/lit/ - Literature

>>7970655
Although that idea isn't as rare as you think it might be.

Shinsekai Yori has a pretty similar system and theme to CF going on, with equivalents for the Rakh/evolution by subconscious and and by the end of book three they have a 'can only use magic if saving life' thing which can be compared to SY's death feedback going on. What's interesting is how different authors attempt to conceive of resolving imagination based systems for example CF sticks to Tarrant's monotheistic 'single god' model and murder of infants or just discouraging the practice whereas SY practices the murder of infants and 1984/Brave New World tier mindrape to ensure obedience.

I'm still fucking mad that at the end of Coldfire Tarrant and Damien never travelled to Earth as I was expecting full scifi divergence but it stayed soft scifi.

Then there's the softer imagination based/Cognitive systems like Sanderson's use of Spren or the Ix and Fain in the Last Dragon Chronicles (read that shit as a child many years ago) so I guess many authors use those ideas but tweak it such that it fits the world that they want to portray - whether forgiving or non forgiving.