A chart of the natural physical strengths/weaknesses that come with different Magibilities made by Dr. Naya Aaliyah Hussein, a Jordanian healthcare specialist with a doctorate in Mageology (the study of magic).

in the words of my good friend @iolitemoth, "Hand It Over".

Anyway, there are in fact many humanoid critters creaturing about in the world, but the only ones I've really worked out so far are the mermaids, though technically the plural form of the word in the world is merfolk/sirens (both are used interchangeably).

Their appearance is typically somewhere between DIsney Meramids, Greek Sirens, accurate scary fish-like mermaids, the Deep Ones from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, that fish guy from that weird Sally Hawkins movie, and carnivorous fish.

Here is a helpful chart I made.

At first the merfolk were just kinda vibin in the oiter, and sometimes would peek their heads out of the oiter to peep the dry land. As humanity begin to progress in like society and technology and language and stuff, the merfolk took notice and started telling each other about it, and even copying what the 'landfolk' were doing. They also tried speaking the languages humans spoke, and over may millenia the continous efforts of the mermaids over generations eventually changed their vocal cord structure in a way that allowed them to speak human languages. Though when they speak in those languages they tend to have raspy, garbled voices that can sometimes be hard to understand.

(The mermaids actually have their own language that is still used today, but it's very hard for humans to speak. They learned from mermaids what the words MEAN, but it's just very hard for them to say the words.)

The humans knew of the existence of merfolk of course. At first, they had no idea what to do about them. All they knew was that sometimes around ports/beaches they could catch some fishy losers peeping their heads out and staring at them with them big ol eyes, and babble at them. Occassionally they would unintentionally steal something that was left on beaches or ports/dropped into the water by accident, though they were normally returned once the merfolk were done rotating it around in their hands.

In some areas at the time, mermaids were actually hunted as a food source/for sport because "well theyre basically fish lol" but nowadays thats considered just murder.

Anyway, over time, more and more people (namely Big Brain people but occasionally your average John) started trying to communicate with the mermaids, and eventually could actually talk with them and learn more about their cultures. There are also documented cases of how as far back as ancient Greece, merfolk were basically just allowed around seaports to help remove barnacles from ships and recover lost items, and a story of a pirate crew who accepted a merman as a crew member.

Nowadays, merfolk and landfolk co-exist harmoniously. There are actually some coastal cities/towns/whatevers that have been built specifically to allow landfolk and merfolk to like. literally live together. The most famous of these cities are Miami, Tokyo, Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Algiers, and Negombo. The merfolk do actually have their own underwater settlements, and while they aren't as advance as building on the land, they are still very impressive in their own right.

There's also a study built around understanding the cultures of merfolk more, known as Hydro-Anthropology (also Marine Anthropology and Limno-Anthropology, as specific terms for freshwater/saltwater mermaids.) On the flip-side, mermaids have Geo-Anthropology, which is the study of landfolk culture.

Merfolk have wildly varying appearances based on their environments. Sometimes they have a set of legs along with arms to maneuver better, sometimes they have fins instead of arms, sometimes they have more than two eyes, sometimes they have suckers on their palms, forearms, and tails for climbing along rocky walls, and sometimes they even have claws. Their appearance also changes based on the area of the world they live in, or how deep in the ocean they live, and how some mermaids have been found in very weird areas, which I will plan on talking about in another post because it's a very interesting topic to me.

Sirens can also use magic like landfolk, but the majority are water and plant mages, with the occasional earth mage. For a siren to have something like, say, fire magic, they would need to have a family with a fire mage.

Last thing, merfolk and humans have actually been known to have children together, called land-sirens. They can look anywhere from humans with mildly colourful skin to just a mermaid with human eyes. Typical traits seen among most land-sirens is pale skin of unusual colours, gills, sharper teeth, naturally raspy voices, fish tails, and occasionally webbed fingers/toes + fins. They can also breathe both in water and on land. The earliest documented cases of a land-siren came from 1387 somewhere in the Holy Roman Empire, though some art from the 1100s may possibly depict a land-siren.

oh and theres also no comedic instances of "mermaid is in shock because they saw someone eat fish??!?!?!?!?!" because the mermaids eat fish as well lol

clutch honestly

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So the story of Katrianne Allard!

Mrs. Allard was born in Nice, France in 1907, the Kingslayers equivalent to 1940 because Kingslayers is in a different time. She was directly descended from two powerful French magic families, the Allards and the Fontaines. She had two younger sisters named Ines and Blaise (who have their own stories to be told another time.)

