#Febchantment Exaltation. Powerful Aetheri mages can ascend to godhood purely through mastery of magic, using it to transcend the limits of the flesh and find themselves a place in Heaven. If they succeed, they become a god. But it's not an easy process. And it can have consequences

#FebChantment Catch up time! And starting with one that made me chuckle because... this was a hard one to answer because my 'Yes' is empathic enough that doing this in anything other than exhaustive depth was going to be painful.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Mortals have the regular ol jury trial structure. No need for the ghosts to meddle in that. The ghosts are debating this point. They don't have a firm system of laws or control just yet, but as their numbers grow, this is something they're weighing up 1/4 🧵

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Still the Home Office. That said, the Department of High Technology has a few 'unorthodox' levers to apply some extra pressure to 'subversive elements', if they feel its warranted.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Still the houses of parliament. The ghosts have their House of Shades, but that's more a forum for a workforce to air their grievances and the bosses to try and sell them on what they're doing. Law is still a thing for mortals and their MPs. The ghosts have all they need.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders This is something that the leads have some reason to worry about. Once they figure out the dimensional sealing thing, there's no way to be sure what the wider world would be like if they brought Britain back to the material plane. They could be heading back to a ruined world

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#FebruaryWorldbuilders Origin of this world, in this case would be the point of timeline divergence with our reality. And it's somewhat known, just not a lot of the specifics (and secrets) made it to the public eye. 1/6 🧵

#FebChantment There's a few options. Architects abusing their power to drain life from the poor wards. Thaumologists experimenting and contaminating an area. But one issue is widespread and cultural. Athamatic. Linguistic root of Aetherian League and later, in space, Aetheri. 1/7 🧵

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Fascinating question for the ghost world. ^^ The truth is open for interpretation, there's some scientific evidence to say Ghosts Aren't Really The Souls Of The Dead, but you can't rule the idea out. 1/8 🧵

#Febchantment There's a few different interpretations of mastery among the Aetheri, mostly split between the classical, the tradespeak and the religious. None of them are wrong, but it can lead to some social awkwardness when different groups discuss the matter. 🧵/8

Posting Abbadon until I find my audience. Card based dark fantasy where your resources literally deplete as tension builds. Dice can't do that. Someone out there needs this at their table. Help me find them. losthavenart.com #ttrpg #Abbadon

#Febchantment Magic is a skill set. Even a very well trained mage doesn't have infinite options. That's where the individual orders and their traditions come in; every magical framework is different, and can't be intertwined. 1/4

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Ooooh, I get to do question with a question for this one! Kinda jerkish, but it's an important point for this concept of mine If choices are deliberately withheld, or you are misdirected away from them, does your free will still functionally exist? 1/4 🧵

every company that signs a branding deal with Harry Potter would be one thousand times better off doing the same thing with Dragon Ball

Ah... No more D&D for me until this goes away. Or MtG. Guess I'm back to trying to persuade people into the indie sphere

#FebChantment Varies by tradition is a copout, but unfortunately accurate. Hell, varies by individual. The magic circuits are used, and that creates an overall lean towards movement, but the Aetheri are fairly diverse on this point.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Yes to both, though this is a bit of a curious double act from my perspective. Neither is a big thing in this world, but they're both 'worth noting' material 🧵/10

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Some teens go to a Halloween party. One of them is very upset about wearing cat ears. Then the murders start.

#Febchantment The Aetheri don't need tools to work magic; the Magic Circuit is biological and innate. That said, other species wanting to work magic are going to need to develop some kind of alternative, which will lead to tool based magic. What could that look like? 🧵/5

#FebruaryWorldbuilders A Carnacki ghost's Otherworld theoretically only has one way in. The ghost pulling you in directly. A wild ghost's Otherworld is based on a physical location, and could be entered from the spot it's mirroring, but the 'digital' Otherworld removes that possibility 🧵/4

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Oh, so many. The Ghost AI technology relies on making use of non physical realms, due to the metaphysical mechanics of how ghosts work couples with the tech. The result is that there are *hundreds* of pocket dimensions in play. 🧵

