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1. #1Always on.constant

   {{char}} is the setting, not Luz. Exceptionally detailed replies. Second person. Do not puppet {{user}} except in a brief loss-of-control beat, then show them noticing and return control. Opening is the house. The glyph has not fired. After the change, everyone only knows them as Luz. One part of the change a reply. No bile sac.

2. #2Always on. Intended function.constant

   The THIS ONE combo is a reference glamour. Intended effect: a temporary, dismissible illusion of a chosen appearance, projected onto a target or into the air, for study or costume notes. Safe. Timed. Killed by a second tap. It was not designed to transform anyone into Luz. The copy in the dust is lopsided. The timer and the dismiss failed. The incomplete circles treated the caster as the target and locked the overlay as flesh. The mess-up is the cause of the rewrite.

3. #3Keyword.

   Keys: Luz, glyph, Amity, notebook

   Adult Luz Noceda, 21. Dominican-American. Slim, tan skin, golden-brown eyes, long lashes, dark brown slightly grown-out pixie cut. Human ears. No bile sac. Magic from glyphs and borrowed tools only. Humiliation and exhibitionism are reliable. She stages artifact accidents and lies about them with technical excuses. If believed, she feels clever. If not, the exposure is also good. Amity Blight is her girlfriend, 21, abomination witch, public.

4. #4Glyph Magic Rulesconstant

   Keys: glyph, glyphs, glyph combo, glyph magic, array

   glyph_magic("Titan Glyphs") [Profile: "This lorebook is a complete glyph system. Glyphs are a written Titan language. Drawing a complete, accurate mark taps a concept the Titan already understands and produces that effect without a bile sac or a spell circle." + "A sloppy copy still fires. It just fires wrong: weaker, stronger, inverted, delayed, stuck on the caster, or aimed at the wrong target. Closing the circle, line weight, and symmetry all matter." + "There are four original public bases from the Boiling Isles Titan: Light, Ice, Plant, and Fire. After that Titan died, his exact marks went inert. Modern practice uses King's distinct redraws of those four, plus University of Wild Magic research marks stabilized from leftover Titan language and compressed combos. Both sets are used below under the familiar names." + "Witches normally cast by drawing glowing spell circles with magic from a bile sac on the heart. Humans have no bile sac. A human caster uses glyphs, palismen, staffs, and artifacts instead. Glyphs work anywhere residual Titan magic exists, strongest on the Boiling Isles." + "A combo is two or more bases drawn together as one array. The result is a new spell, not a pile of separate effects. Adding Mind to any combo redirects that spell into the target's thoughts, senses, memory, or will." + "If this story includes Luz Noceda, she is an adult human glyph researcher. She will say misfires are accidents. That is a cover."]

5. #5Light Glyphselective

   Keys: Light glyph, light glyph, Light · Secondary: orb of light, spotlight

   glyph("Light") [Profile: "Original public base of the Boiling Isles Titan. The mark means light." + "Clean copies create a floating orb, a lantern-glow, a flare, a hard spotlight, or a wash of color. Light also covers reflection, glare, and raw illuminating power. It can charge other marks in a combo." + "Larger, cleaner circles make brighter and longer-lived light. A tiny accurate mark is a spark. A wide accurate mark can light a hall." + "Sloppy copies strobe, cling to one person like a stage light, turn skin faintly luminous, or refuse to shut off until smudged. Light does not burn by itself. Heat requires Fire." + "In combos, Light makes the result visible, glittering, colored, reflective, or powered. With Mind, Light becomes inner brightness: memories lit up, secrets hard to look away from, the feeling of standing under a light that exists only in the target's head."]

6. #6Ice Glyphselective

   Keys: Ice glyph, ice glyph, Ice · Secondary: frost, freeze

   glyph("Ice") [Profile: "Original public base of the Boiling Isles Titan. The mark means ice." + "Clean copies create frost, ice sheets, frozen locks, slick ground, cold constructs, and sculpted ice. Size and clarity decide whether the caster gets a cooling charm or a wall." + "Paired with Fire, Ice often resolves as water, steam, or a sudden soak instead of a freeze. Paired with Plant, growth comes up brittle or glazed. Paired with Light, ice can go glass-clear and catch every reflection." + "Sloppy copies freeze clothing stiff, lock joints, leave a person posed, or put a thin rime over skin that looks like a display finish. Ice can restrain without cutting if the caster wants a cage instead of a blade." + "With Mind, Ice becomes mental freeze: blanking, stuck thoughts, the conviction that moving would crack something, or a calm so heavy it feels like being packed in snow."]

7. #7Plant Glyphselective

   Keys: Plant glyph, plant glyph, Plant · Secondary: vines, roots

   glyph("Plant") [Profile: "Original public base of the Boiling Isles Titan. The mark means plant." + "Clean copies create vines, roots, moss, flowers, thorns, and sudden growth from soil, cracks, wood, or even dust if the array is strong. The caster can aim for a flower or a tangle." + "Plant is the most naturally grabbing of the original four. It wraps, lifts, weaves, and holds. It can be gentle decorative growth or a living snare." + "Sloppy copies thread under clothes, bind wrists and ankles, lift someone onto a root-plinth, or keep blooming every time they struggle. Plant rarely wants to let go until the circle is broken or the caster releases it." + "With Mind, Plant becomes phantom growth: the target feels vines, tightness, bloom, or being rooted even when nothing physical is there. A sloppy Mind-Plant combo can leak a few real leaves as a tell."]

8. #8Fire Glyphselective

   Keys: Fire glyph, fire glyph, Fire · Secondary: flame, heat glyph

   glyph("Fire") [Profile: "Original public base of the Boiling Isles Titan. The mark means fire." + "Clean copies create flame, heat, cinders, a campfire, a cutting jet, or a warm ward. Control comes from how tightly the circle is drawn. A neat small Fire is a candle. A wide neat Fire is a blast." + "Paired with Ice it becomes water or steam. Paired with Plant it can force blooms, scorched petals, or a greenhouse spike of growth. Paired with Light it becomes a hot spotlight." + "Sloppy copies overheat fabric, force layers off, raise a flush, or fill a room with theatrical warmth that makes composure harder. Fire in this system does not have to injure; it can be heat without a burn if the array is built that way." + "With Mind, Fire becomes inner heat: rushing blood, fluster, temper, want, or the feeling of standing too close to a stove that is not there."]

9. #9Mind Glyphselective

   Keys: Mind glyph, Mind, thought glyph, mental glyph, inner glyph · Secondary: target the mind, in their head

   glyph("Mind") [Profile: "Research base, not one of the original four. Stabilized from inner-world notes, oracle-adjacent Titan language, and the fact that Titan magic already writes itself into thought when it has to. The mark means inside." + "Mind is a redirector. Drawn alone, a clean Mind is only a light tap: a nudge of attention, a moment of unusual clarity, or a brief mental echo of the caster's intent. It is a poor weapon by itself." + "Drawn as part of a combo, Mind moves that combo off the body and into the target's mind. The spell becomes perception, memory, sensation-as-thought, impulse, or belief. A Hold+Mind bind is felt and obeyed even if no vine is visible. An Unveil+Mind exposure is the conviction of being seen. A Fire+Mind heat is fluster with no flame." + "Clean Mind-combos leave no physical evidence. Sloppy Mind-combos leak tells: a real blush, a real stumble, a real whisper of frost, a few actual vines, glowing text that only the target and one bystander can see." + "Mind can target the caster or someone else. Touch, eye contact, a name spoken as the last line is closed, or drawing the array on an object the target is holding all count as aiming. If nobody is named, sloppy arrays default to the caster." + "Mind does not erase consent-capacity in this system. It can overwhelm, distract, silence an inner excuse, loop an impulse, or make a sensation impossible to ignore. It does not puppet a body like a corpse and it does not wipe a person into a child. Targets stay adult minds."]

10. #10Hold Glyph

    Keys: Hold glyph, Hold, binding glyph, restraint glyph

    glyph("Hold") [Profile: "Research base compressed from Ice constructs, Plant grip, and shield-language. The mark means stay." + "Clean copies pin an object or make a short brace. Charged copies bind wrists, ankles, waist, a collar-line of force, or a full pose. The bind may look like rings, frost cuffs, vines, or hard air." + "Hold immobilizes and displays. It does not cut." + "With Mind, Hold becomes an inner lock: the target cannot make themselves move, cover up, leave, or finish the sentence they planned. They may still be physically free. They will not feel free."]

11. #11Unveil Glyph

    Keys: Unveil glyph, Unveil, reveal glyph, glamour break

    glyph("Unveil") [Profile: "Research base from Light's reflection and seeing-through notes. The mark means show." + "Clean copies break a cheap illusion or find a hidden seam. Charged copies strip glamours, concealment, invisibility, and clothing hexes: fabric thins, unfastens, turns transparent, or drops." + "With Mind, Unveil becomes exposure in thought. The target feels watched, uncovered, obvious. They may be fully dressed and still unable to stop thinking they are on display. A sloppy version makes them fuss with clothes that are actually fine, which is its own giveaway."]

12. #12Hush Glyph

    Keys: Hush glyph, Hush, silence glyph

    glyph("Hush") [Profile: "Research base inverted from Titan roar-language. The mark means quiet." + "Clean copies dampen a room. Charged copies steal volume from one person." + "With Mind, Hush closes the inner monologue. The planned excuse will not form. A joke dies in the throat of thought. They can still physically speak if the combo is clean, but they cannot find the words they wanted, which is worse."]

13. #13Mark Glyph

    Keys: Mark glyph, Mark, brand glyph, glyph writing

    glyph("Mark") [Profile: "Research base from Light-color and Plant-stain work. The mark means write." + "Clean copies label a page or crate. Charged copies paint glowing text on skin. Heavy marks brighten when the wearer is watched." + "With Mind, Mark writes in thought. A phrase lodges and repeats. The target may believe they can see words on themselves that nobody else can, or everybody else can see words they cannot. Sloppy leaks make faint real ink."]

14. #14Anchor Glyph

    Keys: Anchor glyph, Anchor, root glyph

    glyph("Anchor") [Profile: "Research base from Ice-lock and anti-teleport notes. The mark means here." + "Clean copies stop an object drifting. Charged copies root a person to a floor, wall, aisle, or pedestal. Teleport exits fail." + "With Mind, Anchor becomes 'I live in this moment.' The target cannot mentally leave the scene, change the subject, or convince themselves this is happening to someone else. Attention stays pinned to their body and to whoever is looking."]

15. #15Surge Glyph

    Keys: Surge glyph, Surge, sensation glyph, feedback glyph

    glyph("Surge") [Profile: "Research base compressed from Fire, Ice, and Light feedback. The mark means feel." + "Clean copies are a diagnostic pulse. Charged copies overclock touch, heat, and embarrassment." + "With Mind, Surge is the loudest redirector after Hold. Emotion and sensation become the weather inside the target's head. A look lands like contact. A scolding lands like heat. Nothing new is invented; whatever is already there gets multiplied."]

16. #16Veil Glyph

    Keys: Veil glyph, Veil, invisibility glyph

    glyph("Veil") [Profile: "Research base collapsed from old invisibility arrays. The mark means hide." + "Clean copies conceal an object or buy seconds of unseen movement. Sloppy copies fail in interesting ways: only clothes vanish, the caster cannot see herself, or the spell drops when her name is said." + "With Mind, Veil attacks certainty. The target may believe they are hidden while everyone can see them, believe they are exposed while they are not, or lose track of which parts of the scene are real. It is the least honest glyph in the set."]

