u/Tokoro-of-Terror

For my side project Urban Fantasy novel 'The Magnificent Five' I decided to take a completely different approach to how magic works and acts.

I was inspired by the nostalgic Harry Potter movies, but then I came to find the magic system in Harry Potter to be too soft, bland, and basic. Just wave a wand and poof! Not saying that it doesn't require skill for wizards to do.

So I decided to add more complexity to my magic system to make it harder. That's when it hit me, how about I also make it that using magic is not only very harmful to the user, but for the environment as well?

What if there was a good reason why witchcraft was so hated and feared in the old days, that no one was willing to risk anything (which sadly led to the death of innocents.)

Picture this (forgive me for bringing up my Catholic side) God created the world and how the universe functions, all its intricate and complex systems, and the rules of the world to keep it balanced. To put it simply, imagine if the whole universe was one gigantic complex computer program.

Then one day, someone living in that program finds a way to view the code of the world, then after a few experiments, they find out they can alter and bend that code for a variety of purposes. But as a consequence, this also screws up and affects the rest of the world's code as well.

The laws of physics aren't meant to be broken or bent, and doing so will cause the other forces to retaliate against you.

Peeking into the future to avoid death or seek fortune will cause one of God's angels (fate) to be pissed off. Because by doing this, you are shifting the balance of fortune and misfortune (i.e you get all the goods, while others get screwed over)

What other things should I add?

This is a hypothetical WHAT IF scenario.

What would happen?

So, in this scenario, let's say that the newly elected president was indeed a good, upstanding person who is distraught by the corruption and wants to improve the Philippines.

In an attempt to combat the corruption, the president, along with a selected few politicians they trust (all with good backgrounds and heavy screening) establish an independent organization.

No one else knows about this secret organization except for the president and their little group.

The organization is independent. All members are very carefully picked and underwent so many tests to ensure they are trustworthy and want to help their country and are very loyal.

Their mission is simple—investigate, expose, arrest. By any means necessary.

What would happen? Would they be illegal? Or would they be killed by angry dynasties?

I had this dream last night. I was playing a wolverine game on Scratch, but it was 2D and similar to Silksong in art, gameplay, and movement. It was very high quality. The setting was in a medieval fantasy world where you play as Wolverine and rescue someone who has been kidnapped by an empire on a conquest. He had bone claws, no adamantium.

It was crazy. You can see your character healing in real time. It was very gruesome too. Would that be possible on Scratch?