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Zenathia World Set

General Details

The universe has been called Zenathia by the CAA. Within the universe of Zenathia resides the main planet of inhabitants, and it goes by the same name

of Zenathia. This is where most known civilization resides, and live out their daily lives. Alternateively there are a number of various planes that are not part of

the main existence. These planes are different self contained areas, that can only be accessed by special methods. Each is it's own self contained existence.

This magickal documentation has been drafted by the CAA in an attempt to give everyone a working knowledge of the CAA, their organization, and

everything pertaining to our world. This entire set of magickal documents are for informational purposes only.

Zenathia consists of a collection of different civilized and uncivilized races living out their lives as they individually see fit.

General Details

The universe of Zenathia is built on the principles of Magick. Magick is everyone, in everything, and part of everyone. It is one of the main

cornerstones of Zenathian society. Magick can take many forms, and is found in many things. A variety of different races, and professions use Magick...some

are more powerful than others. Certain individuals are more adept at magick than others, but it is in everyone to an extent, even if certain people

are unable to use it directly it still runs through them.

At the forefront of all magickal knowledge, research, laws, and regulation is the Committee of the Ancient Arts, short-named CAA. It has been in existence

since the dawn of known civilization. For more details on this, please refer to the section entitled, "Committee of the Ancient Arts".

Zenathian culture relies on all forms of magick to survive, as such it has been broken down into a variety of schools, areas of studies, and fields by the

CAA throughout the history of magick.

This entire section entitled "Zenathia - Magick" is going to detail out all the different types of magick, sample spells and various other pieces of information that

have been documented by the CAA.

General Committee Details

The CAA are a very powerful organization that exist within their own plane. First let me describe a few details about the history of the CAA:

At the dawn of civilization their lived three siblings. There was 2 brothers by the name of Carseon and Carleon. Together with their sister Reilanda

they were the first founders of Magick. The siblings were ancient elves, and elves were at the forefront of all magickal knowledge. Civilization lived many thousands of years before ever realizing magick existed. People continued about their daily lives, until one day the siblings ran across a strange object that was buried deep within a cave they were exploring. That object was call the Stone of Immora. It was a dreaded ancient object, that none had known of at the time. The stone itself is described in detail under "Zenathia - Material Possessions". Once they had uncovered the stone, they gained insight into the magickal world. For many years they studied the arts of magick and their newfound knowledge together. They created many books on the subject. After many years they started reaching their height of power. They had trained many outsiders into the art of Magick, and the entire theories behind magickal existence and it's uses was starting to become widely known. At that time their were many very powerful villains who had taken advantage of their knew found knowledge. Within that time, the discovery of many ancient gateways, and other portals that lead to various planes of existence that none had known existed before. Places that were later called "Planes". They were all self-contained areas that each had their own properties, and general laws. People had uncovered planes made of pure fire, some of pure water, some of even stranger elements or strange creatures they had never seen, or known before.

After many months of Extensive thought, the three siblings got together and decided to create an organization to help regulate all matters pertaining to magick.

This was the dawn of civilized magickal usage. They realized that the magickal knowledge which they started to teach was becoming too wide spread to

control...previously magick had never even been known to exist, and within a matter of months almost every one that was any one had extensive spell books

and had started their own versions of researching and studying within the magickal arts. It was a new frontier for civilization. Within months they had amassed a small army of magick users and together, with the Stone of Immora they created their own plane of existence. They dubbed this plane, the plane of magick. It was to be their main base of operations, and their headquarters. Together with the stone, they created a complex multi level castle and loaded it with all

forms of magickal defense. Together the siblings started gathering staff for various department of their headquarters, to govern various areas of magick.

Time continued to go, and the CAA continued to evolve, until it got to a point where it started realizing the the use of magick was almost unstoppable. They

realized that there was not one single thing within the world of Zenathia that was not possible without the right knowledge of magick. They realized that this

was a terrible thing, and something had to be done to start regulating magickal research, and what magicks can be performed. The first

thing they did at that point was implement a timeline. They had the knowledge, and using powerful scrying magick were able to determine the age of their

planet. Their planet was a total of 43,000,000 years old. Using that knowledge, they decided to start their local calendars at the date the CAA was formed.

