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{{quote|''One day the magic will come back, all of it. Everyone will be just like they were. The shadows will part and the skies will open wide. When he rises, everyone will see.''|'''Sandal Feddic''', ''[[
[[Here There Were Dragons|The past was an exciting time to live in]]: Magic was real, mythological creatures roamed the Earth, and humans lived side by side with [[Five Races|elves, dwarves, hobbits and the rest]]. [[Tempting Fate|Such a shame]] that it didn't last and we're stuck with plain, old boring mundane life.
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* The main plot of ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]''.
* In Simon Hawke's ''[[The Wizard Of 4 th Street]]'' novels, magic was once a driving force in the world, based around those descended from [[Our Elves Are Better|a long-lived magical race]]. But some went [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|mad with power]] and had to be [[Sealed Evil in
* ''Winter of Magic's Return'' and its sequel by Pamela Service are YA novels about a reawakened Merlin in an [[After the End]] setting where magic is starting to replace technology again.
* Something rather like this is the undercurrent of the third book in C. S. Lewis' so-called Space Trilogy, ''[[That Hideous Strength]]''. By the end of the story, major elements from Celtic -and to a lesser extent, Greek- mythology are running around parts of 20th-Century England; per Lewisian reckoning, these are benevolent, quasi-divine entities aligned with Heaven and mistaken for deities by pagans in times past. The overall effect is similar to what one would expect of the reincarnation of King Arthur, which it sorta is.
* At the beginning of ''[[Monster (
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', magic is considered a folk tale by most of the people of Westeros, and no provable sorcery has been practiced in years. {{spoiler|Then, at the end of the first book, Daenerys uses the principles of blood magic to hatch fossilized dragon eggs, and with the return of the dragons comes a boost in the general level of magic, which is especially noticeable for pyromancers and red priests.}}
* According to author [[Brandon Sanderson]], this will be one of the things explored in his ten-book epic fantasy series ''[[
** This is pretty much what happens at the climax of ''[[Elantris]]'', though it was only [[Geometric Magic|AonDor]] that had gone away in the first place; the [[Rule of Three|other two]] magic systems were working just fine.
* The knowledge of magic is ''slowly'' coming back in the [[Shannara]] series. It only took several false starts, almost apocalypses, and one actual apocalypse.
* Pretty much the point of ''[[
* The conclusion of ''[[The Darksword Trilogy|Legacy Of The Darksword]]''.
* ''[[Swordspoint|The Fall of the Kings]]'': The previous two books in the series had no magic, though some of the related short stories had minor fantasy elements (like the appearance of {{spoiler|St. Vier's ghost}} in "The Death of the Duke"). Then in ''The Fall of the Kings'', it's revealed that in the setting's distant past, before the monarchy was overthrown, the country was ruled by a series of kings and their wizard lovers, though the existence of real magic has been covered up by [[Internal Retcon]]. One of the main characters is a descendant of the ancient kings (and heavily implied to be the Rightful Heir), and the other is a scholar obsessed with the wizards (who successfully performs magic before the end of the book). Different from most examples in that this does not lead to a worldwide renaissance of magic; {{spoiler|it might have, except the scholar gets murdered the first time he does magic in public.}}
* Common in the [[Dungeon Punk]] genre. A good example is the ''[[
* Although magic is still around in ''[[Discworld]]'', it is a pale shadow of what it once was, and comes with so many disadvantages that it can never be [[Functional Magic|functional]]. The plot of ''[[Discworld
* The [[Connor Grey]] series has this as a backstory. Faerieland suffered some sort of calamity, so all [[The Fair Folk]] had to settle on Earth. Now they're coexisting uneasily with humans, and much magic is being done.
* In Ben Aaronovitch's novel ''[[Rivers of London]]'' the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is disgusted but not totally shocked to learn that the Home Office projections were wrong and that the magic has indeed been coming back since about the mid-sixties.
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* In the ''[[Rifts]]'' campaign setting, the simultaneous deaths of billions of humans in an apocalyptic <s>war</s> accident caused a magical chain reaction that re-energized Earth's ley lines and opened up rifts from all corners of the multiverse.
