Sensory Illusion
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The art of altering the world doesn’t just lay in the hands of alterations. In the world of deception comes a magic that was forged around twisting the fabric of the world. The art of Sensory Illusion is a craft that allows a sly mage to mold the senses of another individual, allowing them to create astounding feats from changing the appearance of one's face to creating something that isn’t really there. As such Sensory Illusion is the arcane or voidal art of creating false vision and sensations.
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History
Sensory Illusion is known as one of the few forms of magic, which, to this day, are having near to none known history to it. Most of the information on Sensory Illusion are rather new ones, being amassed over the last decades. Yet, it is also seen on cave paintings and older tomes and texts that this magic is fairly old, reaching back to the first realms that existed. Due to the missing historical information on this magic many students are trying to research it, write books about their research and are also trying to spread the magic, either to learn more about it or to become founders of new subforms of this magic.
Learning Sensory Illusion
Due to the simple fact that there aren’t many information on the magic Sensory Illusion needs to be taught by a teacher. It can’t be learnt from any books or tomes, since there aren’t enough to be able to do so. As such many students are searching for teachers on their own, since even the Mage Guild has only a few limited teachers which are able to teach this form of magic.
Abilities
Sensory Illusion mages are known to have the knowledge over three main abilities, being separated into Glamours, Figments and Phantasms. Each of those forms are known to affect the senses of a person, not their whole minds. As such it’s a common misconception to think that Sensory Illusion mages can control the whole mind of a person. As such it is impossible to them to control the body of a person or give them commands, which they would need to follow. Instead Sensory Illusion affects the senses directly, causing false senses to be transmitted.
Glamours
Masking an object can be done with more than paint. With the art of Sensory Illusion, one can mask an object to be just like something else. How it looks, feels, smells, and so forth. Masking an object is the least strenuous type of Sensory Illusion, only requiring a small portion of mana to fuel the spell. However, the changes must be realistic and experienced beforehand, such as slight alterations to the face to hide old scars or to change a human's ears to elven ears, since those can be seen nearly everywhere on people.
Figments
Figments are known as creations of Sensory Illusion which aren’t masking a simple object. The deceiver can forge figments of what really isn’t there, such as pulling a rabbit out of your wizard hat to impressing someone or even pretending they can cast a certain type of magic to trick someone. All of these are practical uses to this magic. The only issue of figments is they’re a bit harder to keep realistic, as they’re not really there. This would mean anyone could walk right through that illusionary wall a mage put up, breaking the spell by doing so.
Phantasms
An Illusionist is not only limited to fabricating the senses of the real world, one can dive deep into the subconscious world of their target as well. These are called Phantasms, which is an art of fabricating emotions, pictures, and feelings deep within the subconscious. Such could confuse some at first, as it’s not forcing the person they target to suddenly feel a way, but rather it’s giving a strong suggestion. It’s like placing the fabricated feeling into the waters of their subconscious for their conscious to fish up. As such Sensory Illusion isn’t the same as Mental Magic, which is forcing those emotions to break forth or which are causing a person to act completely different than before. Instead the spell acts like a seed, which can either grow or wither away.
Redlines of Sensory Illusion
Sensory Illusion has several redlines of what a mage can do and what a mage can’t do. As such those redlines should be followed at any time and breaking them can result in a removal of your magic permissions.
- The illusion must make sense to the subconscious, else it will shatter. For example, if someone makes an illusion of a cookie and someone goes to bite into it but it doesn’t have any taste to it, or feeling to it as they ate it, the subconscious will realize this doesn’t exist and the spell shatters.
- An illusionist will always know that their own spell is an illusion and will never be able to cast anything that tricks their own mind. For example, an illusionist would not be able to ease their own pain through illusions.
- A mage cannot cast an illusion that they have never experienced themselves.
- A mage can’t cast illusions out of their line of sight.
Redlines of Glamours
- The smaller the Glamour, the easier it is to perform and the more perfect a mage can make it appear. The larger it is, the more strain the caster will have and the more imperfections will show. Imperfections take on the appearance of distortions and flickers within the illusion. These forming will cause doubt to anyone seeing them, most likely shattering them for any illusions that are already bordering on the unrealistic.
- With that, full masking glamours (full body illusions) must always have slight imperfections, which will grow as the whatever is glamoured moves about. Erratic movements such as sword fighting or running around will cause the imperfections to be blatantly noticeable.
- Glamours only mask, meaning it has to go over an object that already exists.
Redlines of Figments
- The smaller the figment, the easier it is to perform and the more perfect it can be. The larger it is, the more strain the caster will have and the more imperfections will show.
- Figments are not real objects, meaning someone can walk through one, swing a blade through one, so forth. At first the illusion will be disrupted until the subconscious realizes it's fake and shatters that particular illusion (which usually happens after).
- A mage can use figments to project directly to an individual's senses without having to be visible. Such as projecting a voice for only them to hear, a sudden blinding light blocking their vision, or numbing their pain. However, sudden figments, such as a blinding light that comes out of nowhere, is bordering unrealistic and can cause the illusion to fade. These sorts of illusions must have some kind of basis that grounds them in reality for them to be effective on a person. Such as causing a lantern to be blindingly bright or having loud explosion noises come after someone throws a fireball.
Redlines of Phantasms
- Phantasms spells cannot do what Mental Magic can. It's a suggestion of feelings/Ideas, which is directly planted into the subconscious. It isn’t forcing the person to anything and the person could simply ignore them.
- Furthermore, if they don’t make sense or start to feel foreign, they might realize someone's messing with their head.
- Phantasms cannot suggest anything against the will of the user thus mages can’t entirely force someone to fall in love with them.
Trivia
- Many Sensory Illusion mages are known to use their magic for performances on the streets, being able to create fantastic shows with minimal effort.
- There has been a legend about an artifact, which is able to hide a whole city behind a giant glamour, however, no clear clue were found if such an artifact could even exist somewhere.
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