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[jarlshall]

Lessons From the Grand Sage I: On Magic

Celdos reveal, your grace.

It has come to my attention that there have been… gaps in your study. As the Grand Sage, it is my duty to see these filled.

Today, we will start with the wheel which defines the world. The Cycle, through which all we know and are flows.

Shall we begin?

(art by @ohsweetsweetie)

Study this diagram well – friends and foes before you already have. The arrows upon the outer wheel show the flow of energy as it courses through our reality. Energy changes states as it flows, with five elements recognized by the wise.

We start, as always, with the Green. Nebulous and living. The life force of storms and mountains and oceans. This coalesces to Body.

Body, steady and true. The life force of individuals, be they animal, plant, or person. From Body springs thought and, with it, Mind.

Mind is ephemeral and formless. It is the power behind truth, imagination, and deception. The emotions born of Mind take shape in the Grey.

The Grey is power in the truest sense. Energy shaped not by physical law but by ideals and deeds. When given direction and purpose, it sharpens to Spirit.

Spirit, the motive force. The drive behind mortality, and the unbreakable inner strength. When this strength is dispersed into the mortal realm, it is reshaped into the Green.

The Cycle flows, ever and always.

Each element has a positive and negative aspect. Body, for example is split between positive Body (Life) and negative Body (Death). Remember my lord; neither is evil, and both are necessary. Like one’s hands, a mage may have a preference for one or the other. But to ignore one entirely is to court disaster.

We shall discuss these elements in depth at a later date. For now, suffice that a mage will specialize in one, but all have their place.

Each element has a relationship with the other four. The first is a harmonious relationship – its adjacent elements. One feeds the element; the other is fed by it. Body is fed by the Green; Body, in turn, feeds Mind. A mage can brush into elements adjacent to their specialty, though less skillfully than their focus.

The second is a destructive relationship. These are the elements opposites. One is the element that it counters; the other counts it. Body neutralizes the Grey, yet Body is defeated by Spirit. In this way, no one element dominates over the others. A mage cannot evoke elements that oppose their specialty.

The day grows long and its light, short. We will continue these lessons at a later date.

Celdos guide you.

- The Grand Sage

[captainkirbypunch]

A blurb for Original Magic

It would be a long day, certainly, but Kenzen was pleased. He looked over the straight bladed longsword in his hand, turning it over and letting the light shimmer off of it as he gazed at the metal and leather. He shook it lightly, feeling the balance, before turning his attention to the shield in his left hand. It was shaped similar to a kite, wide at the top and tapering down at the bottom — though where the character’s emblem would normally be, instead there was what he had hoped would be an insignia of his own. As he hadn’t properly visualized it, however, the front of the shield was blurry and undefined. All the same, Kenzen didn’t let that stop him and continued to assess his gear. The well-polished border shone along with the blade in his right hand, as though the two items were made for each other — and in a sense, they were. They were the sword and shield of one of his foremost characters, Conrad, and the first items he’d summoned successfully.

Naturally, he was going to be excited.

Grinning eagerly, he rolled his shoulders and looked around the small room he’d allocated to be something of a training space. It was relatively bare for the time being, simply having a bench near a closet (presumably filled with miscellaneous supplies) in the corner. Finally returning his gaze to the space in front of him, he did his best to settle into a fighting stance, took a deep breath, and focused inward. He had a long day of practice ahead, and for practicing both mind and body with the weapons in his hands.

He couldn’t wait to get started.

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A test little blurb for the Original Magic project as led by @mdzadr! Just a simple scene of Kenzen (full name Kenkōna Ōkami), my character, preparing to train after summoning weapons for the first time with his relatively newfound powers.

[magical-girl-oc-zine]

✨ Happy Fall to our Magical Supporters! ✨

Thank you to everyone for your support during this crazy time--  As far as updates, they’ve admittedly been sparse on our end. Mostly because it’s hard to tow the line between personal privacy and project transparency, and when in doubt, I’ve chosen note to update. 

What I can say is that shipping has been seriously delayed due to general COVID issues and every member of our mod team having a major life impact occur since preorders closed. Because we’re a three-person team, when one of us goes down, it’s very hard to keep on schedule.

