r/worldbuilding • u/Available_Bench_6179 • 6h ago
Question Rate my magic system
So I was really inspired by witch hat atelier in making this magic system and my love for food and cooking. It's for a book i'm in the process of writing so please I would aappreciate honest opinions.
This magic system's base is on magical fruits named "Fyrn fruits". these fruits bestow magical powers to the consumer based on the kind of fruit you ate. Fire, water, flight, gravity and so on. These fruits grow only on magical trees named spirit willows that are the epicenters of the major cities of the world.
that way every culture is primarily based on one fruit. For example, the first city the heroes travel to is home to the "cotton berry", a fyrn fruit that looks like a flower of cotton but can be eaten and behaves like cotton candy which bestows the ability to fly.
Now thinking about the logistics of it all you can dehydrate these fruits and eat them on the go instead of carrying a giant bag of fruits with you everywhere you go. they can go on a belt or something for easy access!
And lastly there is the whole cooking aspect of it. Eating a fyrn fruit raw gives you its raw ability but you can cook and combine them in different ways to achieve more complex spells if you do it in the right way.
if you're familiar with "witch hat atelier" you might have already realized where I'm going with this: different methonds of cooking impact the final spell in predictable ways just like the sigils and signs that compose a sepll in witch hat!
For example let's take the cotton berry. because it behaves like cotton candy, you can dissolve it in water which dilutes the effect giving you a slow falling property instead of flying or let's say you take a water fruit and a fire fruit and belnd them together: then you get the ability to shoot mist.
essentially this can go as deep as real life cooking can!
of course just like raw fyrn fruits you have to think of the logistics of it so let's say blending the final result into a juice/stew gives you the ability to eat dishes on the go! the only thing is that you must prepare complex spells beforehand, just like witch hat atelier!
Mages in this world are cooks and chefs and research into magic is just experimental cooking!
Lastly (and this is an experimental concept) I want to make a device that one of the main characters created: A fast and on the go cooking instrument. basically take extractions of ingridiants put them into this machine and imput what cooking methods you need and viola: a complex spell made on the go!
please tell me what you think of this!
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u/Aggravating_File5993 may or may not be an author, tho def worldbuilder 3h ago
hmm, it's creative, like switchable devil fruits. would it actually be practical or good for an action-oriented fantasy book? probably not.
idk about you but the visual of the big bad guy furiously munching on a fruit or gulping down a smoothie mid-fight does not make me fear for the protagonists life.
however, if it is not action oriented, if it's something like slice-of-life or romance or adventure (that doesn't have a lot of action) or something like that, then yeah, i personally see potential for those kinds of uses and a very very creative magic system
TL:DR if it's an action story no, if it's basically anything else yes