As he progressed in his magics, he began to grow bolder. Most of his experiments failed with the deaths of his subjects, and he mourned each loss deeply, both for the failure of the experiment, but also for the loss of life. To this day, Assuine’s Blessed cannot answer why she never removed her Blessing from Rettew, despite all he did. The best case is, that despite ramifications of his experiments, he did it all from a place of passion for Assuine’s gifts.
Eventually, ...
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Rettew the Myriad was an Assuine Blessed human who dabbled in wizardry in his life before his ascension to godhood. Before they called him mad, many called him eccentric. He held a passion for all of Assuine's creations. While he admired Assuine, he also saw ways her initial designs could be improved upon. At first, he did little things. He took the bioluminescence from the creatures of the ocean depths and Torac and spliced it into bugs so the surface dwellers could experience the beauty...
2024-12-13 09:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Most notably, Gileon the Bulwark created a whole host of Barrier spells that he cast using his artifact the Three Fold Breastplate. While Gileon had a weak affinity for the Font of Barriers, the strong connection of the breastplate he discovered allowed him to specialize in the area of magic he’d otherwise had little talent in.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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The week continued as it began for Kole. He spent every spare moment studying, ...
2024-12-09 09:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Some wizards have learned to incorporate their spells into their casting, allowing them to use the artifact as the origin of the spell. A common application of this is using ensouled weapons as delivery devices for otherwise weak short range cantrips such Shock. Other wizards have crafted spells that required the ensouled artifact to cast. If a wizard has bonded an ensouled artifact with a strong connection to a Font, that artifact can serve as a focus for spellcasting, and spells crafted...
2024-12-06 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Wizards can use their connections to their ensouled artifacts to empower their magic. When Bonded, the soul of a wizard and their artifact are joined. As far as magic is concerned, the artifact and the wizard are one and the same. The cantrip Conjure is the most common exploit for this connection. While the cantrip normally only allows the caster to summon an object already on their person to appear in their hand, the cantrip allows the caster to summon their ensouled artifact to them fro...
2024-12-02 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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If a wizard conjures a globe of water, the water will vanish after the Will sustaining it fades. If someone where to drink that water, it would draw upon the Will of the drinker to maintain itself until it has left the body, where after it would vanish. Stilbore’s Decanter, an ensouled artifact able to create liquids, however has no such limitations. This decanter, when filled with a liquid, will create an nearly supply of whatever filled it, limited by the daily Will capacity of the ar...
2024-11-29 10:00:03 +0000 UTC
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While it is not possible to confirm this, it is theorized that ensouled artifacts are still able to draw upon the lost Font of Creation even though all attempts by wizards to find or draw upon the Font have ended in only failure. This is evidenced by the fact discontinuous ensouled items can create materials that remain even if the Will connection to the item that created them has been severed.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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Several...
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While ensouled artifacts tend to have strong preferences for Fonts their creators had connections too, they are not limited to those. Attempts to isolate the Font’s ensouled artifacts draw upon has shown that not only do they draw on multiple Font’s to create a magical effect, they have redundancies. A ensouled artifact that creates fire will not only draw on the Font of Fire, but the Fonts of Heat and Destruction as well, meaning that even in a zone isolated from the Font of Fire, th...
2024-11-22 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Ensouled artifacts bend the long established rules of magic. While casting a spell, a wizard must draw from one or more specified Fonts, carefully guiding each Font to create the desired effect. Primals have more intuitive and unstructured control over the magic of the Font they channel, but with each effect they only draw upon the one Font they are connected to. Ensouled artifacts have the flexibility of both and the limitations of neither.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensou...
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The native Illusian population of Basin was predominantly orcs in the east. The center of the Basin had been arid scrubland, but once the ocean levels rose enough to flow over the low points left in the mountains, the rivers that led to the Great Plume at the center quickly rejuvenated the land.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
"That..." Amara began, looking at Doug. “Didn’t go super well for them. You four did much better.”<...
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The Scar was formed when the Avatar broke through the barrier range, and the Hardune enlisted the aid of the scattered remnants of the Imperial Coterie to seal the gap with a great work of Barrier magic.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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Runt took the opportunity to “deal with some business” when the otherswent inside, promising to find her own way back to Edgewater, “eventually."
The group attracted much attention as they wal...
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As the waters rose, the dwarves continued their work, keeping just ahead of the rising water at times.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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Kole lay on a couch in the study hall room while his friends trained around him. While to a casual observer, it appeared as if he was napping, he was actually hard at work. Amara had come through and provided him with a runic shield bracelet that morning and given him the emerald gem with the runic intent withi...
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This ring of mountains was not complete however. While no one knows why they began so early, the dwarves—led by the Hardune—prepared Basin for the coming Flood. Decades before the Avatar even escaped, they began their work of filling the low points along the circular mountain range.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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“Are you nervous?” Zale asked Kole as he moved his food around his plate at lunch while Amara did the same with fo...
2024-11-04 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Mountains on distant planets—when viewed with the aid of magic—appear in patterned ranges that extend across the planet’s surface. The mountains of Kaltis differ from all that we have observed. They are the remnants of the chaotic battle between the Wardens, Torc, Waas, and Aurial. The land that would become the Basin was once a large ring of mountains.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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Zale explained their side of the story...
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While many took to the seas and thrived for decades, a slow decline in the quality of life set in as resources such as metals became scarcer and scarcer. With each shipwreck, or floating mat sunken to incurable disease, countless irreplaceable treasure were lost. Trade with the seafolk was not enough to combat the loss. The often aloof people had little need for the metals so vital to life above the waves.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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The n...
