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[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

Just now, Ookla the Wallfacer said:

Ahh

So Kreen was sleeping and philosophy-ing in that time.

plateaus are generally very large tho so yea

I put a lore dump in the description

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

9 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Yeah! Great Spirits! Revived!

Make a medieval character, no magic (yet), and name one type/generality/(genre of effects) of magic you would like that character to specialize in.

Its been a while, and most of these threads are dead, so…

Can I have more lore?

ed1t: read the lore, would still like more lore, will add character or questions in a minute

ed2t: yeah i would like more info on the magic system and how much i can do with my character that would or could change the lore?

Edited December 20, 2025 by CoderDrag0n8

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

8 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Can I have more lore?

ed1t: read the lore, would still like more lore, will add character or questions in a minute

ed2t: yeah i would like more info on the magic system and how much i can do with my character that would or could change the lore?

Not much will change it, and if it does oh well that’s fine. Uuuhhh medieval period. It doesn’t really matter if you break from lore a little bit (because there is a multiverse that I briefly mention in the lore)

Additionally, Aeia can and would have blessed towns with some minor powers unique to them, so… there a wide variety of things.

If you are “noble” (parallel, but it’s not the exact same system), tho, you will be an Eternal, so you may or may want that.

The problem is, there’s a LOT of lore that I haven’t handled in a very long time (however, it isn’t ALL the lore, because this is only Era 2/3 out of like 10)

@Spark of Hope

Spoiler

We’ll Start From the Beginning

Stuff Your Character Wouldn’t Know but is Important to Explain the Rest Maybe:

Aeia and Keylan come from Era 0, a time when a deity called The Flame ruled the land. The actual person wielding the power of the Flame had future sight separate from that power.

The Flame’s inherent power, tho, was chaos. One eye was Creation, and the other was Destruction, but both led to dark paths. (Pain, suffering, tyranny, etc.) He was able to see this thru his future sight, which did not tell him what would happen if he died. But he couldn’t do anything without satisfying the power of chaos within him.

Small tangent, there is one thing apart from the Flame in this world. This is called the Slumber. It is the essence of pure order. It isn’t sentient, it doesn’t have goals. But it’s a goop usually, or a shadowy gas. A well in one corner of the world was built by the Flame to contain it, and this was successful.

If it touches something, time stops for that thing. It spreads slowly, but the Well, built from the Flames power, is sufficient to contain it.

ANYWAYS

After a while, The Flame took on a small portion of the Slumber into his eye of Destruction (eye of Ash) in order to temper his chaos and preserve the temporary state of balance in the world.

This started to kill him, but saved the world. At the point his power was corrupted, the possibilities of the future branches from one to infinity. That’s not relevant for Era 2/3. But he started dying, and sacrificed himself to give the world a chance.

Eventually, he “died”. His consciousness remained, but he was so very greatly weakened. So two twins (famous knights blessed by the Flame with power, wonder who those could be) set out misguidedly to “save” him.

They went through the Blight, a very dangerous area, to visit the Well. However, when they saw the Flame vulnerable, they took his eyes, which is as close to dead as he could have gotten. Anyways, Aeia got the Eye of Ember, the power of Chaotic Creation

Keylan got the Eye of Ash, the power of Chaotic Destruction, but also got an allotment of the Slumber from this. So Aeia ascended to deity, while Keylan stagnated.

Aeia remade the world, and created her Empire. Keylan stayed at the well, still stuck.

Aeia set up her Blessed Immortals (explained in a blog/post here to KSauce), but then set a few things in motion.

First, she gave a man immortality. He would grow to become the Constant, then the Eternal King. But this was a plan to give those that wouldn’t follow her a place to go that wasn’t hostile to her. I thiiink this is explained in that blog a little bit.

Second, she made the Corrupt Light. A fall guy. She was always paranoid that someone would go to Keylan and get power from her, so she set up this person to be the “evil”. He would rebel against Aeia, and those who rejected Aeia would hopefully join him.

A boy’s family was killed by the followers of the Corrupt Light. He was then recruited, and eventually trusted the Corrupt Light (I have some other writing on this, it makes sense).

Aeia wasn’t satisfied, and her power pushed her to create, so she set up Talaman as another power that stemmed from Keylan. This was Talaman, with complete, permanent mind control over those without magic that he meets. The Corrupt Light and the Eternal Kingdom, which was now founded by the Constant, warred against the forces of Talaman.

