2025-04-23 3:15:04 ¶ ●

Being a Magnus Archive fan is just consistently thinking about miscellaneous things that would make fun statement topics. So, here’s a few ideas that I came up with:

As someone who collects candles, I think a Desolation statement involving a hobby candle maker could be interesting. The plot could be that the candle maker’s candles keep lighting themselves, and then end up rolling off the counter, tilting over, or having the flame grow unnaturally high until it almost reaches the ceiling. All incidents end in something extremely important to the statement giver being burned in the flames of their own creation.

I think a “Bloody Mary” game gone wrong would be an interesting statement too. Maybe the statement giver could have played the game during a drunken game with friends and when they say her name a third time they see just a flash of a face. It’s gone before the statement giver can even make out the features, but to them that’s the worst part. The plot of this statement is that the statement givers gone mad trying to prove that they saw something and that there’s something more to the urban legend. I would corelate this statement to The Eye since it combines forbidden knowledge (calling upon a ghost just to see if it exists or not) with watching a mirror.

This one is admittedly based on my childhood experience but: A statement giver used to search for roly-polies (or otherwise called pill bugs) with their friends as a kid. As time goes on the statement giver forgets all about it, but then one day they find a roly-poly at work and all the memories come flooding back. They get caught so up in their childhood nostalgia that they decide to go looking for roly-polies and quickly become obsessed with finding them so they can pretend like they’re back in those warm summer days of childhood again. This statement would be related to The Corruption, both because of the bugs, and the corruption of nostalgia.