History Main / TheMagicComesBack

See also NothingIsTheSameAnymore.
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* According to author BrandonSanderson, this will be one of the things explored in his ten-book epic fantasy series TheStormlightArchive (of which only the first has been published so far) in part as a reaction to so many epic fantasies he read in his youth being about the inevitable loss of magic and wonder. In his new series, the world will rapidly become a lot more fantastical, new races will be discovered, and wonderment will increase.

* Pretty much the point of TheAgeOfMisrule.

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* When the dimension Alara from the Magic: the Gathering multiverse was broken into five pieces each piece could only access three of the five forms of magic that exists in that canon, with no two piece accessing the same three forms of magic. Much of the story deals with the five shards of Alara coming together, and the huge amounts of problems the reemergence of unknown forms of magic, and the mindset behind it's practitioners are causing it.

* ''DragonAge'' is a good example of this trope being a bad thing. An ancient threat resurfaces, a legendary witch [[spoiler:dragon]] leaves her secluded swamp and begins to scheme anew, the darkest secrets of the lost Dwarven thaigs are being rediscovered, great and terrible High Dragons are growing in number again (the Dragon Age was even named such because of this), the guardian beasts of the fallen Elven kingdom of Arlathan are awakening, and [[DragonAgeII the sequel]] reveals that the Tevinter Magister Empire, an evil regime founded on BloodMagic, has regained nearly all of the power it lost since the First Blight and Andraste's revolution. This is on top of a CivilWar between Mages and Templars which even the Chantry cannot suppress anymore.

* Seems to be the case for ''DragonAge''. The current century is named the Dragon Age for the reappearance of the titular creatures after centuries of being on the verge of extinction, a great many relics of the past have been uncovered, and an Old God may have returned to the world.

* The DistantFinale of ''CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' [[spoiler:set in the modern era]] implies that magic is coming back in the form of [[spoiler:{{Satan}} marshalling his forces in another bid to conquer the world and Zobek (Death) convincing Gabriel (Dracula) to resist him.]]

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Starting in the Nineteenth Century with the Rosicrucians and the Golden Dawn, but getting a major boost in the mid-twentieth when Gerald Gardner and Ross Nichols started hanging out: magic practice and spirituality has had a major renaissance after it's low point in the Industrial Age.

* In Ben Aaronovitch's novel ''Rivers of London'' the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is disgusted but not totally shocked to learn that the Home Office projections were wrong and that the magic has indeed been coming back [[spoiler: since about the mid-sixties.]]

The past was an exciting time to live in: Magic was real, mythological creatures roamed the Earth, and humans lived side by side with [[FiveRaces elves, dwarves, hobbits and the rest]]. Such a shame that it didn't last and we're stuck with [[{{Gotterdammerung}} plain, old boring mundane life]].

* In Simon Hawke's ''The Wizard of 4th Street'' novels, magic was once a driving force in the world, based around those descended from [[OurElvesAreBetter a long-lived magical race]]. But some went [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]] and had to be [[SealedEvilInACan locked away]]. Cut to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: after Merlin comes BackFromTheDead and those of [[WitchSpecies magical bloodlines]] are found and trained as new wizards, the world becomes a better place, and [[{{Magitek}} magic-powered technology]] replaces the old polluting resource-hogs of today. But it still has its problems, especially when some of the [[TheFairFolk more troublesome immortals]] are revived by the sudden increase in magic.

* In the ''{{Rifts}}'' campaign setting, the simultaneous deaths of billions of humans in an apocalyptic war caused a magical chain reaction that re-energized Earth's ley lines and opened up rifts from all corners of the multiverse.

** This idea was later copied for ''UrbanArcana'', a ''d20Modern'' campaign setting. Here, the tide is actually the Shadow Plane and the supernatural forces are the monsters of ''DungeonsAndDragons''. There's no Apocalypse looming ahead, though.

* According to author BrandonSanderson, this will be one of the things explored in his upcoming ten-book epic fantasy series TheStormlightArchive, in part as a reaction to so many epic fantasies he read in his youth being about the inevitable loss of magic and wonder. In his new series, the world will rapidly become a lot more fantastical, new races will be discovered, and wonderment will increase.

* According to author BrandonSanderson, this will be one of the things explored in his upcoming ten-book epic fantasy series ''The Stormlight Archive'', in part as a reaction to so many epic fantasies he read in his youth being about the inevitable loss of magic and wonder. In his new series, the world will rapidly become a lot more fantastical, new races will be discovered, and wonderment will increase.

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