I keep forgetting to reply here ehe!
Anyway, if we’re talking about inspiration, that’d be media. Most of the core mechanics of my magic system are heavily inspired by the magic systems from media that I grew up consuming. Most are heavily inspired by X-Men, Harry Potter, and the bending system of ATLA.
Also, since I wanted to have some characters with innate powers and some use magical objects, I got the idea of separating the “superpowered” characters from the “magic” characters from the Marvel comics. It worked for me since it allowed me to distinguish who’s got this kind of power.
Definitely hard. I identified a lot of the core mechanics of my magic system during my world building.
I can, but Imma just link to the thread HAHHAHA: