#aether tree

//Aether particles are a unique and curious particles. When charged with energy, they manifest in strange and paranormal ways. They are the primary particle in the make up of a “Soul” which generates and preserves the mind, will, and emotional state of a person or being. When congealed into a soul, the particles begin generating their own energy and producing a unique “charge” tailored by the composition of that soul. In this vein, those who’s souls generate enough energy gain the ability to use Magic (which is the use and sending of personally charged Aether particles to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct matter in the environment according to the will of its sender).

//Depending on the type of energy the particles are charged with, they can be good/beneficial, neutral, or harmful. Good charges (usually given/associated with the Sovereign and His hosts) lead to accelerated healing, increased longevity, and various abilities such purifying, cleansing, and countering/dispelling of beings with negatively-charged particles.

//Neutral charges usually lean towards elemental affinities which gives the user abilities to affect natural elements with the same energy charge as their own Magic/Ether particles.

//negative charges lean lead to negative effects such as blood poisoning, mutations, destruction/restructuring at the atomic level, corruption of other beings, and a control over other beings infected/afflicted with the user’s energy and Aether particles.

//All of these can also be tuned in to a person’s unique energy signature. This creates a kind of tethering effect in which once the particles have absorbed enough of a person’s Aether energy, any items, creatures, or places that absorb that Aether become tethered to the user and adopt their will and nature as secondary motivations/attributes.

//Now, what does this have to do with Salem and Bonely in space suits?

//Well, when a specific particle becomes intrinsic to your physical, spiritual, psychological, and magical make up - the absence of that particle will lead to bad things.

//Like putting salt water fish in a fresh water tank, or a human without a space suit in to space, people/beings who need Aether Particles to survive will die in universes where there are no ether particles.

//Thus we have the Aether suits!

//These suits were specifically designed by Salem, Bonely, and a team of scientists whom they encountered after learning to speak said scientists language. Thanks to a plant that they saturated with Aether materials, thus making it a kind of Aether generator, they were able to live/survive long enough to get the Aether suits done and get their particles & their little plant buddy’s particles contained.