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* TheDarkArts: This concept isn't really a part of American discourse on magic, and very few spells are illegal [[note]]though some potions are. [[/note]] in and of themselves; raising human zombies (outside of Louisiana) is unlawful interference with a corpse [[note]]silk from zombie ''spiders'' is a vital industrial product[[/note]], while summoning demons is an immigration issue. Also, the US military will use any and every tool that'll win it victory. With that said, society is ''really'' afraid of magical mind control.
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* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: An InUniverse example. Necrovision is an enchantment that allows a TV to watch any show that isn't currently airing on broadcast television, and TV producers and studios are suing Necrotech over it.
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* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: An InUniverse example. Necrovision is an enchantment that allows a TV to watch any show that isn't currently airing on broadcast television, and TV producers and studios are suing Necrotech over it. [[note]][[HilariousInHindsight This book was written well before the rise of filesharing and video streaming.]][[/note]]
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* FlyingCarpet: A favored replacement for the automobile (though those are still in use too).
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* {{Magitek}}: Check the title. It's ubiquitous and has profoundly shaped North American society (and the rest of the world to a significantly lesser extent). Architecture is neo-Gothic because it's cheaper to build skyscrapers out of elemental stone than glass and steel, medicine has been replaced with healing magic to the point that "old skills" like basic surgery are considered an elective, NASA uses teleportation in place of rockets, and the 13th Necromantic Operations Group and the Blue Dragons won Vietnam for the United States. And while using magic while playing football is forbidden, celebrity wizards cast the spells that keep it from raining on the Super Bowl.
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: The US has had over fifty years to grapple with the implications of magic.
** [[TruthSerums Compel Truth]] is the ''big'' example of this trope: it's constitutional, every witness who takes the stand has to take it, and it's a big help in getting the innocent exonerated.
** A LongerThanLifeSentence is possible in Louisiana, where people can be sentenced to death and zombie labor.
** Being under MindManipulation is obviously an absolute defense in a criminal trial.
** [[ImmortalityInducer Youth elixir]] is new enough that the courts are currently fighting over its implications; among other things, they haven't worked out whether a [[PowerPerversionPotential chronological and mental adult in a thirteen-year-old body can legally act in a pornographic film]].
** [[TruthSerums Compel Truth]] is the ''big'' example of this trope: it's constitutional, every witness who takes the stand has to take it, and it's a big help in getting the innocent exonerated.
** A LongerThanLifeSentence is possible in Louisiana, where people can be sentenced to death and zombie labor.
** Being under MindManipulation is obviously an absolute defense in a criminal trial.
** [[ImmortalityInducer Youth elixir]] is new enough that the courts are currently fighting over its implications; among other things, they haven't worked out whether a [[PowerPerversionPotential chronological and mental adult in a thirteen-year-old body can legally act in a pornographic film]].
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Because a lot of stuff out there is ImmuneToBullets, and [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells depleted necronium]] gets real expensive real fast, most Hellhounds are proficient with bladed weapons as well as guns.
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* AlchemyIsMagic: Alchemical effects are the one area of {{Magitek}} ''not'' dominated by the United States, because anyone can be an alchemist (not just mages). As a result, alchemy is widespread worldwide, and China is the largest producer of [[ImmortalityInducer Youth potions]].
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* TheDarkArts: This concept isn't really a part of American discourse on magic, and very few spells are illegal (though some potions are) in and of themselves; raising zombies (outside of Louisiana) is unlawful interference with a corpse, while summoning demons is an immigration issue. Also, the US military will use any and every tool that'll win it victory. With that said, society is ''really'' afraid of magical mind control.
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* TheDarkArts: This concept isn't really a part of American discourse on magic, and very few spells are illegal (though [[note]]though some potions are) are. [[/note]] in and of themselves; raising zombies (outside of Louisiana) is unlawful interference with a corpse, while summoning demons is an immigration issue. Also, the US military will use any and every tool that'll win it victory. With that said, society is ''really'' afraid of magical mind control.
