Realistic or Modern The Grand Scheme -- Lore

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Battle Magic: the discipline of magic comprised of offensive and defensive spells, the study of magical warfare tactics, and the creation and buffing of magical weapons.

Healing Magic: a magical discipline devoted to improving the physical and mental condition. There are many different disciplines in this branch of magic that have a variety of effects. Magicians who specialize in this area of magic are known as Healers.

Alchemy: the study of the composition, structure, and magical properties of the elements. Alchemists throughout history have attempted to transmute base metals into gold, but none were ever successful.

Control Magic: the ability to control another's mind through sheer willpower, allowing the one performing spells to control their actions, memories, thoughts, etc.

Physical Magic: the magic discipline centered around the ability to manipulate the nature and properties of matter and energy. The many disciplines that branch from this group allow Magicians to manipulate heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, gravity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms. It is extremely rare though, now thought of as a myth.

Luck Magic: User can manipulate luck by manifesting an energy that can make an unlikely event either positive or negative to happen. They can shift the energies to accomplish different effects due to its concentration; thus, the energy may be pre-existing.

Divination(Psychic Magic): User can employ divination, a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Divination can be achieved by communicating with the supernatural (i.e. gods, demons, spirits, nymphs) or by reading certain patterns.

Note: Physical and Divination magic are the basics of Embracer kind. But, you either have one or the other, in the beginning. You can train to obtain the other skill, weaker than the first skill. The only reported case of someone having both beginning magics is the curious case of Leorian Maxwell.

 

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Magic Within Our World and a Brief Look Into Savior's Crest

Let this be said once and only this time:

Magic isn't seen by the ignorant.

They won't see it, hear it, smell it--it's nothing to them. Only those who want it can wield it. But that doesn't even guarantee that you'll be an Embracer--someone who can bend their magic into an art of sorts. It requires equal parts of genetics, skill, and sheer luck to discover what's at the core of your gift. It's like receiving a door and figuring out what key unlocks it. There are only two hands worth of people who can master impossible feats of magic without completely being shattered from the inside out. Those who are become part of the Turned, a fate worse than Death or Hell itself. But, even those who are in denial can see the magic if there's a glimmer of hope for it within their hearts.

Thus comes the point in this conversation where we discuss one of the most prominent schools for Embracers: the Savior's Crest University of Applied Crafts and Unknown Technology.

The University was established in 1887 by the three founding families: the Harlowe's, the Downey's, and the Maxwell's. These families came from both old money and old magic. With the death of the Maxwell family, excluding their only living son, the school is run and funded by two of the original families. The current Dean, Mitchell Orwell, has been in the position for fifteen years after having been a former professor of the school. The staff includes some fresh faces and a couple of well-known teachers as well.

The campus is located in New York, NY with a sister school in New Orleans, LA (Our Lady of the Light). Classes from Portal Opening down to Minor Mending and so much more are offered. Once you graduate you receive an Alumni Mark--a small tattoo that grants access to the school whether you're taking Intermediate classes or just visiting for a rager. Dormitories are divided by rank, not houses. The ranks are as follows: Amatures, Starters, Blessed, and Masters. You can be in the 3rd year and considered an Amature at the same time.

Savior's Crest can teach you all of this and even more than you've ever known.​

 

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The Queen and Her King

Once in a happening there was a land beyond, with magic etched into every leaf and root. There lived a girl who could bend the earth, air, and sea around her. She showed the beauty of the heart and soul, which radiantly gleamed from the inside out. She would frolic among the people of the kingdom, bringing the kind of joy that seemed to be lacking within the land. With her snow-colored hair and smooth skin, she was a prize among the villagers.

She had a friend of friends: the Knight-Captain's daughter. Together they'd go off on "adventures", playing as a warrior queen and her right hand. Neither of them was the damsel in distress. The Captain's daughter learned as much about magic as much as she showed the snowy-haired girl how to sword fight. These were the most treasured days of both ladies. But the bright days of childhood are fleeting and they disappear with the sunset.

War tore right through the quaint kingdom with the sheer strength of a brutal fist. Its owner turned away from being human a long time ago. The maiden, now in her womanhood, was eyed as the Turned King's prize. But, the girl belonged to another. Her friend and confidant had, over time, become her lover. But that did not stop the Dark One from making her his. Thus, she became known as the Snow White Queen.

Many years went by and the kingdom, once a beacon of the land, was blackened and twisted. A resistance was formed and led by the Queen's Lover. Battles came to a head and in the end it was a battle of love and hatred. Love almost won. The Snow White Queen helplessly watched as her King struck the Knight down. It was at that moment the magic within her overflowed. Using all the gifts at her reach she caged the King within herself. At the cost of her very soul she created all the magics that we use today in hopes that one day someone will restore the land and bring her love to life.

And that is why we must keep a sliver of hope in any world swallowed by the darkness.

-the end?-​