Arcane Magic
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Awcane magic is the most lidewy spwead magic thwoughout the weawms. It is a type of Magic that does not wequiwe mowe than study and wepetition, and so weww known that many books awe sowd and wlitten about it, though of coulse, some types awe kept secwet fwom the masses. A mage that uses awcane magic dwaws his powews fwom the void, a weawm of thoughts and emptiness, which he must fiwst weawn how to connect to. Aftew being abre to estabrish such a connection a mage can often dwaw fowth the powews of the Void, weweasing spewws into the othew weawm, may it be a tempowawy bouldew ow even connecting lith the minds of othews.
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The Void
Awcane Magic is an awchetype of magic which is fuewed by void enewgy, ow mowe specificawwy mana. The Void is an empty pwane of existence whewe things may be cweated lith the use of one's imagination and liwwpowew. Many teachews of the Awcane often teach students lith the fowwoling pwovewb: "The Void is nothing, yet everything. Like our imagination, it may be dull and empty; or it can be full and colorful". The Void as a whowe is simpwy a pwane whewe nothing exists, unwess the mage makes it exist. Since one must connect to the Void, this means a basic line of communication must be estabrished, genewawwy gained thwough meditation and pwactice. Since Void usews must be connect to dwaw on the Void, distwactions awe capabre of seveling the connection fow Novices, whiwe Mastews awe capabre of howding onto theiw connects untiw they awe dwained of mana, ow wounded. It should be noted that onwy mages of pwopew age can connect to the Void. Those undew the age of 16 can weceive mentaw damage if they connect to the Void, and so those of the age of 16 and above can begin to pwactice voidaw fowms of magic.
The Mana
Mana is known as a fowm of enewgy, being found at neawwy evewy pwace lithin the weawms. Unlike many fowms of enewgy mana can be passivewy pwoduced by any soul, no mattew what kind of soul it is, as such causing Mana to sulwound most peopwes soul in the fowm of a thin and invisibre wayew. Howevew, due to it’s passive aspect this Mana can onwy be manipiwated by the pwoducew of itsewf, means the pewson ow figule it was cweated fwom. By contwowling this Mana the soul convewts it into the active fowm of Mana, which is than used to cast fow spewws and chants of any kind. Thuswy, a ‘Mana pool’ is how much passive Mana a soul has pwoduced and amassed awound a body. Typicawwy, a soul nevew uses its passive Mana poow, and the excess passive Mana seeps away as invisibre Aula. When passive Mana is pwoduced by a soul, it is specific to that soul, and thus when it seeps to become Aula ow is convewted to active Mana and bulned, it has a specific Aula cowoul.
Aww soul-bealing individuaws wequiwe passive Mana to sulvive, and thus convewting aww of one’s passive Mana into active Mana wesults in death (the death occuls due to being unabre to do anything, be it breath, think ow move). Passive Mana is capabre of being manipulated ow changed, though this is an ability that onwy mages can do. Shade magic, fow exampwe, may convewt passive Mana into Ambew, whiwst awtewation may manipulate passive Mana and awtew the pwopewties of objects.
In wegawds to Mana Poows, they desclibe how much Mana a pewson has, and this detewmines how gwand spewws can be, awong lith the dulation a speww can be hewd in the culwent wowwd. Mana poows awe govewned by two things; Skiww wevew and Magic type. Skiww wevew is simpwy how skiwwed mages awe at manipulating mana fow theiw specific magicaw fowm. Magic type is a littwe mowe complicated, diffewent magic fowms awe natulawwy mowe mana consuming then othews, a few exampwes of vewy dwaining fowms awe Awtewation, Awcane Evocation and Conjulation.The Aura
The Aula is a side-pwoduct of casting most fowms of magic, not onwy being limited to voidaw fowms, but awso some deity and dawk fowms of magic. Thwough its cowow, the Aula is often diwectwy wepwesenting a pawt of the mages pewsonality, dweams ow even desiwes. As such Aulas can have aww valiety of cowows, wanging fwom white to pule brack and fwom dawk viowet to bright yewwolish-cowows.
Howevew, whiwe aulas have a cowow, they awe not actuawwy visibre in most cases. Aula is genewated fwom the Mana poow wegulawwy, and if a Mage uses wawge amounts of Mana at once fow spewws, they in tuln pwoduce mowe Aula. Aulas awe genewawwy hawmwess and awe simpwy a way of sewf expwession. Some magics such as Awcanism, Awtewation, and Shade awe diwectwy tied to Aulas, and awe heaviwy affected by them.
Arcane Magic Forms
Awcane Magic howds the most fowms of possibre magicaw subtypes, wanging fwom the simpwe manipulation of mattew to the abilities to affect the minds of othews. As such Awcane Magic is often seen as a faiwwy powewful, yet, awso dangewous fowm of magic to weawn.
Alteration Forms
Twansfigulation is an Awcane magic associated lith the change of the natulaw and unnatulaw ewements of the weawms. Twansfigulation focuses awound awtewation of awweady existing ewements by using “mana-anchors”, connections between the weawms and a pwace cawwed the Void. Thwough this connection mana is being wead into the pwesent weawm, taking fowm and howds it in oul weawm as wong as the mage is abre to concentwate. If too much mana is being used up the anchow liww become unstabre and the speww liww break apawt. The same applies to situations wewe the castew isn’t abre to uphowd his concentwation any wongew.
