Technology that runs on magic instead of (or alongside) science, blending the fantastical with the mechanical.
Magitech is what you get when a society starts engineering with magic the way we engineer with electricity. Instead of a lightbulb running on current, you have a crystal that glows when you channel mana into it. Instead of a combustion engine, you have a golem-powered cart. The appeal of magitech is the collision between the wonder of magic and the practicality of industry. It lets you ask: what happens when magic stops being mystical and starts being mundane?
Magitech opens up story possibilities that pure fantasy or pure science fiction can't reach. It lets you write industrial revolutions powered by enchantment, assembly lines staffed by constructs, and social upheavals caused by magical automation. It also forces you to think rigorously about your magic system, because once people start building machines with it, every loophole becomes a product.
Fabrials are the best example of magitech done right: they follow consistent rules, they're manufactured by skilled workers, and their existence reshapes the economy and warfare.
The franchise is famous for blending crystals, magic, and machinery into airships, mecha, and magical reactors.
Hextech, technology powered by magical crystals, drives the class conflict between Piltover's wealthy inventors and Zaun's exploited underclass.
Think through second-order effects. Magical healing at scale means different demographics. Magical communication means different espionage. Follow the implications.
Give it costs, limitations, and failure modes. Maybe the crystals are rare. Maybe the devices break down. Maybe only certain people can operate them. Constraints create stories.
Decide on the power source, the mechanism, and the limits. 'It works because magic' is fine for fairy tales, but magitech stories need internal consistency.
Take one piece of modern technology (a phone, a refrigerator, a car) and redesign it as magitech. Spend 15 minutes writing a product description that explains what powers it, how it works, what can go wrong, and what it costs. Then write a paragraph about who in your world can afford it and who can't.