I'm in the process of properly writing this up fully, but:
A world that's the backstory to a children's card game a high fantasy-themed, possibly anime, CCG. It boasts about five sharply defined schools of magic sponsored by five supernatural realms, based loosely on those from Mage the Awakening (Faerie for blue-ish magic, the Primal Wyld/nature spirits for greenish, Heaven for white, Hell for red, and the Dead/Ghosts/the Underworld for black).
The idea is that the card game exists in universe - it's a teaching tool for Actual Damn Magic and if you play it at a tournament level you're probably skilled enough to be an actual wizard. But something or someone (probably the forces of Hell, though it could just as easily be the forces of Heaven) wants to disrupt the tournament/cheat the tournament/circumvent actually playing the game by just starting a war.
I'm just worried this will step on the narrative toes of Pogverse and/or the other Color Magic place (though either naming the magic skills to make them distinct or setting it in the future of Color Magic Land would help with the latter.) It's rather less cheesy in intent than Pogemon, and isn't crosshatch fantasy with a divide between two worlds, if that helps.
no subject
A world that's the backstory to
a children's card gamea high fantasy-themed, possibly anime, CCG. It boasts about five sharply defined schools of magic sponsored by five supernatural realms, based loosely on those from Mage the Awakening (Faerie for blue-ish magic, the Primal Wyld/nature spirits for greenish, Heaven for white, Hell for red, and the Dead/Ghosts/the Underworld for black).The idea is that the card game exists in universe - it's a teaching tool for Actual Damn Magic and if you play it at a tournament level you're probably skilled enough to be an actual wizard. But something or someone (probably the forces of Hell, though it could just as easily be the forces of Heaven) wants to disrupt the tournament/cheat the tournament/circumvent actually playing the game by just starting a war.
I'm just worried this will step on the narrative toes of Pogverse and/or the other Color Magic place (though either naming the magic skills to make them distinct or setting it in the future of Color Magic Land would help with the latter.) It's rather less cheesy in intent than Pogemon, and isn't crosshatch fantasy with a divide between two worlds, if that helps.