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** Youth elixir is available and common, if expensive - and being alchemical, is one technomagical item that's evenly distributed around the world. It's pretty much accepted that the world's rich are not going to die, and the effects of this are beginning to be felt.
** Eva Peron is also immortal due to Nazi magic. This is most notable because she did it ''before'' youth magic became publically available, and led the Condor Group to become the central controlling organization in Argentina.
** Youth elixir is available and common, if expensive - and being alchemical, is one technomagical item that's evenly distributed around the world. It's pretty much accepted that the world's rich are not going to die, and the effects of this are beginning to be felt.
** Eva Peron is also immortal due to Nazi magic. This is most notable because she did it ''before'' youth magic became publically available, and led the Condor Group to become the central controlling organization in Argentina.
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* PowerPerversionPotential: The sex industry legally uses mannequin golems and created humans as prostitutes to the point where there's a [[MoralGuardians movement]] to ban the trade. Demonality (the summoning of incubi or succubi) is already illegal. [[LovePotion Mind control magic and potions]] are popular methods of date rape. Suffice to say, the subject is addressed.
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* PowerPerversionPotential: The sex industry legally uses mannequin golems and created humans as prostitutes to the point where there's a [[MoralGuardians movement]] to ban the trade. Demonality (the summoning of incubi or succubi) is already illegal.illegal (specifically, it's a violation of immigration law). [[LovePotion Mind control magic and potions]] are popular methods of date rape. Suffice to say, the subject is addressed.
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* AlternateHistoryWank: Special note goes to Argentina becoming a ''major'' technomagical superpower, due to the Antarctic manafall and the support of Nazi wizards. Mexico is also a fully first-world country due to being in Trinity's Shadow.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Religion has had to adapt to the manafall. In general, mainline Christianity has accepted the coming of magic with good grace, but a few new sects have popped up (such as the Knights of the Apocalypse, who are the Klan for chimeras, and the Rachelites, an ecstatic branch of Christianity that seeks magical visions). Also, Wicca and other neopagan religions are far more popular than it is on our Earth.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Religion has had to adapt to the manafall. In general, mainline Christianity has accepted the coming of magic with good grace, but a few new sects have popped up (such as the Knights of the Apocalypse, who are the Klan for chimeras, and the Rachelites, an ecstatic branch of Christianity that seeks magical visions). Also, Wicca and other neopagan religions are far more popular than it is they are on our Earth.
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* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Religion has had to adapt to the manafall. In general, mainline Christianity has accepted the coming of magic with good grace, but a few new sects have popped up (such as the Knights of the Apocalypse, who are the Klan for chimeras, and the Rachelites, an ecstatic branch of Christianity that seeks magical visions). Also, Wicca is and other neopagan religions are far more popular than it is on our Earth.
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* InhumanableAlienRights: Humans, dragons and chimeras have rights (though chimeras face FantasticRacism). The undead don't; they're legally considered ambulatory corpses. Monsters, demons and creations are likewise not considered human.
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* KingInTheMountain: UsefulNotes/JosefStalin: Stalin did not die in 1953, he was merely put into magical stasis-sleep-type-thing to be awakened when Motherland will be in danger. He awoke in 1996, after Communism fell, and started a civil war to oust democrats and capitalists from his country.
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* UsefulNotes/JosefStalin: Stalin did not die in 1953, he was merely put into magical stasis-sleep-type-thing [[KingInTheMountain to be awakened when Motherland will be in danger]]. He awoke in 1996, after Communism fell, and started a civil war to oust democrats and capitalists from his country.
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* KingInTheMountain: UsefulNotes/JosefStalin: Stalin did not die in 1953, he was merely put into magical stasis-sleep-type-thing [[KingInTheMountain to be awakened when Motherland will be in danger]].danger. He awoke in 1996, after Communism fell, and started a civil war to oust democrats and capitalists from his country.
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* BackFromTheDead: Possible, but nobody's managed to do it through magic. There ''is'' an alchemical formula for it, but whoever knows that formula is keeping it deeply under wraps.
