I created a MAGIC SYSTEM using every BONE in the body
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This is a companion video to my Tree Magic video, bone magic being it's opposing magic system.
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Bone? nice. Reminds me of the gold system that one person made
I remember something about that
Gold and Bone, I think you’re talking about
i love bones
Hey I know what your talking about. And all of this is very similar I agree
bones
There's MAGIC in my BONES
Iiiiiiii got this feelin yeah you know
Where I am losing all control
Cause there’s magic in my bones!
Ha love it!
"hmmmm, ahhh.. I can smell your bones from here" has a whole new meaning now (thanks Markiplier)
I can see the twist in the story where there's a life focused bone magic that exists, blood comes from the bones after all.
That is an inspiring idea! Love it.
Oooh! And for tree magic, roots actually seek out bones and will consume entire skeletons if given the chance
@@roberthanson5840 it would be nice to see a yin and yang type of situation where despite being on opposite end of spectrum they are still in same plane i.e, same spectrum.
Conversely, trees experience a form of death through the winter, shedding their leaves in autumn and only experiencing rebirth in the spring. There could absolutely be a form of tree magic that focuses on this "death", rather than the "life" that reappears in spring.
Gods, that's such a fitting theme.
Just as how in real life the increased understanding of biology has changed how we see health and disease and signs of them.
This just made me remember a very rare condition called "stone man syndrome" where instead of repairing wounds with muscles they go through a process called "ossification" where everything that got wounded gets replaced with bone, effectively petrifying that body part.
And because your body is constantly suffering tiny amounts of damage and replacing dead cells, it doesn't matter if you avoid injury because you slowly turn to bone anyway.
It's apparently very painful and eventually fatal.
Med Tech here, I haven't looked at the disease, but I assume it's the calcification of muscle?
This would be a really OP kind of prophecy for a character afraid of pain. However the "cure" could be the reversal of calcification. That uses several proteins and hormones and minerals, specifically Vitamin D, Magnesium, Phosphorus, and K2 to remove the "bone."
Natto is a type of bean that carries I high amount of vitamin K2, so perhaps the cure is a bean from a forest magic user.
Idk, something to think about.
"Yer got osteoporosis, Harry"
"Yield my flesh, to claim their bones."
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the horde is coming.
I hear the PM fans coming already.
Sleeper agents activate!!!!!!!!!
Nothing there, guys. Just a random comment
I remember another person that made a magic system that revolves around gold being plated and grown onto bones. I think I like this concept more, as the concept of a bone mage becoming more demented looking the more powerful they are as they continue to merge more bones into their body is awesome. Boneling battles would be interesting as with the tree magic system you are incentivized to play carefully and wait for defensive magic like oak magic to wear off, while with bonelings, they would jump into close quarters with enhanced physicality and try to rip and tear the power off of the other user.
That's exactly right! It can turn into a pretty thrilling cat-and-mouse kind of fight -- plus those dynamics shift based on the seasons and the types of trees/bones available.
Magic Madness and Sadness.
What an interesting approach to world building! I am a folklore enthusiast and esoteric practitioner. I don't know if you came across the certain stories during your research, but your concept of bone magic here carries a lot of similarities to quite a few ritualistic practices across the world. In many parts of Asia, hardcore esoteric practitioners will always have certain bones in their collection as they belief that certain bones from animals and human carry very specific energy which can be directed towards specific goals. I've come across a tribe in East Timor whose warriors put crocodile tail bone in their mouths to grant them physical prowess. Some would powder teeth of their previously defeated enemies and smear it along their spines to temporarily possess abilities of deceased enemy during fights. Others claim to be able to inflict burn damage, blinding the eyes, cause mass confusion, grant temporary inhuman strength, poison the wind or even call upon lightning with their prized bone with their bone amulets. Some of these magic bones are consumable one-time things, while others are more permanent talismans. All magic bones with special powers have undergone certain rituals to awaken the inherent powers in them. Sounds fantastical, yet such practices are still present in this modern age.
