Fantasy Aerial Distinction

[Spazzycat101]

• Preferably Played Species
• More Mythical Creatures

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  Species: Humans, Human-animal half-breeds, Elves, Fae,
  
  
  
  
  Humans are possibly the most versatile species in this kingdom. They make up the majority of the population of the kingdom and capital. Humans can have the most variation in build, appearance, and other bodily factors. The variation of their personality , however, does not exceed that of other species. This does not mean that the whole of humanity is one-sided, but that the other species are equally as quirky, different, or even traitorous as some humans can be.
  
  Human-animal half-breeds are typically magical experiments gone wrong. A half-breed may have the ears, eyes, and possibly tail or wings (if applicable) of the animal. Patches of skin near these appendages may be scaly, furry, or feathery. (Again, dependant upon the animal.) The person may also reflect small bits of the animal in their personality and traits, such as stealth, aggression, agility or the like. Half-breeds are typically looked down upon in these lands despite their 'enhancements', and may go to great lengths to secure the secret of their makeup.
  
  Elves are of delicate, tall and fair appearance, but are tougher than they look. They can have many variations of appearance like humans, but are always identifiable by their slightly elongated and pointed ears. They are typically several inches taller than the average human. Elves associate well with Humans, as they do not live in their own kingdoms or tribes. They make up a relative minority of the population of the cities of all corners.
  
  Fae are similar to fairies(see More Mythical Creatures), but much less numerous. They do not live in groups, but are often portrayed as wandering creatures. They are the product of what seems a blend of human and fairies, at least by way of appearance. They are two to three feet tall, thin, and agile. Fae have wings, allowing them to fly. They are playful, but are not serious pranksters. Some Fae decide to study magics, usually specializing in the nature element should they do so. Their lifespans are roughly twenty-thirty years. Their people have no concrete history as they do not congregate often (if ever), but have appeared occasionally and unexpectedly in the histories of other species. Quite similar to Gandalf (from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) in that aspect.
  
  
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  More mythical creatures;
  
  
  These are creatures that will more than likely be non-player-characters
  
  
  Trolls, Goblins, Brownies, Gnomes, Imps, Nymphs, Fairies,
  
  
  A few creatures listed above will be described as to minimize potential confusion.
  
  
  
  
  Brownies are creatures about the same size of Fae. They have roundish and brownish complections and are typically neither thin nor large. They inhabit the dwellings of people and, either without being known or under a conscious agreement, gladly do housework and chores in exchange for a bed in an attic and the occasional table scraps. They are kind, small creatures without a very solid history, but are generally not monumental in history of the species.
  
  Imps are ridiculously mischievous creatures. They can range from the size of Fae to that of just larger than a Fairy, and they are dedicated tricksters of minor ill intent. Their skin can vary from dark colors, to blue and magentas, to browns and greens. They typically have small bony and pinched faces, and their bodies are thin and Gollum-like*. (Again, from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
  
  Nymphs typically reside in waters, lakes, ponds, rivers, and even the oceans surrounding the continent. They have scaly skin, and long fish-like tails that take up about two-thirds of their bodies. They have long thick hair, typically the same color of their skin, which can range from pinks to blues to greens. Their eyes are large and look similar to a frog’s, as they are amphibians with both gills (found along their necks) and lungs. They are similar to Imps, but much more inviting in nature. They also take after the general image of Sirens in most mythologies, luring people in often to take their lives. It is unknown as to why they do this.
  
  Fairies are tiny winged humanoids, about the size of butterflies. Their wings may vary greatly depending upon their home environment and lineage. Fairies who live in higher places may have thinner, faster, and more transparent wings while those who dwell in deeper and lower forests may have broad and colorfully patterned wings. They have a much shorter lifespan than that of a human or fae, their full life cycle taking about five-eight years. The personalities of fairies are very centered around mischief and pranks, they enjoy to have lots of fun. This applies more to the fairies closer to the ground that canopy-dwellers, but they are still humorous. The “higher fairies”, as the canopy-fairies are known, have a stronger network of authority and focus chiefly on survival and order while the “lower fairies”, ground-fliers, are more adventurous and informal. Both kingdoms of fairies have no magics pertaining to the actual Fairies, but magics do exist among their ranks. [see Sprites] They maintain a good relationship with many animals, except the occasional eagle or hawk.
  
