/lit/ - Literature

>Tell us about your favorite magic system.

I'm going to have to shill Unsong again, won't I?

It has worldly kabbalah, where you say a Name of God in order to get a particular effect. The Names are copyrighted; the main character works at a sweatshop where they brute force various syllable combinations in order to discover new Names.
It has applied kabbalah, where you discover secrets and manipulate reality by noticing correspondences between languages and concepts. Magic based on anagrams, translations, poetry, etymology and puns, basically.
It has placebomancy, where you can perform minor magic by "convincing" the universe via rituals. Latin chants help, but one of the antagonists uses random phrases from a Latin textbook and they work just as well

>>11464593
web novels you say?

Finally finished Unsong today and oh boy, that wordplay is some of the most elaborate I've ever seen. Liked the ending, too, even though some of the characters could have done more things. What did y'all think of it?