I'd aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.
Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.
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I'd have spend a year or two wildin' out in Ankh-Morpork.
I'd go to uberwald
Thatβs just Twilight with another faction, much higher body count, and way too much Europe
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Pokemon sounds pretty nice, they even have free healthcare in the american stand-in
Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air. Birds fly over. A fish splashes in the water. You could go anywhere, do anything, a whole new world is open to you. But you stay put for now and enjoy this peaceful bridge.
A child runs by. She avoids making eye contact and runs behind you. Then another, and another. βKids these daysβ, you think, βalways in a hurry.β Another child approaches, before he can slip by, you turn, and make eye contact. Itβs on!
You each bring out your PokΓ©mon and oh god, oh god, oh god, itβs god. The unfathomable, immortal deity who shaped the entire world, and it is taking orders from a child! and you haveβ¦ a magikarp.
Before you can even speak, a blast of energy strikes your fish, killing it instantly. You are knocked back, stunned. The child frisks your pockets and takes your wallet. Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the airβ¦
I Have No Meowth, and I Must Scream
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Not something from an anime because by season 4, there's like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they're doing planets.
But at the same time, if you train very hard you'll be able to do that too. That's how it usually goes for characters without magical abilities.
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A quick reminder that Muten Roshi lived through the entirety of Dragon Ball (bar the couple times literally everyone in the planet died, temporarily)
I appreciate the bracketed comment and double down on my original statement lol
In the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It's probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.
Hard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they're still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.
Except for the early 90's in the UK. That wasn't so great.
Hey you, you're finally awake....
Hope the console commands will work for you...
Do innate powers count as magic? Because if they do, living in Tamriel would suck... unless you happen to be born a god, of course.
Earthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura
Iβd get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.
I cannot understand why there's no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.
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Does Star Trek count as magical?
I think it's just sci fi
But there's Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought... Pretty magical stuff there...
Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. οΏΌ
The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. οΏΌ
The Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie's Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.
Wow, I had completely forgotten about the Wesley Traveler thing.
You may be more familiar with it than me.
Well then, I'd say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.
I'll leave it to your best judgement.
"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Does that apply to any universe or just Star Trek?
Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.
It wasn't the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.
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Ooo, if you aren't magical when you get there. There is an infinite number of things that will make you. But more importantly I want to live in a place that silly.
Azeroth, World of Warcraft. Rogues and warriors kick ass, and are still very powerful, even without magic.
Star wars. Apparently anyone can learn to be a ~~magic user~~ jedi if they try hard enough. But even if that isn't an option, spaceships are also fun.
Objection! Evidence: everything pre-Didney.
Magic is just unexplained science
Princess Bubblegum?
What counts as "magic", exactly? E.g. the world of BLEACH has 3 wholy distinct sources of supernatural power, only one of which looks like traditional, wizards & witches magic. Is vampirism magic? What about superstrength in Norse mythology?
Excluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don't need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.
You don't have to exclude worlds with magic in a utopian or contemporary setting, what examples do you have?
Well Harry potter has already been mentioned as a contemporary example. Can't think of any utopian examples tbh, reckon they are hard to write good stories for. But since these sort of worlds works be obvious picks I figured I'd post the next next thing.
Percy Jackson. My life would be normal!
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