Many parts of Asia huh? Can you make a list of the peoples and locations associated with each bone usage? How many practices are similar? Unique? Are there more instances of bone collection found outside of Asia?
@@BigToody Most certainly. The following is a general overview of one example of bone magic relative to their geographical location:
1. Warriors of the Igorot people in the Philippines have "Agimat", charms made of metal, plant materials and bones carefully selected from different animals believed to grant a range of qualities to enhance or protect the owner during conflicts. Activation of the Agimat powers often include calling out the name of spirit residing in the charm.
2. The Dayak Bidayuh people in Borneo island in Indonesia use a lot of magic bones in their traditional attires and weapons. These animal and human bones bestow different abilities like being able to move unseen, move extremely fast, jump abnormally high, etc.
3. Among the Shugendo practitioners in Japan, some of their rituals involve collecting bones during their pilgrimage in the mountains. These bones are often used as intermediary to channel powers between the mountain gods, animal spirits and the practitioners when they need to foretell the future or heal ailments.
4. The Bomoh are traditional esoteric practitioners of Malaysia. While most conservative Bomoh nowadays veer towards healing and protection with heavy use of Islamic recitations, the more tribal ones still use bones from animals to cast curses that cause sickness and misfortune towards the target. Rituals to awaken powers of the bones including fasting during auspicious days, asking malevolent spirits to take residence inside the bones and recitation of certain spells for hundreds of times to charge the bones.
5. The Saisyiyat people of Northern Taiwan hold great reference to objects known as Alima and Kudum, which refer to ancestral heirlooms. They consist of various things from metals, to wood and a lot of bones. These objects are heavily venerated as they hold significant influence over the fortune of a person, family or even clans. Alima and Kudum need to be "fed" with rice wine, blood, milk or other substances based on what the resident power/spirits like. Their function range from healing and protection, to physical prowess and spiritual transformation.
These are some of what I've personally come across. Most of the practices carries a lot similarities between them, but I personally found the Japanese Shugendo and the East Timorese to be very unique, as in nobody else do it they way they do. I've heard of that traditional magical customs in Africa involve heavy use of bones as well, but I am yet to witness it in person.
@user-bc9cr7gj5z Wow, what a wealth of knowledge you've just shared. So grateful to have access to all this information to further expand my research -- sometime later this year I'm sure it'll all play into Bone Magic Part 2.
I've done some research into cultural /spiritual uses of bone (but not as much as you). I live in Borneo at the moment -- some Dayak tribes here used to headhunt to collect skulls. They believed the practice forced the soul of the dead to protect their homes.
SO MUCH great world-building potential out in the ACTUAL world.
@@hadrianpollardI kind of like stuff that involve the “raw” elements of the human condition, like using blood as fuel for magic, as an example.
Or for rituals, too.
Like anything that’s a sort of “take and give” system.
Genuine question, are there things like people using bones for weapons, like using their bones as weapons, or even making their body ten times faster by making their bones more brittle, as an example.
@@hadrianpollard Exactly. You can really take concepts from all scientific or even math-related fields and include them in the world building process. (Like taking cell theory or even string theory and coming up with something from that. What I did was I made string theory a magic system where Resonators can manipulate the very fabric of reality)
"Now i shall smite you with every bone in my body"
*proceeds to literally use every bone in their body*
Ouch
the origin is so poetic
Thank you!
The spine hanging from someone's back triggered an old memory of a Hulk comic where he gets sent to some other world or time and gets a spine creature attached to him at the base of his neck that is sapient and forms some sort of symbiosis. It just activated that in my brain i dunno. This is fuckin cool my guy.
Cheers!
This man needs to become a fantasy phenom
Oooooohhh, Bone Magic. So Scaaaary~~~. What are you gonna do? Break my back?
*Proceeds to give Scoliosis*
There was a video that was a short made by PIrateSoftware that someone from his chat talked about skelepathy, where essentially skeletons, the animated kind, could find you because your bones could telepathically speak to them from a distance from inside you. This video made me think of it as a type of bone magic lol
That is cool
Now you need mushroom magic for all the kingdoms of life (plants, animals and fungi)
This is such an interesting concept along with tree magic. You really thought it out quite bit and i love when writers or artists put so much work and passion into their creations.
