Post by riten miyam on Nov 12, 2009 13:34:06 GMT -5
WITCHES
A Witch is defined as the following:A magic-user, of either gender, who pours his or her energy into sustaining a Demonic or Angelic Familiar, and uses that energy, along with their own soul -- or the soul of others -- to practice witchcraft. It is, to be blunt, a magic-user. There is only one spell that is used in this realm, and it is the Conjuring Spell -- the one in which each 14 year old child goes through to conjure up their Familiar. Everything else is sheer power, and it is sustained through the concentrated Ley line found in Thana. The closer you are to it, the closer to your ultimate potential you are, and vice versa.
Without a Familiar, a young child's power will grow immeasurably without a place to be channeled and will cause a burn-out. Not only are burn-outs detrimental to the Witch, or those around them, but they are walking time-bombs. Any moment they will simply invert and all that magic will implode, causing a chaotic surge of power through the Ley line and possibly breaking it. This not only results in the death of anyone standing near them, but also the ruination of a Witch's mind.
It should be noted that these witches do not practice a religion. There is no Great Goddess. There is no Horned God. We are in a materialistic society, and everyone has come to grips with their own senses of Atheism; there are those who pour their hero worship into the two Citadels of Thought -- The Coventry, and The Magistrate, but otherwise, Wiccan was decimated and any other religion disappearing with the human race.AGING --Witches live to be 175 years old -- that's nearly two centuries, and results in a very old, very decrepit Witch. The aging process is exactly like a human for the first 14 years of life. When the familiar comes to puberty, and accepts the magic in their soul, their aging slows down by half, until death. So, for every year a human would live, a Witch would live 2, while still looking the age of the human.
How do you calculate how old the Witch is, with how old you want him/her to look? Easy enough.Ex: You want to have a 100 year old Witch.
100(years) - 14(human-years) = 86.
86(years of slow aging) / 2 = 43
43 + 14 (unchangeable years) = 57.
Your Witch would be 100 years old, but look only 57.________
To do it backward is just as easy. Let's say you want your Witch to look 23 years old.
23 - 14 = 9
9 x 2 = 18.
18 + 14 = 32.
Your Witch would look 23, but is actually 32.
POWERS --Like I said before, powers are only active at puberty (14 years old) and until then, a child ages like a human, and has no powers at all. At 14, he or she uses what he or she has learned to perform the Conjuring, to gain a Familiar, and to channel power to stabilize the pull on the Ley line, keeping the Witch from burning out, and possibly decimating their power source.
Each Witch has their Talent -- one elemental power that they can do with ease, with very little need for teaching. These come with them automatically (for the most part). Some Witches (up to your discretion) have wild magic, that has no natural talent.
Afterward, Witches go into their schools (Coventry or Magistrate) and learn two specialties.Possible Powers:
- Elements: Fire, Water, Metal.
- Alchemy
- Transmutation
- Teleportation (the farther away, the more stressful)
- Clairvoyance
- Empathy
- Flight
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