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Maybe it's a stretch, but in a magitech world, science doesn't really come up as a concept. So instead have a bit with knowledge (the only synonym I had) that's about the science of oppression.
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Most of the cast in book 1 (and all the books in this series in all honesty) can use magic. But the main cast:
Fira (MC): Uses aether practically as a healer. But their real magic comes from the fragment of Vortanor in them. They can feel escalation points before...
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The Xopis Empire is at its core a dictatorship posing as a monarchy. There are councils and power groups, but they exist mostly to advice, compete, and take blame. Any real authority stays strictly with the sovereign.
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Empire courts don't exist to find the truth. They exist to make outcomes look legitimate. THere are no juries. Verdicts come from appointed adjudicators who answer upward, not outward. A "trial" feels like an audit. The real question is rarely "did you do it"...
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1/? Another long post because there's a lot here:
Law and magic are intrinsically tangled because aether is everywhere. Most people can do small, practical aether work, cleaning grime off tools, warming a cup, sealing a tear in cloth, nudging a stubborn latch. ...
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In a local sense, that would be the imperial police and route security. On an empire wide scale, that is the Fliwarn, the empire's very corrupt military force. They are the ones who decide how and when laws apply.
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Day 16: I'm back with another two answers.
Aether: Aether's power is in its ability to change the rules of the world for a long time.
You do something, anything, long enough it can become permanent until someone stronger comes by. Whether that's memory work or wards...
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Poor Fira, having to balance knowing what's coming with wanting to stop it, and having everyone they know and love trust them to stop it.
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I almost never go back and do sunday's (my day off social media) but omg does it and omg do I want to walk about them. I'm going to try to limit this to a thread of 7, but who knows with how I ramble. This will be in no specific order after the Celestial Convergence
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Right now? Not very easily. They were cut off the same time the gods disappeared. Those selected by the universe for god magic can if/when they use the god magic to the point of full crash. Before the sundering, you could go to temples...
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For aether magic, you need aether. Luckily its everywhere, but aether crystals, or anything with aether embedded in it, in order to cast something more powerful, but you better have containment or stabilizer meds at hand.
God magic? Nothing, but it comes with...
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Vahl is the antagonist of this novel. He is a captain sent to this village to terrorize them for unknown reasons (to the village he knows why).
Fun fact: This is also the only use of the word select somehow.
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Not in this book. But Tarrin borders a lake. It's mentioned a few times. However, a future book is about a water elemental, sort of, and her hometown and the ocean she now lives by plays a large role. I don't have much planned out about that yet though.
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This is the first time god magic is used in this series. It's not intentional by any means, but it shows how well it resists aether magic.
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Cw for systemic cruelty and blatant murder of innocents.
So turns out, I do not use the word redeem, or any of its synonyms in a way that means redeem. So here is a snippet of the backstory of why Fira needs to redeem themself.
Fira isn't a good person, they just want to be.
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I have one majorly notable forest that is a major landscape in one of the books in this series. I could go on forever about the forest itself (the trees are pink. It's one of the few places divine magic still functions and no one knows why) but, the flora!
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So this world started as a d&d homebrew world with one concept: what if the gods disappeared, how would magic work now?
From there I really looked at the difference between physical/arcane magic and divine magic. I wanted something, since at this time is was a d&d game,...
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Anyone and everyone can wield aether. It's very rare to be actually trained in its use for specific spells, mainly only the government, military, and crime syndicates ever bother with that. But anyone could figure out how to use it. And you see that in a...
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Yes. Much of the empire is now in a desert due to industrialization.
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I love Hosk. He's one of the characters that has changed the most since his first iteration. He was originally a Bleakburn (a nearby city) police officer turned rebel. I ended up giving that to Fira (mostly) and he comes from a hidden village that still worships...
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Again there's two: physical magic. It exists physically in the world. This is aether. You can hold it (you shouldn't though) casting spells is physically pulling aether from the air (or crystals) and making it do what you want. This is why bodies react so badly to it.
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1/4
Oh do I! Each post on this thread will be a different variation of the map
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Context: Fira has just pleaded with the council to do something about the military in Tarrin and they just said "no" pretty much. So they're pissed and one of the councilors has the audacity to come up and threaten them casually.
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I am not beating the basic fantasy allegation. It's a world with two continents. Most of the story takes place on one continent, but in the final book they will travel another for at least a little bit. But there's also 6 divine realms the characters go to.
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1/ Yes and Yes.
Using aether magic has very hard rules and consequences. There's only so much aether, using it slowly kills you, only certain things can be done.
Have a piece of a god in you? Magics a little less defined. You used inherent magic (I don't have a term...
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Context: Tarrin is being invaded by the empire's own military and they've cut them off form all supply routes all while bringing in their own fresh food and medicine. Overtime is another term for your body being used for labor after death.
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Closest I have is "teach/taught"
There's not much in the way of formal education in the empire, so I was torn between this slice of life scene and one where Fira and Hosk are talking about how systemic violence exists to teach people where to stand and walk.
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1/2 After Fira's apprentice is executed for stealing some medication, Vahl doesn't believe that Fira had nothing to do with it. So he uses magic to try to extract the memory and information.