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* {{Invisibility}}: This magic exists, but is highly classified; any kind of invisibility magic is only available to spies and special forces, and no private-sector group has yet managed to crack the secret.
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* WeirdHistoricalWar: After the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent Hellstorm]] in 1945, a number of real-world wars still went ahead with China facing stiff resistance from magic Tibetian monks in their invasion of 1950 and Iranian Revolution takes place while Shah is being treated for vampiric leukaemia in the United States in 1979. The supplement, "Funny New Guys" focuses on roleplaying the Vietnam War if it were fought using wizards and dragons. In canon, the US ''won'' the Vietnam War through the use of necromancy.
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** Thesupplement, supplement "Funny New Guys" focuses on roleplaying the Vietnam War if it were fought using wizards and dragons. In canon, the US ''won'' the Vietnam War through the use of necromancy.necromancy.
** The Nazified Argentina likewise won the Falklands War in this 'verse by raising several ''Kriegsmarine'' vessels and equipping them with undead crews.
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** The Nazified Argentina likewise won the Falklands War in this 'verse by raising several ''Kriegsmarine'' vessels and equipping them with undead crews.
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* UtilityMagic: Magic is used for mass market consumer products, such as electronics. In addition, the bottom end of magework is the "Johnny One-Spell," a shop usually manned by college students that simply casts a particular spell on each customer for a fee, such as a dry cleaning operation using a Clean spell.
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* MegaCorp: A couple are mentioned. Most notable are Manadynamics (the grand old company of industrial enchantment), Sephiroth Industries (a military contractor, the inventor of electricity-to-mana conversion and ''the'' power in orbital space), and most nastily Leviathan Investment Group, a holding company for several (often ethically-shady) businesses, which is heavily tied in with the magical dictatorship of Surinam and has an actual ''dragon'' as chairman and primary owner.
* TheMenInBlack: "Mages in Black" are part of the general lore around [[TheFairFolk Seelie]] sightings and abductions (which may or may not actually happen).
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* SorcerousOverlord: Maria Hawker, President of the Magiocracy of Surinam and necromancer. Of course, since this is the modern world, she's mostly the tinpot dictator of a BananaRepublic, and her government is [[OneNationUnderCopyright heavily influenced by Leviathan Investment Group]].
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* CureYourGays: This is possible with the right magic, but the Geas is not endorsed by the psychiatric profession for this purpose. The geas ''is'', of course, being advocated by the usual suspects.
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* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: An InUniverse example. Necrovision is an enchantment that allows a TV to watch any show that isn't currently airing on broadcast television, and TV producers and studios are suing Necrotech over it.
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* TruthSerums: The Compel Truth spell is used on witnesses in court, preventing them from lying. The Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional, and an affirmation of one's innocence under Compel Truth is considered positive proof.
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''GURPS Technomancer'' is an UrbanFantasy setting for ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}'' roleplaying system. The corebook was first released in 1998 by Creator/SteveJacksonGames.
The setting's point of divergence from own history was the Trinity nuclear bomb tests and Oppenheimer's famous words, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" ([[BeamMeUpScotty which he didn't actually say]]) which completes an ancient ritual that created an endless tornado of seething magical energy. Officially the tornado is called the "Trinity Event," but is popularly called the "Hellstorm".
A wave of magical radiation, called Oz particles, spread out from the Hellstorm, bringing [[TheMagicComesBack magic back into the world]][[note]]Although, InUniverse, "returns" is an assumption; there's no proof Earth used to have magic and then [[TheMagicGoesAway it went away]], although there's enough circumstantial evidence that most people believe it.[[/note]] and causing all manner of supernatural weirdness.
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!!Tropes include:
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The Condor Group, comprising former [[{{Ghostapo}} SS magicians]], essentially control Argentina behind the scenes after giving Eva Peron immortality.
* BlackHelicopter: The American government has mysterious, stealth black ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]]''.
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: The magical metal Necronium, is used primarily as a power source (and can sometimes poison those exposed to it and bring them back as the [[ZombieApocalypse living dead]]), whilst depleted Necronium is toxic to all magical creatures. Depleted Necronium is also completely unaffected by magic, allowing it to penetrate nearly all protective spells.
