Brink World

There are some cultures that believe that to take a picture of a person captures that person’s soul. This was the starting point of my Drawn To The Brink story, found in Conmergence.

• The premises of the magic:
•  Drawing something can create that thing in the real world, but…
• …by sunset (if it was drawn during the day) or by sunrise (if it was drawn at night) the object disappears again
• Drawing a real person can capture that person’s soul, binding that person to the artist’s will; this is forbidden
• Drawing an imaginary person does not create a real person, it creates an automoton; nonetheless it’s forbidden, because…
• …of the temptation to create a brink a magical drawing that can “cross the brink” and remain in existance beyond sunset and sunrise
•  for a brink can only be made by sacrificing the soul of a real person to free it from the canvas