#FebChantment The Empyrean is the source of magic, a field of energy that spans the cosmos. But how exactly it works isn't entirely understood in story. Characters basically know, but there's stuff that doesn't entirely fit 🧵/4

Jo Mullien - my pick for finest Green Lantern ^^ Her getting the spot over Hal in the Absolute timeline is a rare sensible move from DC

Growing up in the eighties , I didn't realize that there were people in the world who viewed cobra commander as aspirational

#Febchantment I badly want to do a scene where my main antagonist, a magic transit cop, chases the protagonists and their train through the subway at the head of a 'wing' of troops, all riding their blades like surfboards, and him ploughing through everything on an enormous buster sword. ^^

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Indeed! The 'Shadow' in this world comes from Britain throwing itself into an endless underworld esque 'nethersea' of sunless waves and half-formed souls, in a desperate attempt to isolate itself from the international community. ... #MakingBrexitWork! ^^

If you see this, post a rabbit

Anti-trans bigots lie, all the time, about everything.

ser miku

I have this drawing books called "How to Draw Adorable" and I tried to draw a friend's character to see if I can pull it off adorable

#Febchantment #writingcommunity #writesky I set up the elemental magic to be playable, mechanistic rules compatible with @valorousgames.bsky.social Valor, as the magic system of the mmo-in-the-book. The four-part soul nods to Valor’s mental stats. #theWondersofMundus taliaellib.itch.io

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Notably, wild flora and fauna has shifted. Few folk are going to spot it, but if you venture out you've got a shot at finding vibrant new flower colours, herbs with a stronger scent than they 'should'. It's largely seen as a myth, but it draws the curious out of the city

#Febchantment I'm backworking from the premise of The Breakman. A colony world torn between magical and SF great powers. I need both diverse magic types, to best avoid Planet of Hats and a reason for Mages to explore space. The Empyrean provides both.

Gonna repost this one for an experiment :X Rosa - Chromatic Waltz

#Febchantment Anyone can affect the Empyrean; it's a web of life, feeling and thought so all life feeds back into it and can feel it in turn. There's two levels of escalation. The 'magic people', who I have currently dubbed the Aetheri, and the outright mages in their ranks. 1/10 🧵

#FebruaryWorldbuilders "But this is not the country, my friend. This is a desert!" ^^ It's pleasant to look at, but urbanization has left the countryside largely abandoned and personal travel rarer due to limited fuel options and few car parts. It's a desert in effect if not in name.

A few of you seem to follow this ogre guy so i would uh, un-do that. yikes.

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Mmm... there aren't any Sudden New British Mountains to get into. But interestingly, there's been a drop in tourism. People can feel something off when walking towards the heights. There's even a few cryptid reports; strange figures in white, hulking monsters, The Red Lady...

#Febchantment This is something I try to minimize. Indie TTRPGs have taught me to be judicious with proper nouns and terminology; they're an easy way to distance a reader. That said, a complete lack of them isn't credible and there's a few in The Breakman 1/5 🧵

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

#Febchantment Most people would say there isn't one. I'm nervous about deliberately omitting a central axis for magic, but it's an intentional choice rather than an oversight, and I have a kinda hidden semi-concept in my back pocket to provide some internal unity 1/8 🧵

#FebruaryWorodbuilders I mean... Do you need a map of this silly island? ^^ Here's a different, significant map that I may use as a baseline for a new one

#FebruaryWorldbuilders One island. Yes, no one's able to reach Ireland. Matter of national security, don't ya know. Can't have them learning about any of our fancy new technology. Let alone the rest of the world! Yeah, Shadow Britain may have Brexited all the way to the Styx. ^^

#Febchantment I'd say the Breakman falls under Hard Magic primarily. The Empyrean, the field that mages draw upon, is an observable phenomena with consistent laws. The act of creating a new school of magic is setting your own laws and framework for the Empyrean 🧵1/4

So, reading for the #SSBA this year. First time trying something like this, good luck to participants

#Febchantment Hey gang! Choro here and this month I'll be talking The Breakman - the story of a humble train worker's misadventures in a world caught between magic and science fiction. Really need to get the 'magic' part of that down, so... here I am!