I have been thinking on a way to streamline the magic system for the RPG that I have going in my head. This is for a story that is in my head, a long novel, but I am getting the cart before the horse in that one. I am getting a hang up based on the inability to write dialogue. The trouble is that I see it as an Asperger's thing. I want to socialize, I want my characters to socialize, but I don't understand socializing so my characters have the same problems. How do I get my characters talking when I can't talk.
The idea about the magic system is there is a short cut where wizards and sorcerers gain the ability to cast magic quickly, but everyday people also have the ability to cast magic too, but it is a long and grueling process. Average people have natural magic, but only in areas where they have surpassed perfection. A blacksmith who is so good in his trade that he reaches the pinnacle that any normal person could reach and then steps one step beyond and becomes so good that his axes that he makes are magic like. The archer that homes his skill to perfection and then becomes more than perfect, bulls-eyes at one hundred paces become bulls-eyes at two hundred, five hundred and a thousand paces, arrows that fly true around obstacles because the archer is better than perfect. An actor who acts so well that the roles she plays feel completely real.
The people perfect their skills and then step beyond them. Individuals rarely become the best in their field, but some special people exist that do, and a few of those are better than that.
Amongst those average people, the ones that step beyond what a human can do are the heroes of the ages. Beyond them there are three individuals, three people blessed by the three Goddesses, one champion for each, one for each, but only one in the entire world. The Red Goddess's champion has been around for millennia, a master of time. His eyes see the unrealized potential of every situation and the chain of events that follows from them. As a master of time, he is able to move through it, to step into the time stream that best suits his purpose as an agent for the Goddess. The Blue Goddess, the invisible and unseen Goddess, the Goddess of magic and skill, has chosen her new champion, a girl who if she survives her childhood can master any skill with astonishing speed, to be the best at whatever she chooses to do.
If I can figure out dialogue.
If I can figure out conflict. Bilbo is looking to help the Dwarves, Frodo must destroy the One Ring. Kvothe must tell his story in three days as danger creeps into the town. Loche Lamore must pull of one more impossible heist without getting caught.
What is the Champion of the Blue Goddess's quest, what are her trials?
I know that her world is deeply misogynistic, and women are treated poorly to say the least. I know that her trials will prove that women are just as good as men and that the treatment of them is shameful, but for a fantasy story, those are incidental accomplishments. No I know that changing a society is NOT an incidental feat, but there has to be some quest where the heroine must discover her skill and learn that her society is deeply flawed. She must learn to see her world a new and seek to change it, but there must be some conflict to draw the excellence out, because the blacksmith cannot see his skill by merely drawing out iron and shoeing horses all day, the archer must be forced out of desperation to try to make that impossible shot that he has no right to make, if he is to achieve his greatest potential.
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