five witch hunters followed the surviving witches to what would become atonement in the summer of 1693. all five were killed before the beginning of the autumn harvest, although not before they managed to find and hang four of the eleven surviving witches. their bodies are buried in white pine national forest and, as though to dig the knife deeper, the witches of atonement used their remains in blood-magic rituals to create and strengthen the borders around their home.
each witch hunter - henry hale, constance and joshua irons, gilead stoughton, and ezekiel finch - left family behind in salem and the surrounding communities. while some of their descendants understandably moved on from their bloody family history, many chose to embrace it - and as the witches of atonement left and continued their lineage elsewhere, witch hunters followed and, more often than not, found them.
in the centuries since, witchfinders have worked alone or in pairs, occasionally in small family units. they target witches living on their own or with human families, paying special attention to witches that fail to hide their magic as well as they might think. it had never been safe to approach atonement - infighting between witchfinders was always vicious, and they had never had a united front until semi-recently.
a social media post from last year - specifically a twitter video showing two young woman seeming to perform small magics at a bonfire on the beach during the summer farmers festival - drew all of their attention, however. some of the older witchfinders have been planning their trip to atonement for months, while even more of the younger and more reckless decided only recently that they should pay the witches a visit.
clairvoyants have the ability - or at least the potential - to discern information from the past, future, and alternate present. much like mediums, the scope of their abilities and their usefulness varies broadly; many clairvoyants find themselves reaching their true potential in old age, while younger clairvoyants tend to have limited or very narrow skill sets.
this branch of magic is almost always rooted in rituals. in the old days, small sacrifices - generally of chickens or goats, but occasionally the ritualistic burning of crops - were often performed, although few clairvoyants in the modern day find it necessary and will instead perform honorary or mock sacrifices in its place. this is, however, not to say that all witches are unwilling to perform ritualistic sacrifices.
clairvoyants also often find that items help channel their magic - cards, dowsing rods, runes, gemstones, tea leaves, and candles are used by various witches, sometimes several at once. however, clairvoyants that are strong enough to make a living off of their abilities will often choose to develop their skills with one specific type of tool.
their magic is perhaps the most maligned, misunderstood, and imitated in the outside world. atonement witches have seen a great many charlatans pass through their borders in the last three centuries. despite this, the clairvoyants of atonement warmly welcome any true witches that find their way to their ancestral home.
potential abilities, most to least common:
- precognitive dreaming (seeing glimpses of the future, past, or alternate through dreams)
- flash precognition (small, usually random visions of the future, past, or alternate present, generally lasting less than a minute)
- palmistry (general information derived from the study of one’s palms)
- object divination (the use of objects - cards, dowsing rods, etc - in fortunetelling)
- second sight (longer, fuller visions of the future, past, or alternate present, often clear enough that the seer is able to recall small details)
Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past month or so! The lovely admins of Sabbaths commissioned me for this skin and matching templates, and I had a wonderful time coding this. I genuinely really like how this all turned out! The skin will soon be live on the site, but you can follow their buzz here!
The skin is coded with the following:
Custom userlinks
Info bar under the header
Custom forums, statistics, topics, profiles, posts, mini profile, and member lists
Changing group colors
Switching avatar on both sides of posts with sticky/catching effect
Font and color variables for easy customization
Matching set of webpage, general posting, face claim, occupation claim, shipper application, threads, texting and calling, requests, development, and instagram templates.
here’s a great big preview of our skin! i’m comfortable reblogging this because the site is hurtling towards an opening day (we should have an actual date picked out by this evening).
i truly cannot say enough good things about ellie - her communication is fantastic and really regular (which was super important to me), she gave really thoughtful and useful feedback, and her patience with my goofy questions was honestly outstanding. i’m thrilled with the skin (it’s wild how similar it is to the skin in my brain when i started talking to her) but tbh i’m even more happy with the way i was able to interact with her. i can’t recommend her highly enough!
alias: crystal
pronouns / timezone: they/them / cst
favorite faces: naomi scott, sophie jonas, brie larson, jeon soyeon, bang chan, kit harington, kat mcnamara, kim doyeon, jung haerim, alia bhatt, kristen stewart, kang yeosang, kim hongjoong, jeon jungkook, deepika padukone, kim jongin, and many more. i have way too many faces that i love
what do you hope to see on sabbaths? a welcoming and inclusive community. lots of fun plots. meeting new people to write and have fun with
(optional, but fun!) what are you listening to lately? low-fi hip hop, k-pop, and indie bands
You guys have an awfully similar plot to a recent witch rp that opened up named Hexington, as the maker of that site I am quite affronted you had the nerve to create an unoriginal witches to taking specific bits of lore from my site such as having the witches found a town during the Salem witch trials and their council having 7 members AS WELL AS, having 3 coven families break off to rule the town as my site has, let your followers see the similarities for themselves on hexington jcink
you know what? this is some really clever guerrilla advertising. everybody go check out hexington and see the similarities!
Will the site focus around witches only or will there be other supernatural species at play as well? Be they npcs or playable
witches and humans are the only playable species! demons and ghosts will be npcs, as some witches can speak to the dead or (very covertly) summon demons.
favorite faces: ummm, I honestly don’t have a favorite. I just come up with a personality and history and then scroll through endless face claim directories until I find a face to fit said persona
what do you hope to see on sabbaths? dark horror , inclusive plots, site events that tell a story, ships that are natural and not forced, and of course, active people ❤️
what are you listening to lately? Seven Devils by Florence the Machine
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