Modern Sorcerers AU

Okay this is just plain info dump.

The Modern Sorcerers AU is an AU where sorcery, ghosts and ext are an open secret. They are like specialists that curtain groups of people seeks out.

For example police chiefs would seek out some rune sorcerers to reconstruct crime scenes, or the sighted to contact the ghosts. Some of the big-shot farmer companies would ask elementalists to help design their tech, mafia would have contacts with battle sorcerers for assassinations.

So basically they are like mercenaries, and trade favours for information and more.

They aren't all dark and live in caves. They live normally like you and me, goes to school and have their own work. They do have a system though, to tell their power rank.

The levels are:

Undetermined: Those who have the potential but hadn't bothered to study yet.

Amateur: Those who are self studying.

Student: studying under a proper teacher/ home schooled/ taking online classes

Apprentice: personal apprentice of a mentor

Assistant: an assistant to a scholar or above.

Novice: Not an assistant but not quite skilled enough yet.

Scholar/ Intern: skilled enough to take on jobs on their own.

Expert/ Duelist: most people who are working are at this level.

Mentor/ Mage: skilled enough to teach.

Master/ Wanderer: elders. People who are crazy strong, skilled and usually has the experience to back it up. Masters has political power while wanderers are just... Wandering 'roubd the world.

Spectors: the powerhouse big boss, god level people who no one knows who the heck they are.

They take exams to determine their levels, I guess.

Ghosts are spirits of the dead. Some are unstable and screeches all the time, the weaker ones doesn't matter because as long as you aren't sighted or wearing a necklace that gives you sight they can't affect you. But the more powerful ones can affect the living and stuff so usually the sorcerers in the area's take them down.

There's also the stable ones. They are usually fun to chat with. Powerful stable ghosts can turn solid, use magic, and interact with the living at will. Those are... Very rare.

Sight is the ability to see and interact with ghosts and curtain magical creatures like Yokai. Natural sight is rare, but through practicing magic or getting a sight gem or charmed artifact you can gain sight.

The types of magic includes:

Elementalists:

People who use and manipulates the elements, magic usually manifests as ribbons of said element. Quite versatile.

Seers:

Predicts possible future timelines, usually in forms of dreams or sudden flashes. Sometimes they can project them.

Charm Runists:

Uses charms or stones with runes crafted on them, magic manifests like fragments of lights shaped like different artifacts scattered around the rune. Usually used to create enchantments for large areas.

Blood Runists:

Uses magic by writing runes with blood— can be human blood or animal blood, can reuse even if writings are gone or washed off, activated at will, magic manifests as floating glowing runes and glowing words where the writing was on. Usually used for healing, physical enhancement and long term effects like invisibility.

Aura Users:

They use aura energy to cast spells or attacks. Their magic manifests as glowing, floating rune circles in the colour of their aura. Very versatile but mentally demanding. Usually used as shields or long range attacks, rune circles can act as wrap gates and pocket dimensions, you can also hop on a rune circle and surf on it.

The Sighted:

I already explained.

A person is usually born with just one to two types of magic potential. Three potential is rare but not impossible, and there have been people with four or five potentials found before.

If you have all six then you aren't human. You are a kind of humanoid creature born from two humans at a very specific time, and that means you are cursed to a very tragic life and to die by your loved ones hand very painfully before you reach 20. Most don't get past 15 thou.

As for how common sorcerers are, in one neighborhood there's usually about one to two kids born with magic. In a bigger city there's usually one to two families of sorcerers. If you are a normal person you'd probably know about two to three sorcerers personally.

So yeah. This is about it. Read if you want. I'm not even sure I want to write this.

Writing Toshi freaking out while Akemi chats with Nana would be fun though. Shinsou makes a good Necromancer. And I can't stop imagining Detective Tsukauchi being very very tired while taking to the recipient sighted sorcerers who just won't cooperate.

If I'm writing this I'm just gonna add the magic to the normal world and Akemi's gonna surf around on her rune circle whenever no one's looking. Open secret, open secret. Be discreet but no need to hide on purpose. Shouto is going to be sighted and has this weird funny ghost who just won't stop following him, and Aizawa-sensei will be so tired his sorcerers contacts.