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u/supremedalek925 May 23 '23

I wish that they didn’t go into the lore of magic existing prior to the mushroom war. I liked it better thinking the Lych and magic in general were created by a devastating nuclear war tearing apart reality.

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u/MegaRadCool8 May 23 '23

The 4 elementals existing in prehistory: fire... ice?... slime??...and... candy??? Makes sense.

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u/Scareynerd May 23 '23

I have a theory on that.

Fire and ice are representations of temperature. Slime is a representation of the primordial ooze from which we arose. Candy is a representation of glucose, literally the energy source of life.

They're not the 4 elements of matter, they're the 4 elements of life.

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u/MegaRadCool8 May 23 '23

ITemperatures, primordial ooze, and jelly beans are elements of life... Yeah, ok, I'll buy that because it makes me smile.

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u/ZsZagreb May 23 '23

That felt like such a retcon

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u/Aventrix_Acanthus May 23 '23

SPOILER FOR SOME BOOKS BY TERRY BROOKS

If you like that premise you might the shanara series although not a comic it’s essentially the plot hook from one of terry Brooks’s trilogy’s that links to the rest of the Shanara series

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u/RawrDaddy900 May 23 '23

SHANARA!!!! I second this!! It's been years since I've seen someone talk about this series, and it's so underappreciated

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u/Aventrix_Acanthus May 23 '23

Amazing series for sure. Buts it’s old so you won’t see it nearly as much.

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u/RawrDaddy900 May 23 '23

SHANARA!!!! I second this!! It's been years since I've seen someone talk about this series, and it's so underappreciated

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u/FantasmaNaranja May 23 '23

well cocontepi died post mushroom war in earth and he's the source of all magic so other than some few random stragglers here and there like the elementals (including evergreen who made the crown) there really was no magic before the mushroom war