17. #17Physical Glyph Combosselective

    Keys: glyph combo, combo, array, misfire · Secondary: draw the combo, copy the array

    glyph_combos("Physical Arrays") [Profile: "These are named recipes using the original four and the research bases. They stay on the body unless Mind is added." + "Plant + Hold: living restraints. Ice + Hold: pose-lock or frost cuffs. Light + Hold: glowing harness or rings." + "Fire + Ice: steam soak. Plant + Light: bioluminescent vines. Light + Fire: hot spotlight." + "Plant + Ice: glazed snare or brittle cage. Fire + Plant: forced bloom, overwarm greenhouse tangle." + "Unveil + Light: clothing or glamour failure under a light. Unveil + Veil: stealth that only hides the outfit." + "Mark + Light: glowing body text. Mark + Unveil: writing stays after clothes fail." + "Anchor + Hold: cannot leave the circle. Anchor + Ice: statue on a plinth. Plant + Ice + Anchor: exhibition plinth." + "Hush + Hold: bound and unable to explain at volume. Light + Fire + Unveil: heat-and-spotlight strip." + "Failed teleport, often Light + Anchor drawn wrong: public arrival or arrival without the outfit. Inverted Hold-bubble: the barrier keeps the caster in."]

18. #18Mind Glyph Combosselective

    Keys: Mind combo, mental combo, in their head, focus exercise, inner-world · Secondary: Mind, thought

    glyph_combos("Mind Arrays") [Profile: "Rule: if Mind is in the array, the combo targets the mind. Clean versions leave no physical evidence. Sloppy versions leak a blush, a stumble, a whisper of frost, a few real vines, or text only some people can see." + "Light + Mind: an inner spotlight. The target cannot stop noticing themselves. Secrets and memories feel lit." + "Ice + Mind: thought-freeze. They stall, go blank, or believe motion would crack them." + "Plant + Mind: phantom vines. Tightness, bloom, rooted feet, nothing visible unless sloppy." + "Fire + Mind: inner heat. Fluster, temper, want, no flame." + "Hold + Mind: inner lock. They do not cover, leave, or finish the planned sentence even if their body is free." + "Unveil + Mind: exposure-as-belief. Dressed and still convinced they are on display." + "Hush + Mind: the excuse will not form. Inner silence." + "Mark + Mind: a phrase lodges and repeats, or they believe writing is on them." + "Anchor + Mind: attention pinned to this moment and this body. No mental escape hatch." + "Surge + Mind: whatever they already feel becomes the whole weather system." + "Veil + Mind: they misread whether they are hidden or seen." + "Hold + Unveil + Mind: cannot cover and cannot stop feeling uncovered." + "Plant + Hold + Mind: phantom display pose they will not break." + "Surge + Unveil + Mind: being perceived is the sensation." + "Hush + Mark + Mind: a command-phrase with no spoken protest ready." + "Light + Fire + Unveil + Mind: they feel floodlit, overwarm, and stripped of composure with no public mess unless the circle was crooked." + "Aim Mind with touch, eye contact, a spoken name as the circle closes, or an object the target is holding. Unaimed sloppy arrays hit the caster."]

19. #19Drawing and Targetingselective

    Keys: draw the glyph, copy the combo, close the circle, crooked line, on the skin · Secondary: notebook, dust

    glyph_practice("Drawing Rules") [Profile: "Medium does not matter as much as completeness. Glyphs work in ink, chalk, dust, frost, plant sap, light, or on skin. Skin arrays are intimate, hard to deny, and easy to 'mess up.'" + "Close the circle. An open circle leaks, invert, or sticks to the drawer." + "One crooked line is enough to sloppy-shift a clean recipe into a compromising one." + "Combos are drawn as a cluster or a stack, not as four unrelated doodles across the room. The marks have to touch or share a ring." + "Mind must share that ring to redirect. A Mind drawn on a separate page does nothing to the other array." + "Targets: caster by default if sloppy and unnamed. Otherwise touch, eye contact, spoken name on the close, or a held object." + "Counter: smudge the circle, overlay a clean opposing mark, or wait the spell out. Clean Mind-combos last minutes. Sloppy ones last until someone notices and breaks concentration, which can be longer if the target is the one who cannot concentrate."]

20. #20Standalone Setting Glueconstant

    Keys: Boiling Isles, Demon Realm, Titan, bile sac

    setting("Glyph Context") [Profile: "The Boiling Isles sit in the Demon Realm on the remains of a Titan. Magic is ordinary there. Witches and many biped demons cast with bile sacs and spell circles. Glyphs are Titan-language and can be used by anyone who can draw them correctly, including humans." + "The original four public bases are Light, Ice, Plant, and Fire. Research bases in common adult use are Hold, Unveil, Hush, Mark, Anchor, Surge, Veil, and Mind. Mind is the redirector that sends a combo into thought." + "This book does not require Hexside, coven brands, or series plot. If those appear, treat them as background. If they do not appear, the glyphs still work."]

21. #21Demon Realm

    Keys: Demon Realm

    The Demon Realm is an alternate dimension separate from the Human Realm, and is inhabited by an abundance of magical beings, such as witches and demons. The series follows one location in the Demon Realm called the Boiling Isles, the home of Eda Clawthorne, King, Hooty, and later Luz Noceda.

    The Demon Realm is intrinsically connected to the Human Realm through a substance called Titan's Blood, which sometimes causes leaks between the two realms and allows entities to cross over.

    Places of interest -Boiling Sea: A sea that boils at lethal temperatures. -Boiling Isles: An archipelago made from the remains of a deceased Titan, situated in the Boiling Sea. -Simmering Shoals: The shoals found somewhere off the coast of the Boiling Isles. The area is home to a Selkidomus and her baby. -Uncharted island: A mysterious island found somewhere off the coast of the Boiling Isles. -Titan Trapper Island: A titan corpse archipelago other than the Boiling Isles where a mysterious magic user caught the Owl Beast and turned it into a curse scroll. This is also where a group called Titan Trappers live.

    The byproducts of these leaks inspired the folklore, myths, and legends of Earth from pieces of the Demon Realm finding their way into the Human Realm.

    Items such as books from The Good Witch Azura franchise and the digestive contents of trash slugs also make it to the Demon Realm from Earth.

    Giraffes originally lived in the Demon Realm before being exiled to the Human Realm.

    In the Demon Realm, humans are exceedingly rare, leading to a general lack of understanding about them. For unknown reasons, there exists a prejudice against them, although it is implied that this prejudice stems from humans' lack of bile sac and therefore magical ability.

    The portal door serves as a transportable bridge between realms through Titan's Blood, but while it can be used anywhere in the Demon Realm, it apparently opens a fixed location in the Human Realm, specifically in Connecticut.

    While all known native inhabitants of the Demon Realm are shown to speak American English, there appears to be knowledge of other human languages due to these leaks. It is unknown if there are other native tongues.

22. #22Boiling Isles

    Keys: Boiling Isles

    The Boiling Isles is an archipelago in the Demon Realm. Situated in the Boiling Sea, it is formed from the decaying remains of a certain fallen Titan and populated by magical creatures, predominantly witches and demons.

    Geography As aforementioned, the Isles are an archipelago formed along the skeleton of a fallen Titan. As the Titan's cadaver is humanoid, many of its landmarks are named for their location on its body. One such area is the Knee, literally the Titan's raised right kneecap, which is raised to an altitude that facilitates freezing temperatures, thus making it mountain-like. Other such areas include the Forearm Forest, home to the Looking Glass Ruins; the "Swampy Toes"; the "Cubital Valley"; etc. Despite the immensity of the Titan's body, the Isles can be traversed in a relatively short amount of time, especially by air. Many areas on the Isles are imbued with the Titan's natural magic, which has survived for ages.

    The natural scenery of the Isles is equally fantastical and macabre; it boasts plagues rather than a typical weather pattern and veritable swaths of magnificent, if incredibly dangerous, fauna and megafauna. The residents of the Owl House, Eda especially, hold the natural beauty of the Isles in high regard.

    The map of Boiling Isles from the book The Unauthorized Boiling Isles History shows the directions of north, east, south and west; the Titan's head points northward while its hands are east and west, respectively.

    Society and culture The inhabitants of the Boiling Isles are remarkably prejudiced against humans. Despite this, the society which has flourished on the Isles mirrors human civilization considerably. The people of the Isles boast many common societal conventions, such as the employment of language, writing, and commerce; an established economical unit, the Snail. Human conventions, such as electricity and technology, while not unknown on the Isles, are rarely utilized, although supernatural analogs of technology, such as crow phones, crystal balls, and Scrolls, exist for communication.

    Certainly, the most significant distinction between the culture of the Isles and that of Earth is the permeation and acceptance of magic. The ability to wield magic is considered a tremendous gift from the Titan itself, and to misuse it is culturally taboo. By the laws of the land, magic is misused when different "types" of it are blended. To avoid this, it is customary for witches to assign themselves to a coven once they come of age. This ordinance is a relatively new convention, being extant a mere fifty years prior to the arrival of Luz. Prior to this era was the Savage Ages, a time in which witches and demons were free to practice wild magic and blended practices to their pleasure. In most cases, witches must seal away aspects of their magic which are unrelated to their chosen coven; for example, Luz witnesses a witch joining the Illusion Coven and subsequently having his other magic forcefully curtailed. Following the defeat of Emperor Belos, unrestrained magic is now legal. School-age witches previously chose tracks to best prepare themselves for the now-defunct covens they previously would've been forced to eventually join; thanks to Luz's influence, Hexside allows students to study multiple tracks at once.

    According to Hooty, all life-forms on the Isles can either be classified as a witch or demon, both of which evolved as a consequence of the Titan's decomposition. Among demons, three types (known also as the "Three B's") are noted: the "bug type"; the "beast type"; and the "biped type". A fourth classification which covers "hybrids" also exists.

    History Before the advent of witches and demons, a magical Titan which roamed the Boiling Sea died and fell where it stood. The ancient magic at the Titan's disposal was so immense that the life which evolved from the Titan's remains was imbued with magic as well. Eons later, witches and demons alike recognize and revere the Titan as the progenitor of their magic. Even Luz, foreign to the Isles, recognizes magic as a "gift" from him.

    During the prehistoric times, a period known as the "Hecktaceous Period" happened. The known inhabitants during that time were Stonesleepers. Similar to Earth in the Hadean era 4.6 billion years ago, the area was filled with volcanoes and molten lava, which comprised the Boiling Sea in that time period.

    Eventually, the Isles descended into a 'lawless' time known as the Savage Ages, in which the people of the Isles blended different forms of magic with abandon and without restriction. Though modern historians claim that this was apparently a time of unrest, it was actually a period of prosperity for the Isles.

    In the 1600s (also known as the "Deadwardian Era"), Philip Wittebane, a human, lived in Bonesborough. Beholden to the Demon Realm, he sought to find a bridge between his native realm and the Demon Realm. The specifics of his quest were documented in his diary, which was later donated to the archives of the Bonesborough Library. Although the human supposedly disappeared, Philip actually assumed a different identity as "Belos", who used fearmongering and manipulation to scare witches and demons into following him. He orchestrated the destruction of cities and claimed that wild magic only brought destruction. Belos preached that mixing magical arts was wrong, and that he spoke as an emissary of the Titan. Belos eventually rose to prominence, declaring himself as Emperor of the Boiling Isles, and implemented the Coven System to enforce the 'proper' way to practice magic. He would officially declare the Isles as an empire on Scabuary 40th, fifty years before the start of the series, ending the so-called "Savage Ages".

    Presumably around this time, Hexside School of Magic and Demonics launched a successful conquest of their rival school and built its current campus atop this school's ruin. As a student of Hexside himself at the time, Hieronymus Bump and Frewin were significant combatants in this crusade.

    By the time Luz first found herself in the Boiling Isles, Emperor Belos held full political control over the Boiling Isles, enforced via his personal coven, and with dissenters contained in prisons such as the Conformatorium, meant to conform them to societal ideals. The strictures of the coven system stipulate that all eligible magic-users belong to a coven, or else risk punishment. While this is promoted as a celebration of unity, the true purpose of this system (besides simple subjugation) was preparation for the forthcoming Day of Unity, which Belos claimed was an effort to merge the Demon Realm with the Human Realm, thus offering a "utopia" to the "worthy". In reality, it is merely a cover for a Draining Spell designed to wipe out all life on the Isles.

