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Happy Holidays everyone!
This particular post is for the world of the Lady Annabelle Mystery series. These posts have helped me so far to know the world better. Also, in case anyone is confused and wondering why the gods from All Is Not Lost For All Will Begin Again are involved in something from the Lady Annabelle mystery series, that is because I ended up moving the gods (except the Creator Goddess, who will be modified) to that world, due to the setting change in All Is Not Lost For All Will Begin Again. The gods seemed a bit out of place, so I moved them to a series that seemed very in keeping with their nature.
Along with the world-building series on my blog, I will also be occasionally posting articles on World Anvil about this world. So sometimes when a Look Into a World post is published I will also post a World Anvil article that is related to it. I have an article that goes along with this post called "The Festival of Magic," which I will be linking on the world-building page on this blog. (You will see it under the "World Anvil" section of the page) and I will update you about it in a blog post.
Anyway, on to this post:
How Magic from the Gods Came to the World-
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| Nisis (left) and (young) Karleon (right) |
Two trickster gods were involved in bringing to the world magic that is not inherited at birth. Their names were Nisis/Nyro and Karleon. These two trickster gods were very fed up with the fact that the King and Queen of the gods were hoarding all the magic and were unwilling to teach the mortals any.
So, Nisis/Nyro and Karleon came together and formed a plan to get the magic and give it to the mortals. Karleon played a role in distracting the god who protected the magic, while Nisis/Nyro took the magic down to the world and gave it to the mortals. The mortals were really happy about this; the king and queen of the gods were not.
While Karleon escaped punishment, Nisis/Nyro did not. Karleon told the king and queen of the gods that he completely misunderstood the plan that Nisis/Nyro had "told him" and didn't think the magic of the gods would come into the world of the mortals. In contrast, Nisis/Nyro got banished to the world of the mortals for a few years so they would learn from their "mistake." Though there are variations on this myth (some where both the gods get punished, and some where Karleon is the one who gets punished instead of Nisis/Nyro), all end with Karleon and Nisis/Nyro not being on good terms. In the version of the myth I'm following, Nisis/Nyro got banished because the other gods worried they would take on the form of their loved ones (since Nisis/Nyro has no clear form other than that) to escape punishment. So this was the reason for their unfair punishment of Nisis/Nyro.
After Karleon and Nisis/Nyro released magic into the world, the king and the queen of the gods decided to put restrictions on how much magic the mortals could have at once. This is because it turned out the other gods were very unwilling to take their magic back. Hence they created rules for becoming a devotee to a god or a goddess. This made it so that the gods whose magic was in the world was limited and had to be taught. The king and queen did this because they believed the other gods would be too vain or not feel that the mortals were worth their time. However this backfired, because the gods whose magic was given to the mortals spent a lot of their time teaching them the craft.
And out of this event came the Festival of Magic. It is celebrated biannually given that there are two different assumed dates for when it happened. These two dates are in the middle of spring and the beginning of winter.
Magic given at birth-
The species who have this are fairies, elves, and some other creatures. According to the religion that is predominant in Dragon's Province, the gods created them to have these powers and gave a little bit of their magic to those creatures.
For the fairies, the gods decided to give them the ability to make themselves "invisible" (though in reality they go to another dimension). This is a power that every fairy has, and the gods gave it to them so they could protect themselves if they were in grave danger (to hide from their attackers or from wild monsters).
For the elves, they were given better eyesight and hearing than humans, as well as a better connection to the gods. While they may not be able to turn "invisible," elves can spot a god within a crowd of mortals or see a god when a human couldn't. This also links them to the major religion in Dragon's Province, where the gods teach mortals magic.
Enchanted Objects-
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| An enchanted mirror |
Fabulous ideas in your fantasy writing and pictures! Valerie
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Valerie. :)
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I'm particularly intrigued by Nisis/Nyro. Why the two names? And were you inspired by some existing myths for your magic system? (I love the mirror pic BTW).
ReplyDeleteI was actually inspired by existing myths. :) The introduction to the magic system where people learn magic from the gods was inspired by the myth of Prometheus, except instead of one being bringing magic/fire to the mortals, it is two beings.
DeleteThe reason for the god/goddess to have two names, is because the god is both male and female. Nisis is the female side and Nyro is the male side, and one would either see Nisis or Nyro depending on what they find attractive/love. Nisis/Nyro themselves was inspired by several different myths, They are a love god/goddess, like Aphrodite, but, they are also a trickster, like Loki, and can shift back and forth between male and female. I was also inspired by the myth of Tiresias, and the symbol of the snakes identified with Nisis/Nyro are taken from both Loki (who has a child who is a serpent) and Tiresias.
And thank you, it was fun to draw. :)
-Quinley
It does seem like posting about a setting would help with world building, even if it's just sorting out thoughts on paper (or on blog, as it were). :) And I love the idea here.
ReplyDeleteI also really like the idea of Nysis/ Nro being able to take forms. I'm always a fan of shapeshifting. I love the idea of the fae going to other dimensions as well.
Fairy dust is neat too. :)
Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you. :) I'm glad you enjoyed reading about my world-building.
DeleteAnd shapeshifting is so fun to write. :)
I hope you had a Merry Christmas,
-Quinley
Ooo! I loved learning about the way magic came to be in your world(i think that's a question I asked previously).
ReplyDeleteTo answer the posts question, magic doesnt feature too predominantly in my stories, but that which does (the Etatehian ley system) comes from the minor god As, who laid the leylines down to help his demon progeny to access his power even during his absence. The six forms of magic are Etateh (space), Eta (light), Ateh (darkness), Tuba (power), Elekmagnus (electromagnetism), and Antateh (gravity).
I really love your blog posts and am looking forward to seeing more of your stories in the future, you're incredibly talented :)
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed reading about it. :) I also answered your question in this blog post too:
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Your magic system sounds amazing. :)
Thank you again,
-Quinley
I love the idea that there are different versions of the same myth in your world. Will the different forms be talked about further in your story? I love the drawings, too!
ReplyDeleteThank you. :) The different versions of the myths will definitely be explored further in my story. :D They will be explored in the second book though, since that story is where the gods have more of a focus.
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Love that your doing worldbuilding, I really struggle with it and tend to just not do any, which is something I need to fix.
ReplyDeleteSounds intriguing.
Thank you. :) I found world-building to be hard, too, when I first began.
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