So the first day the CAA was formed, would be considered year 1. The first year of civilized magick. From their, time would count up indefinitely, in their

time table. They were using this timeline to decide the rate of growth for civilization and start managing everything. During this time standard calendars,

and dated formats were created, and this revolutionized all of known society.

From that timeline, within the year 23 they decided to implement a series of laws to help govern magickal usage and research. During the year 23 is when they

first started drafting the first set of magickal laws. It took them around 50 years, to be able to totally draft the first laws, and start getting them implemented. The laws were created by Magick, so systems were implemented to help them track the breaking of these laws, to a small extent. The laws however, went far beyond the standard use of magick. They attempted to be overseers of the entirely of Zenathia, and act as a one world government. They wanted control

every aspect of magickal, and non-magickal life. Albeit their methods were good and just, they received a lot of difficulty dealing with the members of Zenathia who did not like the idea of being controlled, even in the slightest. Before the CAA came along every single civilization and race had their own basic governments and rules, and then even deeper every single individual city and settlement dealt with their own type of judgement, and justice, and had their own

set of local laws that had to be obeyed. The laws and all of their specifics are detailed in their respective sections within "Zenathia - Committee of the Ancient Arts" section.

Bow of Vensenthia

A magical bow and arrow set.

The bow is enchanted with scrying spells and future divination. The bow has a switch that allows you to turn off the divination magick.

It restricts the flow of magick from the bow to the arrow base. When it's active, the bow will pin point the current target that it's facing, and then using

divination/scrying magick it will plot out a few possible futures. Then using a magickal algorithm it depends which future has the highest probability, based off

the position the arrow is pointed, and the targets current mind set patterns. Right before the arrow is released, the bow transmit the magick via signals to the base of the arrow, then it uses that information to pinpoint trajectory and velocity. It's also able to nudge it left, right, up, or down using movable parts at the

base of the arrow shaft. Each arrow also has a mini-pocket of air that can give it a slight range boost, when it identifies a situation that needs a boost. Each

arrow only has one pocket of air, and is generally only used when the target is trying to run away, or when the archer ends up falling too short of the target.
Again, this feature is deactivated when the divination/scrying magick is turned off.

The arrows also have an additional property. Each arrow head contains baseless magick (still thinking of a good name for it). Baseless magick is magick

that does not have a specific magickal property, but it's heavily magickal in nature. The baseless magick automatically assumes the form of whatever magick is cast on it, or near it. This allows the archer to change out the nature of the arrows, with just a specific spell. It works with practically any spell, but some are more restrictive than others. Fire spells will light the arrow head on fire, or cause intense heat. Ice spells will freeze the target, or just cause extreme cold burns.

Poison spells, will cause poison arrows. Specialty spells can be triggers as well. For example, if there is a spell that raises dead and it's cast into the arrow head, and then the arrow hits a target that is dead, it would raise that creature from the dead, just as if you cast a necromantic spell onto the enemy.

Stone of Immora

The Stone of Immora was a terribly powerful stone that has existed since the dawn of time. It was an ancient item discovered by the three founders

of the CAA. The powers within the stone were never uncovered completely, but it was what gave the original knowledge of magickal existence to the

three siblings. Once they formed the CAA and created their plane of existence, they locked the Stone of Immora deep within their CAA headquarters and

guarded it against all who would seek to take it from them.

Random Unimplemented Ideas

1. Ships have the ability to teleport, when they are magickally created to do so. Certain ships can teleport into different areas of water, and has magick to

detect the level of water in any given area. Just other magickal adjustments to ships and boats. Can also switch between realms, and auto-detect

whether water is present or not within that area before completing the teleport.

