This is a question I’ve been thinking of ever since it was revealed that Darkness Magic was NOT made by Prometheus but instead by Apophis and the custom magics are made by their respective dragons. An answer for something like this may be hard so this is more like a thought experiment but how do people even create magics? Like, do they just take a magic as a sort of platform and experiment with how the magic energy works or something? After all, most of the lost magics and darkness magic all kind of have a magic as a sort of platform (like Sangdrasil’s is wood, Iursis’s is fire). Another question is what is exactly stopping there to be a lot more man-made magics since it partly seems like its just smashing magics together and boom, new magic.
I don’t believe we are aware of the exact process as of now but we know hectate shards are the core factor as they are the reason lost, ancient, man, and dragon made magics exist. How Apophis made darkness and man ended up with it is odd same with dragons getting Aether Lightning despite being man made. But beside those weird cases humans long ago got hectate essences made magics, some seemingly fused magics with it, then after time this traveled down their gene pool and after many years a lot of these likely got mixed, we also know more common ones like plasma became so common they became a base magic.
(This is likely what Iris is case 1 of flare becoming a base magic)
Yeah ik it can’t be 100% explained so this is more like theorycrafting (also I didn’t know aether lightning was manmade but it makes sense. Bet poison lightning was as well). Also now that I think about it, how do some artificial magics have curses like the Darkness Curse?
With most lost and ancient being artificial through hectate shards I wonder how most curses exist unless the curses existed first and dragons/humans merely based the magics off of the curses but that feels overly complicated
It means is the magics were created before Prometheus created Curses since he created one for every magic that existed at the time. So if a magic has a Curse equivalent, it was created before Y227
Right I didn’t think about that. That makes perfect sense to be honest, though that makes me wonder if its possible there are custom curses since the Mythical Dragons might be around the same age as Apophis.
Can’t tell if this is good or bad cause those Curses would be pretty cool but utterly ridiculous, but Vetex has confirmed mythical dragons (and presumably their custom magics) aren’t really lore canon
It depends on when they were created
Prometheus created curse forms for any magic that was created before his death
after dying there was no one left to make new curses for newly made magics
Yeah that makes sense though I find it sorta clunky still but meh
Oh alr that makes sense
yeah because this would make dev magics more canon / real if they were a part of the lore