Mists of Xan

The Mists of Xan is the magic used by Paladins.

History

The Aengul of Order has often been referred to amidst his brethren as the Wayward Aengul, amassing his nigh Arch-like might to his advantage, however, despite his raw brawn his intellect is astounding, especially in times of war; his battle against Asura, for example, resulted in her eventual imprisonment. However, as a God of War his involvement with mortality is not unbeknownst to both mortality and deific beings alike, waging war over the likes of the wretched Black Wyrm, Setherien, and the Betrayer, Iblees. With a brood of mortal children - a lineage that derives back to ages past - he has managed to create several Orders throughout time, twice, he threatened the extinction of the unorthodox dragonkin due to their volatile nature. It goes without saying, the Lord of Sunlight truly beckons the Age of Man through his own pretentious ways; enforcing the concept of Order amidst the abundant realm of Man and the Unorthodox.

As mentioned, his intention is to enforce Order throughout the mortal realm albeit goes for the Seven Skies above, too, he has conflicted against the likes of Aerial, more primarily Asura, a deific being that threatened mortality with her chaotic concept of enforcement. A being that thrived upon the abnormal aspect of ‘Chaos’ itself. Xan took to war and eventually sieged her realm. This, however, is only an example of out a myriad that exemplifies his innate compassion to enact as a self-proclaimed vanguard for Mortality.

Having intervened from decade-to-decade in one guise or another, he thrives on his sense of Order and Guardianship; to hail Order over the Heavens and Mortality via the extinction of future, or present threats, and Guardianship as to ensure Mortality will be safekept by his devout followers. An Aengul that doesn’t beckon faith, but service, in turn for raw, empyreal power, previously known as the Order of the Golden Lance, the Tribe of Allayed Fear, and now, a vestigial of persistent Paladins.

Specifications

Users of the Mists of Xan can be either Vindicators or Wyrmstalkers. Whilst the Vindicators will receive many-a-change, the Wyrmstalkers will remain predominantly the same. It is worth mentioning that the magic produced by both the Wyrmstalkers and Vindicators are extremely efficient against the likes of dragonkin both blemished and natural.

Both Vindicators or Wyrmstalkers have the following abilities, in addition to class-specific ones.

Abilities

Connection to Xan

When bound to Xan the initiate would discover a newfound warmth igniting their core, keeping them warm through their darkest, and harshest nights; a reminder of the Aengul they serve. In addition to this, they are imbued with newfound courage to perform their duty; Xan demands service, not faith.

Holy Alteration

Reminiscent to your average Alteration which is capable of producing a variety of pseudo-magic; warding and enchanting. Both of these are entirely dependent on the situation at hand. Enchanting, unlike its counterpart, warding, its rather simplistic and revolves around the inducting the Mists of Xan into a weapon or object of sorts to produce, again, a variety of effects-- from a warming aura to providing a deific affinity akin to weaponry. Warding, however, is capable of warding off the average person albeit is primarily focused against the likes of blemished and corrupted foes by producing a semi-transparent veil. (This sect is predominantly an event-esque sub-magic albeit is mostly used for its more renowned purpose, the creation of deific weaponry; holy swords, bows, deific - Orderly - fire, so on and so forth.)

Healing

Whilst healing is plausible for both Wyrmstalkers and Vindicators alike it is predominantly best used on themselves instead of another. That said, they are still capable of weaving the Mists into a wound to patch the flesh over into scabrous remains. They are, however, capable of mending bone albeit exhausts the user. They are unable to mend a wound of excessive size.

Vindicators

Vindicators, legends foretell of these conquering crusaders, empathetic toward their foe which they struck down mercilessly. Wielding weapon and shield these mythical crusaders were grouped in grandiose legions and trusted with the duty of slaying the felled dragonkin in their golden era. Many-a-foe they slaughtered in their valiant crusades against the primordial, beastial brood of Dragur and with each beast, they took a prize; tales have been foretold of castellas and castles alike housing the heads of a dozen dragons or so, horns mounted upon thrones and their ancient armoury produced by smiths able to weave draconic scales and bone alike. They were, after all, forces to be reckoned with beneath the pride and might of the Herald of Order, Xan, to which they self-proclaimed Him as their rightful Archaengul. They worked in conjunction with the Wyrmstalkers to fell their aerial-based foes and predominantly won against war with the unorthodox dragonkin, resulting in their almost extinction. However, their work never necessarily revolved primarily around the fabled dragonkin as they also aided against the usual blemished foes; Undead, Spectres, so on and so forth. The Vindicators of Xan were truly a force to be reckoned with.

Abilities

Holy Shield

Able to produce semi-transparent, spherical shields that stands as a testament to Xan’s Guardianship, manifesting either over their bodies to produce the more commonly known suit of armour or a short range from their body. Whilst producing these shields outwardly they are unable to leave whilst nobody may enter, however, that said the further these fields manifest from the spell-caster the weaker it becomes. Donning suits of armour, which is the strongest of their guardian-esque ability, and roughly five blocks from the caster is when the spherical shield is at its weakest, able to be shattered with considerable force, and of course, the closer it is to the caster the easier they are able to maintain their shield. Copious strikes will weaken the shield until breaking point, producing a minor repulsion capable of knocking back its attacker - although not with excessive force - providing the Vindicator with a means of appropriating themselves.

