#and omfg lore and magicbuilding posts y'all haven't seen

[ominous-faechild]

Alright, I'll bite: How does magic work in Arcane Rifts?

*COUGH*

✨LORE POST✨

topics: ⚜ axiomatic magic ⚜ axiom ⚜ glavnran's axiom (aka pantheon)

categories: ⚜ #the faechild worldbuilding ⚜ #worldbuilding-blocks ⚜ #on axiom ⚜ #on magic ⚜ #on glavnran ⚜ #on kavo

So, magic in tAR actually works pretty much the same as in the rest of my works! Except... also not. (lol)

Like in the rest of the (in-universe) world, magic is infused within everything to one degree or another. The Faewildes' intrusion upon Reality in the early years deeply changed it, and especially imbued magic within humanity.

Now, there's many different kinds of magic. The most commonly known ones are fae and axiomatic magic—magic that is bent and molded by people's beliefs. Fae magic is unique to the fae and the Faewildes (but, as mentioned before, got infused within humanity and the world itself). Axiomatic magic, on the other hand, is naturally local due to how it's shaped by people's beliefs.

In short: axiomatic magic arises from religion, folklore, and stories.

So, while tAR's magic is technically just like the rest of the world's—where magic is typically tied to the individual and always requires essence—tAR has its own unique axiomatic magic.

Significant events important to the plot in Kavo's history led to a mass exodus of mages from the town. However, magic isn't always obvious, can be purposely hidden, and can develop in an individual through exposure or being gifted it later on by a higher power. So there are mages within Kavo, Glavnran—but just about all of them have the local axiomatic magics of one of their gods.

These gods, of course, being Glavnran's main pantheon of five: - Bhayol (the sea, ocean wind, trade, society) - Rholvny (fire, the hearth, healing, fertility) - Zhrizn (wild nature, corruption, disaster) - Ertzat (death, blizzards, cold, the afterlife) - and the nigh-forgotten Zhelevol (???)

The gods within the Reborn World (which I'm now realizing I REALLY need to give a different, official name lol) all have wider, more abstract domains than what I just listed. What I described above are simply over-arching concepts that mostly encompass what the Glavni people believe of them.

In other words... what is true of their powers, and always will be.

Kavo's populace is largely devoid of magic, but the few who do have it often hide it, or otherwise have godly associations.

For example: - Nikolai, the chief of police, was blessed by Ertzat. He has a resistance to the cold, suffers immensely in the heat (lol), and can near-effortlessly control snow and blizzard-winds.

- Indah, the head of Kavo's Church of Rholvny, has a resistance to heat and fire, especially struggles in the cold, and has fire and healing magic.

- Adilzhan, the local devil's messenger boy priest of Zhrizn, has nature magic. He's able to grow and manipulate forestry, has mild control of the earth, and can influence animals around him. (As well as a few other things... 🙂😉)

- Mislav, a boy whose family was killed by Zhrizn's order Adilzhan and was thereafter taken in by him, has life magic. He's able to control nature around him, influence living things around him, and heal.

(As well as a few other things 😈😘)

Reminder: everyone's magic requires essence—or magical energy—which is separate but related to their typical energy reserves. This is true across all of magic within my stories. Unless you're Sammy or Victor... 🤔

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