#caos misc; hcs

[tartareus]

i think at this point we can all agree that respecting caos canon is but a poor exercise in futility ------ well, at least to me it is. there are plenty of things i do not take in consideration and i’m not just talking about part. III, but the series lore as a whole. with that in mind, i really wanted to share an hc that i have, and that serves for every caos\caos versed interactions on my blog, regarding magic:

magic is not divided into good or bad - it just is, it exists somewhere outside earthly sense of morals or right or wrong. however, the knowledge of it is power, and that power can be used to the wielder's will, as good or as bad as it may be. so energy that comes from the void or the chaos is not automatically evil and the ones driven from celestial beings are not automatically good.

there’s more than types ‘a’ or ‘b’ of magic, and i’m actually using the canon source material to support this idea, as we can see there were pagan witches (with greek alligned deities) that were but a few, other sort of witches that had worshipped the elder gods (and this reminds me a lot of the plot sabrina got in afterlife with archie and whatever creature faustus was trying to summon to this world, it was all very lovecraftian), satanic witches ( like the covens that are part of the churches of darkness ), and so on

considering this, different typesof witches drive their powers from different sources and, therefore, a pagan god could not extinguish a satanic witch's powers, and same goes the other way around, sure they could easily suppress a witch, they are deities after all, but driving all the magic out of them ? nope. the only being that can lift the powers of a witch is the source she takes them from - eg: the satanic covens being weakened once lucifer is out of the throne.

however, being a certain type of witch, or signing your name in a certain book, does not stop you from trying to drive powers from other source than your primal one  - however to do so you might need some extra help (eg: zelda bringing hilda back with the help of the hedgewitches)

still, i wouldn’t place this or that source to be stronger than the other - they are different and belong to different realms that have access to earth. so i‘m def cool with pagan witches being badass like nagaina, pan and circe ( even though  circe - like empusa, that demoness that edward works with in the comics - is her daughter in some tales ), i’m cool with the coven converting to some neo-paganism, what i’m not cool is the idea that they couldn’t drive some power from lilith because she was “weak”, thats a big no for me, she was after all the first witch, the source of her powers are either celestial or from her own self - which could be possible, i mean blackwood draws some power from the freaking void lmao

so, as such, i’ll ignore that detail and play out that the only reason why the coven could not drive their powers from her was because she wasnt crowned per se, at least not officially. and when she was, she was merely a regent for sabrina. 

again, these are hcs and details that are valid for interactions with me, if you gotta different takes on it, that is fine - but please keep in mind that these are my go-to ideas regarding magic when i write caos muses.