Hey r/fantasywriters, I'm new to the subreddit and honestly to writing. I've been developing an original fantasy world for a while now and recently started sharing it publicly. I'd genuinely appreciate some outside perspective on whether the core concept is compelling.
The premise: a thirteen-headed god destroyed itself. The fallout buried thirteen rivers of magical energy beneath the world, shattered divine consciousness across the continent, and left five nations who each have an incomplete version of what actually happened. Only one person knows the full truth — and he runs the institution everyone else trusts to stay neutral.
The magic system grows directly from this — three paths that each represent a different relationship to the energy the dead god left behind. No power tiers, just fundamentally different ways of accessing the same source.
My questions for you:
Does the central premise feel fresh or does it remind you of something existing?
Does a magic system rooted in a creation event work mechanically from a craft perspective?
What would you strengthen or change about the concept as a foundation for a novel?
I have thought about each of these questions myself but I would genuinely appreciate some fresh eyes and outside perspective now that I'm starting to actually write the book.
— FragmentaWorks