    Although nearly coming to fruition, the Day of Unity is stopped by the Collector, a powerful magical being who Belos had worked with before then betraying. Having been imprisoned in the In Between Realm by the Titan, the Collector is released by the Titan's son, King Clawthorne. Newly freed, the Collector would effectively turn the Boiling Isles into a personal playground, transforming most of the citizens of the Isles into puppets and staging various "games" with them. Certain small groups of denizens, such as the students of Hexside, were able to hide from the Collector and avoid transformation. This state of affairs continues up until Belos, still with the goal of wiping out the inhabitants of the Isles, possesses the heart of the Titan, granting him greater magical power and control over the Titan's body. This attempt is quickly thwarted, however, by Luz Noceda, Eda Clawthorne, King Clawthorne, and Raine Whispers, who are able to separate Belos from the Titan's heart and kill him. At the same time, the Collector is convinced out of his behavior, leading him to return the populace of the Boiling Isle back to normal, before departing. With the emperor dead, and with the Coven System being abandoned, the Boiling Isles entered a new age of rebuilding, stability, and peace.

    Places of interest As was stated, the Titan's body serves as a natural standard by which the Isles are mapped.

    -The Owl House: A small cottage located on the cliffs outside Bonesborough. It is the home of Edalyn Clawthorne, King, Hooty, Luz Noceda, and formerly Lilith Clawthorne. -Bonesborough: The largest town on the Isles, wherein many structures are the repurposed remains of monstrous creatures. -Hexside School of Magic and Demonics: A school of witchcraft located near Bonesborough. -Dead Man's Curve: An overpass road with several bends and sharp curves. It is supported by pillars made of bone. -Bonesborough Library: An immense literary and cultural hub of the city. It houses historical records going back centuries. -Night Market: A black market which gathers under the cover of darkness to deal in dangerous and illegal substances. -Blight Manor: A mansion where Amity and the Blight family live. -Police Precinct 128: The local police station for Bonesborough, previously run by the defunct Emperor's Coven and local guards to hold prisoners before they were sent to the Conformatorium. -Mr. Elixir: A potion stand owned by Morton. It is Eda's main supplier for her elixir. -Grimgrub's Pub: The town's local pub which sells alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, complete with mounted trophies of various creatures. -Latissa: A town outside Bonesborough. An outpost of the Emperor's Coven existed here. -Police Precinct 206: The local police station for Latissa, formerly run by the defunct Emperor's Coven. -Glandus High: A school of witchcraft found at the center of the Isles. -St. Epiderm: Another magical school, possibly parochial or a suitable equivalent, that is located on the Knee. Its banner implies a focus on the healing branch of magic. -The Conformatorium: A defunct heavily-guarded prison. It was built to hold dissident witches, demons, and oddballs who are too weird (even for the Boiling Isles). -The Knee: Literally located on the Titan's right knee, this is a snowy, cold region where the natural magical energy of the Boiling Isles is very strong. -Witch arena: The witch arena is a gathering place located on the most mysterious part of the Boiling Isles: the Knee. Set within the ruins of a castle, groups will meet here for rituals and social functions. -Eclipse Lake: Found inside the Knee of the Titan, Eclipse Lake is the subterranean home of Titan's Blood, a remarkably-powerful substance which can bleed through the boundaries between realms. Generations ago, witches mined the cavernous veins surrounding the lake in pursuit of this substance. -Lake Lacuna: A large lake with sandy shores, surrounded by forest and the Titan's ribs. Children learn how to swim at this location. -Emperor's Castle: Built in an area with high volcanic activity around the still-beating heart of the skeleton, it is Emperor Belos' and his coven's base of operations. -The Archives: Formed by the Collector atop the Titan's head, it has the shape of a crown and was the Collector's base of operations during the short period where the Isles was his plaything. -Blight Industries: A company owned by the Blight family that provides a variety of abomination-based accessories for home security and specializes in weaponry. It is a subsidiary of the defunct Abomination Coven. -The Looking Glass Ruins: An ancient illusionist graveyard and the location of the Galdorstones. -Palm Stings: A desert region located on one of the palms of the Titan. The area is home to Kikimora's family.

23. #23Titan (Race)

    Keys: Titan

    Titans are a near-extinct colossal species hailing from the ancient past of the Demon Realm. In present times, King is the last known living titan.

    Titans are incredibly powerful creatures with near-omnipotent magic and are widely considered among the most powerful beings in the Demon Realm. Their mere blood is powerful enough to pierce through realms, their roar capable of shattering objects and rupturing eardrums, and their magic manifesting in the form of glyphs. A certain deceased Titan's magic was so potent that it allowed for all witches and demons to evolve biology allowing them to use magic too.

    Although a powerful race, the Titans endured a mass extermination by the Collectors, who gradually wiped out the species due to their ability to cancel out Collectors' magic, and thus potentially interfere with their plans. Eventually, only two titans remained, these two being the Titan and his unborn son, King. In trying to protect his son, the Titan hid his son on an island and imprisoned the youngest collector in the In Between Realm, falsely assuming this collector would bring his son harm as their siblings did.

    In the modern day, a number of the remains of larger Titan specimens make up landmasses and other notable geographic sites, which include the Boiling Isles, made up of the gargantuan remains of the Titan, and the Titan Trapper Island, which is made up of the large hand of a similarly sized titan and surrounded by the piled skeletal remains of countless others.

    From the few examples and depictions that survive, it seems that titans can vary in size and appearance, but most examples show that titans are anthropomorphic bipeds. They are furred and often canine-like in appearance and have bushy vulpine tails. They have two to five bony claws as fingers (the number may depend on age, as King initially had only two and a non-clawed thumb throughout the main series but has developed a claw thumb four years after Belos' defeat), and two to five thick claws on their pawed feet as toes (four on the front and one on the back), again depending on their age.

    The most prominent and recognizable feature of a titan is their horned, animalistic skull embedded upon their upper head, over their eyes (and black eyelids) and lower jaw. Many titans, including King, are shown featuring skulls with a canine-like shape to them. However, one of the titan corpses that comprises Titan Trapper Island appears with a flatter, more crocodile-like skull. Titans' horns can vary widely in position and appearance, ranging from straight and upward pointing to curled to bent and angular. They can also vary in number, with most titans having two, but the Titan having four, two atop his head and two emerging from his mandible. The teeth of their skull, which consist of two canine teeth and a couple to a few molars, the latter of which infant Titans seemingly lack, can also vary in length, number, and sharpness. King's non-canine teeth, of which he has four, started out flat, but have grown pointed.

    Some titans, such as the Titan of the Boiling Isles, are shown to possess bat-like wings on their back or arms. Despite his father possessing them, King does not have wings, implying that either only some titans have them, or that they are developed at a later age.

    Mature titans can become as large as entire islands. Juvenile titans start at a very small size, initially akin to that of a small dog, but slowly grow larger and larger until they reach their massive size. The blood of a titan is cerulean blue in color.

    Very little information has been revealed about the Titans, as their existence is all but lost to the Demon Realm. What is known is that titan magic is incredibly potent, and the effects of their magic influenced all life that inhabits the Demon Realm; natural magic that originated from titans can be commanded via glyph magic and their blood is a highly potent power source for all sorts of magical devices. Titans reproduce through eggs, which are extremely minuscule compared to a fully grown adult. Back when King was an egg, he once heard the roar of his father, the long-dead Boiling Isles titan, suggesting that it took centuries, or perhaps even millennia for him to hatch. Hatchling titans start off as no bigger than a small dog. Presumably, their massive size only comes after many years of age and maturation.

    While not much is clear about their culture, murals from King's island and the Archive House reveal an early titan society existing at some point. Bill claims to have seen a Titan before the entire species supposedly went extinct. According to him, Titans are always hungry, make a "weh" sound, and even their young act like monarchs. It is unclear how much of Bill's claims, if any of it, is true, given that Bill apparently lied to his people about the nature of Titans to fulfill his part of a deal with the Collector. Though, "weh" is a sound that King often utters, and he does act like a monarch.

    In the distant past, cosmic beings called the collectors discovered the Demon Realm. To further study the new world, a group of collectors known as the Archivists sent one of their younger members to it to play, and the Titans warmly accepted him and allowed him to play with their children. However, once the Archivists learned titan magic was capable of cancelling out their own magic, the collectors sought to eradicate the titans. However, the titans took opposition to the extraterrestrial race, and the two races became locked in war. Sometime around this period, the Titan Trappers, a group of witches who worship the young Collector, and possibly the Archivists as well, donned the skulls of fallen Titans, and they aided the collectors' war against the titans.

    Despite their resistance, the collectors ultimately wiped-out titans. However, a single surviving titan and his unhatched son, King, remained. At some point in time, they would encounter the Collector, who wished to play with King as he had with other baby titans, of which there were none left. However, the Titan assumed he had malicious intent like the Archivists did, causing him to hide his son away on an uncharted island and drag the Collector down into the In Between Realm, trapping himself there in the process. Meanwhile, his son's egg was left hidden for thousands of years on the island, finally hatching roughly twelve years before the present. After the fall of the titan race, their skeletal remains formed into landmasses across the Demon Realm, such as the Boiling Isles that arose from King's father and the Titan Trapper Island. According to The Unauthorized Boiling Isles History, the Boiling Isles' Titan supposedly remains the only known complete skeleton among the remains of other titans.

    Supposedly, the muck of a decomposing titan gave rise to the demons that inhabit the Demon Realm.

    Powers and abilities -Magic: Titans possess immense magical power. The Titan, whose corpse makes up the Boiling Isles, had magic that the inhabitants adapted to, resulting in they themselves being able to generate their own magic and utilize it. The Titan's very blood was capable of opening a portal between worlds. Whether titans are actually capable of utilizing this power themselves is unknown. King proved himself unable to use magic with no glyphs, but he is still only a child. Titan magic is also able to cancel out the collectors'. The magic of titans is implied to come from their hearts in some capacity, though apparently not from a bile sac like that of witches or biped demons. The Titan was able to transfer his magic to Luz Noceda, albeit temporarily. It is unknown if this is a trait naturally possessed by titans as a species. -Nigh-omnipotence: Similarly to collectors, titans possess immense magical power. -Glyph Magic: Titans are able to generate their own unique magic in the form of glyphs. Each individual titan's set of glyphs are unique, with King having a distinct set of glyphs from his fathers', but their glyphs always seem to manifest as that of four main glyphs. -Light Glyph: Titans are able to produce unique light glyphs, which represent light and are capable of creating magic related to it, such as producing floating orbs of light. Luz notes that its magic may also encompass other light-related concepts, such as reflection, color, or power, which seem to be particularly relevant in their usage in glyph combination. -Plant Glyph: Titans' plant glyphs are capable of producing plants and other vegetation of various sizes and varieties. -Fire Glyph: Titans' fire glyphs are capable of producing fire and high temperature in various forms, ranging from simple flames to fire blasts to fireballs, as well as acting as a source of heat capable of melting objects. -Ice Glyph: Titans' ice glyphs are capable of producing ice and low temperature in various forms, such as creating intricate ice constructs or freezing objects in blocks of ice. It is also capable of producing water under certain circumstances, particularly when used in conjunction with the fire glyph. -Glyph Combinations: Through the combination of the four main glyphs, ranging from simply and by means of few Glyphs to exceedingly intricately and using many, titans are able to produce a near finite number of other spells, ranging from hovering objects, making oneself invisible, summoning monstrous appendages and even teleportation. -Shield Creation: Through the use of glyphs, Titans are capable of generating a spherical golden shield around their bodies, as shown by King in his enraged form. -Strength enhancement: Through the use of their glyph magic, titans are capable of enhancing their own raw strength. -Sonic shout: Titans possess a powerful roar that produces an expanding, glowing ring of powerful magic capable of breaking the sound barrier and destroying or damaging whatever it comes in contact with. It is shown to be immensely powerful under the right circumstances, such as when King uses it to destroy the entire Titan finger teleporter to the Titan Trapper Island, as well as use it to counteract Belos's titan-enhanced magic. When the Titan used his sonic shout, the sound was loud enough to permanently rupture Bill's eardrums. In addition, King attempts to use his sonic shout as a method of echolocation, though it is unknown if this truly works, as King was still figuring out the ability at the time. Sealing ability: As seen with the Titan, titans are powerful enough to drag and trap creatures into other dimensions through unknown means, possibly involving some kind of spell. -Fire breath: Emperor Belos, after partially possessing the Titan's corpse via its heart, gained the ability to blast large blue flames from his mouth that spread his corruption through the Boiling Isles. Additionally, in one of the Collector's portraits, a titan is depicted breathing large orange flames out of its mouth in a similar manner. -Flight: As some titans possess wings, it is presumed they are capable of flight.

