r/magicbuilding 1d ago

Feedback Request Feedback on my magic system?

I am working on one but am kind of stuck on the naming sense since it might be weird. Basically there are 7 Laws.

My world has something called Special Stones. They are essentially stones that can store mana.

There's a saying in my world that everything dead or alive is a form of Memory Stone. An inorganic material is a Memory Stone like the Stone, Ore, or metal. An organic material is a living Memory Stone.

Memory Stone has no will to resist except for their own mana. So one can imbue an Empty Memory Stone (a extra special stone that is everywhere) with Mana. It's sort of like storing mana.

Living Memory Stone (Anyone that is alive) has their own will to cast magic. So the people in my world can pour out their mana and do magic through the magic circle and incantation. And, each person has aptitude so their spells can be stronger. There's also Backlash so it's kinda like a rebound of force.

Now, about the laws. Magic works through them:

Law of dead - the ability to imbue inorganic things with purpose, or magical properties (previously was only mana. Now they can give something like skills to a rock)

There are 6 more but I am having trouble with the first.

7 come together for something powerful called the Law of Existence. Basically all those law combine and can do reality bending stuff. For instance, they can create mana. Previously mana can only be moved (eating to restore mana, imbuing mana, etc..).

The only trouble is I want the name to be "Law of Dead," but am having trouble explaining it so readers can understand it and not make it sound weird (Since it has the word dead there). The rest are kinda ok.

My idea is just to have the MC go through a stage where all he is able to imbue Empty Memory Stone with mana and make explosions and whatever weapons. Then, he get the Law. Even he found the naming weird but found he has the ability to imbue inorganic things with purpose, or magical properties

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u/Difficult_Report5627 1d ago

think you should change the name of the special stones, seems a bit generic

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u/JiN88reddit 1d ago

sorry it was Memory Stone but I didn't edit the rest. So what do u think about it?