magic

The Kethic element of moving air and carried sound, channeled through the Sulus leyline. Not the brute kinetic push of force.

The Kethic element of darkness, channeled through the Vulus leyline, and routinely mistaken for the necromancy and shadow-energy it is not.

Deoric is the language of absolute power.

The Kethic element of stone and soil, channeled through the Golus leyline. Not a gift of Gaea, and split between shapers and diviners.

Melera's imprisoned song still leaking into the world — the emotion-face of Ezz, which condenses into the fae where it pools thick.

The Kethic element of momentum and weight, channeled through the Dynus leyline. Plain physical force, never the mind-driven 'force' of the Psywinds.

Gaeic Melodies are the lingering echo of Gaea's creation-song, still reverberating in living things she made — caught and reproduced by mortal bards as a learned craft.

Kethic is the caster's own emotion structured through the Elemental Planes via leylines—Gaea's bridge-language for bringing flesh into being.

The Kethic element of radiance, channeled through the Kunus leyline. Prized by sun-temples who credit Bryn for power borrowed from the leyline stack.

Psy magic harnesses the Psywinds, the swirling mass of thought that every living being sheds across Alaria; it is the counterpart to Faesong.

The flow of thought and intention across Alaria; the thought-face of Ezz, inseparable from Faesong's emotion-face.

The Kethic element of time's local rate, channeled through the Izzus leyline. It can stretch or hasten a moment, never touch the world's true clock.

The blood and bones of the titans are among the rarest and most valuable substances in Alaria.

The strangest of the nine: the Kethic element of absence, channeled through the Nilus leyline, the canceling principle that unmakes other elements' workings.

A titan-wrought engine of Deoric rune-combination — a room of ever-turning golden gears that present working Deoric inscriptions to whoever stands at its center.

The Kethic element of flame and heat, channeled through the Yolus leyline, whose surfacing beneath Tarkhetan feeds the Evertorch and the Firemage Corps.

A school of magic specializing in the intersection of fire and darkness.

Each of the four dragon blades is an ancient item that was forged by a dark elf master smith.

The river elves, although small in population, are a people dedicated to honing the practice of blade dancing.

One's true name is their magical identity in the world, and is far more powerful than a being's normal name used in everyday life.

The Kethic element of water, channeled through the Pelus leyline. A heavy, shape-holding fluid that shades toward life, unlike thin air.