Ultimate Magic System Notion Template | Guided Template to Build a Magic System for Fantasy Stories | Step-by-Step Planner for SFF Writers

Magic is one of the defining characteristics of the fantasy genre. A writer has unlimited possibilities to choose from when building their world and the magic that shapes it. Characters wielding fire or healing with a touch. Ancient sorcery or city witches. Demon magic or necromancy. Witch marks or superheroes.

This Notion template is designed to walk you through the process of creating your magic system, from choosing the types of powers, to figuring out how your magic is cast, the source of your magic, and how it will affect and interact with your culture, worldbuilding, and story as a whole. Each step includes an explanation, questions to help get you thinking, examples to give you ideas, space and prompts to brainstorm your thoughts, and lists of potential answers to the questions posed.

16 STEPS COVERING:

-->Feeling of Magic

-->Magic’s Theme

-->System Structure

-->Hard or Soft Systems

-->Source of Magic

-->Casting Magic

-->Spells & Abilities

-->Magic Users

-->Magical Rules

-->Magical Costs

-->Magical Weaknesses

-->Naming Your Magic

-->Magic & Culture

-->Magical World

-->Magical Artifacts & Weapons

-->Magic & Plot

In each of these steps, the Ultimate Magic System Notion Template will help you in creating a unique, interesting, and fun system of magic. The system you create can then be organized on the streamlined and easy-to-navigate homepage for easy reference as you dive into writing and begin using your magic in your story.

TEMPLATE ALSO FEATURES

-->Amazing magical artwork including custom icons and full-size images

-->A spot to link to other pages like your writing dashboard or story homepage

-->Space to highlight important goals and record inspiration (favorite magic systems, quotes, or playlists)

-->A custom magic system I created as an example alongside each step to show possible answers to questions and how to use each final graph

-->Examples of published magic systems in fantasy literature (with a credited bibliography of references to published works)

-->And links to other magic, worldbuilding, and naming resources across the web

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This template includes gorgeous custom art by the wonderful immabunnishop here on Gumroad (or you can find her on most socials at @imma.bunni). Also included is my Fantasy Notion Icon Collection: 17 fantasy icons to bring a little extra magic to any Notion pages. (They can also be used as computer desktop icons!)

PERSONAL USE ONLY. While you can use the template, icons, and artwork an infinite amount of times for personal use, do not resell, distribute, share, or otherwise commercialize the template or any included artwork in any way.

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NOTE: This is a digital product. You will not receive a physical item and nothing will be shipped.

After purchase, you will be provided a PDF document with instructions and a link to the Ultimate Magic System Notion Template. If I ever update the template in the future, you can simply follow that same link to re-download the updated copy. You will also receive a ZIP file of the Fantasy Notion Icon Collection (.png files).

To use this template, you will need a free Notion account, which you can sign up for here: https://www.notion.so/signup

If you’ve never used Notion before, I’ve included links in the template itself to some great tutorials and how-to resources on getting started.

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