The boy recruited by the Corrupt Light (at this point he understood that the actual nature of the organization) set out to kill Keylan when he thought that Talaman was sent by Keylan.

He failed. Really. Terribly, really bad. Keylan immediately overpowered him (and killed his friend), then started to kill him.

But then she saw how he saw her. And she saw what Aeia did.

She was disgusted. She did a sort of like “you do better” and gave him her power. This was driven by the Slumber, which made her want to just… rest.

He became the First Render, leading to what’s in that lore dump up there.

 

[Through the Living Hope]

1 hour ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Not much will change it, and if it does oh well that’s fine. Uuuhhh medieval period. It doesn’t really matter if you break from lore a little bit (because there is a multiverse that I briefly mention in the lore)

Additionally, Aeia can and would have blessed towns with some minor powers unique to them, so… there a wide variety of things.

If you are “noble” (parallel, but it’s not the exact same system), tho, you will be an Eternal, so you may or may want that.

The problem is, there’s a LOT of lore that I haven’t handled in a very long time (however, it isn’t ALL the lore, because this is only Era 2/3 out of like 10)

@Spark of Hope

  Reveal hidden contents

We’ll Start From the Beginning

Stuff Your Character Wouldn’t Know but is Important to Explain the Rest Maybe:

Aeia and Keylan come from Era 0, a time when a deity called The Flame ruled the land. The actual person wielding the power of the Flame had future sight separate from that power.

The Flame’s inherent power, tho, was chaos. One eye was Creation, and the other was Destruction, but both led to dark paths. (Pain, suffering, tyranny, etc.) He was able to see this thru his future sight, which did not tell him what would happen if he died. But he couldn’t do anything without satisfying the power of chaos within him.

Small tangent, there is one thing apart from the Flame in this world. This is called the Slumber. It is the essence of pure order. It isn’t sentient, it doesn’t have goals. But it’s a goop usually, or a shadowy gas. A well in one corner of the world was built by the Flame to contain it, and this was successful.

If it touches something, time stops for that thing. It spreads slowly, but the Well, built from the Flames power, is sufficient to contain it.

ANYWAYS

After a while, The Flame took on a small portion of the Slumber into his eye of Destruction (eye of Ash) in order to temper his chaos and preserve the temporary state of balance in the world.

This started to kill him, but saved the world. At the point his power was corrupted, the possibilities of the future branches from one to infinity. That’s not relevant for Era 2/3. But he started dying, and sacrificed himself to give the world a chance.

Eventually, he “died”. His consciousness remained, but he was so very greatly weakened. So two twins (famous knights blessed by the Flame with power, wonder who those could be) set out misguidedly to “save” him.

They went through the Blight, a very dangerous area, to visit the Well. However, when they saw the Flame vulnerable, they took his eyes, which is as close to dead as he could have gotten. Anyways, Aeia got the Eye of Ember, the power of Chaotic Creation

Keylan got the Eye of Ash, the power of Chaotic Destruction, but also got an allotment of the Slumber from this. So Aeia ascended to deity, while Keylan stagnated.

Aeia remade the world, and created her Empire. Keylan stayed at the well, still stuck.

Aeia set up her Blessed Immortals (explained in a blog/post here to KSauce), but then set a few things in motion.

First, she gave a man immortality. He would grow to become the Constant, then the Eternal King. But this was a plan to give those that wouldn’t follow her a place to go that wasn’t hostile to her. I thiiink this is explained in that blog a little bit.

Second, she made the Corrupt Light. A fall guy. She was always paranoid that someone would go to Keylan and get power from her, so she set up this person to be the “evil”. He would rebel against Aeia, and those who rejected Aeia would hopefully join him.

A boy’s family was killed by the followers of the Corrupt Light. He was then recruited, and eventually trusted the Corrupt Light (I have some other writing on this, it makes sense).

Aeia wasn’t satisfied, and her power pushed her to create, so she set up Talaman as another power that stemmed from Keylan. This was Talaman, with complete, permanent mind control over those without magic that he meets. The Corrupt Light and the Eternal Kingdom, which was now founded by the Constant, warred against the forces of Talaman.

The boy recruited by the Corrupt Light (at this point he understood that the actual nature of the organization) set out to kill Keylan when he thought that Talaman was sent by Keylan.

