magipunk

Cyberpunk replacing technology with magic

• high­­-­­mag­ic

• wiz­­ards re­­place cor­po­ra­­tions

• fail­ing king­­doms == fail­ing na­­tion states

• cy­berspace = dream/spir­it world (push­ing metaphors)

• prac­ti­­tion­ers can ma­nip­u­late mag­ic but not cre­ate it like wiz­­ard­s, fill in for net jock­­eys. Fol­low­ing lay lines.

• life is cheap and most peo­­ple aren’t “bet­ter of­f” de­spite all mag­ic that is avail

Wiz­ards al­most nev­er in­ter­act di­rect­ly with each oth­er, too much risk to take per­ma­nent dam­age. In­stead the ma­nip­u­late / work through prac­ti­tion­er­s, mon­ster­s, cult­s, king­dom­s, etc.

Weak­er wiz­ards but still strong grouped to­geth­er. They are not as strong as the wiz­ards but in a way they are stronger cause they can risk re­al wiz­ards to ar­chive their goals they are will­ing to and have sac­ri­ficed wiz­ards to com­pete.

Com­pete over ley lines/ar­cane re­search/hav­ing most slaves/lives/­mana

Lots and lots of rel­a­tive­ly cheap mag­ic de­vices the mass­es “slave” to ob­tain.