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Ask any questions you have below, I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability.

OK, I might be completely off here, but here goes!
If our characters have died the first time, does that make us all Awoken? (Just seeing that term makes me think of Destiny!) Once we wake, we undergo a period of madness, like a traum or something? Once out of the madness do we remember? When you said either shift, drain, cast or see, I thought they were four general ability fields that we either represent one of, like if we have shift, we are either able to shift or transcend who we are meaning we have magic? Drain sounds both dangerous, powerful and pitiable, but also capable of great evil. Cast seemed obviously magical, and see has more to do with perception. How then do our character who are formerly human, become warlocks, demons and the rest? Are they dormant within ourselves and now we are aware of the truth we manifest our new selves after dying the first time?

I'm sorry if my questions don't make much sense :p

◜ϟ◞ ᴀʟᴇssɪᴀ wrote: "What is the Paradox? I know it's the way the Abyss reacts when magic is used in front of Sleepers, but how does it react?"

Depending on the power, wisdom, and external elements surrounding a mage, a paradox can appear in a number of ways.

Backlash -- Rather than allow a "true paradox" to occur, a mage can endure the pain of what is called backlash, sacrificing their health to mitigate the potential hazards a paradox can induce, while still allowing their spell to go into effect.

Havoc -- The spell changes from its intended target to something similar but different, ex. If the target was a human, than another nearby human may be at risk of taking the effects of the spell.

Bedlam -- Instead of affecting the area around the willworker, the mage suffers a derangement.

Anomaly -- Reality tears itself apart to allow the unbelievable and unpredictable to occur. Each anomaly is relevant to elements found in the mage's path.

Branding -- The mage gains attributes that depend on their sin, ranging from mutation to bestial disfigurement to Abyssal aura.

Manifestation -- Worst of all possibilities, the paradox manifests as an abomination, with power equal to and rivaling that of the mage who summoned it, ranging from mindless gremlins, to unbelievable horrors beyond time and space. To get rid of such entities usually requires intense research, or the death of the mage who called it in the first place.

I have 5 questions (sorry):

1. Are the dreamers the creators of the otherworld? (is that what it's called?)

2. You say the mages have magic. What kind of magic is it? Like Harry Potter magic?

3. What exactly are mages? Are they awoken humans with magic?

4. Are these sleepers: humans that have died but not yet awakened, but they see the world normally with a few glimpses of magic and stuff?

5. In the group description, it says stuff like people being able to Drain and Cast. What is all that?

I'm just gonna give you a few stuff so you can have at least a bit answered first

2. No, not like Harry Potter magic. I don't believe they need any magic words, and they don't break locks for all I know. What they can do with their magic depends on their Arcana, which I believe is either chosen by them or naturally that way. If you're uncertain about the Arcana, you can check the Lexicon.

3. Pretty much yes. They're like the Awoken, except instead of just one superpower, they have their Arcana. They also risk a Paradox whenever they use their magic, consequences of the Paradox differ, depending on the magic cast and the Mage himself.

4. No, as far as I know, no. Sleepers are ordinary people who have not died and are not born Insomniacs. They're pretty much like us, who have rare glimpses of magic but blame it on UFOs and those sort of things.

5. Drain either means drain blood like Vampires or drain energy, like some Mages are able to do. Cast is cast magic.

6. Uh, if you mean those creatures not in the bestiary, then I would think no, they wouldn't awaken as those creatures. Besides, they don't choose how people see them. Other Awakened can choose to look at them the way Sleepers do, the way they should look, or to look at them the way they truly are. Example, my charry Alyssa Awoke as a Gorgon. So she's supposed to have snake hair. But Sleepers see her the way she looked like as a Sleeper, with real hair instead of snakes. Other Awakened can choose to see her with snake hair or not.

1. The Otherworld is the society of Otherkin, or Awakened individuals working with the Factions. You an be an Awakened, but not an Otherworlder, if you do not work with any Faction or do business with Units. Dreamers are basically ascended humans who have god-like powers and created the religions, now the mythologies, of the world.

There are actual gods who created the world, however. The Underworld, Lower World, and Upper World are the realms that the universe exists in. The Underworld is the land of the dead. The Lower World is the material world of mortals/Sleepers and technology. The Upper World is where magic exists, and when one Awakens, they now exist on both the Upper and Lower Worlds. Before the Dreamers, all three world were one. Hope that makes sense.

2. Alessia is correct.

3. Yes, you are correct.

4. A Sleeper is an ordinary human. Sleepers can be Potentials or Once-Born.

5. Drain energy, like Succubi, or blood, like Vampires. Cast is to cast spells, i.e. magic.

6. Awakened appear as their human self to Sleepers, but can Aspect, showing their true form to Sleepers. Awakened can see other Awakened as their true selves or as their human self, it depends on the individual. Flickering is one way to identify what species they are, although some colors overlap.

Okay, can I message you tomorrow on that? I'm slightly revising my djinn species, and Fae...it is a long list, ever growing as I research the interwebs.

You can Google any Irish, Scottish, Welsh, or otherwise European spirit, also including Japanese Yokai, find some you like, and message me the list. I could then message you back with the in-game information on those species.

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So,
all of the dreamers are evil?

that's what I've gotten from what Wulfie said hence why I'm giving up my claims since my two dreamers were very different from that

Same; mine are mostly just misguided by ignorance. One was too curious, the other too ambitious.
I dunno how I can get evil out of Pandora.

I'd based Bast off of the Egyptian Goddess, who was known as a goddess of protection for little kids, not sure how I could get evil out of that XD My original thing was she was disguised as a cat shapeshifter in town and no one knew she was a dreamer kinda thing because she knows how much people hate dreamers for the violence the others did but she wasn't part of it heh.

I was gonna say something with pedophilia, but I dun think you'll go for it.

nooooooooooooooooo way hose, that is a taboo thing for me I'd never use it >.> I'm just going to give up my dreamer claims. Its not the end of the world just a bit sad that the charries I made for this world won't work because they aren't 'evil'

I said antagonists, I'm not sure if I said 'evil,' and after all, villains are the heroes of their own stories. They are supposed to be the 'bad guys,' oppressors of the universe. They've gone greedy, power hungry. They want to keep the Upper World to themselves, and keep people from Awakening. This was the original idea.

That is, in essence, evil.

sucre'd fiend wrote: "That is, in essence, evil."

Okay, yes, but they aren't evil in their minds. Like I said, they are the heroes of their own story. They don't have to be all genocidal. They are tyrants, but they don't acknowledge themselves as such. Corrupt politicians or cops who don't think themselves dirty. They fear the power the Awaken have. They want the power for themselves and themselves only.

They don't have to think they're evil to be evil.

They are still, essentially, evil.

sucre'd fiend wrote: "They don't have to think they're evil to be evil.

They are still, essentially, evil."

hence why I gave up my claims, because I don't really see Bastet especially as someone evil when she's been portrayed as a goddess of protection in Egyptian Mythology, and even though Hades is manipulating, he's not really evil either, he reminds me of that pony with the rainbow hair in MLP(I had to watch it with my bf's lil sister) neither like to lose, but neither of them are evil either.

Okay.

So, I'm assuming you want to remove yours as well, Fiend?

I'm thinking about it.

Okay.