The Source of Life || The Linear Mist
The Universe was created through the force of two energies. These energies came from the Goddess of Creation and the God of Destruction. The Linear Line, as the path of life from birth to death is that of the lifeforms born of the element known as Mist.
Mist is a magical substance that exists in the universe creating life through air and aquatic means. It's primarily an element in relation to the sky and the lifeforms created from it tend to hail from those areas - be it rivers, oceans, seas or the sky. Aquatic and Airborne beings tend to have souls comprised of mist. In turn, that is what is considered "A Celestial being".
Pure-Blooded Celestials are the only Mist born beings that can produce the substance within their own bodies and are in turn the closest to the Mother of all Mist, The Goddess of Creation, Lady Tiamat, herself. It is a substance that when one passes, expands the universe. So Pure-Blooded Celestials are beings that don't leave corpses.
When a Pure-Blooded Celestial dies, their DNA breaks and their physical forms fade out from existence, in turn dispersing their Mist back into the skies above. From there that Mist returns to the heavens to be guided in a way that it would be used to expand the universe further or repair parts of standing things that would otherwise be lost. Mist can create the skies, the rivers, the oceans and the seas. It can mix and become the very worlds around us to further grow out and expand the reaches of the beings that live within this grand cosmos.
All life is created from one of these two energies, whether they know it or not. The other energy being known as Soil and it is Mist's stark contrast. Mist functions on the Linear Path, where as Soil the Spiral. Mist as an element can be harnessed for various uses such as magic, energy, food, life, etc - but the thing to remember about Mist is that at the end of the day it is an element of creation and it is used to as an energy source to accomplish various things. Even if that thing is providing a being with life itself.
In order to activate this energy one has to be attuned to the mist and generally that means being born to it and having Celestial Blood of some form or another within their being. Mist will only activate and obey the commands of it's user when a linear path is drawn - or a straight line. If there is even the slightest curve within the path made, Mist will not activate and whatever effect that was to attempt to be used will fail to do anything.
So blade masters who use Mist based magics and attacks do so with perfectly straight slices of their blade or paths drawn with their hands. Mist can be activated by any straight line motion regardless of what the line was created with. Even a mere twig is enough to summon Mist's mighty force.
Beings of Soil cannot use magics born of Mist as they are not Mist attuned and due to Soil's habit of having rather nasty reactions when mixed with it's opposing counterpart.
Mist comes in a varying array of colors, but only Pure-Blooded Celestials ever display them. They come in every color of the rainbow excluding black (hue) and are generally reflected in the Celestial's hair color and breath.
