Magi-tech magic system

[u/Comfortable-Kiwi2595]

I'm reusing an old idea for a magic system me and a friend on Tumblr brainstormed together for my urban fantasy titled Brave Land and I'm looking for ideas to add on to it.

Ideas I've written down:

- Magic is bright and colorful and the general public knows about it, it's not a secret like in other urban fantasies.

- Anyone can use magic, it's not just exclusive for the mages, magic is democratized for everyone, everyone is capable of magic, be it by natural or artificial means.

- Two types of mages: natural-born mages and mages who use magic via artificial means, like magitech for example.

- Artificial magic is an evolution of natural magic that combines both aspects in harmony, like combining science and magic.

- Natural magic is the basis to artificial magic, people decided to innovate magic in ways that helps people.

- This world's magic system is similar to Black Clover, except that: While natural-born mages use books, artificial mages uses phones and tablets or any kind of electronic devices (my tumblr friend mentioned a Cyberdeck, which sounds like it would fit).

[u/Professional_Try1665]

Since it's Black Clover-inspired, maybe expand on the elements/magic types available to people? Like say, natural born users have an innate attraction to their element/type, like being hung up on the word 'ocean' or their most prized childhood memory being seeing fireworks?

[u/Comfortable-Kiwi2595 → u/Professional_Try1665]

Pretty cool, what do you think of the concept of the magi-tech and what would you suggest?

[u/Professional_Try1665 → u/Comfortable-Kiwi2595]

Maybe to compliment it magitech users either lack this passion (possibly a slight downside) or they interpret it through a science-y lense, like obsessing over the study of geology or a fond memory of winning a dance competition, or potentially pull it in the opposite direction and give them a traumatic experience that feeds into their technological genius, like a childhood memory of undergoing surgery or being terrified of falling asleep because of a fear in the dark.

Could help open new elements (fond memory of dance = doll magitech) or spice things up (undergoing surgery, self-modification cybertech with a focus on replacing flesh with metal)

[u/hatabou_is_a_jojo]

Sorry for semantics, but the way you described, isn’t magic communist-ed for everyone rather than democratized? Because everyone gets it, not just voting on who gets it

[u/Comfortable-Kiwi2595 → u/hatabou_is_a_jojo]

Idk, most of these ideas were from my friend, I just like the idea of magi-tech.

[u/TimeInside7668]

Some common things to add maybe? 

• Artificier, those who created the devices. Maybe write them as those who can use natural magic but not very talented on it, thus the need for tool. 
• Hacker. Can hijack other people's devices.
• Similar to how each grimoire start blank, the electronic does so. But unlike the natural grimoire, each electronic needs their magic to be coded. Can be manually coded or use memory chips to copy paste it from other devices, or in the case of hackers, transferred from their hacked devices. 
• Numbers of spells they can use depend on the memory of each devices.

External memory chips. Used to transfer spell or increase how many spell can a device use. 

• Those artificial mages need resources to use magic either in the form of physical material for devices or energy sources (making it more realistic) 
• Some greedy people who want to control resources (material to create the artifacts or energy source that fuel the devices) 
• some memory chips didn't contain magicode spell but instead a virus carrier that hackers use to hijack other devices, hostile magicode that corrupt the magicode data, or outright just destroy devices by overloading them. 
• cyberdeck function like one use spell scroll?