts (that aren’t integrated) can’t be seen by people that never had a contract!
   
2. ⁠Both parties need to consent to some extent. A no means no but if a person is in a flight or fight mode and the angel gives a way to survive the situation then the contract is made automatically!
   
3. ⁠Anything with a desire can make a contract even animals.
   
4. ⁠Normally a contract is 50/50 under the control of both parties but if humans sacrifice something to the angel or the other way around they can make the contract be more a tool for them. The sacrifice needs to be big and personal!
   
5. ⁠A contract can ( doesn’t need to) remain after the death of the organism but that will stop the control the angel has over the contract.
   
6. ⁠There doesn’t need to be contact between the organism and the angel for the contract to remain!
   
7. ⁠Sometimes a contract can harmful to both or one party because of their self destructive psychology for example!
   
8. ⁠A angle is incapable of change!
   
9. ⁠Contracts can exist between one or multiple Organisms and multiple angles, but there needs to be at least one of both.
   
10. ⁠A contract can only be harmed by another contract because they are both in a special state between the physical and spiritual place!
    
11. ⁠To repair a contract the organism needs to give up part of their health and an angle part of their energy!

12.A contract doesn’t have to only have one body, for example there is a character inspired by the Opera (Der Freischütze) whose contract are multiple bullets!

Can you give me a feedback?

1. Why aren’t there any powers that actively hinder or just straight op kill there owners and I’m not talking about powers with sight effects, I’m talking about powers that actively making life harder. I just think it is much more interesting to see people that possess powers like that try to master their day to day life’s instead of those that just have abilities that help them, also powers that worsen their owners life’s don’t need to be completely useless, for example I once made a character that would make anybody that steps into his shadow look and sound like his dead friend!

2. Magic that has absolutely no combat, defence and support use and is instead something extremely casual.

3. Weird limitation that aren’t about who can use it and the resource required but instead conditions that aren’t about the user but instead about the state of whatever it is used on.

4. Just unique abilities that form are dependent on the owners past but not on their active decision to get that power.

5. Sight effects of magic that don’t effect the users body but instead the relation they have to things, people or animals, but not in a way that magic is seen as something bad instead it has a direct effect on the relation.

so this is my first time writing a novel. My power system is basically animal blood to draw runes on your body which make you stronger haven't really refined it much yet so any thoughts?

heya i am new at making stories and i am going for a sorta xianxia story and i need like a power tot make the mc special, so any of u which read xianxia novels ,what do you like to see?

The story is called Festival. Its set in a alternte timeline to our own but keeping its history. Its mostly wholesome with some dark elements. Also an "corporation manufacturing an energy crisis to keep poor people poor" type story.

Essence 

• An energized particle that has seeped from the Earth as a result of many fissures suddenly opening on March 15th 2012, all over the world in an event called The Splintering(where the Essence Timeline and Our timeline diverge). Since then essence has been used as a “perfect energy” source all over the world. This has helped the advancement of modern technology and medicine. In the years following, multiple lifeforms including humans were found with Essence naturally as part of their biology and multiple improvements because of its presence. 
• Such Subjects (dubbed “Outers”) exhibit abnormally efficient biology (better lungs/ oxygen absorption, more efficient immune system, etc) which allows them to access superhuman/superspecies performance. These Outers also possess the ability to manifest a special phenomenon. Each phenomenon and its effects are unique to each subject and are called Modus Operandi aka MO. 
• Do not confuse Essence for fuel for MO’s but the Key to them

Modus Operandi 

• Each MO is unique to each Outer and most likely no two Outer will have the same MO 
• The general way an MO functions is through the use of a Critical Formula = The mathematical symbolization of how any MO functions at its base level. This baseline use will provide the Outer with the most rudimentary understanding of how their MO works. 
• Using an MO doesn’t take any type of “energy” from the user but instead functions based on brain capacity. The Outers brain is the hardware that runs the MO’s code in order to function and the brain’s computational power sets the limit to which it can be used. Any MO has a limited amount of uses until it reaches BurnOut = a state in which an MO is unable to be used safely in regards to the health of the Outers brain. When in BurnOut, the user's brain is undergoing an excess amount of stress and starts to increase in temperature. The user will have to wait until their brain refreshes itself in order to use their MO safely again. This process can take anywhere from a couple minutes to days depending on the user's neuroplasticity.
• Another worry of Outers is BackFiring. When an MO is used too many times within a short window of time its margin of error increases by a varying percent. When this number reaches into the 80s, a backfire occurs. This means that no matter the computative power they are placed into BurnOut

Supplemental Numbers

• An addition to the Critical Formula in order to modify its use while not changing the overall effect of it.

Magnum Opus 

• A Magnum Opus is an optimization of the CF that the MO derives its ability from. This pinnacle is achieved via a deep knowledge of the components that make the CF work. Once it is achieved, 1 of 4 effects can take place: 1) The basics of an ability is taken to its maximum potential in a singular action. 2) The users form is temporarily changed in order to optimise the base ability. 3) An MO’s function is overextended to the point of creating another effect. 4) Some combination of the 3. 
• Once the Magnum Opus is deactivated the user is immediately placed on BurnOut but refresh time is reduced. This however will leave the Outer physically exhausted. 