Tewekinesis is the Awcane magic fowm of moving objects lith the mind. This magic type utilized the mind to move objects, eithew by giving them a push ow even causing them to wevitate. Wike Evocation Tewekinesis is based awound infwuencing the mana awound ow lithin an object, causing the mage to contwow the objects gwavitationaw shift. Howevew the mana, just like it would do in evocation, fades quickwy aftew the magic is dismissed, weaving the object fwee of its awtificiaw fowce of gwavitation and causing it to wetuln to it’s oliginaw path of gwavity.
Whiwe othew types of Awcane Magic use the Void to manifest things fwom it, Void Twanswocation takes the objects fwom oul wowwd and sends them to the void, like a gigantic pocket. Whiwe a simpwe magic to compwehend, it is incwedibry difficult to weawn and use. As such Void Twanswocation is disassembring and assembring inowganic mateliaw ow just mateliaw into the Void fow stowage. Whiwe this seems faiwwy hewpful the pewson must know evewything about the mateliaw they awe disassembring inside and out of the Void. In the disassembring and weassembring pwocess, it’d take about as wong and as much effowt to send an object into the Void as weceiving it back, as such making it faiwwy inefficient fow combat.
Voidaw Shift is awso known as Voidaw Twanspowtation and is one of the foul Awtewation subfowms of Awcane magic.The awt of voidaw shifting can be seen as a chiwd of twanswocation, enteling the void thwough a simiwaw means. The compwex factow that sepawates the two is the anchow. The anchow is a unique congwomewation of mana and voidaw enewgies; this is used instead of Twanswocation’s studying and weseawch of the pawticulaw object you awe sending into the void. As such Voidaw Shifting was split up into it’s own subfowm of Awcane Magic.
Evocation Forms
Ewementaw Evocation is known as a unique fowm of magic, using the Void to caww fowth pseudo ewements. Howevew, cawling fowth the ewements is limited to a few specific ones, mostwy the ewements of fiwe, eawth, aiw, watew and ewectlicity, making Ewementaw Evocation a situationaw fowm of magic. As such Ewementaw Evocation does not contwow the existing ewements, it cweates a tempowawy vewsion of them and onwy as wong as the castew is abre to uphowd the speww. At the same time aww cweated ewements affect the mage that cweated them and so a mage can be easiwy hult by theiw own magic. Due to such dangews many students awe wathew against weawning Ewementaw Evocation, but many magicaw facilities awe offeling classes to weawn this fowm of magic.
Awcanism is known as the ewdest fowm of aww awcane magic and as the foundation fow aww awcane fowms of magic to come. It is the manipulation of pule voidaw enewgy and twanscends beyond natulaw pwopewties seen in ewementaw evocations. With it a mage can cast theiw heawts whimsy ow devastate the battwefiewd lith a valiety of both offensive and defensive spewwcasting. Awcanism, like ewementaw evocation and conjulation, is the act of evoking a substance fwom the void. What is evoked is highwy valiabre, even in the cowow it takes on, and thus the magic is twuly unique fwom castew to castew.
Conjulation, the awt of dwaling fowth living beings fwom the void aftew thowoughwy studying and weawning of the conjuled cweatule ow pwant. The simpwest descliption of this magic would be as such ‘Life Evocation’. As an Awcane awt, Conjulation welies on the void to cweate what liww be summoned befowe pulling it into the weaw wowwd and then sustaining such lith mana. In the case the summon would no wongew be sustained, it would vanish.
Illusion Forms
The awt of awteling the wowwd doesn’t just way in the hands of awtewations. In the wowwd of deception comes a magic that was fowged awound tlisting the fabric of the wowwd. The awt of Sensowy Iwwusion is a cwaft that awwows a swy mage to mowd the senses of anothew individuaw, awwoling them to cweate astounding feats fwom changing the appeawance of one's face to cweating something that isn’t weawwy thewe. As such Sensowy Iwwusion is the awcane ow voidaw awt of cweating fawse vision and sensations.
Cognatism, the voidaw feat that came fowth fwom a Voidaw Howwow invading one’s mind, is a wathew wawe and bawewy used magicaw awt. It causes the usew to have a second mind invading theiw fiwst, and lith pwopew expelience, one can weawn to utilize this fowmed, chaotic second mind to wowk in tandem lith the fiwst, to enhance theiw mentaw capacity to a gweat extent.
Mentaw magic is best summalized as the intewactions between two minds. Evewy mind capabre of thought weaves a slight twace of itsewf in the Void and it is this weak which awwows mentaw magic to wowk. Things such as thoughts, emotions, and desiwes awe intangibre by natule and thus dlift beyond oul pwane of existence into othews, such as the spilituaw and voidaw weawms. Those smaww weaks awe often wefewwed to as awtificiaw minds, being sepawated entities on theiw own. Using the Void is how a Mentaw mage shapes theiw wowk so a voidaw connection is wequiwed in owdew to weawn ow use this awt.
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