Lately ive been finding quite a bit of those really original and unique ideas over the internet, the other noteworthy one would be plant-based madieval mecha drawn by Treelancer and i recomend checking out his channel to everyone who found this video interesting.
Plant-based medieval mecha?? That's insane and brilliant. I'll be checking that out.
This Power System is very cool, and has potential for very interesting Combat scenes.
I wonder if you have seen Kimimaro in his fight against Naruto, Rocklee and Gaara( you can find it on youtube ).
Kimimaro also uses Bones to Fight in Cool ways.
I had forgotten about that! Some old school Naruto.
We're being bad to the bone with this one 🔥🔥🔥
This sounds like a fun dnd character to play as
I also have a bone themed magic system in one of my fantasy projects about death and what happens when something in the process of dying goes horribly wrong
I have two main characters, who are two halves of one girl, Asphodel and Deianira, they both come from the spirit of a girl called Angela. She died violently by the hands of soldiers on the other side of a war that she was running away from. Asphodel represents the sadness that comes with grief, while Deianira represents the anger. The two never meet, and never will, they don’t want to either. But Deianira wants or more accurately needs revenge, while Asphodel needs time to process what happened to their soul and why it split. They can feel each others pain, Asphodel feels Deianira’s physical pain, and Deianira feels Asphodel’s mental pain.
I’m still working on the magic system but I have a few characters, I just need to work on Asphodel and Deianira’s designs and then I can fully dive into the magic, I want in to have something to do with the nervous system and blood vessels, which will be interesting, quite a bit of gore, so if your squeamish, sorry, this story isn’t for you
This is starting to sound similar to a system I came up with ages ago
Please tell me more
Tell us more 🧐
RATTLE 'EM BOYS
The Karambit sounds like a great option for bone magic users, but another good option would be the Bagh Nakh from india. As it is an concealable weapon designed to slice through muscle and skin.
It might not let them get as deep as an Karambit. But it would be great for plucking bones that are close to the skin without a thick layer of muscle or fat to protect them.
On that note, if one had to fight regularly fight against bone magic users that can pull bones from living prey. Than it would be advantageous to have a body like a heavy weight roman gladiator. With thick muscles from training paired with a decent layer of fat from an oat, or barley based diet. With Barley being the more effective of the two.
It might not be enough to completely avoid having your bones yanked. But I imagine that it would be harder to find and take bones from people when they are well fed during times of plenty.
And it would be easier to find and locate bones to pluck during famines, or economic down turns. When people will have less fat or muscle on them. And their bones will be closer to the surface.
Wow, I had never seen a bagh nakh before, that's an awesome weapon that TOTALLY fits with boneling powers/culture. I appreciate the share!
Also, great point about the muscle mass. Though I imagine the best bet is to avoid close range as much as possible.
I also love the idea of putting one aspect in life especially scientifically the broaden it with a magical system
good shit, make more of these man, never have i been actually be interested in a channel like this before.
You got it
Why is this so interesting? I would never think trees and bones would go together so well.
Cheers!
Awesome!
Imagine Dragon needs to see this video 😆
This is supremely cool! I am glad I have discovered a fellow worldbuilder. And your magic system guide would be a phenomenal asset to use. Thank you sooo much
Glad to be along the ride with you!
Fantastic
This seems really neat
Great video. I love the contast and thematic differences between the tree-based and bone-based systems!
Thank you, Jed! Love your work
this is the most unique video I has ever come across, props to this guy. keep it up
Appreciate it!
this is very interesting stuff! great work man
Much appreciated!
I like this a lot!
A few people pointed this out to me, and it was a fun watch - nice work, and best of luck with your project!
