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Arcana of the World

Sky Domain

  • High Transitory
  • Intuitive
  • Wood × Air » Water
  • Wood, Light, Air, Rain, Water
  • Casters: Druid/Bard

Associated with weather, divination, astrology, dowsing.

Folk

Skyfolk physical attributes become adapted to their habitat, feathers for sky, scales for sea.

Air-charged Skyfolk resemble angels, celestials, and sylphs.

Water-charged Skyfolk, also called Seafolk, resemble merfolk, undines, nereids, and naiads.

Magic

The Sky Domain is all about knowing and guiding the natural cycles of magic flowing through the world.

Divining answers comes from observing, creating magical effects comes from moving and arranging physical objects that change the natural flows. They may also learn other methods of guiding flows, e.g. music.

Humans who practice Skymagic must learn to understand or manipulate magical flows Skyfolk by observing their effects on the world around them.

Sward Domain

  • Falling Absorptive
  • Rational
  • Earth × Water » Wood
  • Earth, Soil, Water, Leaf, Wood
  • Casters: Witch/Ranger

Associated with life and growth, augmentation, enhancement.

Folk

Swardfolk take on the attributes and powers of other living things.

Water-charged Swardfolk, also called Beastfolk, resemble therianthropes, fauns, satyrs, and taurs.

Wood-charged Swardfolk, also called Treefolk, resemble treants and dryads.

Magic

The Sward Domain is all about absorbing magical energies into oneself, infusing them into others or into familiar spirits.

Humans who practice Swardmagic use augury, herblore, and witchcraft.

Swamp Domain

  • Falling Emissive
  • Intuitive
  • Metal × Wood » Earth
  • Metal, Death, Wood, Decay, Earth
  • Casters: Wizard/Necromancer

Associated with death, decay, atrophy, recycling, repurposing.

Folk

Swampfolk may be evocative of the undead, but are not actually undead. They can feed on living energy.

Wood-charged Swampfolk resemble curupira and baba yaga.

Earth-charged Swampfolk resemble trolls.

Magic

The Swamp Domain is all about leeching magical energies out of living things or collecting, transforming, and repurposing spent magical energies.

Humans who practice Swampmagic release stored magic from living things.

Stone Domain

  • Low Transitory
  • Rational
  • Fire × Earth » Metal
  • Fire, Heat, Earth, Ore, Metal
  • Casters: Alchemist/Artificer

Associated with industry, development, law, and order.

Folk

Stonefolk are the various subterranean folks.

Earth-charged Stonefolk resemble gnomes.

Metal-charged Stonefolk resemble kobolds, goblins, and gremlins.

Magic

The Stone Domain is about understanding and invoking magical rules.

Humans who practice Stonemagic create magical devices from metal, crystals, and gems and create alchemic potions.

Spark Domain

  • Rising Absorptive
  • Intuitive
  • Air × Metal » Fire
  • Air, Fuel, Metal, Flash, Fire
  • Casters: Cleric/Enchanter

Associated with machinery, clockwork, and artifice.

Folk

Sparkfolk are incorporeal spirits that cannot interact with the physical world without inhabiting some physical substance. They cannot inhabit living things.

Metal-charged Sparkfolk resemble golems, and clockwork automatons.

Fire-charged Sparkfolk resemble gargoyles.

Magic

The Spark Domain is all about imbuing physical objects with magical energy.

Humans who practice Sparkmagic use prayer and meditation to bind magical energy to objects.

Smokemagic

  • Rising Emissive
  • Rational
  • Water × Fire » Air
  • Fire, Steam, Smoke, Wind, Air
  • Casters: Sorcerer/Warlock

Associated with shapeshifting, illusion, transfiguration – transactional, based on contract and arcane rules.

Folk

Smokefolk are naturally non-corporeal. They can create varying physical forms for themselves or inhabit physical objects.

Fire-charged Smokefolk resemble demons, devils and imps.

Air-charged Smokefolk resemble fae and spirits.

Magic

The Smoke Domain is all about releasing the magic that naturally builds up within inanimate objects of like affinity.

Humans who practice Smokemagic might make a pact with a Smokefolk and allow them to inhabit their bodies, or they might learn to invoke stored magic by learning and harnessing the power of true names.


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