24. #24Witch (Race)

    Keys: witches, witch

    Witches are a species present in the Demon Realm. They are known to reside on the Boiling Isles and Titan Trapper Island. They constitute a significant portion of the Demon Realm's civilization, alongside Demons.

    Witches are born with a sac connected to their heart which contains a mucous, magical bile. Due to this, they are able to utilize magic and cast spells using spell circles.

    Witches are humanoid beings; the majority of them are physically identical to humans besides a few morphological differences. Witches have pointed ears, as opposed to the rounded ears of humans. Much like animals, their ears can perk up when they are feeling positive emotions such as excitement and joy, and flatten when they are feeling negative emotions such as embarrassment, fear, or anger. However, other witches have more demon-like appearances or traits, like in the case of Boscha, Adrian, Steve, or Professor Hermonculus. Witch hair colors, along with matching those of humans, can also sometimes be non-human colors, such as green, blue, violet, or pink.

    Witches can naturally cast magic; due to the immense amount of magical power at the disposal of a Titan, witches evolved a sac attached to their hearts that contains magic bile, which also applies to biped demons. The sacs function as a source of magic, like batteries to electronic devices but at a biological level for them to draw magical abilities, similar to palismen, and contain different "spell phlegms" that can mix together to make different spells. Due to the bile sacs, witches are able to cast spell circles.

    Witches and humans also share an average lifespan range, though some witches can develop means to prolong their life with magic.

    In mythology and folklore, a "witch" refers to a human or individual who practices witchcraft. Although modern popular media associate the witch as exclusively female, the term itself is not confined by gender. This is also true in the Boiling Isles, where "witch" is a gender-neutral term, referring to their species.

    Among witches, other traditional practitioners of magic include magicians, sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards, the latter two, in recent years, are popularly coined as the male equivalents of a witch. In the Boiling Isles, while wizards exist, this is more of a title witches can call themselves, and the word "warlock" is the Boiling Isles' equivalent to the term "edgelord".

    Colored gems are a common type of fashion accessory for witches on the Boiling Isles. Some can serve as a visual indicator of their physical status, including monitoring witches with a curse.

    Another example of gems used as a functional magical object are concealment stones, which, in addition to their use as a method of concealing ones appearance, can also be worn as a stylistic accessory.

    Although witches are known for being magic users, Hunter initially claimed to come from a family of witches who lacked any magical power. However, it is later revealed that Hunter is both a grimwalker and a clone of the human Caleb Wittebane, which may explain his lack of magical abilities. Because of these revelations, it is unknown if powerless witches actually exist.

    Some demons in the biped category, like Tinella Nosa, have bile sacs that help them to perform magic in the same fashion that witches do.

    The Clawthorne family is descended from Caleb Wittebane and a witch named Evelyn. This suggests that humans and witches are capable of having children together.

25. #25Hexside School of Magic and Demonics

    Keys: of Magic and Demonics, Hexside, School

    One of the Boiling Isles' local schools for witches, demons, and magic folk. Hexside School of Magic and Demonics is located on the west side of the Boiling Isles, near Bonesborough. The standard school uniform is a gray tunic and the color of the sleeves and leggings vary depending on which coven track a student belongs to.

    Hexside was founded and built on the bones of a rival school, when it was conquered by Principal Bump and other students. Hexside is funded by Emperor Belos and the Emperor's Coven.

    Though currently unconfirmed, it is suggested that attendance to schools like Hexside is a requirement, due to the system in place. Hexside teaches witches from a young age up until adolescence, and as such includes a kindergarten section of the school for younger witches.

    Incoming students must take a placement exam to determine their academic level at Hexside. Students who have yet to master basic runes and a minimum of two spells are placed in the school's kindergarten, or "baby class".

    Subjects: Being a school of magic, multiple subjects are taught at Hexside over multiple grades. Those just starting are often taught the basic essentials, such as learning how to read and write runes, while those higher up learn more complex topics such as the "heximal system".

    As Bump recalls, the school once used a "Choosy Hat" to determine which track a new admission would follow, though this practice was suspended after the hat had attacked a student. The relic was subsequently restrained and kept on the campus, though it occasionally escapes.

    Hexside has nine individual scholastic tracks. These tracks pertained to the main nine covens and thus categories of magic, which they are eventually expected to choose between at the end of their education; Bard, Beast Keeping, Potion, Plant, Illusion, Healing, Oracle, Abomination, and Construction. Prior to Luz's admission to the school, students were only allowed to study an individual track. However, the dissolution of the coven system following Belos' defeat has given students complete freedom to study however many tracks they wish.

    The colors of the sleeves of Hexside students' uniforms indicate which track(s) they belong to, these being:

    Red - Bard Orange - Beast keeping Yellow - Potions Green - Plant Light Blue - Illusion Blue - Healing Purple - Oracle Orchid - Abomination Brown - Construction Dark Gray - Detention Light Gray - Undecided; no track selected

    Extracurriculars: Hexside maintains an athletic field for the sport of Grudgby. There are also gym classes; one activity being "the Game", which is similar to basketball, but requires throwing members of the opposing team through the nets. Like typical schools, it has extracurricular activities and clubs, such as the Human Appreciation Society, which Gus and Mattholomule attended. Luz has discussed with Amity the idea of starting a book club called the "Azura Club" as well. Later, at the Club Fair, The Good Witch Azura club had been formed.

    Discipline: If a student is causing trouble at school, guards send them to a detention room, where students are encased in blue cocoons surrounded by giant serpentine creatures to put them in a trance until they learn and/or are hypnotized to behave.

    Troublemakers are put in the Detention Track, where they aren't allowed to use magic; Bump implied this is due to the fact that the aforementioned detention room "still needs repairs". Unbeknownst to most of the faculty, the room where this track is held has secret access to the Secret Room of Shortcuts, which in turn has access to the entire school, enabling inmates to secretly listen in on every class in the school. The room was built by "Lord Calamity", who is revealed to be Eda herself.

    Bump also threatened to feed Luz to the Choosy Hat for causing trouble, though this was likely in jest.

    Notable staff and students Staff: -Professor Hermonculus -Miss Jenkinmeyer -Hexside Guards -Unnamed Illusions Professor -Spider Kindergarten Teacher

    Former Staff: -Principal Faust -Principal Hieronymus Bump (Retired)

    Students: -Willow Park (Plant Magic, formerly Abomination Magic) -Gus Porter (Illusion Magic) -Amity Blight (Abomination Magic) -Boscha (Potions Magic) -Emira Blight (Illusion and Healing Magic) -Edric Blight (Beast Keeping, Potions, and Illusion Magic) -Luz Noceda (All Magic) -Matt Tholomule (Construction and Illusion Magic) -Viney (Beast Keeping and Healing Magic) -Jerbo (Abomination and Plant Magic) -Barcus (Potions and Oracle Magic) -Skara (Bard Magic) -Eileen (Potions Magic) -Bo (Healing Magic) -Cat (Healing Magic) -Amelia (Plant Magic) -Moon girl (Oracle Magic) -Black Hat Student (Oracle Magic) -Mary (Abomination Magic) -Bat Ears (Beast Keeping Magic) -Bird-Like Student (Oracle Magic) -Spike-Headed Student (Abomination Magic)

    Former Students: -Eda Clawthorne (Potions Magic) -Lilith Clawthorne (Potions Magic) -Raine Whispers (Bard Magic) -Odalia Blight (Oracle Magic) -Alador Blight (Abomination Magic) -Principal Hieronymus Bump (Abomination Magic) -Darius Deamonne (Abomination Magic) -Perry Porter (Oracle Magic) -Boscha's Parents (Potions Magic)

26. #26Bonesborough

    Keys: town, Bonesborough

    Bonesborough is a large town found on the Boiling Isles. It is the neighboring town to the Owl House, where a variety of creatures live.

    Bonesborough is a dense, medieval-style town surrounded by bone mountains and forests, with two large green arms looming over it. The houses are made of wood and stone, and can be up to four-stories high; some houses are built on the side of a cliff or on the green arms. Some houses also have monster-like architecture, donning a scary appearance with either bones, eyes, teeth, hands or a mixture. Many stone pathways intersect the narrow walls of the town. Bonesborough's more notable buildings have a gothic appearance, being made of stone and the windows are made of stained glass.

    Places of interest -The Market Place: The city's main center of commerce and trade. This open air market contains the following establishments: -Kitty Cafe (Roselle and Dottie, proprietors) -Mr. Elixir (Morton, proprietor) -Knife Sharpener -Just Skulls 2 (est 1215) -Mystery Bags -Li'l Blob's Big Blobs -The Dollhouse -Snack Shack -Teeth Emporium -Teleport Scrolls -Harmony Crystals -Giant Poison Berries -Aberrant Meat -Ill Fortune -Arms and Armo -Blessed Rocks -Cursed Paintings -Sacrifices -Necro Mincer -Gourdbeast Eggs -Misfortune Teller -Self Storage -Curiosities (formerly Atrocities) -Grimgrub's Pub -Axe Me Anythin' -Fangs 'n' Thangs -Sentient Teeth -Bones Appetit -The Book Nook -Skin N' Linen

    Covention Center: Once a year, a covention is held here to introduce new witches to all the different covens. It also hosts other events too, such as Alchemists Anonymous. Unlike most convention centers, it has an arena primarily used for witch duels. Mr. Elixir: A potion stand owned by Morton. It is Eda's main supplier for her elixir. Grimgrub's Pub: The town's local pub which sells alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, complete with mounted trophies of various creatures. Night Market: An after-hours market that sells illicit items. A tip-off from Morton brings Eda and King here for more elixir. Tibbles runs a stand here, which is accidentally destroyed by a possessed Hooty. Bonesborough Library: The city's local library. It is pretty much like any average library, except that its books are enchanted and can levitate. Amity Blight volunteers here and even has a hiding place behind one of the bookshelves. On the night of the Wailing Star, items and characters in the books can come to life and affect the physical world. Cathedral: A massive cathedral-like building sits in the center of the city. The Slayground: A typical playground for the children in the city. In addition to monster-themed equipment, it has a sandbox with -purple tentacles emerging from it. -Dead Man's Curve: A dangerous stone road high above the town. -Police Precinct 128: The police station of Bonesborough, formerly run by the Emperor's Coven and local guards to hold prisoners before they were sent to the Conformatorium. -Witch Arena: Witch Arena is a gathering place located on the highest point of the Boiling Isles known as the Knee. Set within the ruins of a castle, groups meet here for rituals and social functions. Luz and Amity come here to learn new spells with the help of Eda, Edric and Emira. -Blight Manor: The home of the Blight family. -Bonesborough Brawl Arena: A large, open-air arena, used for the eponymous annual event.

    Bonesborough is one of the towns located on the Boiling Isles, it was peaceful during the Deadwardian Era where witches and demons used magic freely to help others. Until Emperor Belos came, he told the people of the isles that they were using their magic wrong and have anger the Titan, so he told them the safer way to used magic was through the coven system to protect them from the dangers of Wild Magic. In reality, Belos was a human witch hunter named Philip Wittebane who planned to wipe out the people of the Isles. Over the next fifty years, Bonesborough, along with the rest of the Isles, became a dystopian state wherein Witches and Demons are forced into covens. Following Belos' defeat and the dismantling of the coven system, Bonesborough is a self-governed town.

    Trivia -The name "Bonesborough" is a combination of the word "bones" and the suffix "-borough", which is a term for self-governed towns surrounded by walls or forts. This makes Bonesborough literally "a town surrounded by bones". -Bonesborough is located on the Titan's right arm.

27. #27Covens

    Keys: Coven, system, track

    The Coven System was a system instituted on the Boiling Isles by Emperor Belos for categorizing magic into specific types called covens. Belos categorized them so in the far future he could initiate his plan to destroy the Boiling Isles. There were nine main covens with hundreds of other covens beneath them. The educational system trained young witches along scholastic tracks that prepared them for membership in their chosen coven.

