It's the end of the world as we know it

What happens when beings created to end the world want to save it?

This is my blog dedicated to my Magnus Archives inspired comic. The comic and plot are still in development at the moment so this will house w.i.p character art, inspo, and lore building.

If anybody has a non-rp magnus archives discord server, hit me up! My ask box is also open, my main is @majormedley

Tag list:

talk tag: place for me to just talk or for asks

lore: posts about characters, the story, and worldbuilding

Phase 1: anything in this phase is open to change; character names/coloring/story, plot, events in the story

Inspa: stuff that gives me ideas or look cool

Winnie and Que's character profiles for artfight! Just a small blurb describing their personalities and general info

don't forget to follow me on artfight so we can battle it out!

buy these designs (and more) here! I've been retooling these since December and I'm really proud of how they came out. I also have some Date Everything designs as well as some zodiac signs

I have stated since day 1 that this is a Magnus Archives inspired project, but as Alex and Jonny have stated in this FAQ that derivative products are allowed "as long as you do not claim that we gave permission, you do not make money off it, and, you reference the original source material..." and I do want to make merch and things in the future (I'm still working on those stickers I mentioned in December) and hopefully publish the webcomic into a book, so that means I have to make changes to naming conventions of the fears. So I've been brainstorming names and looking at the old ones they didn't use and have come up with a list of potential changes:

The Buried -> The Submerged, The Enclosed

The Corruption -> The Decay, The Filth

The Dark -> The Enshrouded, The Void, The Endless Night

The Desolation -> The Flame, The Engulfed

The End (this one can stay the same)

The Eye -> The All Knowing, The Omniscient, The Watcher

The Flesh -> The Sanguine

The Hunt -> The Fanged, The Stalking

The Lonely -> The Alone, The Isolation

The Slaughter -> The Carnaged

The Spiral -> The Unraveled, The Forever Twisting

The Stranger -> The Deception, The Deceitful Face, The Oblique

The Vast -> The Unending, The Expanse, The Boundless

The Web -> The Intertwined

The Extinction* -> The Annihilation

* Don't know if I will ultimately be including this one since it was iffy whether or not it existed

Powers vary in presentation, strength, and skill from entity to entity even when they serve the same master. One entity of The Unending (my version of The Vast) could have the ability to send someone to an endless falling sky-scape while another could summon lighting strikes at will. One entity of The Unraveled (my version of The Spiral) could have the ability to summon endless corridors and induce madness through spoken words, but another could only summon corridors. The powers can also depend on how many masters have marked an entity; Que is marked by The Unraveled and The Deception so they can summon corridors and shapeshift. One goal I have with this story is to explore what co-marked entities look like and how they behave because the Magnus Archives didn't do that too often and I find it would be very interesting route to explore (maybe one day I'll upload the sketches I did when I was listening to the show).

Powers and be honed and strengthened through practice and training (think Avatar the Last Airbender when Aang has to train with each element) and even develop new ones if the fear allows it- some fears are more loose with the power presentation: The Sanguine (the Flesh), The Unraveled (the Spiral), The Deception (the Stranger) or The End (you cannot convince me that you own the naming convention for this one Alexander J. Newall) while others are not.

Feeding is a necessary process for an Entity to live. An entity must siphon fear out of humans to fuel their master(s) lest the master feeds of them, making them weaker in the process. Feeding can be a very simple or a very intricate ordeal depending on what amount of fear someone wants to be taken from the victim. It could be as easy as cornering a human in a dark alley and making an unnerving face or as complicated as orchestrating a play of inhuman contortionists in a language that doesn't exist. It also depends on the Entity's enthusiasm for their situation; those who are unhappy but not wanting to wither and die go for a simpler, quicker feed while more devout Entities will go above and beyond to create dazzling feasts for their masters. Feeding frequencies are also dependent on scale; simple feedings are needed to be more frequent, larger feedings can last decades.

There is a difference between a hard mark and a weak Entity-a hard mark is willing to give themselves over entirely, forsaking their humanity in favor of a monstrous form to serve their master; a weak Entity has become so weak and consumed that they are dying and losing control of their sentience & self, becoming a puppet for their master to wield however they see fit.

In the Magnus Archives universe Entities are what refer to the amorphous forces of fears that influence reality and manifest as supernatural phenomena; the phenomena can come in forms like: people, animals, monsters, books, objects, or locations. The entities do not simply feed off of fear but are fears made manifest. Avatar is a term to individuals who have gained otherworldly abilities through their connection to the Entities. Becoming an avatar requires an "active choice" on the avatar's part and dying is a necessary part of the transformation, but the death can be either literal or metaphysical in nature. An avatar must "feed" their Entity or the Entity will begin to feed on them, meaning they must collect the fear of others or risk their life force being drained.

So for EAtA I want to basically flip those terms around, having the Entities be the individuals serving the fears and the Avatars be the manifestations of fear being served. I'm also changing the "active choice" in the transformation process: I want it to work more like a hex or a curse-like a thing that is put upon another to cause harm, bring bad luck, and make life more difficult- at a lower level and make it an active choice at the highest level. I want work on 3 levels of severity (which I've posted about before):

soft mark: a person that has been fed off of to obtain equilibrium for an Entity; if a person is fed off of frequently or at a high volume they can evolve into the next level (can also refer to an entity who's powers have not fully manifested yet).

medium mark: a person who has manifested powers and must feed off of others in order to survive (or choose to wither away and die- a very painful process)

hard mark: no longer human and has dedicated themselves fully to serving their master(s). Powers are stronger in this form and can only collect fear by fully "consuming" a human (this one is the active choice level)

So I said in my new year's post that I wanted share more behind-the-scenes world building and backstories with y'all and I wanted to go over some things on how these posts are going to operate.

As you've seen I tag things with "phase 1" because this project is still in the brainstorming phase, lots of things are going to be subject to changing. When I do any writing in a word document I make the details I've not set in stone larger and bright pink so that they stick out when I go back to edit; kind-of like this. Unfortunately, on tumblr it doesn't make individual words bigger it make the whole paragraph bigger so I will be keeping the pink but leave the text the same size.

Speaking of paragraphs; tumblr also doesn't let you indent or change the paragraph spacing and I hate the way the indented paragraphing that is available looks (I set it so y'all can see what it looks like) so when I have a lot to write about I will format like this- spaces in between each paragraph. It leaves room for readability for me and others and provides a it of a mental break for you the readers. I will try to do bullet points when I can (because I like bullet points, make it easier to consume writings) but that might make posts really long- so I'll add a read more when it gets too long for my liking.