Matrices, and souls.
This is where it can get very confusing, and this is where I'm still ironing stuff out.
Inside of us, (us, like, you, reading this) there's a Spirit that we originally were. We're from Heaven. And before we were Spirit's, we were intelligence's. Now we have a body too.
That's not how they are. The people inside this world have a soul, but it works very differently.
Their soul is this little box of light that exists inside their sternum. Denying that someone has a soul in their world is considered heresy and you'll be put to death. The soul is called a matrix, or a soul-matrix.
Your matrix is directly connected to your brain, and to your heart. They can be severed surgically, because they do exist physically, but your matrix itself can only be manipulated by those with the Matreci of emotion.
Within everyone is an energy source, or soul, which is a matrix. It’s a combination of your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional being. Certain people were born with energy types, or signatures, that allows them to be able to do something that others many not be able to. Yet at the same time, there are also certain individuals that aren't bound to one kind of power, but have the power of particle/energy manipulation - or Matreci, the power to change and choose a matrix of a certain type.
Still with me? Certain individuals can use Particle/Energy Manipulation, or PEM.
Each person that has PEM (particle/energy manipulation, or Matreci) can choose how they want to master a certain kind of energy. But once they learn the seven steps of each power, it's locked, and their inner energy signature is changed into a static form. They're locked to that kind of power for the rest of their life, and you can't undo it. This is where the magic manipulation comes in. So far:Your soul is called a matrix.
There are four parts of the inner matrix. Physical, Mental, Spiritual and Emotional. Spirit and Emotion are connected and are in a much tighter relationship than mental and physical.
Physical: The more in touch with your physical and mental sides, the less significant the effect of the block that would result from the power drain of a large use of energy, such as launching a fireball or something similar.
Emotional: If your emotions are out of flux is makes them much more susceptible to being manipulated. Emotional blocks also last the longest.
Mental focus drives the power of the matrices, both normal and sub.
Spiritual: Frees your emotions from blocks. Emotional damage can block the spirit sub-matrix from working at all.
When you're balanced with those four sub-matrices, then you can use PEM and affect the matrix of something else.
Everything has a matrix, because everything is based in matter. That's probably the biggest difference between this world and ours.
Thus, we have magic! But first, back to matrix's.
Inside certain matrix's, there are sub-matrices. Yep, it just got more confusing.
A submatrix is a matrix that has fusions of other matrices inside of it. So, for instance, since fire has a matrix, you can manipulate it - if you have a fire matrix as well. Someone with a water matrix can't manipulate fire, unless they have a submatrix of fire as well. If you have a submatrix of fire and a matrix of light (only one person ever has had this combination) you can create a white fire that passed through most solid objects and doesn't burn flesh.
If your matrix is fire, you can manipulate the matrix of fire and control it. Fire is really just energy, but it's a certain type of energy, and so that's why a fire Matreci can only control fire, and not just all kinds of energy.
The Matrices that you can have are:
Fire
Water
Air
Electricity
Emotion
Electricity is a type of superheated particle discharge. Fire is energy. Air is particle, and water is too. This is where it needs the most work. I'm not sure if I want just those five, or if I want some more.
Emotion is a unique one. I'll do a post on that in a bit.
Matrices, in detail:
If your emotions are out of whack, your body is physically unfit, you're mentally challenged, and your Spirit is blocked by your emotions, there's no way you're going to be able to be a Matreci. You'd have to fix every single one, balance them out, and then master the energy signature of a given "power" while balancing all of that. You'd have to change your entire life around.
Life isn't fair. And neither is being a Matreci. You can complain all you want about it, but hey, in the end, it's a gift to be able to become a Matreci, and not something you can demand.
You can imbue a power into your Matreci, if you don't have one, but it costs the life of the person that had the power, and it's usually fatal to you as well. That's two lives for this power. Most people don't consider it worth it.