For example, the organization mod (me!) was out of commission for over a month with COVID. Even once I recovered, I had to spend several weeks catching up on things for my fulltime job (because insurance is important). 

That said, we’re all back to being fighting fit, and I can tell you that our goal is to have everything shipped by the end of November. As soon as we have more concrete deadlines for you, we’ll be back to sprinkle more magic over your dash. (Including the much-loved merch unboxing pics). 

If you have concerns or this delay in shipping will lead to problems (ie, you need to change you address, you wanted it for a birthday/holiday that will be missed), please reach out by inboxing us or emailing us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to work with you to correct it. 

✨Thank you again for supporting this project!✨

-Nate and the whole Original Magic team. 

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Today's Yazata...

Daena

"True philosophy begins with the gaining of insight into the actual nature of things. One’s conscience is a guide to the discovery of this great mystery (râz). Once it is gained, the pathway to power is clarified—the sort of illusions and delusions that are common in the lives of sorcerers lose their grip and disappear. There can be no more important part of the practice of true and original magic than this. The daêna is also part of one’s soul and is the place within where one’s good and bad deeds are recorded. The embodiment of one’s daêna in the form of a fifteen-year-old girl will appear to the soul postmortem at the Chinvat Bridge. She appears with a group of dogs who will assist in the weighing of the thoughts, words, and deeds of the soul by the yazatas Rashnu, Mithra, and Sraosha." - Original Magic

[captainkirbypunch]

Love in the Night

“I love you. Good night!”

A simple enough message, yet Kenzen sent it with a sigh to Genjitsu as they signed off for the night. It was relatively early for him still, not yet time for bed -- his mind was rattling for vague ideas, games to play, internet to sift through... goodness knows what else. But with Genjitsu heading to bed, he felt, somehow, an unusual sense of emptiness.

What a sap. Less than a minute and he already missed them. 

He shook his head with another sigh, trying to drive the thought out of his head. Nothing wrong with missing them -- they were what recharged his soul, after all -- but all the same, he’d need to find something to occupy the hours until he felt properly ready for bed.

With another melancholy sigh, he pulls open some youtube video or another of an archived stream, the next in a series he’d been watching, but hardly paying attention to it itself. Skip the intro, get to the start, let it murmur in the background. He booted up a slow-paced video game, something he could play while still half paying attention to the video in the background, and sighed as he leaned back in his chair while it started to load, making sure to keep his window focused on it, knowing the occasional inconsistencies of his computer relatively well. Look away from a high capacity game too long and it might just crash. But that was all right, he wasn’t going to be looking at much else.

The game on, the youtube playing, he tried to relax and lean back, softly adjusting his computer glasses as he curled up in his desk chair, posture no doubt horrible as ever as he huddled in his soft yellow and blue pajamas. With the occasional clicks and clacks ringing out, he settled into a rhythm to somewhat busy himself with the passing time. 

But no matter how much he did so, there would always be a slight poke in his chest. Sure, he did this during the day as well, but then he always had texts and time with Genjitsu to look forward to.

Now, with her asleep, it was just a vague sense of content monotony to pass the hours until he would sleep himself, not yet tired enough to do so.

Two hours crawled by as he poked at the computer, occasionally holding a stuffed animal and hoping it was Genjitsu. Enough time, he supposed, to head to bed -- nothing was keeping him at the computer at this point, and he didn’t have much else he couldn’t do in bed while he waited to fall asleep. So to bed he went. Brush teeth. Bathroom. Maybe brush the hair. Hit the lights, and snuggle under the covers.

Another sigh, wanting to be with them. In the morning, he would be, but until he found the right measure of exhaustion and calm, sleep would not find him.

He pulled out his phone, starting to poke through social media, texts, posts, smiling as he saw things that they wrote, saw bits of them held safely in the palm of his hand. Ideas to share, stories to create, all held in his memories of them and more.

Turning his thoughts towards Genjitsu, he curled up, holding his necklace to his chest, and doing his best to think of holding their soul in his hands, just as they do with his, every single day.

And finally, he found sleep, grateful to speed along to the next day, to be with Genjitsu.

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