#nexus asks

Hey there! So magic is like radiation--stay with me!

I am a science nerd, I like science and I applied science shit to magic in my world in order to treat magic in a way that doesn't make it science, and to me, I think it's best to treat it like a force in the universe rather than treating it like a method for a character to have examined, mastered and calculated around because magic becomes less magical when your characters can predict it.

SO in NeXus magic acts a force that is able to chaotically rearrange particles into other randomized particles, allowing it to make matter fluid the longer said matter is held in magic. Magic's counter balance is Gnosis which is a force that solidifies and keeps matter stable in opposition to magic.

People who can use magic are people who after many generations in their lineage, are genetically predisposed to absorb magical particles. Depending on where these particles settle in the body, this can inform the kind of powers you get, and as humans have evolved in history, people have developed different genetic pre-dispositions, making for a variety which is where get different magical classifications of people who are called archetypes.

When a lot of magic gathers in one place, that creates what is called Alchemy and it is the most unstable form of magic as it distorts particles altogether, Alchemy can only be stopped from gathering by using Gnosis which humans have also developed genetic dispositions to absorbing in their bodies.

If you as a person are more pre-disposed to having more magic in your body, you are what is called a bacchanalian. They are able to use magical abilities thanks to magic in your body that has warped your physiology and allowed you to use magical powers. If you are more pre-disposed to holding Gnosis in your body, you are a Warder. Warders are normal people who passively and unknowingly are able to project wards of Gnosis around them that negate the effects of magic and shield them from alchemy.

The more warders in an area there are, the less that magic works and the less chances that there's going to be alchemy present there. The more Bacchanalians there are, the less restrained magic is and the more chances that alchemy can form. With this in mind, alchemy is found more in unpopulated areas than it is in urban environments.

yeah hahahahaha nothing has happened yet but it will baby it will

Hey there! I'm gonna assume you are new to audio roleplay as a concept so excuse me as I tell you about it:

NeXus is a dramatic contemporary fantasy* audio roleplay series I created two years ago! It is a bit of a passion project for me that got my channel started and it is something I am proud to have made into what it is today!

*contemporary fantasy is a genre of work where magic is present within a setting similar to the one in which we as the audience exists. Examples of this are Percy Jackson franchise, 2010's The Sorcerer's Apprentice movie, and any magic-based comic in Marvel. It is also often used in paranormal romance books.

In this project you, the audience, inhabit the role of a "listener" who interacts with characters called "speakers". Each listener and speaker have their own storylines, and in NeXus, they are characterized around the world I have created where people with magical abilities blend in amongst other humans while navigating their personal lives, the politics of their world, and the supernatural forces that threaten it. NeXus weaves together character drama, mythology, mystery, tropes of the genre and paranormal romance as different characters romance, befriend, fight or die across the whole story.

NeXus is separated into different storylines that take place across the world with characters who are mainly voiced by me and guest VAs I have on the channel! It's also separated into different episodes that tackle those storylines one at a time through the characters established in them.

Across the board, NeXus is a piece of fiction that engages in themes of romance, race, identity, queerness, community, violence, politics and grief. It is mostly for my own indulgence and I created it to entertain myself and people like me who wanted representation and diversity in their stories!

NeXus includes stuff like vampires, werewolves, ghosts, assassins, magical schools, monsters you can befriend, superheroes, mafiosos, detectives and ancient creatures adjacent to gods.

pfft-you're not a creep for noticing things, hon. There's a word for that and we call it observant, keep being that, it lands you jobs if you know what you're doing!

You would be a creep if you started headcanoning things about me based on my work since that's weird and I'm a human being, not a fictional character, but in this instance you're all good!

To answer you question tho, there were! I deleted those playlists however because they made the playlist section of my channel harder to navigate and while I did love the concept, I value people being able to find their way to videos they wanna watch more.

BUUUUUT, I do have this WIP map of where all the NeXus storylines I've worked on take place. I have plans to go to more places if I can but we have to see where things go, I am very proud of the fact that NeXus is a wide story tho

hehe I mean that would be a fun AU but it actually would be around the mid 1800s, they're specifically timed to have existed in proximity to the American civil war because I am a sucker for historical romances and between Jericho, Uriah and Sherlock, I do love interrogating how identity intersected with their ability to live in those time periods as a "fuck you" to confederate vampires everywhere.

Is Uriah Creole or just from Louisiana and knows how to French/Cajun French?

I don't see why you're apologizing so (:P), I just like explaining why things are the way things are a lot, but to answer your question:

Uriah is from New Orleans and knows how to speak French and many other languages. He's fully African on both her mother and father's sides and simply learned other languages as a result of slavery and colonization's effects.