#mageth

Celestials were horrible monstrosities with powerful magic that warps both the body and the mind in horrific ways. They roamed Mageth freely, tormenting faunans and causing everyone to fear pastel blue. That was until the Gods spurred the faunans to stand up for themselves, causing the Celestial War in which all of Mageth united against the common foe.

The war was a long and difficult one, but it ultimately ended in the faunans' favor: the Celestials were sealed inside their home dimension, the Celestial Plane, and at least two of them were actually killed in the conflict: the Burning Bear and the Cold Child. The feat of sealing away the Celestials once and for all was done by Arezon Ganeriel, widely considered the most powerful mage who ever lived.

This day, known as the Day of Victory, is what divides the BV (Before Victory) and AV (After Victory) eras of history. It also serves as the basis for the equivalent of New Year's Eve/Christmas, that being the Festival of Victory.

Just some facts I've put together that I wanted to get out of my system.

Mageth has two moons, the red Sula and the yellow Lasu. The Goddesses Mayla and Kirno are currently imprisoned in them for starting the Einkan Civil War as a form of divine grounding.

The Gods are generally chill people who respect each other and the free will of mortals, and will usually only step in if they feel like something is very, very wrong. Ysalia's Divine Intervention, in which the nature Goddess channeled her in Karen for the righteous cause of preventing faunans from polluting Mageth with fossil fuels, is an example of such.

Part of the reason Ysalia was able to convince faunans to give up on fossil fuels is that magical technology allowed things like solar power and wind power to be invented long before they were on Earth.

Putting your hand over your heart is a sign of respect, usually reserved for government officials.

On the flipside, officials being forcibly removed from power by the populace is not unheard of. "Forcibly removed" ranges in definition from "peacefully protesting until they stepped down" to "a bunch of people actually physically dragged them out of the government building." The former is more common, and the latter has only happened once, because the official in question was a lunatic who could have actually started a third Great War.

A symbolic form of love confession is to give your beloved seven items in the colors of the rainbow, as the rainbow was made as a gift from the Sun God Calwen to the Rain Goddess Melua. Replacing indigo with pink or turquoise is not uncommon.

Instead of black and white, couples typically wear light and dark purple at weddings.

Relatedly, "purple" is a slang term for cool, awesome, or neat.

The slang term "Stay fly" is either given as a well wish for the person to stay alive, or as a warning to remain constantly vigilant.

There's a sitcom about a large extended family living in the equivalent of rural east coast US that has been going on for long enough that the characters who were originally young children now have children of their own. It also went through a dark age and then came out of said dark age because it went on long enough that the people involved in causing said dark age left the show. This fictional sitcom is called "We're All Family" if you care.

One of Mageth's strangest and least-understood magic anomalies is the existence of Soul Weapons. When an individual is under extreme amounts of stress, typically a life-threatening situation, they have a chance to spontaneously create a Soul Weapon, either out of something they are already holding or out of thin air entirely. As the name implies, Soul Weapons are bound to an individual's soul and unique magic signature. Each Soul Weapon has a unique power, but all weapons share the ability to be summoned and un-summoned at will (think of it like the Gem weapons in Steven Universe), although where the Soul Weapons go when they are un-summoned is unknown. Soul Weapons are often given names by their wielders.

Let's take a look at an example. Maia Orthas created her Soul Weapon, the Iceshards, when she was cornered in an alleyway by a large crowd of thugs– just when things looked hopeless, a large amount of magical energy turned her two knives into the Iceshards. The special ability of this pair of knives allows Maia to pour her own magical energy into them to increase their sharpness and durability.

At one point in time, several militaries attempted to force their soldiers to develop Soul Weapons, but the World Council outlawed such research after many of the soldiers died.