He failed. Really. Terribly, really bad. Keylan immediately overpowered him (and killed his friend), then started to kill him.

But then she saw how he saw her. And she saw what Aeia did.

She was disgusted. She did a sort of like “you do better” and gave him her power. This was driven by the Slumber, which made her want to just… rest.

He became the First Render, leading to what’s in that lore dump up there.

 

Give me a day or two

[Argenti he/him]

20 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Name it

Its a very, very broad variety

Dream magic?

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

10 minutes ago, Ookla The Silver said:

Dream magic?

Sure

I’ll begin crafting a plausible ability set.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

20 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Name it

Its a very, very broad variety

dragon

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

29 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

dragon

Dragon

Hhhhmmm

Yes

You won’t start with this, but your character will discover it

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

Just now, SpiritOfWrath said:

Dragon

Hhhhmmm

Yes

You won’t start with this, but your character will discover it

Can I-

I have an idea for my dragon magic, can i pitch it?

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

1 minute ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Can I-

I have an idea for my dragon magic, can i pitch it?

Ye

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

Just now, SpiritOfWrath said:

Ye

So basically, my character is part dragon (or becomes part dragon im not picky) and passively collects Draconic energy from idk, ambient magic in the air or energy or smth (as in he passively collects Draconic energy from existing, and spending a bit of Draconic energy, he can transform kinetic energy that he is touching into Draconic energy) and he can use those to do his dragon magic. Some of it he can do with only spending a little bit of his energy (like turning into a dragon)(hes part dragon of course he can do that) and some take a lot more (like utilizing a draconic element)

Because all dragons have specialties, he can control (minor buffs that passively take away draconic energy, and major buffs that he would have to actively use and spend draconic energy (like fire res and fire ball respectively for fire (as an example, there are multiple for each element))) when he has that draconic element. However, for A LOT of draconic energy, he can change his draconic element (like from fire to ice or smth).

And he can spend a little draconic energy to manifest a hovering symbol in the air that only dragons know how to generate, draw, or remember, to prove he is a dragon.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Spatial magic? (Teleportation)

[Argenti he/him]

2 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Sure

I’ll begin crafting a plausible ability set.

Specifically I wanna be a dream thief

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

So basically, my character is part dragon (or becomes part dragon im not picky) and passively collects Draconic energy from idk, ambient magic in the air or energy or smth (as in he passively collects Draconic energy from existing, and spending a bit of Draconic energy, he can transform kinetic energy that he is touching into Draconic energy) and he can use those to do his dragon magic. Some of it he can do with only spending a little bit of his energy (like turning into a dragon)(hes part dragon of course he can do that) and some take a lot more (like utilizing a draconic element)

Because all dragons have specialties, he can control (minor buffs that passively take away draconic energy, and major buffs that he would have to actively use and spend draconic energy (like fire res and fire ball respectively for fire (as an example, there are multiple for each element))) when he has that draconic element. However, for A LOT of draconic energy, he can change his draconic element (like from fire to ice or smth).

And he can spend a little draconic energy to manifest a hovering symbol in the air that only dragons know how to generate, draw, or remember, to prove he is a dragon.

Okay a few notes

Dragons here will exist, but… it’s complicated.

You won’t be able to communicate with them.

And elements…

Hmmm

Okay, you’ll be an Eternal that attempted (and failed) to cross the chasms, meaning you took the tiniest bit of the Slumber within you, and you gain powers similar in nature to Adtae’s powers.(oh crap I forgot to explain Adtae in the lore)

You can consume other people’s Focus’s or Focus candidates (see rending I think it was described on the first page) to gain energy like you described.

Traveling into the chasms infected you with the slumber, and you took a Slumber Beast (these are the dragons) in. By using your energy, you can release the Beast momentarily, spewing an element most associated with the focus you last consumed.

If you don’t consume focuses enough, the Beast will consume you.

1 hour ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Spatial magic? (Teleportation)

Yeah.

 

23 minutes ago, Ookla The Silver said:

Specifically I wanna be a dream thief

Describe… what that entails?

[Argenti he/him]

1 minute ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Describe… what that entails?

Pop into people's heads, and mess with them in their sleep.

Think Persona.

Is this useful in combat? not really. 
Maybe I can put people to sleep.

ooh maybe I can steal dreams from people's minds, store them, then bring parts of them into reality later.

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

Just now, Ookla The Silver said:

Pop into people's heads, and mess with them in their sleep.

