#azrath things

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And shh we don't need to talk about how Azrath sort of just

bludgeoned it's way into Silverblood.

Because

Can you imagine Ashlyn as an Elemental and then Gabriel

who's the epitome of Street who's so Street that he doesn't even realize that he's magic half the time 

and Ashlyn's ingrained belief in the superiority of her magic when faced to his and Gabriel's quiet knowledge that fuck her he's a million different things at once and each one is as detailed as anything she could ever even hope to be because his city is scared and his city is feral but his city is his and it shows in his every move and breath and if Ashlyn is too blind to see that well then his city will chew her up and spit her out and it won't be like what it did to him

because he was special to it because there may be a plethora of street magicians per city there is only ever one Street magician and he is the City and the City is Him and it chewed him up and it spat him out but it wasn't a challenge it was a need

a love

I'll eat you up I love you so

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`Elemental Magic

Elemental is perhaps a deceiving term. Any mage with talent related to the world around them's primary forms belongs to the Elemental Discipline. Plant mages, light mages, and water mages are some of the most commonly discovered.

How your talent manifests depends largely on what your Element is, and on your personality. The amount of control you'll be able to exert is also dependent: there have been Earth mages who have been unable to walk, because each step would cause a quake. When magic was legalized, there were those who pushed for systematic extermination of the Elementals, although they were defeated, eventually.

Elementals probably face the most suspicion still to this day.

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`Street Magic

Street magicians are so far from what people think of them that it's hilarious. 

Street magicians work the city itself, not the people in it. 

They work the cobblestones, the scents of food and humanity mixing on the wind street magicians work pigeons and trash and that feeling you get when you step somewhere familiar you've never been before.

They work those corners you can turn around and disappear in, the charnel houses and the whorehouses and the universities and the slums. They know every organism that makes up the population of the city that is theirs. They never move from their city. It's an extension of their body, not a place to live.

Street magicians are trackers, born and bred into a city that speaks to their bones.

Street magicians work hard, reflect their city in the lines of their clothes and the sloping accents they take on as they grow weary.

The streets are veins in the city's body, and street magicians are its blood.

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There was elemental magic, street magic, house magic, and formalized magic

basically what it sounds like

note to self expand and adjust