Humans

Elves

Dwarfs

Gnomes

CAA Laws

The CAA has developed an intricate network of magickal, and non-magickal laws that are not meant to be broken. When laws are broken,

punishments are given out based on the severity of the crimes. Certain laws are also tagged with certain types of scrying magick, to allow the

CAA to identify and locate people who are breaking the law. These scrying spells work loosely and don't identify transgressions in every single

way, it just serves as a basic monitor for obvious violations of the law.

The law basically touches on a variety of different types of magick that are considered forbidden, and highly dangerous. There are also certain rules

and regulations set aside for the study of new types of magick, and having to report certain types of research findings to the CAA depending on the

nature of the research, and the type of result findings. Occasionally when major things are done throughout history the CAA will draft

and change laws as they see fit to make sure everything within Zenathia continues to run appropriately. The scrying spells are basic information gathering

spells that monitor the world randomly for infractions of the law. Sometimes they are able to pick up basic details when one of their laws are broken

and send them necessary information to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

Departments

The CAA is split up into various different departments. Each department overseeing it's own area of focus.

Forbidden Magick

Forbidden magick, is magick that is outlawed by the CAA. It has all been dubbed together under one school called Forbidden Magick. It's

the practice of any magickal arts that are considered to be overly dangerous, or can substantial contribute to teh downfall of society. If one

wizard held access to all forbidden arts, then they would be indestructible to all standard means. The laws against Forbidden Magick are put in place

to attempt to cut back on how many magick users are able to delve into that deep of dark magicks.

Forbidden magick encompasses pretty much anything that is marked as forbidden.

Just to give a few examples...

One spell involves magick from the school of Necromancy, and the school of summoning. This specific spell is used to summon "Death" itself. Once Death

is summoned then Death can be applied to a specific target, or group of targets. The amount of targets that can be applied is directly relevant to how much magickal drain the caster can handle. The largest recorded number ever achieved at once, was 6. Once this is done, Death is released from the spell, and sent immediately to destroy the intended targets. This target is almost 100% accurate and succeeds almost every single time, with very few exceptions. Thus, because of the danger behind this powerful of a spell it is considered forbidden.

Another example, a spell called Angel Binding. This spell uses Summoning and Restoration magick together to summon an angel. Once summoned, the angel is bound to this world, for a specific period of time. Once the binding is complete, about 9 times out of 10 the angel is in a position at that point to grant one magickal affect on the caster. This affect will grant the caster one wish of divine intervention...that is only restricted by a few key rules. If the Angel doesn't agree to the wish granting, then within that period of time, the angel dies. If the angel dies, then death comes to claim the angel, considering that it was tainted by dark magick, at this time death will generally agree to one wish for the caster. Either way, the caster wins, and this is very dark magick...and is also considered to be, forbidden.

There are many, many spells and affects that are considered forbidden...and anytime specific types of magick are found that are extremely dangerous, they are added to the list of forbidden magick, and the casters are punished...sometimes severely depending on the spells.

Types of Magick

Magick is a very powerful and all changing energy. When the CAA was first formed, magick was very sporadic and hard to understand. The CAA's first order

of business was the work towards classifying and documenting different types of magick. So the CAA set about the differentiate between different types

of magick and formed most, if not all, of magick into specific types and sub types. They are described below.

Magickal Types

Magick is broken up into several types of magick, and each type is handled, chronicled, and cast differently. Some magick is not cast at all, and simply

exists to fulfill it's specific purpose.

Structured Magick

The main classification for most magick falls into the Structured Magick. This involves Magick that has been officially classified into specific "schools" of Magick, or study. The main structured magick schools are restoration, divination, summoning, illusion, and mysticism.

Restricted Magick

Restricted magick is magick that requires a permit to use. Similar to structured magick, it has it's own schools related to it. The Restricted magick schools are Necromancy, Geomancy, Shadowmancy, and Blood Magick. These types of magick are not forbidden (at least at their core), because of the very nature of it's study. However, because of the danger involved in these specific schools, they require a school specific permit to study, teach, or use that specific school of magick. Certain permits put restrictions on usage, meaning they can only cast a certain amount of magick within that school within a given time, while others are bound to only cast it in certain areas. Alternatively, there are some that have an open permit to cast the school as they see fit, with the exception of magick that would fall within the Forbidden type.

