#arcane realm

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In the realm of Arcane, where magic thrives, A sorcerer's apprentice, young and alive, Experienced a life-changing event, a shift. Within the twilight, he saw the light, His master's spirit, guiding him through the night, Transcending time, their bond unbroken, In magic's embrace, they were awoken.

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Drawing of a Hauflin Woman

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Another mermaid from my fantasy world project, Arcane Realm. On the left is the mermaid underwater and the right, on land.

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Brief History of Kaf

Antiquity

The beginning of Kaf entails the Djinn who arrived in the planet terraforming it using Earth life the souls of deceased animals. Adjustments from the original plans lead to the propagation of other lifeforms including spirits like Deities, Magifauna, Magiflora, and Faye. With the later introduction of various human species via random portals, the various species live in a world similar to a standard fantasy setting.

Ghulat Wars

A rival faction of jinn known as Shaytan invade the planet to subjugate its people and acquire their resources. The native Kaf races retaliate by joining forces, rapidly increasing in technology, and creating a base on the moon for off world R&D. The following millennia would be an arms race against the native population versus the invaders and demons swapped from corrupted spirits. Eventually the native population is able to exterminate the invaders but at the heavy cost of environmental degradation and famine due to their global war causing mineral resource and fossil fuel exhaustion and runaway climate change. Ultimately, civilizations all over the world collapse, many species including sapient ones go into extinction or are forced to be survivalists, and many deities decide to leave the world.

Modernity

Nature begins to reclaim the ruins of civilization world with most of the surviving or new peoples continue their subsistence lifestyles through foraging or live in small scattered settlements. As more natural environments rebound and recover from the global war, the remaining peoples travel the world and ruins to find remains of previous technology and history. As most of the world's fossil fuels are depleted, these technological artifacts are remade to use renewable resources or inspire new technology. Slowly urban centers focused on renewable energy and working with the natural environment instead of exploiting it begin to take form as acropolises and tree top cities.

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Sketch about some creatures I made up for my Arcane Realm project

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Spotlight: Featured Wiki Posts

Continuing from my post about the wiki I made for my personal project: http://jdtcreates.tiddlyspace.com/. Staring Monday, I will post a featured link to articles on the site. This will give me incentive to fix up some off the older ones, as well as introduce followers to some interesting lore. 

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Spotlight: Arcane Realm Wiki

Those of you following likely know that the Arcane Realm project is my constructed world effort as a fantasy setting with paranormal and sci fi elements.

 I’ve been working on a wiki that features lore behind the Arcane Realm world, and how the inhabitants and others live in and how different factions, flora, fauna and culture have affect on one another.

I not fully set in what the Arcane Realm will become, it could be an anthology of short stories, a graphic novel series, a video game world, or even an an animated series. Any of those options are possible, especially if I ever got approached to turn it into a franchise. For now though, I'm content with updating the content of the wiki, as well as drawing character art and the occasional short stories. Soon I hope to have the time to draw short comic panels or pages as sequential art is one of my favorite media.

In an upcoming post, I will also mention how I will set up ways that people interested in my project can help contribute via fan content. I’m still new to many features on tiddly-space so if anyone is knowledge, I would appreciate tips (especially on how to insert images or constructing info-boxes).

This is the link for my personal wiki for the Arcane Realm Project: http://jdtcreates.tiddlyspace.com/ 

There are still some articles with old info I will be updating so not everything is final but if you have any questions, or relevant comments don’t forget to ask me on this blog.

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Suleiman

So here is the first character I created for the Arcane Realm Project, Suleiman! He is a Djinn-Homin hybrid who travels around his home planet, Kaf.

Character Profile Name: Suleiman Aysehafsa Species: Djinn/Homin Ethnicity: Si'lat/Tropic Sex: Male Common Vessel: Humanoid Height: 4'3"/129.5 cm Weight: 73 lbs/33 kg Skin Color: Olive Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown

Appearance

His most common and natural form is that of a young man with black hair with thin mustache and beard. His skin is a light olive brown color. He almost always has prehensile homin feet but will switch to typical humanoid feet when taking long walks and hikes. The majority of the time he will stick with a tail and two arms but he can grow four it he needs to multi-task. Suleiman usually wears baggy beige pantaloons and his multicolored striped overcoat sown together by his father.