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While it is still unknown and heavily debated as to how the dwarves knew to prepare Basin for the Flood, it is universally accepted that without that action, the Illusian races would have been lost to the Floods.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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The party broke up shortly after Doug’s departure, and they all headed back home.
On the way, Kole thought over the implications of their encounter with Runt.
Are we really do...
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Assuine’s Conclaves took the forests that they loved, and wove them into great mats that still float to this day across the ocean.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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“Explain!” Zale demanded.
Runt, who was still standing in front of their table sighed again, looked around and pulled up a chair in an unnecessarily showy manner. She pulled the chair towards her with a jerk of her foot, spinning the chair into place, faci...
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Illandrios, the center for magical learning outside the Midlian Empire, created a great dome around their city, able to hold back the seas.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
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“Bah!” Rakin shouted as soon as they appeared. “Ye guys took all the fun parts.”
Some attendants waiting in the room for them checked them over but then left as soon as they realized they were completely unharmed.
“It wasn’t really all that f...
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Some cities took creative measures to survive. The Hollow Peak sealed themselves into a mountain top cavern, enlarged within by the Spatial magics they were known for.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
Kole stood in the ready room, inspecting his gear as they waited to be teleported to some strange and unknown location.
For not the first time, Kole pulled his blasting rod out of his shirt holster to confirm that it still was not...
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The coastal nations took to the seas early, taking with them the knowledge of shipbuilding and naval navigation.
The land-locked nations moved inward as the ocean came to their shores, and brutal battles ensued as dry land became more and more scarce.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
Despite there being a marked lack of adults to oversee the study group for primals, Zale insisted they all show up in the training room Saturday morn...
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All around Kaltis, the seas rose, and still the Avatar roamed, destroying whatever lay in its path. Nations fell, even those not in the direct path of the Avatar, trapped as they were between the rising seas and the raging wild fire.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
Astronomy 101 was an introductory class required for essentially all divination classes. While not all forms of divination required tracking the stars, enough used them that not having any kn...
2024-10-07 10:00:10 +0000 UTC
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A eternal being of fire roamed the world destroying nations, and in men’s pursuit to kill it, men destroyed the world.
For centuries after the Flood, the fate of the Avatar of Faust was unknown. The great water elemental summoned to defeat it failed, and with its destruction came the Flooding of the world.
-A Brief History of the Flood by Albert Moonsuckle
Kole didn’t think he had it in him to even walk as he limped towards the showers. True to...
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As the Flood waters began to cover Kaltis, the Hoodin people once more relied on their connection to the Ethereal to survive. The people crafted a great ritual and left the material realm for the ethereal. For years, they traveled the Ethereal Realm, their few remaining ancestors protecting them from the threats native to that land, until eventually, they found the mountains that boarded Basin, discovering the dry land within.
-Excerpt from Wicket’s Guides to the Pantheon...
2024-10-04 09:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The ritual had a devastating side effect, however, and the spirits that passed through became trapped, slowly losing their sanity. The Hooadin saved their people but at the cost of their ancestors. The spirits were forced to travel to the Celestial realm, or submit themselves to destruction. When Wookan submitted himself to be destroyed, his people begged him to go to the celestial realm on the off chance he could return. He refused, and in that refusal, his people’s respect ...
2024-09-30 09:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Wookan was a descended of Erebog. Upon learning of these people who’d forsaken the gods, the god of death sought them out in human form to see if they could be recruited to the cause of freeing Faust from his prison. They were not interested, but Erebog lived among them in disguise for some time nonetheless before leaving the Realm with all the other gods.
Wookan lived his life as a warrior of great skill but little renown. Cursed was he to be born with a s...
2024-09-28 11:50:15 +0000 UTC
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This Chapter was posted out of order, Chapter 13 is here.
Sometime after his death, undead hordes began to encroach on the savanna the Hoodin called home. Desperate for aid, the Hooadin called heavily on their ancestors. They called on them for advice, training, and direct aid. Wookan was called daily. He gave guidance to...
2024-09-27 09:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Wookan the Dead’s people, the Hooadin lived in a barren and inhospitable region of the pre-Flood Kaltis realm. While the environment was hash, the region had very low monster activity, and they chose to face the ravages of the savanna plains over those of claws and teeth.
As a culture, the Hooadin abhorred waste of all forms. They also had little regard for the gods. These two cultural facets built on each other to create a unique advantage. When the Hooadin died, their s...
2024-09-23 09:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Jupin the Jolly, the demigod of revelry was a dwarf in his mortal life. Not many would expect a dwarf descended from Torc to have such a domain, but Jupin was a brewer in a dark time of need for the children of Torc. When the gods pulled back from the world to reduce Faust’s agency, Torc also went silent. A people used to communing freely with their god didn’t adapt well to that god’s sudden absence.
Jupin invented mead shortly after Torc departed, and while it didn...
2024-09-20 10:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Haylock of the Depths was a male seafolk before his ascension. Using the power of his divine bloodline, he hunted the great creatures of the deep, and his legend grew. He was known all over the pre-Flood seas, and even the surface races heard tales of him saving ships. While he was a renowned hunter for decades, it wasn’t until he slew a kraken assaulting the now-lost seafolk city of Atelay that he finally ascended. He is known to Bless great hunters, and has not kept his Blessings to t...
2024-09-16 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Maximilian Amadeus Derringer the 9th, or Max the Mad as they call him now, is one of the rare demi-gods who ascended—not through great deeds of heroism or destruction—but a concerted campaign of annoyance. Gifted with an incredibly power Sound affinity—due in part to his blood line as a descendant of Riloth—MAx devised a plan to ascend. He was born near the end of the Age of Heroes, when the mechanism of ascension had been discovered. When he learned of his divine heritage, he set...
2024-09-13 08:00:21 +0000 UTC
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