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hello. have you ever explained magestones because i saw you mentioned them at the runes lore ask about weather runes and i was curious.

thank you. 🙂

I have not made a specific magestones post yet!

The magestones are very important to all of my WIPs that occur after the dissolution (all but Ez and Paeliae) because they act as one of the major limitations on what magic can do.

We will have 3 sections:

History

Current function

Secrets…

Ok so let’s start with why the magestones are there in the first place:

After the dissolution (giant war between the gods and mages) a treaty is struck where the gods will leave the mortal plane and in return the mages will completely lose access to magic that threatens the gods.

So it’s all well and good to say ‘yep, we’ll stop using magic…’ but the god who put the treaty in place, Ezemhaziel, wanted to make sure they could not go back on the agreement. (He has trust issues with mortals. I wonder why)

So being the god of controlled Ike, he sculpts these obelisks made of an amber-like material but with runes on the surface that appear to flow and shift across the surface of the stone. The magestones act as barriers so if a mage tries to cast a spell that is bound by a magestone the Ike is immediately absorbed into the stone regardless of where the mage is and the spell fails. For some larger or more risky spells, this failure can cause problems…

The magestones also act as a check and balance in the other direction as well because Ez doesn’t trust the gods to keep their promises either (again I wonder why…)

So if a god tries to move into the mortal plane the magestone starts pulling from their energy until they run out of magic with which to cross planes.

(This doesn’t always work to keep gods out because magestones can be broken by cults of the god on the mortal plane, but it is pretty efficient.)

This is not common knowledge, but some magestones also bind away gods who were particularly sadistic in the war or who refused/broke the treaty terms. These gods are not just blocked from the mortal plane but their whole soul is trapped within the magestone.

Current effect:

So in the modern day the biggest effect is that there are some types of magic that you just can’t cast. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much you have studied. They are just blocked.

The most relevant of these includes: Immortality, Muliva Kazi bindings, destructive spells above a certain amount of Ike, large scale teleportation e.g. cities. Etc.

These magestones are scattered around the planet but some are specifically placed in the cities they were most meant to limit. E.g. Muliva Kazi lived in Zairel so the magestone of Muliva Kazi bindings is in Zairel.

I’m going to intentionally going to steer away from any of this lore that is very spoilery because magestones are very important in the Xaeren WIP, but here are some fun facts.

A few fun secrets and tidbits:

The magestones actually vibrate at a very high frequency so you can’t see them move but if you pour sand on top of a magestone it will separate and form patterns. Different magestones vibrate at different frequencies but it is always a resonant frequency so the sand pattern thing will always be true.

The magestones and the runes were created by the same god… this may or may not be relevant later

The symbols that move across the magestones are not runes, or at least not disaris runes. They are in fact a derivation of Anasir, the original language of the gods mixed with pure Ike symbols.

The mages have studied the magestones for generations and there appears to be a discrepancy between the strength of the bindings and how much Ike is actually involved in the stone. For some reason, the bindings are much stronger than they should be based on the Ike components in them. I wonder why that is…

Anyway hope you enjoyed. 🙃

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