Universal Magick

Any magick that is considered "Structured" magick, but cannot be allocated into a specific school alone, is classified as "Universal Magick". It's magick that has affects that span across multiple schools. More advanced spells may not always stay within one specific school, and some spells have multi-parts to them that put them outside of the original structured magick. These spells are still considered legal, because they use a combination of structured magicks to achieve their desired result.

Baseless Magick

This is Magick that is not based on a specific type of magick. It's a type of innate Magick that takes the form of whatever magick is cast around it, or onto it.

Chaotic Magick

Magick that is uncontrollable. Generally it's left over after major magickal confrontations, or when something that has an insane amount of magickal power. It

generally means that the natural magick within a given area has been corrupted, and magick that normally would have specific affects are not made sporadic.

The theory behind it is pretty sound. When an area has "Chaotic Magick", and any type of magick is cast...the magick that is cast generally will trigger the

resulting spell, or group of spells that was intended. However, when in a chaotic magick zone, the "area" doesn't know how to respond. The magickal

aura within taht area isn't stable enough to "understand" what effect you want to happen, and make it happen. So instead it takes the magick as baseless magick right off the bad, and then enters a random magickal property into it, changing the result of the magick entirely. In short, it makes any magick

cast within it's bounds be transformed into baseless magick, and then embued with whatever random magickal affect that generates automatically at

that time by the chaotic magick. Chaotic magick has also been known to randomly cast strange spells, and sometimes even be affected by outside forces as to what kind of random spells they cast. How this is achieved is unknown, and forbidden.

Divine Magick

This is magick that isn't cast directly by the magick user, or an item, or anything. This is magick that is cast by some form of deity, through someone. So

these types of magick are generally not limited in their power, even by home much the magick user is able to handle. Since the magick user only

acts as a channeler while the divine entity casts whatever spells were needed. This type of magick is generally rare, and are only really granted to their specific followers that are very devout, except under specific situations. Divine Magickally generally requires for the caster to be aware of what is happening, and allow the Deity to cast through them, there are some known situations where a Deity has forced their way through a casting, but this is rare and generally only under

certain circumstances (perhaps the caster is on the brink of death and the specific deity they serve want to step in and help for some reason, or similar

situations.

Forbidden Magick

Magick that is not allowed to be performed, and is against the rules of the CAA. Severe penalties are put in place for anyone who is caught using forbidden

magick, except a select few individuals. Some people surpass the law, and can use Forbidden magick freely, but this situation is very rare, and only certain

individuals for certain reasons. It depends on the types of Forbidden magick that was used, and for what purpose.

Unclassified Magick

The universe of Zenathia has so much magick, that it's hard to classify it all. There are some cultures that have their own culture specific types of magick, that don't fall under any CAA magick types. These types are all considered unclassified magick. Just because it's unclassified doesn't necessarily mean it's forbidden. There are a lot of situations where the magick is just not something that falls within a standard magickal classification, and in some situations are types of magick that the CAA has not even encountered before. All magicks of this type are automatically marked as "Unclassified".

Structured Magick

Below each of the schools of magick are listed below, and given a brief description of that specific school. Below that, the restricted schools are listed

with a brief description of each.

Restoration: Healing, protective, and supportive magick. Pretty much all the spells needed by someone who is in the arts of healing or helping people.

Divination: Magick pertaining to gathering information. Scrying, future reading, fortune telling, or finding hidden things.

Summoning: Magick pertaining to summoning creatuers, people, or things.

Illusion: Short named, "Fake Magick". It is magick that causes people to see, hear, and experience things that are not real, or are not really happening. It is

meant to fool the mind in various ways. Also all areas of conjuration are considered illusion magick. Since conjuration things is all in teh mind, and a figment

of the imagination. In regards to conjuring creatures and items, it differs from summoning, in conjured creatures are not real. They are only created to make

the person think they are real, and that they are really there, when in reality they are not.