* TheFairFolk: Fairies take the place of TheGreys - Seelie and Unseelie encounters involving abductions, lights in the sky, traumatic repressed memories, and [[RoswellThatEndsWell rumors of two Seelie being captured near Roswell...]]
* FeatheredFiend: The magic-using penguin socialist collective of Antarctica, transformed by a Hellstorm into a vicious HiveMind that has driven human scientists from the continent and is building up for the next battle.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even though the Hellstorm brought magic and a whole lot of other weirdness into the world, the ''Technomancer'' setting is still a "close parallel" to our Earth and many historical events that happened in our world also happened in the setting with only minor differences.
* UsefulNotes/JosefStalin: Stalin did not die in 1953, he was merely put into magical stasis-sleep-type-thing [[KingInTheMountain to be awakened when Motherland will be in danger]]. He awoke in 1996, after Communism fell, and started a civil war to oust democrats and capitalists from his country.
* LongerThanLifeSentence: The state of Louisiana allows for sentences of "death plus hard labor." This means a death sentence, followed by being [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombified]] and put on a chain gang.
* LovePotion: The setting doesn't shy away from the moral implications of such a potion, outright calling the Elixir of Love (along with the Elixirs of Lechery and Drunkenness) a "date-rape potion."
* MisterSeahorse: There are spells for transferring pregnancy, which includes the production of a magical "womb" for males.
* TheMenInBlack: "Mages in Black" are part of the general lore around [[TheFairFolk Seelie]] sightings and abductions (which may or may not actually happen).
* {{Muggles}}: "Mundane" is also used as a "mildly impolite" term to refer to people who aren't chimeras and don't have the Magery advantage.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragon. Blue dragons are intelligent, friendly Western dragons, who work for the US Air Force as self-aware aircraft (their scales are green; "blue" refers to their employment. The "red" dragons are really of the same color, but they worked for the USSR). Black dragons also work for the USAF, but have been genetically engineered into {{Magitek}} stealth fighters.
* SimplifiedSpellcasting: Mages start out needing to use words and actions in order to achieve the proper mental state, but experienced casters just need to concentrate.
* SoulPoweredEngine: The Soul Burner Gestalt is a necromantic device that converts the souls of sacrificed human victims into magical energy.
* SpaceIsMagic: Magic is caused by ''Oz'' particles, which were initially scarce on earth until the Hellstorms. However, it's been discovered that there ''are'' indeed oz particles in space, radiated by the sun, they just got blocked by the atmosphere along with the other harmful rays.
* UnholyNuke: A very literal example is the necronium bomb. Plain and simple nukes became unusable in that setting because they create Hellstorms that may destroy the whole world in one blast, so the necromantic magical replacement was created.
* UtilityMagic: Magic is used for mass market consumer products, such as electronics.
* WeirdHistoricalWar: After the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent Hellstorm]] in 1945, a number of real-world wars still went ahead with China facing stiff resistance from magic Tibetian monks in their invasion of 1950 and Iranian Revolution takes place while Shah is being treated for vampiric leukaemia in the United States in 1979. The supplement, "Funny New Guys" focuses on roleplaying the Vietnam War if it were fought using wizards and dragons.
* WhoShotJFK: It is briefly mentioned that Oswald's use of a {{CIA}} developed "Magic Bullet" spell was covered up. The how and why he got his hands on the spell is left unstated.
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The setting's point of divergence from own history was the Trinity nuclear bomb tests and Oppenheimer's famous words, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" ([[BeamMeUpScotty which he didn't actually say]]) which completes an ancient ritual that created an endless tornado of seething magical energy. Officially the tornado is called the "Trinity Event," but is popularly called the "Hellstorm".
A wave of magical radiation, called Oz particles, spread out from the Hellstorm, bringing [[TheMagicComesBack magic back into the world]][[note]]Although, InUniverse, "returns" is an assumption; there's no proof Earth used to have magic and then [[TheMagicGoesAway it went away]], although there's enough circumstantial evidence that most people believe it.[[/note]] and causing all manner of supernatural weirdness.