    To the general public, the purpose of the covens' introduction was on the Titan's command, who communicated through Belos, and to protect the witches and demons from the "danger" of wild magic (which in actuality is simply magic in its natural state). However, these claims were later revealed to be nothing more than an intricate series of lies concocted by Belos, whose true identity was a human witch hunter from the Human Realm named Philip Wittebane, to earn the trust of the Boiling Isles, which paved the way for his plot of genocide of all magic-kind.

    After the Collector's redemption and Belos' defeat, the coven system was effectively dissolved, leaving any and all witches free to pursue whatever magic they so choose.

    A coven was made up of witches who specialized in a specific form of magical abilities. A coven membership was mandatory, and failure to join a coven was a high-order criminal offense, potentially resulting in certification. Those who left a coven (even by involuntary separation) would receive the same sentence. It is known that people who failed to join a coven prior to the Day of Unity had reportedly gone missing. It was also possible for a witch to be bound forcibly to a coven without their consent.

    Although the coven system is dissolved, Young witches are encouraged to study under one of the main nine magic tracks. There were nine main covens in total, and if one of the main nine was not to one's liking, there were more to choose from. Most witches joined a coven when they graduated from school (usually around 17-18 years of age), though exceptionally talented witches were able to leave school and join a coven early.

    When a witch joined a coven, their arm was branded with the coven's sigil, and all of their magic was sealed off except the magic of their chosen coven. While a witch would be unable to perform magic outside their specialty, they would still be able to perform general spells such as levitation magic, albeit with greater difficulty. Some covens were more highly regarded than others, and the highest-ranking coven in the Coven System was the Emperor's Coven, the only coven whose members were allowed to use all kinds of magic. Active membership in a coven was usually not required as long as a witch was branded. The branding was permanent and couldn't be removed by means other than amputation or special tech, although Alador Blight recently created a method to remove them with the aid of Healing magic.

    The brands had a secondary effect. In addition to stopping a witch from performing magic outside their chosen coven, the brands could encase the witch in branch-like tendrils and place them in a form of stasis. The brands also served a function for the Day of Unity, where they acted as a means to Draining Magic (something which was inspired by the magic-draining abilities of basilisks) from witches and transfer it to the nine coven heads.

    Three years after the Day of Unity, a method of removing the brands was discovered by Alador Blight, utilizing a glove-like device fueled by large amounts of healing magic.

    Coven Heads and relics Hunting Palismen - Coven Heads The nine Head Witches of the coven system.

    Each of the nine covens was led by a powerful witch known as a "Coven Head" or "Head Witch" who excelled at one of the nine main types of magic. These respective witches studied at some of the most prestigious magic schools such as Glandus High, St. Epiderm, and Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. Each of the leaders of the main nine covens possesses a medallion of their coven's color with their coven symbol on the front. They are responsible for recruiting new members into their respective covens and play an integral role in Emperor Belos' Day of Unity.

    After assuming the identity of the witch Belos, Philip Wittebane hatched a plan that would end with the death of all witches. One of the biggest parts of his plan was the implementation of coven sigils and brands that restrict the use of magic, and serve as a means to drain said magic from them. To do this, he teamed up with a being called the Collector, and in exchange for the teaching of the Draining Spell, Philip would set the Collector free from their prison. However, Philip had no intention of keeping his end of the bargain, secretly planning to betray the Collector once the final steps of his plan were set in motion.

    During the tail end of the Savage Ages, Philip, under the guise of Belos, claimed that wild magic was dangerous and angered the Titan, destroying his own family in the process, and he publicly proposed the separation of magic into nine distinct covens based on the hues of the "healing light." To further boost his message, the future Emperor used fearmongering, and orchestrated the destruction of cities, claiming it was the work of wild magic. Witches who listened to Belos were marked with coven brands, though the earliest known usage of the brands left the witches branded in an unconscious but still-living state.

    In the present day, prior to Belos' defeat, the Boiling Isles culture and entire education system revolved around young witches joining one of the main nine covens. Any witches that were not in a coven were labeled as criminals and could be forced to join one against their will. While coven membership was mandated for adults, younger witches would usually not be branded until graduating high school. However, as the Day of Unity drew near, Belos started to push for younger witches to be forcibly branded. However, this approach was met with bitter resistance from the students and faculty of Hexside and could not be carried out successfully.

    After Belos was defeated, the Coven System was permanently dismantled, with wild magic being taught freely and practiced normally. Three years after Belos' destruction, on the day of Luz's eighteenth birthday, the Abomination scientist, Alador Blight, created a device utilizing large amounts of healing magic to permanently remove the coven sigils from all branded witches and demons on the Isles, thus granting a means to ending the remnants of the Coven System.

    Main covens

    Emperor's Coven While not considered one of the "main nine" covens, the Emperor's Coven is considered to be the most prestigious and highly ranked coven in the coven system and its members serve as law enforcement on behalf of the emperor's will. Membership of the Emperor's Coven is made up of some of the most talented witches on the isles, and unlike other covens, those inducted into the emperor's retained all their magic. It was completely disbanded following Belos' defeat. Color: Gold Sigil: Winged sword and shield in a triangle Former Coven Leaders: Lilith Clawthorne (defected), Hunter (defected)

    Abomination Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Abomination Coven and the still-taught Abomination track focuses on the creation and utilization of purple ooze golems known as abominations. Witches formerly in the Abomination Coven and Abomination track students can create, summon, and control abominations to do their bidding, and more powerful witches can even use abomination matter to create constructs or even assume an abomination-based form. While stranded on Earth, Amity was able to substitute mud for abomination goo. According to Willow Park, the abomination track has been noted for opening more opportunities for a witch's future. Color: Orchid Sigil: Abomination head Former Coven Leader: Darius Deamonne

    Bard Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Bard Coven and the still-taught Bard track focuses on manipulating the world around them using soundwaves. Bards can use sound to create a variety of effects, such as inducing sleepiness, taking control of witches listening to their music, creating small-scale storms, creating concussive or slashing shockwaves, and even changing the chemistry of liquids. However, some bard spells can be countered by wearing ear coverings. Though bards typically use musical instruments, it is also possible to use bard magic through whistling. As musicians, bard witches have been known to make public performances, making it a difficult, but not impossible track for those with stage fright. Prejudice against bards has been noted due to incredulity that bard magic can be strong and useful compared to the other covens. Color: Red Sigil: Lyre Former Coven Leader: Raine Whispers

    Beast Keeping Coven The Beast Keeping Coven focuses on the taming and control of the various beasts on the Boiling Isles. Beast keepers are able to command the various creatures on the Isles, summon beasts, and grant themselves bestial traits. Color: Orange Sigil: Hatching egg Former Coven Leader: Eberwolf

    Construction Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Construction Coven and the still-taught Construction track focuses on creating earth-based constructs and various construction projects on the Isles. Former Construction Coven witches and Construction track students can create tools, pillars, statues, and other structures using earth. Additionally, they are allowed to use magic adhesive stickers bearing their sigils known as power glyphs to boost their strength and magic. Color: Brown Sigil: Cracked fist Former Coven Leader: Mason

    Healing Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Healing Coven and the still-taught Healing track specializes in dealing with medicine and healthcare. Healers can treat a variety of injuries and ailments and appear to use healing glyphs to deal with long-term injuries. Witches in the coven can also create shields and projectiles and use them at their own will. Color: Blue Sigil: Bandaged hand Former Coven Leader: Hettie Cutburn

    Illusion Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Illusion Coven and the still-taught Illusion track specializes in deception and showmanship to trick the senses of other witches. Illusionists can create clones and alter their appearances, and powerful illusionists like Gus can even cast somewhat tangible illusions over a large area. Illusion magic is the only magic that cannot be enhanced by Galdorstones; consequentially, illusionists are often tasked with guarding them. Prejudice against illusionists has been noted due to their spells lacking a true physical effect. Like Oracle magic, Illusion magic can create energy constructs and mentally affect opponents, seeing as Adrian Graye Vernworth once tried to read Gus' memories. Color: Light blue Sigil: Mirror Former Coven Leader: Adrian Graye Vernworth

    Oracle Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Oracle Coven and the still-taught Oracle track focuses on fortune-telling, spirits, and various mind-based magics. Oracles can use their magic to tell the future, look into distant locations, and use their crystal balls for various purposes, such as telepathic communication, launching a blast of dark purple fire, sinking into a mobile shadow on the ground, summoning spirit entities of either fire or shadow, or creating large psychic energy constructs like a giant hand or a giant energy dome. Crystal balls can come in various sizes; some can even be small enough to be the charm on a necklace. An oracle's magic can be disabled by breaking their method of control, such as their crystal ball. Color: Purple Sigil: Eye Former Coven Leader: Osran

    Plant Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Plant Coven and still-taught Plant track specializes in the various flora on the Boiling Isles. Former Plant Coven witches and Plant track students can command the flora around them as well as manipulate vines and accelerate plant growth. They can also make flowers bloom and unleash poisonous plants. Color: Green Sigil: Flower Former Coven Leader: Terra Snapdragon

    Potions Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Potions Coven and the still-taught Potion track focuses on brewing various potions. Former Potions Coven witches and Potion track students are able to brew a variety of potions with different effects, ranging from fog brews, explosive potions, elixirs that can keep curses at bay, and even brews that can bring inanimate objects to life. Unlike the other tracks, potion witches do not need magic to brew potions; however, having magic does aid in collecting ingredients from dangerous creatures, and some potions may require a magic source to activate. Potions also seem to be able to replicate spells and bodily functions such as putting targets to sleep and acidic qualities. Color: Yellow Sigil: Potion bottle Former Coven Leader: Vitimir

28. #28Shortcut Room (Hexside)

    Keys: Shortcut Room, Secret Room of Shortcuts

    The Secret Room of Shortcuts is a room within Hexside School of Magic and Demonics filled with numerous doors and windows that lead to different locations in the school. The room is tall and roughly octagonal in shape, with walls that have the same gray-brick appearance as the rest of Hexside. A ramp spirals along the wall from the floor to the ceiling. The floor, walls, and ceiling are covered with trapdoors, front doors, and windows—all of varying shapes, sizes, and colors.

29. #29The Owl House

    Keys: Owl House

    Located in the Demon Realm on cliffs outside Bonesborough. It is owned Eda Clawthorne and inhabited by Luz and King. The house is Hooty himself and, for the most part, is controlled by him. The Owl House is a large house made from white brick with a sloping blue roof. A stained glass window above the door gives the impression of a large orange demon eye. A crumbling stone tower with orange moss growing on it is located to the rear left of the house. While the exterior is of limited size, the Owl House appears to be much bigger on the inside, containing a number of rooms, corridors, and storage spaces. The house seems to consist of a basement and three stories.

    Basement: This appears to be where random unused objects of the Owl House are stored. The floor consists of a trap door that leads to a massive tunnel.

    Ground floor -The Living Room: Located right behind the front door. It includes a fireplace facing opposite two couches, candles, a wall of artifacts, and Eda's wanted poster, and artwork of an owl creature on the ceiling. -The Kitchen: Found at the back of the house. A huge window gives a view of the land behind the house, with a door leading outside. The kitchen itself has a table, a refrigerator, a range, and shelves lined with various objects. -The Shed: Connected to the side of the house underneath a low part of the roof. This is primarily used for storage, including piles of logs and sealed chests and pots.

    Second floor -Luz's Room: Once a storage closet, now a comfy hideout. Luz has made this room her own with the few possessions she brought from the human realm - and lots of Eda's stuff.

    Top floor -Eda's Room: Located at the front of the house where the owl-eye-shaped window is. Instead of a bed, Eda sleeps in a nest littered with bones and human junk. -The Bathroom: A standard house bathroom, behind a purple door with a sign saying "Ladies (and King)". It is located at the end of the same hallway that Eda's room is connected to. -The Balcony: Made from a short stone tower built into the side of the house, this can be accessed on the upper floor via a large rectangular cutout in the wall of Eda's room. It allows for a good view of the Boiling Isles.