Thank you very much! And same to you, very excited about more Gold and Bone :)
how do they clean the bones?
do bonelings like eating meat and do tree people like eating vegetables. my show has a race of people that colt the energy of what they eat and they are kinda similar to your ideas and i think it’s really cool. because of their philology they can’t go back to eating meat after consuming plants so in your shows case would bonelings begin to develop more animalistic traits that would allow them to harvest bones (off the top of my head a tiger like tongue to help them scrape the meat off) and conversely would the tree people gain traits that would be advantageous to gaining sunlight such as not liking clothes or something
^^ That is a very cool idea, is it for a book? A game?
As of now, there is an inclination toward hunting in bonelings and toward gathering in the treelings. Bonelings have creature companions called bone-pickers that help clean the bones, but I love this idea of physiological changes that would help them prep bones for magic. And to become more animalistic or plant like the deeper you go in bone/tree magic... that's awesome. Puts a new meaning to the phrase "you are what you eat" huh?
Thanks for sharing!
@@hadrianpollard it’s gonna be an anime, i appreciate your feedback and know that i’ll be watching
this is incredible 😍 im seeing so many amazing worldbuilding projects on youtube lately it's so inspiring
Thanks so much!
Pretty interesting 💛
I would love to purchase and read this whenever it comes out!!. Man the way you crafted this whole magic system got me excited and giggling like a child 😆
Wow, thanks!
Good god why are the best ideas so underrated
im here waiting for gameplay only for it to be a book. Boy was this a ride.
Video game adaptation later?
feels like some sort of medieval cyberpunk
This is my first video of yours and I know I'm two weeks late but, I agree that's a dope new set up!
Thanks!
"I am the bone of my sword"
This would make a great video game or show tbh !
thats really cool
What happens if a boneling gets access to a fossilized dinosaur bone?
Death
Fossilized dinosaur bones are stone, so probably nothing.
@@__T.O.G.yeah and bones out of the body are literally death so ....
fossils are just stone
Yeah, it's gotta be the fresh stuff made of bone cells. Cool idea though!
This was fun to hear about. IRL there are links to different cultures and mythologic magic around bones as well so bone magic is a pretty sensible thing to base a magic system around as well. Im always interested in peoples ideas for new kinds of magic or new ways someone uses magic.
I'm excited to do more research into culture
Damn I came up with this concept like 8 years ago. Good stuff
great minds!
excellent
just went looking for why gold would be the best for conductivity based magic and got my answer because this video made me go look for it so thank you. also I'm just in from my first 5km in AGES and my legs were heavy and sore. Where I'd usually let that interrupt my progress and it would make me stop, I acknowledged the pain and thought about it and I was able top push on. I never really di this before but for some reason today I did and it worked. THEN I come back and you confirm this in this video, so ill be doing it a lot more going forward so thank you for that too.
What serendipity! Glad you're getting out there, running, and paingazing your way through it!
This is perfect a necromancy lore
as someone also working on a book, I too have incorporated and bone-like manipulation into the story. I am looking forward to seeing how both of our stories will play out once they're finished.
Cheers, let me know when yours is done!
Dude this is fantastic I got images of wizards breaking their own bones for power and not feeling the pain. As well as armor made of different animals bones decorating a boneling like a crocodile jaw connected to the rest of a dog skull.
Also an obvious weakness is a bonelings spine so breaking their spine during or even after combat would be extremely brutal and taboo practice. Following along with that thought seeing a bonelings spine from them turn their back to you as a major sign of trust or shows they view you as not a threat.
So many cool ideas for fights keep it up!
Such a great way to build culture out of the use of the spine magic. Awesome
This is so similar to the magic system I'm working on! Yours is so cool and so raw I can just imagine what the most powerful bone mage would look like haha. Very inspiring!
Good luck with yours!
that sounds like an incredible system
Thank you!
sounds good for a game
Bone and Tree Magic reminds me so much of Shikotsumyaku and Wood Release.
Hadn't even thought of it until the comments! Man, Naruto has a magic system for everything.
