Enchantment Lab: January #1
Crafting your magical system
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige
Happy New Year, Reader!
Here we are, with our fresh, sparkly calendars. What better time to assemble your personalized magical system and set yourself up for an enchanting 2024?
There are as many ways to create magical systems as there are practitioners, so we’re going to approach this by first zooming way, way out and asking, “Why do you practice magic?”
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