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 Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:37 am
Magic
The basic foundations for magic in Direnla are ones of balance: Magic is divided into two overall types with further subgroups and elemental associations. Light and Dark magic are both seen as equally necessary to maintain a proper balance in accordance with the primary religion.
Light magic
Life (Healing magic) (Anyone know the greek for "life"? <.< >.>)
Air (aeromancy)
Water (hydromancy)
Dark magic
Death (necromancy)
Earth (geomancy)
Fire (pyromancy)
Heretical magic
There is also a form of magic that is seen as heretical by the religious and extremely dangerous by more skeptical mages. Its formal name is aposkiasmancy, more commonly referred to as shadowmancy. Shadowmancy is considered heretical because shadows in and of themselves are believed to be an imbalance between light and darkness. There is only one known shadowmancer in Direnla, although he hints towards there being more.
Shadowmancy is inherently dangerous because working with shadows, in every documented case, has been known to cause the mage to slowly go insane. There are no exceptions to this rule, as far as the common mage is concerned, although a few radical theologians have considered trying an experiment, where a perfectly stable person with previous knowledge of magic tries to learn shadowmancy. Every time, the temples of Luna, Solcan, and Rydal have collectively shut the experiment down before anything began.
((Again, I'll add more later. More on shadowmancy and probably a bit on the theory of souls. Then I can start getting into: *drumroll* TECHNOLOGY!))
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:10 am
The greek word for life is Ζωή, and the latin words for life is vita, spiritus, anima, aevum. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:43 pm
I was just going to say something about vita or vitae being life... Vitae-mancy! *shot* <--with a crossbow... okay, I'm done now. Sorry Raincrow...
On a more serious note, I wonder: why are earth and fire associated with death and dark magic? Is "dark" just an indicator that magics associated with it will balance out magics associated with "light"? I'm really interested to hear more about shadowmancy as well.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:36 pm
"Vitae-mancy"? PFFFFFHAHAHAHA. rofl
But in all seriousness, I personally think "aevumancy" rolls off the tongue.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:56 pm
Light magics are generally those that help life along far more easily (and everyone needs to breathe and drink water), and they tend to be less destructive by a casual user. Dark magics can be more destructive by someone not very well trained.
In addition, one of the simplest and most destructive forms of necromancy is called a necromantic flame, lending fire the association. Geomancy is considered "dark" because of the association with caves and underground anomalies. Humans are inherently afraid of things in the dark.
Rae: I kind of agree. Aevumancy sounds nice.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:42 pm
What about other types of mixed magic? Such as a combo of water and fire, you get steam.
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