@@hadrianpollard always bet on ninja magic
This is such a cool concept, I can already thing of tons of cool ways to expound upon it🤩. Maybe the longer a bone is left in the more the qualities if the creature it came from will present themselves. For example, grafting bones from a bears paw onto yours would cause your arms to grow larger and your nails would turn into claws in the early stages, but as it progresses your arms will become hairy and you'll loose mobility in your thumb as it starts to become a bear paw. Almost like you're stoking the embers of life essence left in the bones with your own spirit. Over time they become harder to separate and the more skilled the boneling the longer they can linger in the stages where they have the greatest benefit with the least downsides. This could be a great way to emphasize how scary a boneling that uses human bones can be. They can use the bones of people to gleam memories and learn their secrets, or they can take bones from a living person, or maybe give them bones to control them like a thrall. He could firm a cult around gum that tries to graft his bones onto magic users with great potential to resurrect him with more power, like orochimaru trying to take itachi and sasuke's body. Really great system, I gotta go watch the tree magic vid now🏃♂️
Hadrian, I really want to nkow your work. This video is awesome and your idea it is too. Congrats to you for your book. Soon I want to read it. Cheers from Brasil
Thank you! I look forward to sharing with you, saúde!
Very interesting, especially since I’ve had a similar idea involving bones and trees.
Essentially, there were these certain trees that, when the bark was in contact with live bones (usually through biting) would give the person a sort of spell or effect. This would then be shot out through the bones (think of it as electricity surging through a wire) and casted as a spell. However, the last bone the magic flowed through would temporarily dissolve, which would reform a minute or so later. This means a careful cast may only leave a single finger bone dissolved, while an unrefined cast could dissolve a bone protecting an organ, leaving the organ unprotected.
Anyway, very good video!
Intense! I love magic systems with a serious cost. Reminds me of Wheel of Time, but instead of losing your mind you lose your body. I wonder if making the cost more permanent could add more drama and potency to the use of the magic? In other words, you're not casting willy-nilly cause pretty soon you'll be disintegrating into nothing.
i would definitely use this if i ever were an author, youre awesome!
Thank you!
Some niche users that focus on a specific bone would be super cool too tbh. Like a person, that focuses on the small bone we have in our ears and harvest them and shoots them lika a projectile or smth. Or knee caps as mine blades or the end of the spine to create a tail
Totally
Bones having the same general function, regardless of what species they originate from has an interesting implication. This could allow some unique or exotic bones to have very interesting magical applications. The two obvious examples I can think of our deer antlers and elephant tusks.
But there are even stranger bones. After seeing this video, I did a quick Google search and found stingrays. Their skeleton is insane.
That is incredible skeleton, wow. Will have to show up somewhere in the series.
Interesting ideas 🤝
Thank you! Cheers!
yo this vid was actually good i was not expecting this bony magic thingi you came up with to be so interesting, i especialy love the way you use research in what you come up with so instead of it being some kind of fantasy thing that actualy dosn't make sense you combine it with sience and physics that could actuallly work up to a certain point. With precise manupulation of the dna code stuff like this could actualy be possible. Keep the good work up its super awesome👍
Thank you!
very interestling
thats a very interesting ideas
for some reason this makes me want to see whether you could "push this system to its limits through advanced knowledge" (ie - careful placement of harvested bones in areas that they cannot be placed through traditional methods]
Very clever
Hey man I’m gonna need those bones back by Thursday.
Imagine if this was an anime, 😊, I’d binge it over and over again
That's the dream!
5:33 I've explored something similar to this myself actually, and it's something I've come to refer to as: The Cannibal Armory. Though this is more used on adversaries as a last resort. And remember, cannibalism isn't simply the act of consuming/eating an individual of the same species, but the utilization of the body/body parts as a whole.
We've cannibalized materials from our house when we were remodeling it, haha. Glad to connect to another bone magic creator!
"it's a beautiful day outside. the birds a singing, the flowers are blooming. On days like these, kids like you.."
-a short skeleton
I-I-I got this feeling, yeah, you know
Where I'm losing all control
'Cause there's magic in my bones!
You know now that I think about it, I've seen tons of series that incorporate blood as a power system but very little if none about bones.
That's what I noticed!
I love hearing about other people’s magic systems because it gives me ideas for one that I am making for a minecraft based dnd campaign…
I will be using Minecraft to let the players build the lore and society, while being limited by the rules of how the world works.