* In the ''[[Shadowrun]]'' campaign setting, magic returns after centuries of dormancy, which causes elves and dwarves to be born of human parents as well as causing others to change into orcs and trolls.
* In the [[Deadlands]] campaign setting, magic returns when a [[Sealed Evil in
* When the dimension Alara from the ''[[Magic:
* In the ''[[Alternity]]'' campaign setting ''Dark•Matter'', the level of supernatural activity on Earth is directly linked to the amount of dark matter in the universe, which is likened to a tide pool. The rising tide of dark matter, however, is not a good thing. Not only are many supernatural beings extremely dangerous, but previous risings of the tide have resulted in mass extinction events, as noted in the Mayan calendar.
** This idea was later copied for ''[[Urban Arcana]]'', a ''[[
* In the [[GURPS]] setting ''Technomancer'', the Trinity nuclear bomb tests and Oppenheimer's famous words, "I am become death, the destroyer of words" (which he didn't actually say) completes an ancient ritual and returns magic to the world, which humanity promptly fuses with technology to produce all kinds of strange ramifications.
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* Happens in the backstory in the MMORPG [[City of Heroes]]: Two friends discovered Pandora's Box, and upon opening it, unleashed the "total sum of human achievement" upon the entire world in one day, not only bringing back magic, but allowing humanity to make sudden leaps in science and technology, as well. The immediate and ongoing result is a world full of super-powered people!
* Bringing magic back is your goal in ''[[Zork: Grand Inquisitor]]''. {{spoiler|It has already started to return before you get involved, as evidenced by Dalboz's journal entries and your working spellbook, but you still need to reunite the [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] to complete the process.}}
* Part of the [[Backstory]] for [[Guilty Gear]]. Gear Technology and their subsequent rampage brings about both armageddon and the reintroduction of [[Functional Magic]] to society.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' begins with a narration stating how the War of the Magi devastated the world and brought about the end of magic... but in truth, the magic wasn't gone, it was merely sealed away. Now a power hungry Empire has rediscovered it and is using it as a weapon of conquest. {{spoiler|It doesn't last long, however. In the end, upon the destruction of the Three Goddesses of Magic, [[The Magic Goes Away]] again, this time permanently}}.
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* The goal of the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' could be considered this, in that he plans to re-join the worlds of Stark (world of science, i.e. our Earth) and Arcadia (medieval world of magic), which have been split up for millennia due to the dangers of mixing science and magic. In the beginning of the game, strange, magical things start happening to the people of Stark. Also, the fact that all advanced technology failed in-between ''The Longest Journey'' and ''[[Dreamfall]]'' implies that it was an unwitting product of magic seeping into Stark.
* The starting point of the plot in the little known ''Spellcraft - Aspects of Valor''.
* Darkly deconstructed in ''[[Nie R]]''. {{spoiler|The magic introduced into the world via Caim, Angelus and the Mother Grotesquerie crossing over from the ''[[Drakengard]]'' universe literally ''causes [[The End of the World
* The page quote from [[
== Webcomic ==
* The basis of the furry webcomic ''[[Code Name: Hunter]]''. In a subversion, there are places where the magic was never sealed away, such as [[Land Down Under|Australia]].
* Fantasy races are rediscovered in [[Corner Alley 13]]
* [[Yosh!]] had in it's backstory the world sudenly re-gaining a large amount of magic and people changing into semihuman forms when the first of 5 seals keeping magic away from the world is broken. When the second seal is broken, more magic returns, magical creatures reapear, and a sunken island rises - into the sky.
* In ''[[The Phoenix Requiem]]'', magic was provided by the spirits, who were imprisoned 700 years ago. They seem to be coming back. {{spoiler|The catch: it is [[The Reveal|revealed]] that they are the bad guys.}}
* {{spoiler|This might be Pandora's goal in}} [[
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
* This was the premise of the 1980's animated series ''[[
* Making the people of Earth believe in magic again is part of the mission the ''[[Winx Club]]'' has in season 4.
* While never stated directly in the show, [[Word of God]] says that ''[[
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