Raw Notes on the World

Fire Magic was once elemental

was a sort of all-encompassing enlightened culture of magic

the mages were the elite of their culture; most were not allowed to practice magic

at least, elemental magic

Cold magic is another "spinoff" of elemental magic

it and fire might have been two sects of it following a schism

Story of the companion/childhood friend of the first great blood mage, who rises up against the elemental mages

"Magic of the flesh is really just manipulation of lowly, formed elements."

Bestial magic: Old wives tales, talking about the people over there past that hill to the left

No one talking should have actually seen any of that shit.

Plague mage story:

Man comes into town with a wagon, passes toys out to all the children

One doll is all white, the child who takes it gets really sick

and the whole town eventually follows

Madness Magic: Rasputin story

No clear indication that the vizier ever actually cast magic on anyone

but people who cross him tend to coincidentally go insane

often from natural causes

like PTSD

The history of the world:

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

-High elemental mages

-Blood mage rebels

THE TYRANTS

-Age of kingdoms and political divides

-Lots of war, people died.

-Lots of borderline genocidal activity

--Surrounding people with magic, massacres both for and against

-Magical creatures first created as living weapons (some commoners believe this, but no one is certain where the elementals and gorach came from)

THE AGE OF HEROES AND MONSTERS

-Dark ages, wanderers, and wastelands

-Magic is dying, and its successful practitioners are few and far between

-They're badasses though

-So they and their contemporaries are seen as "wandering heroes/wise men"

Some mages are aware of the idea that mana comes from a shared source

Related to the genocides of the Tyrant age, they might have even cleared out large geographical areas of magic users so that they could preserve their power source

AGE OF CHURCHES (IN BETWEEN TYRANTS AND HEROES)

-Age of self-made gods

-Extremely powerful magic users who built cults around themselves

-Likely the very same who engaged in genocide during the age of tyrants