Mysticism: Spells pertaining to effects. Breathing underwater, walking on water, swimming faster, opening locks, casting attack spells like fire, wind, water,

storm, earth, or other elemental attack spells. Mysticism is one of the most diverse schools since it deals with pretty much anything that isn't directly classified in one of the other main schools of magick. Also things like curses, hexes, and other types of magick.

Restricted Magick

Below are the types of Magick that require a permit for their usage.

Necromancy

The art of magick pertaining to the dead.

Geomancy

Magick that pertains to all the natural elements of Zenathia. Obviously elemental attack magick is found quite heavily in the mysticism school of magick, but

Geomancy is an entirely different things. It is an entire devotion, and magick done by Geomancers is not done with their own direct power. Each one is

alloted a certain amount of power depending on their devotion to the elements, and to Zenathia as a whole. it's almost a spiritual thing. Someone can't just pick up Geomancy overnight and start casting geomancy spells. They require time to become one with Zenathia, and begin a very strong relationship with the elements. Zenathia is what bestows the powers until a Geomancer directly, so the geomancy has to have a strong emotional bond with nature. The stronger

that bond, the more likely Zenathia will be to grant power to the Geomancer at the time of the spell casting. HIgh power Geomancers are able to cast spells that would would astound your average magick user of another class. It takes a lot of devotion and focus to pronounce yourself Geomancer. Someone who

attempts to become a Geomancer or tap into Geomancy arts without having the proper focus, are punished severely by Zenathia.

Shadowmancy

Magick pertaining to the use and control of shadows. It allows the caster to change and move shadows around, and generate shadow beasts and change them into different things. It also allows them to attach spells to specific shadows, and use shadows to their advantage. Also allows them to do varous other things as well. Shadowmancy casters also have specialty spells that give them great power. For example...a shadowmancer has the ability to bind his soul into

his shadow. This is a fairly easy spell to cast, and can be done so in the span of 10-15 minutes. This allows the shadowmancer to resurrect himself right after dying by sending his soul back from his shadow to his body again. Other such spells exist as well.

Blood Magick

The use of blood to power magick. Generally Blood magick users also study a great deal of restoration magick, as it allows them to heal their own wounds and gives them a more ample supply of magick. There are certain good restoration spells that deal with restoring someones lost blood, that help blood mages

to use their own abilities better.

Casting Methods

Magick can be cast in different ways. There are also certain things that can enhance magickal abilities, and make casting easier, faster, and stronger.

Before I can go into detail on the different types of casting, it's important for one to understand the basics of magickal casting, and the affects it has on the body. Any time magick is cast, it has an affect on the body and mind. As a caster casts Magick it causes the person who is doing the casting to get drained

both mentally and physically. The more magick they cast, and the more intense the spells the more of a mental/physical affect it has. The mental/physical affect is always there to an extent no matter how you cast, or what you use to cast. Even using methods that take some of the strain off, it's still you casting

the spell. So no matter what a magick caster cannot cast any type of spell without the associated mental and physical drain.

The mental affects are laziness, mental weakness, and headaches. Severe prolonged casting, or casting much more than your body is use to handling can eventually lead to extremely painful migraine headaches, and in some situations intense bleeding from the nose and sometimes even the mouth, ears or eyes. Generally someone will not be able to "cast until they die" because their body will get to a certain point where it can withstand no more, and at that point

the body itself will shut down the the person will lapse into unconsciousness...although there have been multiple situations where someone has died from the mental drain.

The physical affects are pain throughout the body, and intense feeling of weariness. Mental and physical affects of casting magick are always present. These limits can also be extended, and in a very experiences or extremely powerful caster, they can seem almost non existent for any basic or intermediate spells. But there comes a time when the magickal drain will wear down even the most powerful magick user. As time goes on and they get better mastery of magick, they are able to cast without as much drain. A magick user who just starts and tries to cast one ultra powerful spell will feel a LOT worse affects than if they tried to cast a lighter spell. This is just the nature of magick, and how it works.