  

 

[Spazzycat101]

• Magic!
• Base Magics
• Magical Specializations
• 'Dead' Magics

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  There are many levels of magic, and it can become quite complicated. There are multiple basic magics, and there are specializations stemming from those. The reason I made it confusing was so that only the dedicated would choose magical skill. We don’t want too many mages running around! ;3
  
  
  I can make room for more magic, the ideas created by you. There’s a whole world of magics beyond the city, these are simply the ones known to people. If you do wish to create a magic, BE THOROUGH and make sure it’s not a magic that’s already been covered.
  
  
  A little announcement concerning this blob of information. We've already got quite a few user-suggested magics, so if you could help by sticking to the original elements, that would be MUCH appreciated. I don't want to have typed all that up for nothing!
  
  
  Elements of Magic
  
  
  There are six elements of magic, not counting Holy, Unholy or other dead magics. Each element is paired with its opposite in color. Lightning, Ice; Water, Fire; Earth, Air;
  
  
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  Base Magics
  
  
  
  
  Please note that, when referring to one who studies a base magic pertaining to elements, their aptitude is evenly spread among the elements. Just as well, a single base magician may not blend the power of different elements. Another person would be required.
  
  
  Keep in mind that the ‘most powerful’ would most likely not apply to a younger student. It would most likely refer to some old wise and shriveled man hiding out in the mountains or something like that.
  
  
  
  
  (Warning, it's about to get colorful.)
  
  Enchantments are not an element-based magic. This deals with temporarily ‘upgrading’ a caster’s equipment. This changes the properties of items. It may make something lighter or heavier, more or less durable, things of the like. This is a very complicated magic and is not well understood. Equipment is often necessary, from spellbooks and wands to ink or chalk for illustrating runes. Please note that incantations are necessary for this magic, hence the spellbook. However, you do not need to make things up. You could simply state the incantation as an action while in character.
  
  
  
  
  
  Those who study Wizardry are known as witches and wizards, based on the gender. This is the first style of elemental-based magic. These people can do the tiniest bit of everything. They can cast minor spells of each element. For a very accomplished witch or wizard, (one who has studied for the length of their life), their maximum power may be equivalent to lightning a large-ish campfire. These magics often require a minimal amount of equipment. The user may own a wand, or for a more inept student, a book of techniques. Incantations are unnecessary and ineffective in Wizardry.
  
  
  
  
  
  Alchemy is the second base magic. Alchemy is element-based, but revolves around objects. An alchemist can change the properties of things, much like an enchanter, but the changes can only pertain to elements. An example may be a blade that causes infection upon infliction (earth impression). Objects can be changed by alchemy using runes drawn upon the object, but can also be used ‘raw’. ‘Raw’ alchemy is the product of conducting an Alchemic enchantment upon no object; it simply produces a potion with properties akin to the spell, which can be kept in a flask to be broken open or released for offensive, defensive, or neutral purposes. Again, this deals with all elements and is majorly limited in sheer power because of the expanse of subjects that can be used. Incantations are not necessary for this magic, but when used properly, can minorly increase the power of it. Please don’t be perfect, roll a die if you need to in order to determine whether the incantation worked or not. If it does not work, then the incantation has no impact.
  
  
  
  
  
  Summoning magics are used to summon creatures of the element used. For a base summoner, the extent of their power onto each element can summon for a maximum about a medium-sized imp-like creature pertaining to that element. Equipment for this magic usually extends through spellbooks, wands or staffs, inks, and chalks. Circles do not differ between elements. To specify an element, after drawing the circle and during the incantation, the element must be deposited on the circle. (For elements that are difficult to obtain, such as lightning or fire, they summoning must be cast during a storm, camp or wildfire, or in the presence of one who can cast that element. If it is used in a storm or some such place, the element will be drawn to the circle using the incantation.) (If anyone is super confused about that, I’ll be able to explain it to you in better detail if you ask) Please note that incantations are necessary for even the basic summoning rituals. Also note that circles of runes used to summon creatures are the same for each level of power. A minor fire circle is the same as a minor water circle. The only variations come with the power level. The circle to summon an impish creature of any element will differ from that of summoning a cat or dog-like creature.
  
  
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  Specializations
  
  
  
  
  
  Please note that if a person specialized in one element of magic, the other elements are useless to them. It is impossibly to use multiple elements of magic while only having one person. On occasion, two people can combine elements for a more powerful magic.
  
  
  Keep in mind that the ‘most powerful’ would most likely not apply to a younger student. It would most likely refer to some old wise and shriveled man hiding out in the mountains or something like that.
  
  There is no specialization for enchanters.
  
  
  
  
  
  The term for one who specialized in a certain element branching from Wizardry is Mage. Their power pertaining to that element is increased, but they are stripped of their control over the other elements. Concerning the opposing element, they can deal more crippling damage, but are also more exposed to that element. Equipment is not varied much from the base magic equipment, but dependant upon the preference of the individual, they may gravitate their equipment to their element. Incantations are still unnecessary and ineffective.
  
