Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
(Masterweaver)
The four fundementals. Air, Earth, Fire, Water. And the fifth, the mysterious aether, oft forgotten.
The five materials. Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, Metal. Each with two manifestations, that which can be touched and that which cannot.
The five colors. White, Blue, Black, Red, Green. Reflections of the magic of the planes.
The seven chakras. Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Sound, Light, Energy. The formation of the soul.
The twelve aspects. Time, Void, Rage, Mind, Hope, Doom, Space, Life, Blood, Heart, Breath, Light. That which births a living universe.
Light and Dark. Yin and Yang. Good and Evil. Order and Chaos.
Laughter, Kindness, Generosity. Honesty, Loyalty, Friendship. Strength, Healing, Hope. Beauty, Bravery, Sorcery.
Elements. Swirling, networks of elements, binding and unbinding and rebinding in a complex interweave. Parts glimpsed and named and vanished. All arguing which is the true, which is the best...
...save those who understand the nature of reflection.
Winter Lights stood. "So..." She considered the network in front of her, the nodes that glowed and those still unfilled. "This game of shadows has gained another board. One the other players have yet to notice... save the godling. Perhaps... soon, perhaps, it will be time to reemerge. Not yet, but soon."
With a snap of her fingers, the network vanished.
(FoME)
Twilight finished the last page of Abstract Cognition's thesis. "And you're saying there are signs of this being applied."
"There are other explanations for it, but... potentially, yes," said Sunset.
Twilight slammed the pile of paper on Sunset's coffee table. "That does it. I give up."
Sunset sighed and reached out to her. "Twilight—"
Twilight bolted to her feet. "I give up!" She started pacing. "The world may have changed, but magic still doesn't want to be analyzed! Every time I think I have it cracked, some new expression, some entirely new system, comes out of nowhere." She stopped, turned, and glared at Abby's work. "No, worse, it comes out of somewhere! It wouldn't be so bad if it were just ancient belief systems, then we could at least explain it as previously established systems coming to the fore, but trading card games? And now a webcomic?"
"Yeah, don't think too hard about what Horsey put together. It doesn't help. Abstract seems to take it a lot more seriously than he does."
"It's just..." Twilight threw up her hands. "It's like magic can behave in any way that people want it to behave, as long as they want it enough!"
The room was silent for a time. Indeed, all of Sunset's warehouse home went quiet, save for the echoes of Twilight's frustration. Sunset simply sat, looking thoughtful.
Once the discomfort passed the point Twilight could bear, she said, "Uh, Sunset? This is the part where you agree that that's ridiculous."
Sunset's silence persisted, though her lips slowly curved into a grin.
"Come on, by that logic, we should've seen even more divergence from the Equestrian model by now."
"That depends on how much is enough, doesn't it?"
"I suppose," Twilight said grudgingly.
Sunset leaned back in her chair, her grin turning into a triumphant smirk. "Sounds like something someone should research, doesn't it?"
Frustration and hope warred in Twilight's mind. She sighed. "I'll get in touch with Abstract Cognition."
"You know you're looking forward to the new avenue of research."
Twilight felt the corners of her mouth turn up despite herself. "You have a knack for ruining my bad moods, you know that?"
Sunset chuckled as she got up. After a peck on those lips, she said, "I pride myself on it."
See here for the current state of a Grand Unified Theory of Magic in this increasingly patchwork universe.
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This getting into our world Chaos Magic theory now. It's not the system that is important it is the intent that is important. You use the theory to shut out your internal censor that says this wont work. That is why you in theory can replace Mathew, Gabriel, Raphiel, Micael, and Auriel with Groucho, Harpo,, .. and the other two. Or even Celestia, Luna. Candace and Twilight in the Cabalastic Cross ritual.
I guess it's like Qui-Gon said: "your focus determines your reality."
Hmm, if you belive it enough... that sounds suspisusly simelar to The Warp or WAAARGH!! energy.
Lets hope they dont have Warhammer 40k or fantasy.
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Their Goddess is the Bacon Horse. Such power being so fundamentally cute and silly precludes such beliefs from arising.
It'd indeed be terrifying, though.
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Chico and Zeppo, for the record. (There was also a fifth, Gummo, who performed on Vaudeville but never appeared in any of the movies.)
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Hyperspace Hyperwars is a thing, complete with Corpse-Emperor, Chaos pantheon, and a species of fungus-based soccer hooligan berserkers. Fortunately, in what passes for the real world, the local version of Tzeentch teaches high school physics and writes books on why you don't know science nearly as well as you think you do. There isn't a lot of grim darkness to go around at the moment.
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Perhaps the author had their archetypes in proper order?
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And we are glad for that.
It is the nature of the Bearer of the Element of Empathy to help one understand one's own emotions. It's basically always been what Sunset has been good at.
The problem, dear Twilight, is that your world not only runs on narrativium, said narrativium is sifted through the minds of a mad collective.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" Adam Savage
Really, I'm surprised that Sunset is surprised at this. Magic asked for the power to stop hiding, to become something that people could access and freely use, and that's exactly what's happening. The old rules on how magic was supposed to work are gone, Sunset overturned them at the Saturation Point. Why shouldn't any particular system of magic work now?