Katri (as she was called) grew up to be a very pretty young woman, who was also a powerful ice mage (thats the Fontaine blood, baby!) She often used this magic to put on little magic shows for young folk. She also met and married a young man named Antoine Le Clerk.

Some time passed, and word of Ms. Allards snowy spectacles spread. Eventually she was performing on stages at local theaters. When she was about 29, she caught the attention of a Magic Sponsor. Back then, they had a lot of magic shows where mages would show off their powers, and a Magic Sponsor was basically just their agent. W/e, she was offered a chance to join one such magic show company, where she could perform all over France, to which she accepted.

After this, her fame only grew and grew by the years, until her name could be heard all around the country, telling stories . At some point, she started catching a bit of international attention. The magic shows were really taking off in the US, and another Magic Sponsor wanted a piece of the pie. She was like "c'mon madame Kat, you're gonna make SO much money" or whatever.

And so, in 1943, Katrianne emigrated to Main, with her husband and two daughters Lisey and Nic, ready to start up in America.

It didn't take long for Ms. Allard to become famous again, and the Americans lost their freakin marbles over her. (i should also mention at this point that katrianne could speak english, she started learning when she was about 30ish) Her stunts WOWed the people. And why wouldn't they?-- Who wouldn't want to see a woman create 20ft ice pillars before effortlessly leaping on them, and then make a slide to slide down while standing up? In HEELS somehow?? Occassionally, she would even duel with other mages.

This, combined with the fact she was a very nice woman and also uh HOT (cough), kept her on the radar for 12 whole years. She also donated most of her earnings to charities surrounding domestic violence and animal shelters. She did many interviews as well, usually for stuff like 'The New Ampster Times' and 'Magical Monthly' (a magazine about the happenings in the magic world). She still did magic shows in France, along with other countries.

Tragedy struck, however, on June 2nd, 1955. A 48 year old Katrianne was having a duel with a fellow celebrity mage, Jessica Whitefield (b. 1923), which Katrianne's daughter Nic had decided to attend. They were having a blast, cuz the duels weren't usually done out of hatred but more to put on a spectacle. Katri was stood atop an ice pillar, and Jessica fired off a snowball full of jagged ice at her. Now, Katri was meant to dodge this, and jump onto another ice pillar she had created. However, she slipped a bit when she leapt, causing her to lose focus.

And so, in front of Jessica, Nic, and 10 000 audience members, Katri fell 25 feet to her death.

It was a death felt everywhere. Many fans and fellow celebrities mourned her death, and her grave was absolutely covered in flowers. Her death hit her family the hardest (of course), especially poor Nic. Jessica Whitefield ended up quitting the magic show business just over a year later.

In the present, Katrianne still has a good bit of influence. There's an animal sanctuary in Augustville (capital of maine in kingslayers) named after her, and a statue of her in Nice. She is still talked about quite a bit in reference to the history of magic shows, and gets featured in documentaries on the matter. Also she sometimes gets called a sex symbol i guess

I worked on this drawing time to time for 2 weeks, and then sat down today and worked on it for 8 hours, a bad decision (i still ate and stuff in between). This is the result. The members of the Kingslayers. my head hurts

OH MY GOD GUYS Look its moth :)

Anyway, the gods are generally considered to be the oldest living things in their world (thought most, including some of the gods themselves, aren't sure of that). They all have a lot of control over various elements of the world, from very general things (oceans, fire) to very specific things (bobcats, moss)

The world isn't entirely magic, there is some scientific elements outside the gods control, but they mainly control most of it. Without them, a lot of that aspect would die out, and while the non-magical forces would keep it alive, it would never be able to flourish, and simply flounder on until a new god of that aspect is found.

Most gods are at least widely known. Some are given celebrity status like that of like Brad Pitt or Clint Eastwood, some have status like religious and/or political figures, like the Pope, others are usually just given some bit of recognition, still others prefer to keep to themselves, and a few have been seen by almost no human eyes.

Most of the gods have their own religions and churches around them, but almost everyone ever had prayed to at least one of them. If you pray to them, and they hear you, they will boost your power in some aspect (the one they are the god of) for an amount of time.

Their personalities usually reflect what aspect they are gods of. Almorte, god of death, tends to have a bleak demeanor and usually seems sad all the time, due to him sometimes taking the time to listen to the stories of people from the underworld. However, it can also be very joyful, as it loves listening to the lives the people led. Erodite, god of romantic love, is very passionate, dramatic, emotional, flirtatious, fiery, and, well, romantic. They can also be very relaxed, casual, caring, kind, and understanding. They tend to switch between these states a lot.

