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To The Depths



When the sins of man flooded earth it gave birth to a new dawn. A thousand years of prosperity came about to the land of man as it prospered under the new world. but from their prosperity came selfishness and greed, and when an angel came to take up human views he was sent to earth and in his fiery blaze created a hole within the center of Earth. Spanning miles it was named the abyss for its black fog that covered its insides and those who neared its darkness would suddenly disappear.

From the descent of a fallen angel God became silent and from his silence heavenly horns played within the sky, the day after, angels came from the abyss but bore charred wings. Foolishly humanity took this as a sign of good faith and that these angels would help them in their prosperity but the moment they turned their backs the angels struck and a mass genocide occurred. The earthly realm began to topple as the angels attacked, killing every last human in their sight as if to eradicate God’s creation from Earth.

Luckily human tenacity shined within the very soul of mankind’s body and on the edge of their existence, God spoke and gave them a gift. A weapon of sorts that would aid mankind in their war against the charred-Angels. God’s gift would manifest into the human body and soon after would be formally called the Spirit. But in turn for accepting God’s gift they would relinquish the right to ascend to heaven, and in their final moment before returning to slumber God nicknamed the charred-Angels, Demons.

In a cry of hope, humanity led the first crusade against Demons, with their Spirit they conjured miracles, shining down rays of light, healing their comrades, and striking their foe with great power. A war finally sparked and every day for the next upcoming decades would be filled with constant bloodshed. The fight for survival became heavy and in humanity's fifth crusade they reached the abyss and created a lone castle on its edge, fighting head-on against demonic forces as humans would be sent down into the abyss to find the origin of the evil that sparked the war.




Gift of God


After its arrival, the spirit was intensely studied. Before then it was well known that when God had created humans from divine dust they were given dual pieces, the body, and the soul. The body and the soul worked in tandem to give life and personality to the human form. But when the gift is accepted into man’s body the Spirit is introduced. A spirit is an innate energy from the heavenly realm that gives humans a mystical power to fight against Demons, this energy flows in the center of the body and then with the human will is moved from either the soul or to the physical-body. This creates two major categories that separate different users of the gift. Spiritual and Physical.

Spiritual

Spiritual users are those who focus their energy on their soul. By focusing on the soul they enable the ability to gain control over the divine energies or more specifically, magic. Magic is an umbrella term in regards to its ambiguous and mysterious form having the ability to summon storms, control lightning, and heal allies it is the most powerful gift compared to its brother, Physical. But in its strength it also faces weakness, due to its focus on the soul it loses energy from the body, and thus those dawning the spiritual gift become weaker in the physical aspect.

Casting & Vessels
Spiritual casting is centered around God’s language, while it’s true name is unknown it simply goes by heavenly tongue. Verbally speaking with heavenly tongue is the most common form of casting, simply put a user speaks in heavenly tongue and then manifest their spiritual energy to conjure whatever they willed into the physical realm. This type of casting can also be aided with vessels to increase the potency of the spell they cast or in special cases use non-verbal casting.

Nonverbal casting is the act of using a purified-feather to write divine symbols into an object or persons. A purified feather is the feather of a demon that has been thoroughly purified in holy water, after its purification the feather’s tip becomes extremely hot to the touch and burns almost anything in its path. In proper use the energy from the feather is used to enchant weapons and armor or draw divine symbols into such, the act of writing a divine symbol includes concentration and heavy focus into pouring spiritual energy into the symbol and once the symbol has been sufficiently powered it becomes a permanent marking on the persons or object it's drawn on, it is then simply up to the user to focus on the symbol to cast it.

Vessels come in a variety of shapes most often do mages use staffs, books, and wands. But in some other cases use swords, lanterns, and even mirrors. Vessels can be anything its user wills it to be as long as it has a focus, a body, and spiritual energy. For a lantern, the body could be its metallic shell and its focus, the fire. For a book’s body, it could be its leather back cover and its focus, the words. For a staffs the body could be its wooden structure and its focus, a crystal. As long as the user pours their energy into an object anything can become a vessel.

Physical

Physical users focus their spirit into the body, allowing them to exceed their physical limitations by becoming stronger, faster, and durable. Users with this gift focus on a single aspect of their body, choosing between strength, constitution, and dexterity. And depending on what they choose their body also adapts to their decision but in choosing one you weaken in another aspect (of your choosing).

Unlike spiritual gifts, physical users do not cast spells but instead perform feats in which the user focuses their spirit energy to act on their aspects. From destroying boulders, running at incredible speeds, or enduring a barrage of arrows feats are essentially the extreme enhancement of one's aspects in turn for energy.

Lastly, physical users present an extra ability that allows them to transfer their spirit energy into objects such as walls, armor, and weapons to enhance its durability, but unlike vessels, the transfer of spirit energy does not activate spells or feats.




Light History of Gaia


We start at the flood of the earth where man is erased of its sin and they start anew. At this point, all logs of history before the flood are erased and only those holy enough remember humanity's past sin. Through here, Noah's sons and daughters witnessed the recreation of humanity, and with the help of God reclaimed humanity's status on earth and achieved lifelong prosperity.

God then began to whisper throughout history giving his word to many humans and exacting his law under them. But because of this lasting prosperity, a handful of humans became blinded by Hubris and began worshipping those other than himself. To rid of this sin God sent down a being of his same divinity but in human form to spread his gospel amongst sinners, this man would rightfully be named Jesus.

In enemy territory, Jesus began to proclaim God’s word and because of this, sinners of humanity struck down God’s avatar and nailed him to a cross to be displayed. In his anger God turned his back on humanity, leaving them without absolution. After humanity's greatest act of Hubris, came God’s great silence over humanity. Because of this great sin humanity began to wear the cross in shame and wore it to repent for their sin. Centuries pass and humanity now faces the sin of an angel of whom decided to go against God’s word.

To battle against this Angel’s sin God from his silence bestows humanity with gifts to fight the great abyss of where the Angel had fallen and with this gift, the crusades of humanity began. The first and second crusade were long years of territorial reclamation that ultimately gave humanity stability and then after came the Third Crusade, popularly known as The March of Fate of where millions of humans with god’s gift gathered in Egypt and a man known as King Baldwin lead humanity to the center of the Earth to pullback demonic forces. And at the end of the third crusade began the construction of a city known as Zion of which began the fourth crusade and at its end began the current crusade, The Descension.




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Thank you to @Hawthorne @TheMushroomLord, and @Luminosity for giving me big pieces to use for the mechanics! ^^
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Hey, my character is up. The stats are fuzzy wuzzy but I think I'll get the hang of it more while we RP
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Shoutout to @Hawthorne Who made cute lil' sprites for the group! ^^
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Happy to help. Had lots of fun making those, heh.
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Thank you for making the map! <3
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