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David.moore at 13:42, 16 November 2024

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	Any supernatural creature can also be summoned, influenced or aided by a [[Conjunctional Magic]] discipline. The disciplines relating to the three closest supernatural planes – [[Demonology]], [[Necromancy]] and [[Thaumaturgy]] – are widely studied on the True Plane, while the more esoteric disciplines relating to the other supernatural planes are little known.		Any supernatural creature can also be summoned, influenced or aided by a [[Conjunctional Magic]] discipline. The disciplines relating to the three closest supernatural planes – [[Demonology]], [[Necromancy]] and [[Thaumaturgy]] – are widely studied on the True Plane, while the more esoteric disciplines relating to the other supernatural planes are little known.

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David.moore: /* Supernatural Creatures */

2024-09-19T13:26:05Z

Supernatural Creatures

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	:* '''Level 1-5:''' Minor creatures (e.g. most zombies or imps).		:* '''Level 1-5:''' Minor creatures (e.g. most zombies or imps).
	:* '''Level 6-15:''' Stronger creatures with distinctive traits (e.g. ghouls or nightmares).		:* '''Level 6-15:''' Stronger creatures with distinctive traits (e.g. ghouls or nightmares).
	:* '''Level 16-30:''' Powerful creatures with a range of ~~powers~~ (e.g. hell hounds or wraiths).		:* '''Level 16-30:''' Powerful creatures with a range of abilities (e.g. hell hounds or wraiths).
	:* '''Level 31-50:''' Major threats that can only be killed by special means (e.g. liches or elemental lords).		:* '''Level 31-50:''' Major threats that can only be killed by special means (e.g. liches or elemental lords).

David.moore: /* Supernatural Creatures */

2024-09-19T13:25:31Z

Supernatural Creatures

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	\| '''Supernatural Level'''		\| '''Supernatural Level'''

	Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are. Spells such as ''[[Banish Undead]]'' and rites such as ''[[Control Construct]]'' or ''[[Demonic Ward]]'' are also cast at a particular level, defines the level of supernatural they affect.		Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are. Spells such as ''[[Banish Undead]]'' and rites such as ''[[Control Construct]]'' or ''[[Demonic Ward]]'' are also cast at a particular level, which defines the level of supernatural they affect.

	As a very rough indicator:		As a very rough indicator:
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	:* '''Level 16-30:''' Powerful creatures with a range of powers (e.g. hell hounds or wraiths).		:* '''Level 16-30:''' Powerful creatures with a range of powers (e.g. hell hounds or wraiths).
	:* '''Level 31-50:''' Major threats that can only be killed by special means (e.g. liches or elemental lords).		:* '''Level 31-50:''' Major threats that can only be killed by special means (e.g. liches or elemental lords).

			Creatures above level 50 exist; they are extremely powerful creatures and generally very rare.
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David.moore: /* Supernatural Creatures */

2024-09-19T13:24:26Z

Supernatural Creatures

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	\| '''Supernatural Level'''		\| '''Supernatural Level'''

	Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are.		Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are. Spells such as ''[[Banish Undead]]'' and rites such as ''[[Control Construct]]'' or ''[[Demonic Ward]]'' are also cast at a particular level, defines the level of supernatural they affect.

	As a very rough indicator:		As a very rough indicator:

David.moore: /* Supernatural Creatures */

2024-09-19T13:22:13Z

Supernatural Creatures

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	Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are.		Every supernatural creature has a '''level''', a measure of their connection to their plane. A supernatural’s level is a measure of how hard they are to summon, control or destroy, and a broad indicator of how powerful they are.