Think Persona.

Is this useful in combat? not really. 
Maybe I can put people to sleep.

Okay.

Thats cool…….. lemme think….

It sounds like it would come from Aeia, tho.

Okay, you can access the Chaos inherent in others, and can mold it. The effect of this is mostly noticeable during sleep/dreams (bringing out the destructive aspect may encourage nightmares, etc.). But if you suppress the Chaos, push it, this will put them to sleep.

[Argenti he/him]

5 minutes ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Okay, you can access the Chaos inherent in others, and can mold it. The effect of this is mostly noticeable during sleep/dreams (bringing out the destructive aspect may encourage nightmares, etc.). But if you suppress the Chaos, push it, this will put them to sleep.

Can I do it while I sleep is the question?

 

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

Just now, Ookla The Silver said:

Can I do it while I sleep is the question?

 

I’m just

hhhmm

trying to figure out the mechanics behind that.

 

Okay, yeah, but you can’t choose who you do it to

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

54 minutes ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Okay a few notes

Dragons here will exist, but… it’s complicated.

You won’t be able to communicate with them.

And elements…

Hmmm

Okay, you’ll be an Eternal that attempted (and failed) to cross the chasms, meaning you took the tiniest bit of the Slumber within you, and you gain powers similar in nature to Adtae’s powers.(oh crap I forgot to explain Adtae in the lore)

You can consume other people’s Focus’s or Focus candidates (see rending I think it was described on the first page) to gain energy like you described.

Traveling into the chasms infected you with the slumber, and you took a Slumber Beast (these are the dragons) in. By using your energy, you can release the Beast momentarily, spewing an element most associated with the focus you last consumed.

If you don’t consume focuses enough, the Beast will consume you.

Yeah.

 

Describe… what that entails?

Why can't I communicate with them?

Can I communicate with the beast within me?

I dont see anything about Focus or rending.

Can I also be able to communicate to magical creatures and detect magic?

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

12 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Why can't I communicate with them?

Can I communicate with the beast within me?

I dont see anything about Focus or rending.

Can I also be able to communicate to magical creatures and detect magic?

They are

not exactly driven mad by the Slumber, but pretty much

Magical creatures are all Slumber Beasts (not always dragons)… 

You can definitely sense magic, yeah. You’ll use that to sense what you can consume

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

27 minutes ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

They are

not exactly driven mad by the Slumber, but pretty much

Magical creatures are all Slumber Beasts (not always dragons)… 

You can definitely sense magic, yeah. You’ll use that to sense what you can consume

Hmmmm

Can I at least kinda communicate with them?

And I still dont see info on focus

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

4 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Hmmmm

Can I at least kinda communicate with them?

And I still dont see info on focus

“Rending ~ shadow magic. Using a focus (certain shapes are better as focuses, seems abstract but there is a reason. Staves and swords are good. Items associated with change (again, a sword) are better focuses as well). With these focuses, they Rend something touching their focus - shattering it irreparably. And I mean irreparably. If the shattered fragments are smelted down and forged, these fragments are significantly more difficult to Rend. Anyways, when a Render rends something, they begin to Rend their focus with each rending, until it is also broken permanently.

They can use their bodies as a focus, and their bodies are the best focus possible, but this is very very dangerous.”

So you take someone else’s focus. When you consume it, it erupts into whatever element it’s associated with

 

Kinda

A little bit of communication 

Edited December 20, 2025 by SpiritOfWrath

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

“Rending ~ shadow magic. Using a focus (certain shapes are better as focuses, seems abstract but there is a reason. Staves and swords are good. Items associated with change (again, a sword) are better focuses as well). With these focuses, they Rend something touching their focus - shattering it irreparably. And I mean irreparably. If the shattered fragments are smelted down and forged, these fragments are significantly more difficult to Rend. Anyways, when a Render rends something, they begin to Rend their focus with each rending, until it is also broken permanently.

They can use their bodies as a focus, and their bodies are the best focus possible, but this is very very dangerous.”

So you take someone else’s focus. When you consume it, it erupts into whatever element it’s associated with

 

Kinda

A little bit of communication 

Ok

Can I Rend too?

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

13 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Ok

Can I Rend too?

No

uh

your consuming is similar to Rending, but it is better for different things 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

No

uh

your consuming is similar to Rending, but it is better for different things 

alr

could i steal someone else's rending?