/lit/ - Literature

>>22557153
In my story’s world the cosmic axis deals with Order and Chaos. I just need some help on some details, since I want to avoid copying Moorcock’s works and/or Warhammer too closely. Especially since I want to make it clear that neither force is good or evil.

For instance, I’m looking to give each force a symbol, but besides the eight-pointed star for Chaos and Moorcock’s arrow for Order/Law, I can’t think of much in that regard.

Also, I’m trying to come up with ideas for how both Order magic and Chaos magic would work. I’m thinking that the former would have a lot of crystal and ice spells but it needs more, and good Chaos spells beyond maybe fire spells are also giving me trouble. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

>>21694175
I'm looking to create a story where the main two cosmic forces are Order and Chaos, with neither being fully good or evil, and all spells are aligned with one or the other. Do you have any suggestions on ways to write that well? As for the magic my characters would use, if it helps, my current idea was that Order magic would work mainly within and strengthening the laws of the universe. For instance, healing magic restoring the subject to a "previous order" as it were, creating new tissue to replace what isn't there, while Chaos magic works by twisting and breaking the normal rules outright, in more obviously supernatural ways, for the desired effect instead of bending them, like healing by causing flesh to twist and regrow in unnatural ways much faster than the body could do it naturally. I just need some help coming up with specialties/strengths for each kind of magic besides maybe Order magic having a harder time with directly destroying things than Chaos magic instead of just simplifying it.