(I should also mention that the gods who fall under the range of attraction and types of love and stuff are very respectful to aces, aros, aplatonics, and the like ^^)

Erodite is actually one of the 'branched gods', or gods that exist as a more specific aspects of another god. Erodite, for example, is a branch of Amoris, goddess of love in general. Seloana (god of the oceans) and Limnoko (goddess of freshwater) are branches of Hydra (god of water). Branched gods are usually the (immortal) children of the god they are branches of, the immortal children of other gods, gods who came into existence simply by the concept of whatever they are gods of coming into existence as well (an uncommon occurrence nowadays, but it has happened) and very rarely a former mortal.

Gods can also have their immortality removed if they wish to live a normal life. It's a long, painful process developed by Laeh (goddess of medicine) and Pwertenza (god of power). The only qualifications needed to do this are if said god has another immortal lined up to replace them. It should be worth mentioning that the first few attempts at this resulted in the deaths of some gods, as an oversight on Laehs part led to those gods rapidly aging and then dying. They fixed this, however.

A mortal can also become IMmortal but this process is harder than having immortality removed.

Most former gods, despite usually trying to live a normal life, end up famous in some way or another, and a notable case of this is the war goddess Ivory (real name Krachta; nicknamed Ivory for her hair), who had her immortality removed when her son Ashwyn was born so she could live a normal life with him and her husband Iakopo. She actually ended up being murdered soon after. It was pretty sad.

Last thing, if the gods chose to have a family with a mortal, their children have a 1 in 2 chance of being immortal themselves, and said kids usually are very proficient in whatever aspect their parents control. If THOSE kids choose to have a family, their kids have a 1 in 4 chance of immortality, regardless of their parents mortality status, With more mortals added, it goes 1 in 8, 1 in 16, and so on. It also works in the opposite direction if those kids have families with immortals.

Hey it’s alright! You don’t gotta follow it! I’ve only really been posting about it sporadically for the past few months so it’s understandable

Anyway, ghost time!

For more general info about the spirit world, there IS a spirit world. It is not heaven, nor is it hell. It’s a VERY large pocket dimension (so more of a storage unit dimension) within the universe that hold all the souls of every person who has ever lived. Considering how many people that is, it is VERY large. It expands ever so slightly for every death that occurs. The god of death, Almorte, is the lord of this land.

There is also a spirit world for animals and plants, with their own gods. The former is like an endless plain of land filled with various biomes and climates for them to live in, the latter is like that but absolutely FULL of plant life.

Anyway, there’s no heaven or hell in the world, there is no money or government, it’s like an endlessly large city, with many many parks and stuff, along with an ocean area next to it for all the merfolk of the world. You don’t need money when you’re dead! The only difference is the colours are like our world but much more muted. The ghosts can basically do whatever they want.They can also choose whether or not to stay in the world of the living, and can basically go back and forth between the two if they wanna visit family and friends.

There is some rules regarding this though, if your visiting loved ones. It all depends on how your relationship was. If you were otherwise good to them or they thought well of you, you had endless visitation hours. However, if you were cruel to them in life or they think badly of you, you have a limited amount of time you can visit them.

Most of the ghosts also have some sort of marking for how they died. People who died of a heart attack have a broken heart mark on whatever side of their chest the heart was on, drowning victims are sopping wet all the time, burning victims are on some amount of fire, murder victims have some sort of permanent injury wherever the damage that caused their death was, and people who died of old age or natural causes don’t really have any markings, to name a few. Occasionally they don’t have a marking, whether it be because they died in some sort of bizarre way that didn’t spawn a marking, they died naturally, or they just ended up not getting one, somehow. I have a picture of how I imagine a ghost would look like, with an upcoming character of Auric Strangern, who is dead.

Almorte, as I mentioned in the post about it, frequently visits the dead, and listens to their stories. He likes to get to know what their lives were like. It’s interesting for it. The death gods can visit each other’s realms all the time btw. Haven’t figured out who rules over the dead animals or plants tho

oh the grandkid of the current king, who is halfway across the world, is rumored to have attacked some of her classmates? ok i guess thats bad or whatever. shes like 5 tho so we cant judge too hard

the current king just increased the tax rate to 25%? that sucks and is stupid. hopefully this will not create a situation in which two people are murdered, giving a backstory to two people in the future.

the current king found drowned in his pool? well thats bad or whatever

the crown prince of the country has been hospitalized. theres rumours his cousin stabbed him. ok

the taxes have been reduced back to 10%. thats better

the crown prince has dissappeared in the middle of the night. ok hope he gets back

the prince is back after 3 damn years. hallelujah

oh the uh. the king is dead again. a week after the prince returned. oh well

the new king. wants to go to war. with croatia.

croatia. a country halfway across the world. for no reason