Occult Magics and Strange Creatures

Occult Magics and Strange Creatures

by Glad of War, the Sentinel of Chracio

Volume 1 (Published)

Includes Legal Disclaimer for Sections IV and V about not practicing this magic in regions where it is illegal. And obscures the facts to make it sound like I observed this magic being practiced by others rather than admitting I practiced it myself.

1. Section I: General Bestiary

   1. 1. A. Goobers

      2. B. Betelguese aka Gassy

      3. C. Dream Wraiths

      4. D. Chitters

• 1. Section II: Other Worlds

     1. A. The Dreaming

     2. B. Spirit Walking

  2. Section III: Obscure High Level Magics

• • 1. A. Conveyance

       1. ... Glad's annotations on his practice

    2. B. Focus

• • • 1. ... notes on Elias, the fall of Mercayen, and what Xisben's mentioned about Focus being used to destroy pillars ...

• • 3. C. Reaping

• • • 1. ... everything learned from Haas, the Sage's Tomes, Encis's fight against Shul's Sentinel, and that encounter Glad had in the Ruined Land

• • 4. D. Staging

• • • 1. ... all of Glad's notes on his practice and those situations in which staging doesn't work, can't contribute anything, or can be used by enemies

• 3. Section IV: Occult Magic

• • 1. A. Magical Constructs and Evil Spirits

       1. Gassy

       2. Servant of Baishu

          1. (symbol redacted and why it's redacted)

          2. Word of Power

    2. B. Necromancy

• 4. Section V: Blood Magic

• • 1. Blood Magic Overview

• 5. Blood Alchemy

• • 1. Blood Contracts

       1. with Og

       2. with Wraiths

• 6. Section VI: The Red Dragon

• • 1. ... everything Shul related from our encounter ...

    2. ... plus analysis that is very obviously anti-Shul propoganda ...

Volume 2 (Published)

Includes Legal Disclaimer for Sections IV and V about not practicing this magic in regions where it is illegal. And obscures the facts to make it sound like I observed this magic being practiced by others rather than admitting I practiced it myself.

1. Section I: Updated Bestiary

   1. 1. E. Brenthian Cave Creatures

• 1. Section II: Other Worlds

     1. A. The Dreaming

     2. B. Spirit Walking

        1. Reviving the reaped.

        2. Skin's Psychoactive Potions and Skin's Third Eye

        3. obscures her identity for legal reasons

  2. Section III: High Level Magics

• • 1. A. Evocations

       1. ... what Glad's learned of electric and kinetic evocation including kinetic sensory fields and integrating kinetic autododge into swordplay

• 3. Section IV: Occult Magic

• • 1. A. Magical Constructs and Spirits

    2. Servant of Baishu

       1. 1. What Facebook added

    3. Og, the Bone Collector

    4. Payroks

    5. B. Necromancy

• • • 1. Anti-Healing

      2. Dying Moments and Past Lives

         1. Using items from the dead as a conduit

         2. Using blood from the living as a conduit to their dead families

      3. Reviving the Dead

• • 6. C. Reaping

• • • 1. How it's done

      2. An indepth account, as example, of Encis' last fight

• • 7. How to counter it

• • • • 1. Conveyance

        2. Concealment

• • • 1. Reviving those reaped

• • 8. D. (slavic sounding word for weakening pillar connection)

    9. E. Obtenebration aka Shadow Magic

• • • 1. The Cult of Morthuna

      2. An account of the creature and its encounters in Calarco

      3. An inclusion of some of Sophia's research

• 4. Section V: Blood Magic

• • 1. Blood Magic Overview

• 5. Blood Alchemy

• • • 1. With a specific focus on countering Blood Magic ... copying the relevant potions from FaceBook

• • 1. Blood Contracts

       1. with Vorshen as seen through his disciples

• 6. Section VI: The Dragons

• • 1. ... a write up on the temperaments and domains of various dragons

    2. ... info on the secretive Kalmer dragon

    3. ... map of dragon influence

    4. ... what metaphysics stuff we've learned about dragons from various sources

2. Section VII: The Shul'Garoth

• 1. ... an intro to Westerner culture including a writeup of internal strife within the culture and exodus of Shul'Garoth after the War

  2. ... a write up of Westerner fighting styles including the basic melee forms, magics used, reaping

  3. ... a write up the Westerner burial rituals

  4. ... an account of the Battle of the Death Box and an account of the Vormyllean Resistance that preceded it

  5. ... an account of the War from the perspective of those who marched with Sarat, the Sentinel of Chracio

  6. ... an account of his and Haas' duel against Asoth

3. Section VIII: The Sentinels of Chracio

• • 1. The Life of Serat

• 1. The Life of Encis

  2. The Life of Glad of War

Volume 3 (in development)

1. Section I: Updated Bestiary

   1. 1. F. Basilisks

      2. G. Penisula Creatures

• 1. Section II: Blood Magic

     1. A. Countering Blood Magic with Reckondite

        1. The ward at the Dionastran Temple

        2. Our experiments with Revocation

     2. B. Seven Properties

• • • 1. Haelyst

         1. Graded as a percentage, haelyst is a measure of how easily the blood be evaluated can be mixed for other things. High values mean that blood can be more easily mixed into potions. It also means that the individual being measured is more vulnerable to having their blood scried.

         2. There's a wide variance in values between different species and between individuals of a specific species.

            1. Human tend to have high values

            2. Brenthians tend to have high values

            3. Centaurs tend to have medium values

            4. Skarlak tend to have medium-low values

         3. Known but not in the book: Glad has a high value ... somewhere in the high 60s. Vulsh has a low value.

      2. Traufum

• • • • 1. Much narrower variation person to person

        2. Known but not in the book: Glad has a high value. Vulsh has a high value.

• • • 3. Trauthum

• • • • 1. The value of this measurement tends to be the opposite of the Taufum

        2. Known but not in the book: Glad has a low value. Vulsh has a low value.

• • • 4. Ostis

• • • • 1. The measurement of how easy it is to change or effect blood

• • • 5. Croma

• • • • 1. A grouping of different blood types. This value comes into play when using recondite effects or determining which ingredients affect which species.

        2. Not much is confirmed about what causes two species to share or have different groupings. There are theories about local, experiencing magic events, diet, etc.

        3. The groupings

           1. Humans

           2. Shul'Garoth

           3. Centaurs & Brenthians

           4. Skarlak & Kiteki

           5. Rhopstentch & Virtaugh

           6. Najana & Silvestri

• • • 6. TBD

      7. TBD

• 2. C. Synthesis

• • 1. Using blood as a catalyst for evoking magics that the evoker does not natively know.

2. Section III: The Arcane Arts

• 1. Rely on releasing the inherent, non-ambient magic contained in objects to cast spells.

     1. Example: using diamonds for a teleportation spell

     2. Example: using blood for blood magic

     3. Obtinabration

        1. Thune and the Cult of Morthuna

        2. Revoking obtinibration

        3. Healing from obtinibration

3. Section IV: Quasith

• 1. The Nature and Source of Quasith

  2. Staging

     1. Conveyance

     2. Pillaring

4. Section V: Nullification

• 1. There are various ways of casting an anti-magic field

     1. Quasith can be pushed away from an area

     2. The Quasith that a targeted evoker is using can be pulled toward the anti-magic caster