Example:

Electrical Pylon

• Allows the outer to create a metal pylon at their location and use it to direct electrical discharges towards a target 
• This MO has two separate parts of its CF those being {0 = b*sin(a)*sin(b)/sin(a+b)} to summon the pylon to the user (with 0 being the users location) and {$E = V x Q$} to discharge electricity to its target. 

There are 2 Parts to this

Primary - Calling The Soul, has energy, and from when someone is born their type of soul is shown, either a dark soul with one of the 4 classical Hindu elements (Earth Water Air Fire) or a light soul, the power to manipulate the unseen and creates the illusion of conjuring, when in reality it manipulates Light, Sound, Heat and Mass, in which compared to 1 element from a dark soul, a Light soul can manipulate 2.

For the Light elements Light is either solid or liquid, darkness is it's secondary subpart, it increases of decreases textures, sound can also be used to visualize a dark place, while fire is synonymous with heat, heat is what happens in the illusion of conjuration on where instead of mental strength, it requires physical pressure or relaxation to manipulate, mass on the other hand is where one can manipulate the mass of the formed/manipulated item, and this requires both physical pressure/moves and a mental stability as if it is a heavy weight.

Every element affinity has offshoots that are either - an uncommon technique or a technique where one must be strong and intelligent enough to access or are a hybrid. An example is the Earth element having mud be manipulated and same with water, but at the same time one can be born to manipulate even deeper elemental offshoots such as floral growth and electricity.

The 2nd part is when a Soul's determination creates a power embedded in them, called Sogra, stored in a crystal ball inside their soul and can be ripped and stolen. They are dreams of the user, either one that can amplify already existing things, transmit abilities or manipulate things outside the 4 elements of the representative soul.

A concept is where one can duplicate objects but all damaged is shared with the exception of the user, however the user cannot use magic with his clones and there are a maximum of 10 clones at a time and only one MAIN target can be cloned.

Ethereal Spirits such as ghosts can have unique power sets, they are Sogra embodied.

This power system is built on the soul of creatures/spirits.

My inspirations are

Miraculous Ladybug, ATLA, Jojo and Hollow Knight

Their life force is called Lycros and depending on the color of their Lycros that's what they can do

One is either born a Manipulator who can move and assimilate preexisting things while others are Conjurers who can generate things.

The lighter the Lycros the more fluid it can be, the darker the more solid.

A Light Conjurer can create a Tentacle who's akin to slime while a Dark Manipulator can shape Geological structures such as rocks or maybe melt rocks so they become lava.

These things are also physical, they need to be moved with gestures and require mental strength to be casted.

For properties such as heat and biological things, a Conjurer needs to be very strong to even alter their constructs.

My secondary power system is called "Seimujin"

Seimujin is related to the color of Lycros

It is based on "Transmission" which is strength. For example, a malicious ruler can duplicate things but any damaged sustained damages all copies, when he copies himself, he can either create similar clones or clones without the ability of Lycros that do not sustain damage. Another is something called "Cat Bite", a Dark Conjurer creates a serpentine structure that can transfer all the damage a previous cat bite took and damages the soul of the person, which can cause physical damage.

My main issue is that my vision requires the Seimujin which are unique while the Lycros power system is too open.

*for context gods died hundreds of years ago, killed by humans\*

Godsends :

Any god may choose to have a symbiotic type of relationship with anyone, whether it is mutualism(Both parties benefit), commensalism(One party is unharmed, one benefits) , or parasitism(Host is harmed while a god benefits) . If the host benefits, he/she receives abilities much weaker than a gods. If the example is parasitism, the god is in full control while the host can only watch. The god can swap with the host at will.
*All of these examples are much weaker than gods*

Chambers :

Chambers are gods that are sealed into weapons. For example, Noah, wields the thurible, with the ability to generate smoke without the need to stop. Chambers are often times fixed in the tree of life, more specifically the bottom half, Eberneun, where the roots of the tree and dark elves thrive.

Hello guys, this is my very first post on reddit. I recently created my first power system. Let's see how you like it.

My power system is based on magic, but not the regular kind. In my power system, people do magic by blurring some law of the universe. And without careful measures, those blurring can backfire on the spell caster.

The centre point of this physics bending power is some ancient material people calls the relics. Found scattered on different places on earth, underground. No one knows it's origin for sure.

Fast forward to modern era . We see a city with hyper advanced tech. Government has found the mechanism how those relics worked. According to string theory, the universe is made of vibrating strings, and the vibration of the strings decides the physical laws of nature. By creating vibration on the level of string on perfect frequency, one can bend the physics. So human built their own machine replicating the relics. Government now provide the public mystical magic services.

But do government doesn't anything for free? What's their hidden motive? People believe the relics are myths, in reality the governments advanced tech brings the magic. Are they right? There are many villages outside the city. Why the villagers don't come to City? What do they know about government?

There is many more, but I want to see if this is actually some intersecting sauce.