More than murder, Slaying is ritualistic butchery - mystical annihilation that destroys a being and usurps their essence.
An old, rusted blade with jagged teeth that cut apart the bonds that hold a soul together.
Aspects are magical parts of a mage's essence, a sort of metaphysical friction between the mundane reality and the glory within them. It leaks out through their flesh and out into the world, scarring both in the process.
A loose coalition of vampire hunters, united only by one overriding ideal - fuck vampires, they are jerks.
Ghostbuster is a colloquial, and sometimes derogatory, term for a mage who spends most of their time hunting monsters in the Prime.
Blood-drinking monsters whose immortality comes at the cost of an endless debt they must pay to even greater evils.
With no afterlife, what happens to souls after the body dies? It remains as a roiling, unquiet force in the world, there for powerful mages and wicked monsters to take.
The formerly-immortal essence of every living being, now considerably more dissolvable after the End of All Things.
A spell that let a mage drain blood with a touch, bursting vessels and tearing flesh as blood is forced to emerge.
A subtle, far-reaching force that guides events to pre-determined conclusion... But without the power to see them through in the same way it once had.
A spell that unravel's fates design with brute, magical force.
Beings, places, or items beyond the reach of Fate, and a real propensity to throw it's machinations into chaos.
Patronage is a long-term contract between mages and the powerful, alien beings from the Beyond, trading power and knowledge in exchange for whatever whim those creatures tend towards.
A primer to the region of Lakhanavati, a land born out of the apocalypse, scraped together from fragments of dead worlds after the End of All Things
The sanctioned wizards of Lagash. What they lack in individual might, they make up for in coordination and number.
Enchanted scepters that allow wielders to raise their voice above any din and command even the most unruly conscripts with authority.
A part of the grand city of Lagash, where the wizards of the city can live without having to mingle with the rest of the citizenry, and vice versa.
A school of magic dedicated to the mysteries of the mind, the vanished stars, the lost constellation, and the fine art of being incredibly arrogant snobs.
A warlike school of magic, focused single-mindedly on the many ways you can incinerate someone or something.
Ironclad Ice is a enchanted kind of ice, strong as steel and just as sharp.
A hexxed piece of software, delivering ancient curses in a modern trapping.
A lexicon of common terms and esoteric slang alike for the world of Shedim.
Tools of blood-soaked magic, empowering the magic of the most vile kind.
The arch-wizard and emperor of Lagash, one of the most powerful men in Ithekshem and responsible for one of its most cataclysmic disasters. Whoops.
Wizard Madness is what happens when a mage thinks they've outgrown mortality and morality.
A cult of blood mages and would-be vampires, equal parts terrifying and ridiculous.
The Gloom - a miles long and unfathomably deep canyon of complete darkness, cuttings its way straight through the city.
Fragments of fire magic given rudimentary thought and relentless hunger.
The legion's of Lagash, their make-up, tactics, and potential doom.
The slums of Lagash, a sprawling place that's seeped into every crack and cravice beneath the city proper, like fungi spreading on a corpse.
The beating heart of Lagash, where the fate of countless millions is decided with the stroke of a pen by an indifferent bureaucrat.
A popular comfort food across Araea, Kindly Eggs are fried balls of insect meat and egg, mushrooms, fungi, and herbs, with a deep savory taste and hints of sweetness.
Dreams are more than our own minds. They are visions from the Beyond, a glimpse of unearthly glories that our waking eyes refuse to see.
Hello everyone!I'm returning to writing after a long writers block, managing to break it with the WA Summer Camp of 2018. I'm working on a few different worlds with a tendency towards to weird, morbid or wondrous and am always up for talking about them or world building. It is once again my great hope to become an author, though there's some ways to go with that still. Come along on the journey with me! I am a game developer by day, gamer by night. I'm usually on Discord, except when I'm trying to write. I drink too much coffee and play too many games.
Origami, game development, some other stuff
The Shadow
X-Files, Flinch, One Punch Man
Dune, The Reanimator, Gideon the Ninth, Brutal Kunnin'
H.P Lovecraft, Tamsyn Muir, Mike Brooks
Final Fantasy Tactics, Symphony of the Night, City of Heroes, Total Warhammer