Why don't curse users create islands?

If they can choose what becomes real and what evaporates, why don’t those with solid magic create giant islands for their empires?

As far as I remember, the stone curse was lost? But anyway, you get the point.

(Does a curse for all types of magic really exist? It’s been so long since I saw that, but a curse of equinox magic or inferno fire sounds very appealing.)

No real reason I guess.

Wotan can create MASSIVE ships made of wood.
Earth Curse user can create MASSIVE landmasses.

For example, the entire Magius continent was raised from the sea floor by the peacekeeper, and is staying permanently.

Yes.

World of Magic is no longer canon but in theory yes an Earth Curse user could make another continent, just with a lot of effort and mastery of said Curse

im pretty sure pk used magic to do that. or rather, it was never really elaborated on how th ehell they did that bcs vetex wants to keep their abilities vague and such (they raised it right after defeating durza i think so they couldnt have gotten earth magic/curse via absorption yet, meaning if they used earth magic one of their mind have to be earth), so they just use raw magical energy somehow :woman_shrugging:

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all except manmade ones like aether lightning and poison lightning aka the ones that werent there when curses were created

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Well simply put, most Curse users use their powers for conquering, ruling, or war. There is scarcely anyone that actually bothers to use their powers to nurture and create; one example would be a Metal Curse user that created an arena in the Seven Seas (Arcane Adventures map), where it also happens to be the place where you fight Theos for the story progression.

Afaik only Randal actually uses his curse to create, given how the Myriad exists. Everybody else just wants to commit genocides or steal more curses for glory/fame

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Booooooooo :-1:
Worse decision Vetex ever made!!!

It just doesn’t make consist-
consistency in arcane universe.
right, yeah, makes sense now.

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tbf wom stuffs were all scrapped so

if it helps, they passed out afterward and spent like a month in recovery so it cost some pretty damn fucking big chunk of energy (mind you pk is literally super magically charged with magical energy and is probably the one with the most amount of magical energy in their body in the seven seas by the end of AA, and they still get knocked out for a whole month doing that - aka this shit probably aint achievable by most people)

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Iirc no
There is a magic type for every curse but not a curse for every magic type if there are some magics that were created after curses were.
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that was what i think too and still is but for some godforsaken reason some people were really adamant that it was the other way around, that theres a curse for every magic but not a magic for every curse which is dumb as shit bcs magic types are still being created, curses arent, how did they even come to that conclusion

where is it mentioned that they did it right after defeating durza

old lore doc prior to it being scrapped

wom wiki still had it (thank goats)

okay, so they did us their magic/mutations… and somehow regardless of whatever the players could choose they could still do it, right.

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wow that’s dumb

you’d think they would do it after tracking down the absorption curse and hades, where the PK would have the earth curse

either that or the lore doc in the WoM is telling lies to make what happened after durza’s nuke more ambiguous

For all magics that existed at the time of the creation of curses yes, its possible magics invented after that dont have a curse variant

I dont think there is such a thing as stone magic or a stone curse

Honestly its probably only the earth curse that could do something like that, a landmass made of crystal or wood wouldnt be the best for building on

ya its like how gold and iron and copper and bronze are metal, similar enough stuff get grouped together

dont ask what “similar” mean, bcs i cant answer that question

yeah i mean stone is basically just earth

or living, in general (wood magic and presumably curse creates dead wood btw), since you need soil and whatsnot to farm

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Making an island out of a curse would be like a rich man making his house out of gold

Or making your base out of diamond/netherite blocks in a Minecraft server with global PvP

For every curse except Earth, yes.