Now that I have explained the standard affects of casting, let me continue. In general the most basic form of casting is standard casting. This involves someone casting a spell with but a thought, or movement. That's it. Sometimes casting is done with words. More often than not, they are done with a

combination of thoughts, movements, and words all together. It depends on the caster, the type of magick they are casting, the specific affects the want, and thousands of other factors that cannot be explained in mere small document.

Beyond basic casting, thigns can be more advanced. There are things that can aid in casting, while others can replace standard normal casting techniques. First let's discuss a few casting aids..things which make casting easier, less draining, and more powerful.

The first few I want to discuss are wands, staffs, and ingredients. Wands, and Staffs make casting easier across the board. Since any standard Magick wand

is built to channel magick easier...that it makes the drain less on the caster, it makes the spells stronger, and the duration longer lasting. Wands do

the same thing, they simply enhance casting. Ingredients are a big part of magick. It gets to a point where a lot of spells actually require ingredients to make them manageable...this is the wonderful thing about magick. Most spells can be cast in a variety of different ways. For example a specific spell may be able to be casted using standard works and casting techniques, but it might be so draining that it would be insane for a standard magick caster to even try and take that kind of drain. So instead, certain ingredients can be put into play that will allow the magick to be cast, but the ingredient to be used to take some of the strain.

With all of that being said, there is something very important to keep in mind...some magick and types of magick has to be cast in a specific way. That is the

hard part for most magick users to understand. This is just subject to the magick attempted to be cast, and what the intended affect is.

Now that all of that is explained, I will explain about two primary type of casting aids as pertaining to magick.

Rune Magick is another wonderful aid to magick users...but it's not as much a casting aid, as it is a type of magick. It's got it's own field called Rune Magick,

but it's not got it's on types of spells, and associated affects. In essence, Rune magick can relate to pretty much any type of magick imaginable, even forbidden magick. Rune Magick simply means using runes and symbols to achieve magickal results. There are other types of specialized way to cast spells. Casters sometimes use rune magick. When Rune Magick is used, runes are placed into the ground, or on something, then a spell is cast, which channels from the rune. This is especially useful for certain types of magick, like putting up a protective ward using a rune. It's dramatically different. If a caster uses a restoration spell for creating a barrier, and then leaves. The barrier spell stays in place, but that's it. Once cast, it is done being cast. It eventually (shortly) runs out, and doesn't refresh itself when taking damage. However if that same caster sets up a magickal rune and casts the spell via the rune, then not only does the focal point of the spell stay in place (no different htan the caster standing their) but the runes can be configured to continue to cast magick even as time goes on. Then the magick is already cast into the room, and it can continue to cast the same spell every specific amount of time. This isn't invincible, but it's considerably more affecting that the raw shield spell. Different types of runes are more affective than others, and specialty runes exist as well.

Book Magick: This is magick that has been embued into a book, and can be cast straight from the book. This allow Magick Users to cast spells that are sometimes way beyond their means. Book magick can be cast in two ways. The first way is when someone just reads a spell and follow the instructions in

the book on casting it. In this situation the book just serves as a book of information telling them how to cast spells. These are considered "Fake Magick Books"
by some casters. The other type is true Grimoire magick books. These books have the spells/magick ingrained into the page of the book itself..so when the caster is holding the book they can just follow the steps in the book to complete the spell, but the book itself is what casts the spell. This still taxes

the caster to an extent, since they are the ones still casting the spell but nowhere near as badly as if they were casting the entire spell with the full blunt of their body.

School specific types of casting: Some types of magick use different requirements to cast, that aren't relevant in other areas of magickal study. For example..blood magick obviously uses blood, and necromancy uses death. These situations are school specific, but are good examples of the diversity that is found within magick.

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Zenathia World Set

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General Committee Details

Bow of Vensenthia

Stone of Immora

Random Unimplemented Ideas

Humans

Elves

Dwarfs

Gnomes

CAA Laws

Departments

Forbidden Magick

Types of Magick

Casting Methods

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