#viesn

As I saw this I felt like just... going to help out with how magic works in my worlds in a simple way.

Viesn

Gained by study - how to access the latent magic of the world, how to manipulate said magic - but still with extreme variation in practice, execution, and what it does

Use Limitations: Cannot resurrect a person, cannot change the past. Laws.

Ability Limitations: Imagination, knowledge, misfires can be extremely dangerous.

Magic is a science, not fully understood but in process of being mapped, and a part of nature

While magic and magical beings exist everywhere, a combination of them being on both sides and knowledge about these things have caused the world to turn out very similar to our modern day world - history have key differences due to them, but nothing that dramatically changes the world

Magic is still largely out of sight out of mind by people who have not had first-hand experiences with it

Trys

Gained from their deities, anthropomorphic personifications of concepts

Use Limitations: Cannot resurrect a person, cannot change the past, limited to their concepts

Ability Limitations: Mainly cultural, knowledge

Just a thought... Browsed the world building tag and saw a post that made me think abut this.

What species can or cannot go vegetarian or vegan?

Vampires can’t. They must consume human blood to survive. While they theoretically can consume animal blood, it makes them more animal-like, which is not a good idea in the long run. They can consume coconut, but it is not filling enough for them to survive on it.

Werewolves can’t. They are built to be carnivores and require a diet very similar to dogs - on the other hand they can eat fruit and greens dogs shouldn’t. Turned Werewolves can't either - but they need to consume much less meat to survive. Chocolate is poisonous to both turned and born werewolves.

Demons can. They are very similar to humans in diet if you ignore the fact that they can replace eating entirely with consuming souls if they need to eat at all (most of the most powerful don’t need to).

Faerie can. Their foods are largely based on fruit, nuts, berries, etc. naturally either way. They just don’t, as even if they don’t consume meat of the Nevernever, few cares at all about creatures and people from the mortal realm.

Most dragon species can’t on behalf of being nearly exclusively carnivores, but some are herbivores or have more odd diets.

Nightmares can’t as they must feed upon mortals to survive.

Okay I actually have word I managed to do this well-developed despite just writing from the top of my head and making shit up as I go...

Well, I’ll let you guys judge if it’s the case.

Mad wolves are werewolves who have gone wrong.

We can liken the werewolves of Viesn to an old myth where an old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Werewolves have their distinct pack living complete with  open acceptance of all sort of people for a reason - they feed the good wolf of their nature alongside their general boisterous nature, pack rivalries and territories. And then there are mad wolves who are feral, violent, man-eating and very aggressive, having fed the evil wolf in their nature too much.

They have their society of open acceptance built to feed the good wolf as to not become mad wolves, to some degree.

Getting around to posting the second pre-prepared entry.

Anostus is a small uninhabited (by humanoids) island near the border of Spain and Morocco, and has two rivers running through it - the Grief River and the Pleasure River. The rivers go through a forest each, that grow fruits taking the properties of the rivers.

Grief Trees rarely grow taller than two meters high, with blank trunks and white leaves. The fruit have visible similarities to apple’s, aside from being either black as ink or white as driven snow. If a Grief fruit is eaten, the person who ate it would spend the rest of life and grief and so die.

Pleasure Trees can grow to enormous sizes, and have streaks of bright colour in their white trunks, and black leaves. The fruits have visible similarities to strawberries aside from the fact that they grow on trees and comes in every colour of the rainbow, in all different shades. If a Pleasure fruit is eaten, the person who ate it would be freed from their desires, forget their loved ones, and then in a short time get younger and younger until they die as a baby.

To drink from the respective rivers would cause the same effect, condensed into an hour.

There are no other kinds of trees or fruits on the island, but massive amounts of Galaxy Flowers, Beautiful Mercy, Moly, and both Common and Poisonous Drakeflower grow in it’s grass.

Dragons live on the island, mainly the species who prefer isolation and can cover large distances easily to hunt, because very little fauna survives on this island, mainly being home to birds and a species of bear known as the Anostus bear. This bear is entirely grey scale, and lives on fish and seawater. It is also small, no taller than 150 centimeters when standing on their hind legs.

I worked up a few entries. Like, three, at the point of posting this - this one and two more. I’d work out more but I have one more hour before I need to leave the computer, so I cannot.

Aglaura is a colourless city without character, long since abandoned some miles west of Rio de Janeiro. Once upon a time, it moved with the people who lived in it, but that time has long since gone, and it’s people has died out or abandoned it. While the exact cause of its abandonment is uncertain due to the city itself causing conflicting stories about those events, the magic in the city still lingers.

At certain hours, mainly at dawn and sunset but also at a few other select hours of each day, along certain streets, those whose air is especially heavy with magic, travelers can see the hint of something unmistakable, rare, and magnificent, but no one can speak of what they see, nor can they speak any truths about the city. The city is trying to recreate it’s glory days with the magic that is keeping it borderline sentient, at the hours when its magic is at it’s strongest.

Last pre-written entry. I’ll try to write more today or tomorrow.

Also known as Basilia, it is a small island whose size has been vastly exaggerated by the few who has landed on it. The island is also known as the Amber Island, as the waves casts up great quantities of amer upon its shores, causing said shores being covered with amber. It is located in the Baltic Sea, between the Swedish island Gotland and Latvia.

Let’s use my reblog spree yesterday as a way to start this off (not planned but this works).

Magic is a wonderful thing in Viesn. It is a way of life in Hy-Brasil, where most of my inspiration from yesterdays reblogs goes into. But it is also not necessary a good thing, and it is not always a safe thing to deal in...

Blood oaths is something that is greatly discouraged by both the Hunter Society and every magical community of Viesn, and while not strictly illegal to swear one it is very illegal to be sworn one. It is also a reliable way to ensure a bargain or deal between two people are held, to ensure loyalty, and/or to ensure nobody lies.

A blood oath is a magical oath sealed by blood, a simple form of Ritual magic, that binds the one making the oath to fulfilling it using that person's magic and life as collateral. If an oath to do something is not fulfilled, the person who failed dies and the magic is passed on to the other person or persons using the oath. If an oath to not lie is broken, the liar dies and the magic within them becomes a part of the one they lied to. If an oath to serve is broken by disobedience, the servant dies and their magic becomes a part of the location. You do not need to swear the oath of our own free will to be bound by it.

There is two other things a blood oath can do that is not illegal that does require both parties swearing the oath and do so out of their free will, namely to become siblings in all but biological matter, or marry through magic.