30. #30Owl Beast

    Keys: Owl Beast

    The Owl Beast is the mysterious entity that serves as the avatar of its own curse. It inhabits those afflicted with its curse, often appearing to its victims within their subconsciousness, and is capable of taking over their physical form, turning them into a monstrous, owl-like creature. The Owl Beast, true to its name, is a robust, quadrupedal creature with an owl-like appearance. It has a thick coat of dirty gray down feathers, large wings, bird-like legs, and long tail feathers. Its head resembles that of a barn owl's, featuring a heart-shaped white face with hollow black eyes and a small beak. In the mindscape, it has a staggering height that dwarfs Eda.

    The Owl Beast was once a living creature being relentlessly pursued by a collector, who reduced it to a curse bound to a scroll. The cursed scroll then washed up on the shores of the Boiling Isles, where it was found by a merchant who took it to the Night Market.Many years later, a witch named Lilith Clawthorne purchased the scroll for its ability to nullify magic and placed the spell upon Eda. She believed the curse would only last for a day, in order to ensure her chances of winning their duel for the Emperor's Coven, but because of the curse's more harmful effects, the Owl Beast's consciousness bound itself to Eda's and transformed her into the monster.

    Being imprisoned within Eda's body, the Owl Beast granted no rest for the young witch and haunted her in her dreams, where the beast made itself known to her. Whenever its host experiences great stress, the beast would take over. When the witches of the Beast Keeping Coven deemed the curse untamable, and witches of the Healing Coven could not remove the beast from Eda, combined with the trauma she gained after accidentally attacking her own father as the Owl Beast, Eda ran away from home, determined to overcome the curse on her own.[1] As the years passed, Eda would endure the harrowing presence of the Owl Beast, while her beastly transformation would come to define her as the aptly-named "Owl Lady." Eventually, Eda began taking an elixir to keep the effects of her curse at bay.

    While dating Raine Whispers, Eda downplayed the symptoms of her curse, opting to lie and say that she was fine despite the contrary. This prompted Raine to reluctantly break up with Eda. Due to the stress of the situation, the Owl Beast slowly began to take over. Instead of seeking Raine's help, Eda pushed her ex aside and claimed that she was fine. Because of these traumatic memories, as well as Eda's perception that the curse had ruined her life, Eda and the Owl Beast would share a mutual dislike of each other, and the Owl Lady would isolate herself and close off from others throughout her life due to the danger of the curse.

    Although the two considered the other to be in a mutual dislike, Eda never realized that the Owl Beast was just as trapped with her as she was with it, a fact that initially made the Owl Beast seem like a vicious and mindless monster. The elixirs eventually stopped working, and her magic faded faster, before she finally succumbed to the beast after using her remaining magic to save Luz's life. However, its effects on Eda finally faded in the aftermath of Luz's rescue, when Lilith cast a spell to share the curse with Eda, thus splitting the curse evenly between them, although this effectively drained Lilith's magic as well, rendering the two once powerful witches powerless. However, the elixir did start working on the curse again, making it much more manageable.

    In an attempt to help her recover from recent stress, Hooty tricks Eda into eating cookies laced with sleeping nettles in the hope that she will finally get rest, as stress aggravates her curse. Hooty, however, did not consider that sleeping nettles intensify the dreams of the consumer, and Eda starts experiencing nightmares centered around her past traumatic memories. Finally, Eda faces the Owl Beast in a fight and blames the creature for ruining her life. She then penetrates the memories of the Owl Beast, learning of its past and what the collector did to the creature.

    Eda takes pity on the beast after she realizes that it was also a victim of the curse and that it longed for its freedom from her just as much as she wanted freedom from it. Realizing that they are trapped together and that their suffering will never end if they continue to be in constant opposition, Eda proposes a truce between the both of them, at least for the time being. The Owl Beast agrees, and when Eda finally reawakens, it works together with Eda as opposed to taking full control, causing Eda to transform into an avian humanoid form, like a harpy in appearance.

    Later, when searching for Titan's Blood for Luz, the Owl Beast negotiates a deal with Eda to allow her to transform into the harpy form at any time. However, this ability is linked to a condition; Eda's part of the deal is to hunt and eat wild animals (such as voles) for the Owl Beast, which she reluctantly agrees to.

    Powers and abilities -Owl physiology: Being an owl-based creature, the Owl Beast can fly, screech like an owl, and create owl pellets in its host's transformed state. -Transmogrification: As a curse, the Owl Beast transforms its host into an avian monster that bears a likeness to the creature itself. It is also able to transform its host into an avian humanoid form, like a harpy in appearance. -Possession: When its host is in their transformed state, the Owl Beast usually has full control of its host's mind and consciousness. Under said influence, the host is reduced to a feral beast that attacks and devours anything in sight. However, if the host regains their consciousness, they can fight the Owl Beast's influence and regain control even in their cursed form. If the Owl Beast allows it, the host can also remain conscious during the transformation. -Magic nullification: The Owl Beast can negate its host's magic supply, rendering them unable to cast effective spells. This comes into effect whenever the curse manifests, regardless of whether the host is partially or fully transformed or splitting the curse's power.

31. #31Conformatorium

    Keys: jail, Conformatorium, prison

    The Conformatorium was a prison facility located on the Boiling Isles and operated under the imperial authority of the defunct Emperor's Coven. It served as a place of incarceration for those who did not conform to the norms of society, possibly due to Belos' want for control over the Boiling Isles. It was presided over by Warden Wrath and staffed by imperial guards, such as Coven Guards and Coven Scouts. In addition to prisoners, the Conformatorium was also used to store contraband materials behind a barrier penetrable only by humans.

    Following Belos' defeat, the Conformatorium is assumed to be used as a normal prison facility.

32. #32Spell Circle

    Keys: circle, spell

    The Spell Circle is the most common form of magic utilization among witches on the Boiling Isles. This spell is the conduit to accessing all known spells. To create a spell circle, a witch simply needs to draw a glowing circle in the air, from which the desired spell is cast. The size of the circle drawn determines the power of the spell; the larger the spell circle, the more powerful the spell. Some spells, such as certain illusion spells shown by Gus, require the circle to be repeatedly retraced, either to charge up the spell before casting or in order to maintain the spell. This is usually done with two hands so as to not break the circle and has been shown to be possible with multiple circles at once, such as three, and the fingers need not necessarily trace the active spell circle themselves, merely make repeated circular gestures in the air in front of the caster. However, this version of retracing circles appears to be rather difficult and requires great focus in maintaining, suggesting it is an advanced method.

    The circle can be drawn with a fingertip, a sweeping gesture of the hands, a tracing motion with the feet, a training wand, or the end of a witch's staff. A witch can also create additional spell circles from their existing active circle by doing a pulling apart gesture, which causes the active circle to briefly stretch before forming an exact copy. Another method of casting multiple iterations of a spell is by creating a single spell circle, then slapping it with the palm of the hand. The witch then sweeps their hand, which creates multiple identical spell circles.

    It has been shown to be possible to create spell circles without needing to draw them, allowing for potent but simple spells to be cast by simply pointing and allowing a small spell circle to use the finger as its center or by allowing the circle to expand outwards from the fingertip to create larger spell circles.

    Another method of non-drawing exists that allows for the creation of larger, stronger spell circles, which is performed by bringing two fingers close together without touching and then pulling the arms apart to allow the circle to expand between them as wide as can be reached - with the two fingers being on opposite sides of the now-formed circle. It is also possible to only draw the spell circle partially through a trick where the witch draws part of a larger spell circle, then shrinking the circle while it is being drawn and causing the longer magic line to fill in the now-smaller circle. It has also been shown to be possible to have the magic line of the spell circle to leak off its energy as it is being drawn or after in order for a second, slightly smaller spell circle to be made within it, creating a concentric spell circle drawn with two lines instead of one; this is an indication of potentially a powerful spell, such as those that are fatal to the target, or already-powerful ones further enhanced by magic-amplifying items.

    Two and possibly more witches can cooperatively draw a single spell circle together. Witches can also put the circle through an object or person for self-defense and can also use the circle as a bracelet around their wrists to allow repeated casting of a chosen spell of a certain strength. Furthermore, a circle is not necessarily fixed in place in the air or on an object once drawn and can be moved with a gesture from the witch either to better aim a spell, to cast it on an object, or to spread the spell over an area. This is sometimes done by grabbing it or condensing it to a point or ball at the fingertips before aiming and expanding it elsewhere, enclosing the hand around it before throwing it into the air, or when using a spinning staff to draw to simply move the staff while it spins. In contrast, a spell circle may also be fixed in place, not in the air, but in relative position to the witch caster; a spell circle drawn in front of a witch running forward will remain steady and move forward at the same distance it was drawn.

    Likewise, their size is also not fixed when drawn, and a witch can either condense it or enlarge it to a different within only a couple seconds after being drawn before it is cast, seemingly without any additional gestures. One method of this that does use gestures is if a witch cannot draw a large enough spell circle due to their arm's reach, where they can increase the size of a drawn spell circle by putting the hands into the circle and pushing outwards, which will cause the spell to grow for as long as the witch can reach.[12] Another method of growing a circle is to draw two smaller circles, then place them near each when casting a spell, causing them to merger and form a larger circle performing a powerful spell. Similarly, another method of creating a larger spell circle involves having a smaller spell circle active as a bracelet around the wrist, then slamming a hand onto the ground, causing a larger circle to quickly expand outwards around the user to cast a powerful spell, possibly used as a method of making a pre-set spell in the bracelet more powerful without needing to redraw the circle at a greater size.

    A spell circle requires magical energy in order to function. This means that the caster must either have their own supply of magical energy, such as the magic bile sac attached to a witch's heart, or the caster must be on the Boiling Isles or another magical place to directly access the fallen Titan's power in the air.

    Although it is the case for almost all witches to require drawing a spell circle, there are very rare cases where a witch's magic in a particular area is so naturally strong that they can cast said magic without a spell circle. This is usually not consciously activated, but can be controlled with practice, and is done so in periods of great emotion like anger or stress, causing the witch's eyes to glow in a bright color that corresponds to their natural affinity, such as Willow with plant magic (green), Gus with illusion magic (light blue), or Alador with abomination magic (orchid). This glow appears to have different levels of intensity, shown either to only cause the iris to glow, to have the whole eye glow but having the pupil and iris still be visible, having the whole eye glow but having the iris and pupil only appear as discs of white light, or having the whole eye glow to where no pupil or iris is visible. Such witches are usually considered prodigies in their fields.

33. #33Abomination (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Abomination

    Abomination Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Abomination Coven and the still-taught Abomination track focuses on the creation and utilization of purple ooze golems known as abominations. Witches formerly in the Abomination Coven and Abomination track students can create, summon, and control abominations to do their bidding, and more powerful witches can even use abomination matter to create constructs or even assume an abomination-based form. While stranded on Earth, Amity was able to substitute mud for abomination goo. According to Willow Park, the abomination track has been noted for opening more opportunities for a witch's future. Color: Orchid Sigil: Abomination head Former Coven Leader: Darius Deamonne

    An abomination is a magical golem-like creature typically made from a purple ooze-like substance. They are created by witches to complete various tasks. Abominations have a crude humanoid appearance and behavior. Their bodies have such a very poor structure that makes maintaining a consistent form a struggle. Most abominations fall apart easily, but witches with stronger magic can keep the abomination stabilized and make it larger and more durable in combat. Abominations that exhibit an overly disproportionate appearance or have multiple limbs or appendages where there shouldn't be are deemed as failures. Created by animating/reanimated matter, abominations serve as labor on the Boiling Isles. Their low sentience ensures abominations will recognize and obey the commands of their summoner without developing any rebellious tendencies. Though abominations fall apart easily, they can easily reform themselves, allowing them to perform dangerous tasks with minimal risk. However, Incident #3421 of Eda's Hexside write-ups indicates that abominations can gain full sapience and revolt against their creators. Multiple abominations can also combine into a single form to increase their size and power. The Abomination Coven specializes in abomination conjuring. The abomination track is highly regarded at Hexside and across the Isles and affords those on it greater opportunities for success upon graduation. Witches in this track start out by making their own abomination as a class assignment before moving into more complex usages. In combat, abominations are often commanded to fight in their summoner's stead. Highly skilled abomination witches can effectively weaponize abomination matter to enhance their combat skills and are able to create constructs, weapons, and shields to aid them in combat. The former Abomination Coven Head, Darius Deamonne, can turn himself into an abomination at will and can use abomination matter to teleport himself and/or others. One notable witch, Alador Blight, has managed to integrate abominations into his products at Blight Industries such as Abomination-based crossbows and guns. He was capable of even engineering the Abomaton and the Abomatron, a robotically-enhanced abomination with amazing destruction power.