			As a very rough indicator:

			:* '''Level 1-5:''' Minor creatures (e.g. most zombies or imps).
			:* '''Level 6-15:''' Stronger creatures with distinctive traits (e.g. ghouls or nightmares).
			:* '''Level 16-30:''' Powerful creatures with a range of powers (e.g. hell hounds or wraiths).
			:* '''Level 31-50:''' Major threats that can only be killed by special means (e.g. liches or elemental lords).
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David.moore: /* The Planes */

2024-09-15T11:42:09Z

The Planes

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	:*'''Mundane Planes:''' The seven mundane planes (Illusion, Number, Fertility, Movement, Solid, Death and the True Plane) are relatively normal, stable worlds teeming with life, peopled by living creatures not too dissimilar to the people of the Land, with all three [[Cosmology\|spheres]] more or less in balance.		:*'''Mundane Planes:''' The seven mundane planes (Illusion, Number, Fertility, Movement, Solid, Death and the True Plane) are relatively normal, stable worlds teeming with life, peopled by living creatures not too dissimilar to the people of the Land, with all three [[Cosmology\|spheres]] more or less in balance.
	:*'''Supernatural Planes:''' The nine supernatural planes (The Demonic Plane, The Plane of Undeath, The Plane of Constructs, Hope, Chance, Love, Mastery, Artifice, Fate) are dangerous, alien places, peopled by supernatural creatures with strongly imbalanced spheres – or missing a sphere entirely.		:*'''Supernatural Planes:''' The nine supernatural planes (The Demonic Plane, The Plane of Undeath, The Plane of Constructs, Hope, Chance, Love, Mastery, Artifice, Fate) are dangerous, alien places, peopled by supernatural creatures with strongly imbalanced spheres – or missing a sphere entirely.

			The five '''poles''' are not planes but single points in the cosmos, although any number of spirits, having no substance of their own, can exist at the pole of Spirit, and indeed all spirits are believed to go there when their bodies are killed.

	Travel between the planes is difficult and dangerous, requiring either powerful [[Planar Shift\|exalted spells]], great ritual magics or similarly extraordinary means. Rumours abound of secret roads, world-travelling pubs and stranger things, but finding and safely navigating these routes will require an extraordinary degree of luck.		Travel between the planes is difficult and dangerous, requiring either powerful [[Planar Shift\|exalted spells]], great ritual magics or similarly extraordinary means. Rumours abound of secret roads, world-travelling pubs and stranger things, but finding and safely navigating these routes will require an extraordinary degree of luck.
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	====Supernatural Creatures====		====Supernatural Creatures====

	~~The~~ denizens of the supernatural planes, being strongly magically imbalanced, are very different from the people of the True Plane. Some are very long-lived (or wholly ageless), some fleeting; some have bodies formed of stone or plants, and some have no bodies at all, but are mere wisps of spirit and energy. Most have unusual powers or traits, and most see the world in ways that living creatures find hard to comprehend.		Spirits, and the denizens of the supernatural planes, being strongly magically imbalanced, are very different from the people of the True Plane. Some are very long-lived (or wholly ageless), some fleeting; some have bodies formed of stone or plants, and some have no bodies at all, but are mere wisps of spirit and energy. Most have unusual powers or traits, and most see the world in ways that living creatures find hard to comprehend.

	A spellcaster with the appropriate skill can learn the nature and powers of any supernatural creature via the relevant ''Discern Nature'' spell (e.g. ''[[Discern Nature of Undead]]'' or ''[[Discern Elemental Nature]]''), and can '''banish''' them, destroying their forms and returning their magics to the world, via the relevant ''Banish'' spell (e.g. ''[[Banish Corporeal]]'' or ''[[Banish Demon]]'').		A spellcaster with the appropriate skill can learn the nature and powers of any supernatural creature via the relevant ''Discern Nature'' spell (e.g. ''[[Discern Nature of Undead]]'' or ''[[Discern Elemental Nature]]''), and can '''banish''' them, destroying their forms and returning their magics to the world, via the relevant ''Banish'' spell (e.g. ''[[Banish Corporeal]]'' or ''[[Banish Demon]]'').