Holy Imbuing

Able to imbue normal weaponry with a semi-transparent veil of empyreal energy, coursing through the spine of the weapon to produce a deific affinity. This feat is rather easy to produce albeit takes a short time to produce the enchantments and is consistently fuelled by their mana - akin to the manifestation except they’re reliant on pre-built weaponry. - Represented either by the veil or a course of crackling - golden - electricity that provides nothing other than an aesthetic feature; albeit doesn’t detour from the blades’ capability, once enchanted by the Paladin in question, the piece of enchanted weaponry, whilst still capable against unholy folk is more able against the likes of dragonkin.

Wyrmstalkers

Wyrmstalkers, the renowned folk who pierced the everlasting scales of dragonkin, both superior and lesser alike with their light-weaved arrows. With the ability to produce leather-esque armour with an affinity against dragonfire, a tactical Wyrmstalker was able to fell a lesser dragon by himself, however, an archery of Wyrmstalkers were able to cast the greater from the heavens above. Spawning volleys of arrows wrapped in starlight which slipped through the ivory clouds and damned their aerial-based foes to the grounds, to which their brethren, the Vindicators would promptly slaughter these felled beasts. Akin to their counterparts they were, of course, a force to be reckoned with; able to cull the likes of aerial and land-based foes. That said, legends also foretell of these folk able to produce explosive spells when struck against their enemy - of course, shoot from their reliant bow - it would produce a shattering explosion capable of ripping into blight and cast asunder flesh, and less commonly renowned for their ability to teleport from one location to the other. Though, some spells wielded by these folk were lost in the never ending tales of time.

Abilities

Holy Bow

Akin to the Vindicators albeit unlike, the average Wyrmstalker is able to take a bow; long bow, short bow. To temporarily enchant it with a deific affinity which is up kept by their mana, when withdrawing the string of the bow and arrow cast from starlight manifests betwixt the string and bow. To the average person the empyreal weapon is akin to your average arrow, however, to a foe blighted or otherwise afflicted by corruption they are struck fierce. When struck, the arrow embeds itself into the victim and immediately disperses to reveal a gaping hole in its stead.

Holy Sparks

By compacting the mists they produce it eventually becomes volatile and eventually warps into an elongated bolt that thrums with ‘electricity’ albeit it isn’t, the volatile light which was actively seeking a means of dispersing is then thrown with considerable force-- backed by the power used to compact this bolt it is able to pierce through the dense scales of a dragon; be it lesser or greater neither could withstand this volatile power. Which, of course, worked especially well due to their affinity for combatting dragonkin-- their magic was effective against any creature deriving from this category.

Connection

The ritual of producing a connection betwixt soul and Aengul transpires via the teacher weaving the mists around their palm as if, in the lore of old, producing a gauntlet albeit doesn't solidify. Instead of the starlight mist usually produced via a Paladin they, instead, produce an azure mist which enacts as an ethereal gateway of sorts; enabling the teacher to delve their hand into the core of the initiate, clutching their delicate soul betwixt their digits whilst the azure mists engulfs the soul whole. Therefore producing the 'bridge' betwixt the soul and Xan.

Disconnection

Disconnection, however, is akin to the connection albeit revolves around severing the bridge instead of producing it. The teacher clutches hold of the azure flame bound to the soul of the Paladin, to which, they then retract to tear the flame from their soul and inherently, the recoil of such a brutal disconnection means that the disconnected ex-Paladin is henceforth 'imprinted'.

How to Apply

Find a user of this magic in game who is permitted to teach this magic, and have them approve a student application for you.

Redlines

• After wielding the Mists of Xan the user is subject to an array of sore limbs dependent on the magic wielded; imbuing a blade with the Mists, for example, would result in the muscles correlating to said sword arm be exhumed in soreness - over usage of the Mists will result in excessive pain; that said it doesn’t hinder your ability to wield the Mists as you’re capable of going overboard, however, the more excessive you are with the Mists the more pain you will be subject to afterward.
• Unable to permanently wield the Mists; the more it is used, the more mana that is expended.
• The Mists of Xan will forever be more effective against the likes of dragonkin and their broodlings over the normal blemished foe- albeit isn’t ineffective against them.
• Healing a broken bone leads to exhaustion for a Paladin, making them unable to weave the Mists otherwise and therefore should be a last resort.
• You are still required to emote weaving the mists into both the light-forged arrow and the enchanted blade; preparation emotes are key.
• It is necessary to emote the aesthetic nature of your deific-imbued blade be it via a golden, electrical current, silver, or emerald, or even the blade exhuming the Mists. You must ensure that you retain some form of viable means to indicate your blade has been enchanted.
• The enchantment upon the blade is lost shortly after the loss of direct contact over melee weaponry. Whilst this means you are capable of throwing spears and the like, there is a chance the deific enchantment will lose its power prior to hitting its target. Therefore ranged weaponry is best aimed at the Wyrmstalkers.
• All spells current must have a preparation stage.
• You cannot be both a Vindicator and a Wyrmstalker.

Random Tidbits

• The Paladins used to make up the Order of the Golden Lance, who defeated Setherien in the Fringe.
• Crumena Ilwindior is known to be one of the best uses of this magic, but a madman.
• The Paladins are known to be quite fond of wooden palisades.
• On a different note, did you know: Paladins were highly respected within Holy Orenian Empire as they were often human nobles.

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