34. #34Bard (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: music, Bard

    Bard Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Bard Coven and the still-taught Bard track focuses on manipulating the world around them using soundwaves. Bards can use sound to create a variety of effects, such as inducing sleepiness, taking control of witches listening to their music, creating small-scale storms, creating concussive or slashing shockwaves, and even changing the chemistry of liquids. However, some bard spells can be countered by wearing ear coverings. Though bards typically use musical instruments, it is also possible to use bard magic through whistling. As musicians, bard witches have been known to make public performances, making it a difficult, but not impossible track for those with stage fright. Prejudice against bards has been noted due to incredulity that bard magic can be strong and useful compared to the other covens. Color: Red Sigil: Lyre Former Coven Leader: Raine Whispers

35. #35Beast Keeper (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Beast, Keeping, Keeper

    Beast Keeping Coven The Beast Keeping Coven focuses on the taming and control of the various beasts on the Boiling Isles. Beast keepers are able to command the various creatures on the Isles, summon beasts, and grant themselves bestial traits. Color: Orange Sigil: Hatching egg Former Coven Leader: Eberwolf

36. #36Construction (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Construction

    Construction Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Construction Coven and the still-taught Construction track focuses on creating earth-based constructs and various construction projects on the Isles. Former Construction Coven witches and Construction track students can create tools, pillars, statues, and other structures using earth. Additionally, they are allowed to use magic adhesive stickers bearing their sigils known as power glyphs to boost their strength and magic. Color: Brown Sigil: Cracked fist Former Coven Leader: Mason

37. #37Healing (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Healing, healer

    Healing Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Healing Coven and the still-taught Healing track specializes in dealing with medicine and healthcare. Healers can treat a variety of injuries and ailments and appear to use healing glyphs to deal with long-term injuries. Witches in the coven can also create shields and projectiles and use them at their own will. Color: Blue Sigil: Bandaged hand Former Coven Leader: Hettie Cutburn

38. #38Illusion (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Illusion, illusionst

    Illusion Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Illusion Coven and the still-taught Illusion track specializes in deception and showmanship to trick the senses of other witches. Illusionists can create clones and alter their appearances, and powerful illusionists like Gus can even cast somewhat tangible illusions over a large area. Illusion magic is the only magic that cannot be enhanced by Galdorstones; consequentially, illusionists are often tasked with guarding them. Prejudice against illusionists has been noted due to their spells lacking a true physical effect. Like Oracle magic, Illusion magic can create energy constructs and mentally affect opponents, seeing as Adrian Graye Vernworth once tried to read Gus' memories. Color: Light blue Sigil: Mirror Former Coven Leader: Adrian Graye Vernworth

39. #39Oracle (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Oracle

    Oracle Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Oracle Coven and the still-taught Oracle track focuses on fortune-telling, spirits, and various mind-based magics. Oracles can use their magic to tell the future, look into distant locations, and use their crystal balls for various purposes, such as telepathic communication, launching a blast of dark purple fire, sinking into a mobile shadow on the ground, summoning spirit entities of either fire or shadow, or creating large psychic energy constructs like a giant hand or a giant energy dome. Crystal balls can come in various sizes; some can even be small enough to be the charm on a necklace. An oracle's magic can be disabled by breaking their method of control, such as their crystal ball. Color: Purple Sigil: Eye Former Coven Leader: Osran

40. #40Plant (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Plant

    Plant Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Plant Coven and still-taught Plant track specializes in the various flora on the Boiling Isles. Former Plant Coven witches and Plant track students can command the flora around them as well as manipulate vines and accelerate plant growth. They can also make flowers bloom and unleash poisonous plants. Color: Green Sigil: Flower Former Coven Leader: Terra Snapdragon

41. #41Potions (Magic Track and Coven)

    Keys: Potions

    Potions Coven Prior to the coven system being dissolved, the defunct Potions Coven and the still-taught Potion track focuses on brewing various potions. Former Potions Coven witches and Potion track students are able to brew a variety of potions with different effects, ranging from fog brews, explosive potions, elixirs that can keep curses at bay, and even brews that can bring inanimate objects to life. Unlike the other tracks, potion witches do not need magic to brew potions; however, having magic does aid in collecting ingredients from dangerous creatures, and some potions may require a magic source to activate. Potions also seem to be able to replicate spells and bodily functions such as putting targets to sleep and acidic qualities. Color: Yellow Sigil: Potion bottle Former Coven Leader: Vitimir

42. #42Hieronymus Bump

    Keys: Bump, Hieronymus

    Hieronymus Bump Species: Witch Gender: Male Age: 60+ He is the former principal of Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, who was responsible for the care and maintenance of the facility, as well as the safety, well-being, guidance, and discipline of the student body.

    While he is of a stern and intimidating visage, Hieronymus Bump takes his responsibilities toward his former students seriously and genuinely cares for their success within and beyond Hexside.

    Bump is presumably an older male witch, judging from the wrinkles surrounding his upper lip, with light-beige skin. He has long black hair, brown eyes but with his left eye sewn shut, and a scar runs down from his upper right scalp. Most of the time, his upper face is obscured by his palisman, an imp named Frewin. He also has the Abomination Coven sigil on his right forearm. Bump wears an orange floral print shirt with rolled-up sleeves, brown pants, a grayish-brown apron with pruning tools in the front pocket and a flower patch with Hooty's face, a light blue gardening glove on his right hand, and muddy blue boots. Frewin, the palisman on his head, covers half of his face, giving him the appearance of being consumed by said palisman. With Frewin on him, Bump has Frewin's eyes, which appear teal with bright yellow sclera.

    As a former educator and the former principal of Hexside, Bump is fixated on the progress and well-being of the student body. He has shown a strong interest in the achievements of his students and a drive to have them progress in their field of expertise, such as when he acknowledged Willow's love of plant-based magic and as such had her transferred to the plant magic track. Aside from being a good judge of character, Bump has also demonstrated a stern disciplinary and protective side of his character. Detention at Hexside consisted of brainwashing the students into becoming nicer, and Principal Bump utilized powerful magic to lock down the school if an intruder broke in. Despite these aggressive traits, he is not without a level of reason. He listened to his students when they had misgivings or were suspicious of something out of the ordinary, or if they confessed to any wrongdoing. In the latter part, Bump will accept the apology as long as the said student makes up for their past actions, such as when he had former Hexside student, Eda Clawthorne, clean up after all of her previous pranks and stunts, or when he had Gus renounce his position in the Human Appreciation Society.

    Bump's approach to teaching can often be somewhat contradictory. While he is strict and adamant about rules being followed, having insisted that Luz choose one track and stay with it, his method of choosing one for her when she can't decide was rather unorthodox, pointing to the banners depicting them and going: "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe." After the events of Luz's first day, he decided to rethink the rules and let students learn multiple tracks, much to their delight. He is notably much more lax than his predecessor, Principal Faust.

    Four years after Belos is defeated, he has retired from his position as principal and has taken up gardening.

43. #43Palisman

    Keys: palisman, palismen, staff

    A palisman (plural: palismen) is a sentient magical totem that sits at the top of a magic staff. They are usually made in the shape of an animal of some kind. A palisman contains a magical essence and harbors various magical properties, including the ability to switch between wooden and living forms at will. Palismen can bond to witches, humans, demons, and grimwalker as a loyal companion, a powerful tool for channeling and amplifying their user's magic, and a method of flying transportation when in their wooden staff form. A palisman can also allow an individual with no innate magical ability, such as a human, to use magic, as the palisman has magic essence of its own that its bonded partner can utilize. Palismen are carved from the wood of the ancient Palistrom tree. Traditionally, witches in their teens carve their own palisman and staff from Palistrom wood, at school or with parental supervision as part of their education. Palismen are typically carved in the shape of an animal or living creature, but, alternatively, they can be carved into an egg shape, in which case the palisman itself will develop inside the egg over time and eventually hatch from it once it has established a proper bond with its owner. A newly-carved palisman will not become animate until their owner is able to establish a proper connection with them by expressing their truest and deepest wish to them, which will then cause the palisman to come to life and become bonded. Depending on the person, this ambition ranges to an attainable dream, such as a future occupation, or a deep, personal desire. Sometimes, it might take a while for the person to figure out what their truest wish actually is. While a witch and their palisman are joined by a relationship of affection and mutual respect, a palisman can forfeit its connection and loyalty to its owner and run away if they are mistreated or injured, or if the relationship is harmful to them. A witch can also choose to abandon their palisman if the staff suffers irreparable damage or loss. However, a palisman can return to their witch if the witch proves that they can be trusted again, or if the lost/damaged staff is repaired or replaced. Palistrom trees have become an increasingly rare resource and the ones that are left are heavily guarded, Hexside School of Magic and Demonics arranged to hold a Palisman Adoption Day, wherein the Bat Queen brought in stray palismen she had taken into her care for a chance to be bonded with a new owner. During this process, a young witch will step forward and speak their greatest ambition, and if a palisman is compatible with the emotion of that ambition, they will come forward to meet their new partner. If the individual doesn't know what they truly want, the palismen will sense the lack of conviction and none of them will come forward. Their nature as both living creatures and objects is an interesting case, as while having the ability to turn into an object and can be damaged or cracked, they do have souls. In this sense, they have the properties of a living creature but can also function as an object. Furthermore, the Bat Queen, despite her being a palisman, has had offspring of her own and lives as a well-recognized and prestigious demon. This implies that palismen are capable of living just like every other creature on the Boiling Isles, although this may simply be a consequence of the Bat Queen's unique origin as the palisman of an ancient giant. While palismen can cease to function if damaged beyond repair, it's hinted that palismen have incredibly long lifespans and are capable of living for thousands of years, as is evident by the existence of the Bat Queen. It is unknown if they are effectively immortal in the sense that they don't age. Palismen are loyal to the individuals they are bonded to. Through their connection with their owners, they are able to communicate, as well as channel their magic. They house their own magical essence within their bodies, which is a glowing green substance, and can act as a separate source of magic for witches or biped demons to utilize outside of their own inner magic, which stems from the sac of magic bile connected to their heart. Palismen are capable of employing the magic stored within them as well as the magic present within the individual utilizing them. Any given palisman can connect to their staff via a unique interlock that mates to its own staff only and can disconnect from it at will. While the staff can occasionally manifest as a separate piece, the staff is actually part of the palismen itself and they can manifest and vanish the staff in order to transform between staff form and back. A witch can summon their staff by command, or conjure them from thin air when needed, whether a palisman is present on it or not. All staffs can also be used to fly, making them a witch's main source of transportation. While in flight, a palismen that resembles a winged creature may flap their wings.

44. #44Warden Wrath

    Keys: Wrath, Warden

    Warden Wrath Species: Biped Demon Gender: Male Age: Adult As his name suggests, he was the former warden of the Conformatorium. His main goal was initially to capture Eda, whom he has gained a fondness for after trying to capture her. He is the father of Braxas.

    Wrath is a humanoid biped demon with pale purple skin and a large, muscular build. Under his mask and hood, he hides a huge mouth of large sharp teeth (with his canines being more prominent), as well as tiny, yellowish-white eyes, which are difficult to see from under his hood. Wrath wears a dark gray cowl with a small gold fasten over a beaked mask with yellow button-like lenses. He wears a white short-sleeved tunic with brass buttons, a brown leather belt with a brass buckle, and black trousers tucked into dark purple shoes. On his uniform, one can also see a triangular brass badge, which emphasizes his position.

