Magi-Nation is a franchise by Interactive Imagination (aka 2i). The setting is a world called the Moonlands, located on the moon of a large planet. The inhabitants are called Magi and they use their energy and the power of a stone called Animite to cast spells, forge powerful relics, and summon various monsters known as Dream Creatures for both labor and battle.
Works include:
- A 2000 Collectible Card Game called Magi-Nation or Magi-Nation Duel.
- A 2001 Video Game for the GBC/GBA also titled Magi-Nation.
- A 2005 Animated Adaptation with the title Magi-Nation.
- A newsletter The Book of Ages.
Magi-Nation: Battle for the Moonlands was a 2008 MMORPG that never made it past beta development stage.
Tropes common to the franchise:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Paradans tend to be green, the people of Nar are frequently blue, and Bograthians come in a whole range of sort of sickly-looking hues. And Core Magi just get weirder...
- Anachronism Stew: Being that it's a fantasy world, probably justified—but why are these people from a fantastic realm eating jellybeans and quoting The Princess Bride?
- Brains and Brawn:
- Korg and Zet. To quote a Let's Play of the GB game: "They're like Pinky and the Brain. In that order."
- Zet's shortness and inferiority complex also makes him somewhat of a Napoleon.
- Cast from Hit Points: Both the card game and video game merge HP and MP into one resource; casting a 5-point spell or summoning a 5-point monster means 5 points less damage that you can take. But both Magi and monsters generate some energy every turn.
- The Dark Side: Shadow Magi are "normal" magi who have started using Core power.
- Fungus Humongous: Underneath. The Ormagon. There's a reason a quote from this game is on that page.
- Hobbits: The Eliwan as a whole. Although they do possess magic, they are small, non-threatening, unambitious, and perpetually look like young children until they get really old. The Naroom and Weave people are the closest to the trope.
- Kid Hero:
- In America, Tony Jones, a Deadpan Snarker who also has some aspects of The Snark Knight.
- In Japan, this was changed into Dan, an Idiot Hero with tons of fighting spirit who rarely thinks things through.
- Kill It with Fire: Zig-zagged! While the Cald region does get a number of damaging and destructive abilities, they're also big on healing and rejuvenating abilities, providing the warmth of life.
- Lethal Lava Land: Cald
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The Shadow Geysers, and Agram.
- Seashell Bra: Many of the female Orothans wear this kind of attire.
- Shifting Sand Land: The aptly-named Sands of d'Resh.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Evu and jellybeans. There's even a relic in the card game named "Evu's Jellybeans."