Background

His mother is a Si'lat Djinn and his father is a Homin of the tropic cline. They met when his mother and older sister escaped from persecution from their home country of Jinnistan. She met his father who was one of the few males left in their band that was recently isolated due to a violent disagreement that caused them to separate from the larger group. Eventually they found the village of Erisija and formed a loving relationship, leaving Suleiman to become the first of their three children.

As he grew up in his father's Erisija village, interacting with the homin children and learning about his jinn abilities and culture from his mother and his sister. He also has his baby brother as a playmate during his older years until his mother decided to send him to the Jinnistan university for higher learning beyond his neighborhood.

At college his learned new principles of nature and magic, coming back between breaks to meet his young sister. After his graduation, his was invited to join Jinnistan's Committee of Natural Sciences and Technology but ran away from it and djinn society as he became disillusioned about their policies with other species. Not long after, he happened across an ancient Caravan train in an abandoned ruin that he soon decided to travel the world in.

Personality

One of the driving forces of Suleiman is seeking to understand everything, and his a strong lust for knowledge and appreciation of beauty as natural 'outlook' traits rather than learned behavior (that is he is driven by a deep internal sense of personal wonderment). He also has a strong sense of right and wrong, becoming deeply upset if things are 'wrong' according to his own sense of rightness. This often leads to him becoming argumentative, though in a calm (or distressed, if met with aggression) analytical way based on reasoning rather than aggression and intimidation, seeking to convince people rather than merely having them submit. He is also very tenacious and can't merely let things go, because he usually is so deeply moved and concerned by things; the things he can argue about mean a lot to him, generally speaking.

Abilities and Powers

Abilities

Suleiman's homin nature and upbringing gives him the following:

Arboreal Locomotion- Living most of his childhood in the trees, he is an expert in moving through them quickly and efficiently.

Raw Sorcery- Instead of giving intent to channeled mana to manipulate the environment, Suleiman can directly use the energy as mana plasma for various uses like a projectile, defense, mimic substances, affect active spells, etc.

Suleiman's djinn nature grants him the following abilities:

Shape Changing: Suleiman is an innate polymorph who can stretch, deform, expand, or compress his entire body or parts thereof, extending to his clothes, into any contiguous shape he can imagine for a variety of uses.

Elongation: Suleiman can extend his limbs, torso, or neck to great distances.

Size Alteration: Suleiman possesses the power to increase and decrease his size. His physical strength also grows in proportion to his current size.

Accelerated Healing: He can also regenerate his body at the cellular level, allowing him to survive most forms of damage to his limbs and lower torso although it may weaken or outright fail with a constant need in a short amount of time. Also unlike full Djinn, he has vital organs, damage to which will cause him to go into healing coma which could leave him venerable.

Superhuman Strength/Speed: Suleiman can control the electrical impulses to his muscles, giving him more motor neuron commitment for specific tasks and exceptional strength or speed.

Spectral Sight: The ability to visually see the spectrum of ethereal objects and energies.

Ethereal Matter Form: Half-Djinn have the ability to convert their corporeal body into charged ectoplasm, rendering them invisible and intangible to normal matter and able touch to spectral objects. For most of his early life, Suleiman had a hard time controlling it, he was only able to have his hands become immaterial or his match his vision to see it. Once all his chakra were awakened, he can do this easily.

Flight- His etheric body can fly at great speeds

Possession- In etheric form, he can enter a corporeal body, reading or influencing its thoughts or attempt to take control. Whether Suleiman succeeds is dependent on if his willpower is stronger than his host.

Ordered Spellcraft- Suleiman can induce his intent/give an order to collected mana and have it react to the world and produce a wide range of phenomena in the form of a spell.

Magic

Suleiman is an accomplished mage, capable of both raw sorcery and ordered spellcraft due to his ancestry. His style primarily uses magic with the intent to defend, distract, or restraint, rather than use outright offensive or lethal means.

Equipment

Duvet-a pillow enchanted by residual magic, allowing to float and carry it's owner. Given to him by his mother as a child.

Valdo- an ancient vehicle consisting of four caravans linked together. Each of the wagon is large enough to serve as its own living space, with the first one holding the control console. Together the caravans operate like a train and collectively move along.  Suleiman discovered it in an abandoned Lunarian ruin of the central Zomia Tropics. Despite its rustic outward appearance and 19th century amenities, the technology making it up is very advanced as the bottom allows it act as a hovercraft and float above terrain.