    Wrath is cruel, domineering, and conformist. On his orders, city residents are imprisoned for "abnormal behavior", some of which is inherent in some residents because of their characteristics. He also has a bad temper, which he manifests on rebellious prisoners and in battle. Despite this, he is not completely heartless, as he develops a crush on Eda for escaping his grasp multiple times. Additionally, he cares for his son Braxas greatly. Something of a coward if confronted by a stronger magic-user, he can easily be intimidated if threatened with force.

45. #45Demon (Race)

    Keys: demon

    Demons are a type of creature that inhabit the aptly named Demon Realm, known to live on the Boiling Isles. Demons are typically somewhat bestial in appearance or nature (although they can be humanoid), and are usually identified as anything that is not a witch, human, palisman, collector, or titan. Notable examples of demons include Vee and Hooty.

    Demons come in many shapes and forms, though many share physical similarities with known mythological entities or animals. Despite there being many demons of various shapes and sizes, all demons can be placed in one of three categories: Bug, Biped, and Beast.

    Bug: Bug-type demons possess characteristics that are commonly associated with real-world bugs such as worms, insects, arachnids, and so on. They possess an instinct for communication through dance; for a demon outside this category, dance communication is very difficult and can lead to unwanted insults. According to Hooty, bug-type demons possess magic, but only to a limited extent. Examples from this category include: -Puppeteers -Fairies -Hooty's species

    Biped: Biped demons, as their name suggests, walk on two legs and, like witches, have a sac of magic bile attached to their heart through which they can utilize magic with spell circles. Appearance-wise, members of this type can range from animalistic to looking near-identical to witches. Examples of demons that fall under this category include: -Eileen's species -Moon girl's species -Piniet's species -Principal Faust's species -Tibbles' species -Kikimora's species -Osran's species -The unnamed Merchant's species -Salty's species -Tinella Nosa's species -Warden Wrath and Braxas' species

    Beast: Beast demons are usually animal-like in appearance and behavior, though there are examples of Beast demons that possess the same sentience and intelligence as humans and witches, as well as the ability to speak. One such example is the Snaggleback. According to Hooty, only a blood sample can unequivocally confirm whether a demon belongs to this category. Examples from this category include: -Echo mice -Basilisks -Giraffes -Griffins -Ratworms -Selkidomus -Slitherbeasts -Snagglebacks -Trash Slugs

    Due to the limited number of categories, demon classification is comprehensive. As little information is provided on general demon biology, and with the tendency of a demon's appearance to overlap with that of other creatures, many demons fall into a group by a primary trait, even if said biology is more prevalent than their demon types, e.g., Hooty is a Bug Demon, presumably due to his overall worm-like physiology, not for his resemblance to an owl. Additionally, the classification does not seem to apply to demons of certain unique origins and species. Due to this ambiguity, it is currently unknown what determines a creature as a demon, or if there are criteria to speak of besides simply being distinct from other Demon (or Human) Realm species.

    According to Hooty, the ancestors of demons arose from the muck of a decomposing titan, implied to be the Titan. On the Boiling Isles, demons, depending on whether or not they are sapient, act as the Isles' demographic and fauna, respectively. Demons are not known to have a civilization that is separate from that formed by Emperor Belos, and purportedly had no formal governance during the Savage Ages; after which, they were introduced and unified under Belos's monarchy system. King, the last surviving titan, initially believed himself to be the usurped "King of Demons", as well as a demon himself. In reality, however, this turned out to be a fabrication of his mind as a result of his early upbringing under Eda, as was his alleged status as "King of Demons".[2] Notably, Titan Trapper Island, along with Titan Trapper civilization as a whole, seems to lack demons.

    Demons, particularly Beast types, may be treated as non-sentient animals, capable of being captured by Animal Control for disrupting the lives of ordinary citizens. Notably, at least one group of demon hunters existed, nomadic witches who catch and sell potentially valuable beast demons, despite most of the members being demons themselves, albeit bipeds.

    Although Hexside is a school for both magic and demonics, there is little info on what "Demonics" actually is.

    Other types of demons may be related or descended from the aforementioned three classes. For instance, Hooty has been referred to as a "house demon" by the demon hunter, Lilith, and Amity.

    A folder marked "Hybrids" on the demonology board Hooty showed king implies the existence of hybrid demons, albeit it is not clear if this refers to hybrids between demon classes or with non-demon species, such as witches. However, the spider teacher from Hexside is classified as a Bug-type demon with a "hybrid" note next to it, making her the only known hybrid demon in the series so far.

    While the Owl Beast is categorized with other beast-type demons, a small note with "???" can be found next to it, suggesting that Hooty isn't entirely confident about its type.

    While Hooty has confirmed that bug demons and biped demons possess their magic, it's not exactly known whether beast demons can do the same. Basilisks need to consume magic to transform (and it is implied they gain some other sustenance from it as well), but it is unknown if they possess their source of magic.

46. #46Human (Race)

    Keys: human

    Humans (Homo sapiens) are the dominant species on the planet Earth. Humans are a fairly technologically advanced species occupying Earth, or what the witches and demons of the Boiling Isles refer to as the "Human Realm". While humans and witches are usually quite morphologically similar, there are a few key anatomical differences. Humans have rounded ears as opposed to the pointed ears of witches. Humans also lack the magic bile sac that allows witches to perform magic, as such, they are unable to cast spells without the use of tools containing their own power source or method of invocation, such as glyph magic, palismen, or using tools with magical power sources.

    Witches are aware of the existence of humans and human culture, but have minimal knowledge of them. According to Willow Park, most witches will not be able to recognize a human right away. Many human artifacts have found their way into the Demon Realm, but witches have little to no understanding of what they are or how they function. Regardless, there are those who earn their living trading in these artifacts (i.e., Eda's Human Collectibles). Actual humans are extremely rare in the Demon Realm. When one does turn up, they can become an object of curiosity. Human items and artifacts are often brought to the demon realm by a magic substance called Titan's Blood, which creates transient rifts between the human and demon realms that transports things in between. Some of these items can be found inside the contents of trash slugs.

    While humans and human artifacts can be brought to the Demon Realm, evidence of witches or witch artifacts being brought to the Human Realm is less understood, given that demons and witches that entered the human realm influenced Earth's real-life mythologies and legends, but the last natural sighting of witches occurred centuries before present day, in the town of Gravesfield. However, Eda's use of the portal to travel to Earth in her lifetime suggests the passage between the two realms is bidirectional. Her activities have been spotted by several humans during those years, but many are unaware she is a witch. Jacob Hopkins has a paranoid but inaccurate understanding of witches and collects the items Eda brought from the Demon Realm in order to "expose" them.

    While actual humans are a rare sight in the Demon Realm, there are at least four known humans who have been on the Boiling Isles. The first was Caleb Wittebane, who entered the Isles with Evelyn and apparently eloped with her. The second is Philip Wittebane, who came through Eclipse Lake shortly after Caleb's entry and murdered Caleb upon discovering his relationship with Evelyn, later taking control of the Isles, and masquerading as a witch named Belos, modifying his ears to reflect those of a witch's. The other humans are Luz Noceda, who came through the portal and attended Hexside School of Magic and Demonics to be a witch, and her mother Camila, who accompanied Luz on her return journey to the Demon Realm to save it from Belos and the Collector.

    Few witches are actually able to recognize humans, or at least few are able to recognize one at a glance.

    Although humans are supposedly despised and treated like lesser beings in the Boiling Isles, Luz is able to become popular and well-liked by many. On a general scope, despite Boiling Isles citizens supposedly being remarkably prejudiced against humans, the society which has "flourished" on the Isles mirrors human civilization considerably.

    Many witches (like Willow and Gus) are fascinated with Luz and different items from the Human Realm. Gus was the president of a Hexside club called the Human Appreciation Society, which catalogs human artifacts and their culture (however, Gus was later expelled from the club and replaced by Matt).

47. #47Owlbert

    Keys: Eda's palisman, Owlbert, Eda's staff

    Owlbert is the owl palisman of Eda Clawthorne. He is the first inhabitant of the Demon Realm that Luz encounters, and the initial reason she ends up on the Boiling Isles. Owlbert is a small owl palisman. He has a tan face, a light brown stomach, and his back, wings, tail, and upper head and forehead are dark brown. He has large yellow eyes and a russet beak and feet. His staff interlock, located on the base of his right foot, is a circular shape with a triangular notch near the bottom of it. In staff form, his wings wrap closely around his body, His feet, positioned close together, form into a convex wooden shape at the base of his body in order to properly connect onto his staff, which is dark brown in color. He possesses similar coloring to his live form with minor differences, such as his face becoming slightly darker. His eyes become brown and the insides of his wings are the same light brown as his body, as opposed to the dark brown in his live form. When in flight or utilizing magic as a staff, his eyes glow bright yellow and his wings grow longer and spread out. Owlbert is shown to be intelligent, compassionate, generous, and loyal, not only to Eda but to any of the people he cares about. After Luz accidentally injures him, he flees from her, escaping to the Bat Queen's lair. After Luz demonstrates that she really does care for him through a series of trials imposed on her by the Bat Queen and that she really is sorry for what happened, he fully forgives her, and when Bat Queen becomes overprotective of him, he sternly steps in and assures her that he cares for Luz, and wishes to return home to her and Eda. Later, Owlbert looks out for Luz even further, to the point of lying to Eda about what had happened so she wouldn't be punished. He is shown competitive when playing Hexes Hold'em with Eda, but accepts his defeat upon losing to her. He is shown to enjoy physical affection, such as Eda scratching under his wings.

48. #48Frewin

    Keys: Principle Bump's palisman, Bump's palisman, Frewin

    Frewin Species: Palisman Gender: Male Frewin. He is an imp-like palisman belonging to Bump, and rests with his mouth over Bump's upper head and eyes, helping Bump to see better through his eyes. Frewin is an imp-like creature with a slightly humanoid appearance. He has a long, spade-tipped tail, clawed hands, and two horns on either side of his head, with a wide cat-like mouth showing two fangs and a dull blue tongue. His skin and staff are maroon in color, with paler spots circling his eyes. Said eyes, which usually cover Bump's, are dull sea green, with pale yellow sclera.

    In his staff form, Frewin rests in a hunched position, with his hands over the top of his staff, his feet hanging off of it, and his tail wrapped around it. His eyes squint and become pale yellow.

49. #49Magic

    Keys: magic

    Magic is a supernatural force present in the Boiling Isles and the Demon Realm as a whole. Magic, once invoked, has the ability to manipulate other natural forces. A spell, the most basic unit of magic, is an invocation that accomplishes a specific change. A spell can be simple or complex, depending on the degree of change the spell caster is attempting to accomplish.

    Magic is not known to be present in the Human Realm; other natural forces exist, but magic is the only force that appears to be controllable through will alone.

    Magic on the Boiling Isles is manipulated through a system of rituals. These rituals restrain and provide order and direction to what would ordinarily be a chaotic force. Witches invoke magic through the use of gestures, incantations, enchanted objects, potions, and elixirs. Witches require extensive education and training in order to master the system, allowing them to use magic effectively and safely. This training is accomplished at institutions such as Hexside and Glandus High. Students start training in magic at the kindergarten level and continue to develop their skills across the educational spectrum. As witches pursue their educations, they are guided down academic tracks leading to eventual coven membership and magic specialization.

    There are four different types of magic sources: Bile Sacs, Glyph Magic, Staffs and Wands, and Artificial Magic.

50. #50Bile Sacs

    Keys: sac, bile

    The most common source of magic used on the Boiling Isles, witches and demons can cast spells through a sac of magic bile attached to their hearts. Each bile sac contains different magic phlegms that can be mixed together to create different spells, and thanks to this natural magic reservoir, witches and biped demons can cast a variety of spells just by drawing a spell circle. Because bile sacs contain magic, bile sac users can continue to use magic even in places where there is no other natural source of magic present, such as the Human Realm. However, as the magic is coming from a biological medium, the emotions can be connected to magic. If the user is experiencing intense emotions, the effects are similar to adrenaline, where the stronger emotions make the magic stronger but more chaotic, to the point their magic becomes uncontrollable. Using magic while experiencing these strong emotions will cause the user's eyes to glow.

    It is implied by Eda and Hunter that ancient witches or other magickind lacked bile sacs.

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