  
  
  
  A specialized Alchemist is known as an Archmage, or Alchmage. Each aspect of specialization for the above category is applicable to this one as well, but runes and spells for the ‘enchantment’ become increasingly complicated as the power increases. Incantations become more necessary as the difficulty and power of the magic increase, while they remain unnecessary for the most basic spells of that element.
  
  There is no specialized term for a summoner of a particular element. The same aspects for the above categories can apply here. The needs for equipment, however, are more singular. As the power and difficulty of the magic increases, the complication of the rune-circles will increase. As the power increases, the familiar summoned will take a different shape. A weak creature may materialize as a Fairie with appropriately colored skin, wings, and the like. Later on, the creatures will take the shape of animals. Incantations may and will become more and more necessary as the power of the magic increases.
  
  
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  ‘Dead’ magics
  
  
  These magics are in the association with unpredictable (and often gory) magics. These are the magics that remain a complete and total mystery to the people and mages who inhabit the city, but may be employed by a select few tribes or cults. Keep in mind that these often backfire, often resulting in the death of the users, so it is not recommended for a character to use these.
  
  
  Some magics in the ‘dead’ category are;
  
  
  Holy Magics~ Holy magics are of the glorious and powerful kind, used to represent purity. It is not typically used in battles, although it is possible. This magic can also deal with healing and blessing. Holy magic was founded to counter Necromancy, and solely for the purpose of balancing it. This is the least lethal of all dead magics, but can still occasionally backfire minorly.
  
  
  
  
  
  Necromancy~ This is the deal with the devil. Users of this magic are given the gross power to temporarily reanimate the dead, but turning them bloodthirsty. Necromancers soon begin to lose their minds as their body, the organs and tissues, become replaced with dense dark magic. From the point of acquiring the magic, a Necromancer may last from a few days several years until they are entirely consumed by the fury. This magic, however, had mysteriously been eradicated centuries ago, and is now barely spoken of, even in decades-old myths. This magic is not allowed to be used as a magic by a character. It is simply too dang OP for one or two characters to use at will. If this is seen in a character sheet, just no.
  
  
  
  
  
  Spatial magic~ A foolish thing to dabble in indeed. This magic requires a sum of casters, requiring an awful mass of power to temporarily shred holes through to different dimensions in order to banish someone or something there. There is only one known occurrence of this, and it is not very well-documented. The same rules apply to this as they do Necromancy. Sorry, but I’m only noting here that it exists. Not that it’s allowed to be used.
  
  
  
  
  
  Light magic~ This magic is not Holy magic. It is a lost form of elemental magic that was lost to the base magics long ago. It is now unpracticed in all aspects. Or so it is to the City. In whatever practice there may be of it, it is a raw power untouched by need of staff or wand. One simply uses their mind and body to harness it. This magic is portrayed in the form of optical illusions and occasionally rays of light.
  
  
  
  
  
  Dark magic~ Like Light, this is a lost elemental magic that can only be captured in flesh and soul. It also appears in the form of illusions, but those are restricted to camouflages and shadows. They can be wielded in blistering swaths of absolute lightless space, appearing (but not acting) as a solid black space.
  
  
  
  
  
  Sound magic~ An old magic, also of the same use and history of Light and Dark. It is a very versatile magic, to those who have studied it enough to know its application.
  
  

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[Spazzycat101]

• Central Winds
• The North
• The West
• The South and East
• Leviathan's Sky
• The Land Beneath All Water

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  Geography!
  
  
  
  
  
  In the center of a huge and roughly oval-shaped continent, one can imagine expansive rolling hills and vast plains, with the occasional small and low hovering chunk of windswept grassy land. Along these green oceans are small and often unpaved roads drifting distractedly through the countryside, and the four cardinal directions. There is no primary city of the Central Winds, the name of this slice of land.
  
  
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  Venturing some time to the North, one would notice that the hills began to incline into growing mountains, and much farther ones with faces of sheer rock and stone. Along this territory, there are eight primary hovering islands. They reside in the deeper ranges of mountain, spaced magnificently in a sort of cloud-high semicircle. They stand as stalwart lookouts into the Deep North, of territory exceeding that of this country. Placed perfectly between the westernmost and easternmost Guardian Islands, as the eight are called, is the much more massive capital place of the land. The style of the Northern Islands is like that of an upturned mountain, with wide flat land surrounded by high faces of rocky wall enclosing each on the three sides facing the City. The City itself is like a die balanced on a corner, a mountain below and one above, upon which the City rests.
  