Good luck with your system!
"...got this feelin' in my bones"
Im new here is this man making a game cause the way he made this is like a masterpiece
Thank you! Working on a book, but games would be sweet
Very Inquisitor
Gotta love Mistborn
U should make more it caught so much interest ❤🎉
Thank you!
hearing size matters for power got me thinking about whale bone and bonecharms from dishonored
Trust if all of this concept somehow gets into the anime world it would be an instant hit not doubt great thinking
Cheers!
weird coincidence but I had written a character years ago who had two types of magic and they happened to be tree magic and bone magic. His tree magic was fueled by selflessness and his desire to protect others, and his bone magic was fueled by selfishness and rage. Each type of magic had its own weaknesses and strengths and only by discovering himself and finding balance within himself would he finally be able to wield both and realize his potential. It's interesting to see another person's take on similar stuff like this
Great minds think alike!
This very interesting. would you use shell and tip of bugs and tip of mushrooms
A forbidden spell that causes all of the bones in your body to impale, extend, and warp around your muscles and grants you almost God-like strength that no other magic but yours can penetrate. An ultimate defense and final stand. (think about Erens incomplete founding titan)
Love this idea
This bone magic was actually a good character in the anime naruto. Of a ninja using bone magic and ninjutsu while manipulating his flesh and bone (mainly bones) as his weapons
First thing that comes to my mind when I heard bone magic was one of the system in Perfect World. Its a Chinese Web Novel.
The title and first minute was enough for me to sub
Cheers!
Awh man these ideas are so good it honestly makes me sad it's going to be a book and not a AAA god of war style game, I wanna be a bone boy so bad
You have my permission to make that game happen
In the words of a VERY insane barbarian from Oblivion's Shivering Isles DLC:
"I don't believe in magic. But I do believe in BONES"
few minutes in and uh bone magic sounds horrifying.
Very good!
This reminds me a lot of hemalurgy. Might be useful to look into.
YES! I never made that connection before. Hopefully Brandon Sanderson doesn't think I ripped it from him. The impaling with nails is such an incredible, creepy visual.
Honestly I'd love spore, or some kind of fungus magic, a middle ground that is life from death lkke necromancy or somethin, I mainly want to complete the animal plant fungus trio
many inspiration for character are already here: Mileena from Mortalkombat and Baraka, Morrowinds Bonemold armor to have a kind of battlemage, eldenrings grafting system and many more like norse mythology religion and druids, witches of fantasy and real life
I was really concerned this would be Dakhor from the Elantris setting. Glad it ended up being its own thing.
Read a bunch of Sanderson, but not Elantris yet
Very interesting concept. I dont know if you ever watched anime/manga "Naruto", it has a character Kimimaro that uses bone techniques maybe you could have some more ideas from this character. Good luck to you with your book
I have watched Naruto and Shippuden, but it was a LONG time ago, I had forgotten about Kimimaro
This is a really unique idea, I found it really interesting!
While you mentioned the tree-magic focuses on harmony, gathering etc, while the bone-magic focuses on pain etc, would the bone magic users have a culture that respects life, because they know the power of death? For example, some more primitive cultures would never kill something and not use the whole animal. Would bone users have a similar philosophy due to its disciplined nature, or would they be more inclined to brutish carnage to acquire power?
Such a thoughtful idea -- it's definitely both. There are clans/individuals who respect life dearly and others who become obsessed with the acquisition of power. The book is definitely about the dualities of peace/conflict, compassion/violence, etc.
If you're going to include jaw magic, why not also include tooth magic?
It'll be in there!
@@hadrianpollard would be interesting if u could make something especial out of teeth, since they are not exactly considered bones
@@_ThxSoMch Hint: rather than drawing out, teeth can pull things into them (kind of like the function of teeth -- consumption)
I cast summon dragon warrior
i've seen a similar magic system based on gold and bone, maybe you'll find it interesting
I can see a lot of bone-related puns from this series.
Oh boy, I'm bracing myself