David.moore at 01:51, 14 September 2024

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ManagementBoard: /* Demonology - The Elemental Courts */

2024-09-13T19:09:20Z

Demonology - The Elemental Courts

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	Most elementals are solitary in nature - especially in the day to day. Elementals largely reside in the areas of the plane that suit them most. Acid elementals in the great acid oceans while the ice elementals prefer the frigid wastes. Yet they can and do travel and their society is one of wary comradeship which solidifies into hard solidarity in the face of external threats. Like a perpetually squabbling family who unite when a stranger harrasses one of them.		Most elementals are solitary in nature - especially in the day to day. Elementals largely reside in the areas of the plane that suit them most. Acid elementals in the great acid oceans while the ice elementals prefer the frigid wastes. Yet they can and do travel and their society is one of wary comradeship which solidifies into hard solidarity in the face of external threats. Like a perpetually squabbling family who unite when a stranger harrasses one of them.

	Most elementals are defined by their nature. Weaker elementals can barely communicate and will follow their nature first - fire will burn, water will flow and acid with corrode. It is only the more powerful ~~(above rank 8)~~ who have the capacity to stop and develop a perspective through which they can communicate and seek more complex goals.		Most elementals are defined by their nature. Weaker elementals can barely communicate and will follow their nature first - fire will burn, water will flow and acid with corrode. It is only the more powerful who have the capacity to stop and develop a perspective through which they can communicate and seek more complex goals.

	Lord Fire is currently the ruler of all elementals although this rule doesn’t read across like a king but more like the largest Kaiju being pre-eminent among the other monsters.		Lord Fire is currently the ruler of all elementals although this rule doesn’t read across like a king but more like the largest Kaiju being pre-eminent among the other monsters.

ManagementBoard: /* The Undead - Liches */

2024-09-13T19:05:50Z

The Undead - Liches

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	== The Undead - Liches ==		== The Undead - Liches ==
	There are fewer Liches than other undead. Those that do exist tend to spend their time trying to stop other Liches from being made and stopping ~~thos~~ who do exist from getting more powerful.		There are fewer Liches than other undead. Those that do exist tend to spend their time trying to stop other Liches from being made and stopping those who do exist from getting more powerful.

	Liches are inward looking. They have many minions, including other, lesser liches, but their goals are simple – become the most powerful lich in all the cosmos and stop any others from achieving that same end.		Liches are inward looking. They have many minions, including other, lesser liches, but their goals are simple – become the most powerful lich in all the cosmos and stop any others from achieving that same end.

Kayleigh.whybrow at 19:05, 13 September 2024

2024-09-13T19:05:05Z

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	Liches are inward looking. They have many minions, including other, lesser liches, but their goals are simple – become the most powerful lich in all the cosmos and stop any others from achieving that same end.		Liches are inward looking. They have many minions, including other, lesser liches, but their goals are simple – become the most powerful lich in all the cosmos and stop any others from achieving that same end.

		⚫	== The Undead - Ghouls ==


⚫	The Undead - Ghouls
	Ghouls exist as loose hive minds. Young ghouls have their own minds and are mostly recognisably intelligent. As they age they gain in power and also gain the ability to look through and take control of younger ghouls. Older ghouls become detached from the people they were before they became ghouls and, driven by their hunger, can be much more feral.		Ghouls exist as loose hive minds. Young ghouls have their own minds and are mostly recognisably intelligent. As they age they gain in power and also gain the ability to look through and take control of younger ghouls. Older ghouls become detached from the people they were before they became ghouls and, driven by their hunger, can be much more feral.

	Ancient ghouls are formidable magic users and necromancers and can control hundreds of younger ghouls to do their bidding. All they care about is the impossible job of sating their hunger.		Ancient ghouls are formidable magic users and necromancers and can control hundreds of younger ghouls to do their bidding. All they care about is the impossible job of sating their hunger.

	Ghouls will become tame around those who feed them or who organise food for them. Food does not necessarily mean flesh but it does mean corporeal matter in some form and flesh is tasty, easily consumed and plentiful.		Ghouls will become tame around those who feed them or who organise food for them. Food does not necessarily mean flesh but it does mean corporeal matter in some form and flesh is tasty, easily consumed and plentiful.