  
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  To the West, the mountains recline into broader, lower, tree-cloaked lands. Sky-borne islands are far more frequent, although their shapes begin to change into things mirroring their own lands. They are lower and closer, some of the smallest islands having been spun together with vines and natural bindings. Two great rivers flow along these smaller peaks. The first, simply referred to as the North River, flows from the oceans beyond the Deep North, carving a path along the Northern mountains in a southwestern angle, and joins with the lesser river. The smaller, the West River, arrives from the blurred border between the North and West, flowing southeast before it curves into the North River. The people of the West are of an eager lifestyle of trade and barter, with houses, shops, and posts of trade staked along, and even in either river. The ‘city’, if it may be called, is a very long one, stretching for miles along the three spokes of the junction of the two rivers. This place is casually referred to as Watermill, though there are no actual mills to be seen. Food and some goods are imported from the primary city.
  
  
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  The SouthEast is a peculiar place. With tall, abrupt, pillar-like hills and Islands, the bottommost portion is engulfed in a marsh-like environment. In fact, nearly every cluster of hills is its own island! The hovering islands barely extent far beyond the drastic tips of the ground-borne ones, and are favorable places for little-known collectives and guilds. This corner of the continent is the thickest in magic, although those of dark and malevolent kind do not dwell within. The title of most city-like place or places of the SouthEast is granted to a congregation of ancient temples, now remade into a small village, often manned by rotating groups of those who serve as a kind of ‘representative’ of whatever magical guild they belong to. Examples of such are magical archives, and old temples to serve as reservoirs toward the study of different magics and the like. Few travellers other than those seeking magical enlightenment or adventure come through the SouthWest, with the occasional exception of an ambassador sent from the City to inquire in the magics and their use to the rest of the state.
  
  
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  The SouthEast is a wide, sizeable portion of the land, extending far. This land is not, however, very deep. The North, West and East all extend outward, while the South is more or less a long curving strip of land. If one were to travel farther south than the land extends, a magnificent phenomenon would array itself before the beholder. A massive chain of waterfalls and cliffs span nearly the width of the continent itself and an indescribable display. These waterfalls are dubbed the Leviathan’s Sky, for all that lay beyond the misty cliffs can be observed as sky. Perhaps it is a massive mirage, but the frothing, fallen water effectively clouds whatever ground or sea lay below. It is a fabled land, and many adventurers have claimed their graves to behold the view.
  
  
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  I have found no suitable picture, so I’ll just have to rely on description for this one.
  
  Beneath the four lands, there dwell a deep and closed-off place. Virtually none is known about it. Unless, of course, if you come from among its inhabitants. These people are the last to keep in use the dead magics, while also practicing the other magics as well. They are closed off from the rest of the world above in an incredible and mysterious history. Their existence is only called upon in legends, the tales speaking of a people who breathe beneath the waters. In fact, they do. But that shall be impressed upon when that is relevant, traveller.
  
  

 

[Spazzycat101]

• Super Basic Rules
• Rules Regarding Characters
• Rules Regarding Writing

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  NO OP. NO. JUST NO. NO. Follow the limits. The limits set by reason, myself, and you as well. Nothing like a building being torn from its foundation by two hands, nothing ridiculous. If you identify something ridiculous, tag both myself and the offending users in the OOC. *cough cough* Are you aware how fast you were going?​
  
  
  
  
  
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  Now then. No super-duper gross gory stuff. Let’s not give each other nightmares. Relating to that, romance is allowed so long as you CONTROL YOURSELF. Don’t get too descriptive. ‘Kay? Just fade the camera out and spare us the detail…. But shipping is encouraged! ^-^​
  
  
  
  
  
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  • For this, I will beg and plead. Please use the best grammar you can. Please. Please. Please. Use punctuation, check your spelling. If someone joins and is all ‘hi lol nd sew dis hapns an blaerh’ I will explode and the RP will have to shut down. Please, just do your best. Focus. Type. You can do it!
    
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  Now, this isn’t a dice RP, but you are more than welcome to use dice yourself if you wish or can’t trust yourself to be realistic. Yeah, sometimes you’re gonna fail. Doesn’t mean you get to roll again. If you can trust yourself to use realistic judgement, dice aren’t a necessity.​
  
  
  
  
  
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  Finally, yes, if you know and can explain it, you can use sciency stuff. Using sound to liquefy something is plausible, but you’ve got to make sure it’s theoretically possible to do with whatever power you are using.​
  
  
  
  
  
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