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!!Tropes include:
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The Condor Group, comprising former [[{{Ghostapo}} SS magicians]], essentially control Argentina behind the scenes after giving Eva Peron immortality.
* BlackHelicopter: The American government has mysterious, stealth black ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]]''.
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: The magical metal Necronium, is used primarily as a power source (and can sometimes poison those exposed to it and bring them back as the [[ZombieApocalypse living dead]]), whilst depleted Necronium is toxic to all magical creatures. Depleted Necronium is also completely unaffected by magic, allowing it to penetrate nearly all protective spells.
* TheFairFolk: Fairies take the place of TheGreys - Seelie and Unseelie encounters involving abductions, lights in the sky, traumatic repressed memories, and [[RoswellThatEndsWell rumors of two Seelie being captured near Roswell...]]
* FeatheredFiend: The magic-using penguin socialist collective of Antarctica, transformed by a Hellstorm into a vicious HiveMind that has driven human scientists from the continent and is building up for the next battle.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even though the Hellstorm brought magic and a whole lot of other weirdness into the world, the ''Technomancer'' setting is still a "close parallel" to our Earth and many historical events that happened in our world also happened in the setting with only minor differences.
* UsefulNotes/JosefStalin: Stalin did not die in 1953, he was merely put into magical stasis-sleep-type-thing [[KingInTheMountain to be awakened when Motherland will be in danger]]. He awoke in 1996, after Communism fell, and started a civil war to oust democrats and capitalists from his country.
* LongerThanLifeSentence: The state of Louisiana allows for sentences of "death plus hard labor." This means a death sentence, followed by being [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombified]] and put on a chain gang.
* LovePotion: The setting doesn't shy away from the moral implications of such a potion, outright calling the Elixir of Love (along with the Elixirs of Lechery and Drunkenness) a "date-rape potion."
* MisterSeahorse: There are spells for transferring pregnancy, which includes the production of a magical "womb" for males.
* TheMenInBlack: "Mages in Black" are part of the general lore around [[TheFairFolk Seelie]] sightings and abductions (which may or may not actually happen).
* {{Muggles}}: "Mundane" is also used as a "mildly impolite" term to refer to people who aren't chimeras and don't have the Magery advantage.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragon. Blue dragons are intelligent, friendly Western dragons, who work for the US Air Force as self-aware aircraft (their scales are green; "blue" refers to their employment. The "red" dragons are really of the same color, but they worked for the USSR). Black dragons also work for the USAF, but have been genetically engineered into {{Magitek}} stealth fighters.
* SimplifiedSpellcasting: Mages start out needing to use words and actions in order to achieve the proper mental state, but experienced casters just need to concentrate.
* SoulPoweredEngine: The Soul Burner Gestalt is a necromantic device that converts the souls of sacrificed human victims into magical energy.
* SpaceIsMagic: Magic is caused by ''Oz'' particles, which were initially scarce on earth until the Hellstorms. However, it's been discovered that there ''are'' indeed oz particles in space, radiated by the sun, they just got blocked by the atmosphere along with the other harmful rays.
* UnholyNuke: A very literal example is the necronium bomb. Plain and simple nukes became unusable in that setting because they create Hellstorms that may destroy the whole world in one blast, so the necromantic magical replacement was created.
* UtilityMagic: Magic is used for mass market consumer products, such as electronics.
* WeirdHistoricalWar: After the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent Hellstorm]] in 1945, a number of real-world wars still went ahead with China facing stiff resistance from magic Tibetian monks in their invasion of 1950 and Iranian Revolution takes place while Shah is being treated for vampiric leukaemia in the United States in 1979. The supplement, "Funny New Guys" focuses on roleplaying the Vietnam War if it were fought using wizards and dragons.
* WhoShotJFK: It is briefly mentioned that Oswald's use of a {{CIA}} developed "Magic Bullet" spell was covered up. The how and why he got his hands on the spell is left unstated.
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