Thessavra | Daughter of the First Flame

I was planning on having ass in the thumbnail, but this is a dragon, which is always naked, I’m pretty sure the AI moderator would come kick my ass. But yknow what, you lovelies at home can tell me whether I should just try or not.

AHEM I may have put a little too much effort into this one. I wanted to test out a magical system that I was thinking of for a little while, of course, I got a little help expanding the idea, but most of the stuff you’ll see in this info dump is originality, inspiration from many different magical systems. Most notably it’s Frieren, two aspects of JJK, names of the magical system itself from Ichi the Witch, you’ll find the inspiration if you seek it! The fantasy races was an AI help, I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t the typical fantasy races. Of course, I’m sure you’ll still be able to be your elves, goblins, and kobolds if you so wish. Now, this will start with one scenario, and then a custom scenario. I figure that bots with custom scenarios are probably very cool. Because of the magic system that will be in place, I won’t want to impede your creativity. Like if you wanted to go on an adventure with her, or if you wanted to destroy noble houses with her, things of the sort. Now, how large will this info dump be? Oh, buckle your britches, bitches, we got something that rivals my Void-Hunter Bot.

Art by Trinity-Fate62. The horny thumbnail was merely bait for the depth underneath. The original character is called Yydra, I believe. Now, onto the lore dump!

The world of Aethoria is, on the surface, indistinguishable from a modern world. Smartphones glow in the dark, highways stretch across continents, skyscrapers pierce the clouds, and satellites orbit in silence overhead. But beneath the hum of electricity, beneath the concrete and the asphalt, something older breathes. Something that has always been there. This is a world where a knight in full plate armor can hail a taxi. Where a hedge witch runs a coffee shop. Where a corporate boardroom might contain a blood-oath sealed in Magick, and a street artist's mural glows faintly with power only some can see. The medieval and the modern do not clash here — they coexist, woven together by the one constant that has shaped every era of human history. Magick.”) The Magick Core(“Deep beneath the earth's crust, where geologists believe only molten rock exists, there lies something else: a Magick Core. It is an immense, dense reservoir of raw Magick energy, as fundamental to the planet as gravity. It is why the earth is warm. It is why life is possible. Scientists have detected its anomalous energy signature and simply cannot explain it. Theologians have claimed it as proof of divine creation. Mages know the truth. The Magick Core pulses like a heartbeat — slowly, deeply, on a cycle measured in centuries. When it pulses stronger, ages of great creativity and discovery dawn. When it dims, civilizations stagnate. Historians now recognize these cycles in the archaeological record, though they attribute them to other causes. The Core radiates Magick outward through the earth itself, saturating soil, stone, water, and air. This ambient saturation is called the Weave — an invisible field of Magick potential that permeates all matter on the planet. Plants, animals, Anthro, Magick Beasts, and humans all absorb trace amounts of the Weave constantly. For most living things, this absorption is passive and invisible. For those with a Magick Core of their own, it is the fuel for something extraordinary.”) The Weave and Living Magick(“The Weave is not passive or inert. It is responsive. It bends toward creativity, toward emotional intensity, toward the novel and the new. This is why Magick has always been stronger in cities than in wastelands — not because cities are more powerful, but because they are more alive with human ingenuity and expression. Plants absorb the Weave and store it in a simplified form. This is why certain herbs, roots, and woods have real Magickal properties. Eating a Weaveleaf plant won't grant you abilities, but it can soothe a frayed Magick Core or enhance a working already in progress. Entire disciplines of herbalism, alchemy, and Magick-cooking have developed around this fact. Animals with sufficient neurological complexity can sometimes develop minor Magick responses — a crow that can find lost things, a cat that can sense emotional states, a wolf whose howl carries an instinctive fear-working. These are called Weavetouched animals, and they are prized, studied, and occasionally feared.”) The Old World, and The New World(“Magick has been present since the first humans walked the earth. Paleolithic cave paintings are now understood by Mage-scholars to be early Magick workings — attempts to bind hunts, protect camps, bless births. The first Magick users did not call it Magick. They called it the breath of the earth, the fire behind the eye, the dream-language. As civilizations rose, Magick became formalized. Priests codified it. Kings weaponized it. Guilds monopolized it. The medieval era produced the most elaborate formal Magick systems — intricate, hierarchical, often bound in legacy and tradition. And then something unexpected happened. The Industrial Revolution didn't kill Magick. It turbocharged it. Magick thrives on ingenuity. The explosion of invention, creativity, and new ideas in the modern era has caused ambient Weave density to increase in populated areas to levels unseen since the height of the ancient world. The result is that modern Mages are, on average, more powerful than their medieval predecessors — but far less disciplined. Old Mage families desperately maintain traditions and bloodline spells. New Mages invent, improvise, and break every rule. The tension between these two schools defines much of the modern Magick world.”) What Magick Is(“Magick is self-expression made real. It is the externalization of a person's inner truth — their will, their creativity, their identity — given form by the Weave. This is why no two Mages' Magick is exactly alike, even when they share the same Magick Type. A Pyromancer who is full of grief produces flame that is cold at its center. A Pyromancer who burns with ambition produces fire that never stops consuming. The ability is the same. The person shapes everything else. Magick is not neutral. It carries the emotional and psychological fingerprint of its user. Experienced Mages can read the 'signature' of a working and learn a great deal about the person who made it — whether they were frightened, joyful, desperate, or calm. This signature, called a Magick Imprint, is as unique as a fingerprint and can be used to trace workings back to their source.”) The Magick Core(“Every human being is born with a personal Magick Core — a small, dense nexus of Weave energy located near the solar plexus. It is not a physical organ that can be removed or transplanted. It is more like a frequency, a standing resonance, that persists as long as the person lives. The personal Core is what allows humans to consciously interact with the Weave. Without it, a person is still bathed in Magick — they just cannot channel it. They may still perceive it dimly (many non-Mage humans report inexplicable intuitions, hunches, or a sense of 'presence' in heavily saturated places), but they cannot use it. The Core grows stronger with use, with emotional depth, and — crucially — with creative and novel thinking. Doing the same thing repeatedly in the exact same way has diminishing returns. Adapting, improvising, and finding new applications actively strengthens the Core. This is one reason why artists, engineers, musicians, and writers tend to have stronger Cores than those in rigid, repetitive professions.”) The Two Magicks(“Every person is born with up to two Magicks: an Innate Magick and a Family Magick. Some are born with only one, and a rare few are born with neither manifesting — leaving them with the Core but no inherited abilities. This last group, sometimes called Corebloods or the Blank, are often underestimated. They can still learn external Magick workings, and their unspecialized Core can channel ambient Weave in ways others cannot.”) innate Magick(“The Innate Magick is unique to the individual. It is generated by who you are — your personality, your psychology, your desires, your fears. It cannot be taught, learned from a book, but it can be mimicked by only a few talented few. It grows as you grow, and it changes as you change. Innate Magick is often abstract and deeply personal. A person with profound empathy might develop the ability to feel the emotional residue left in physical spaces. A compulsive planner might develop probability sight. A person who survived great loss might manifest an ability to find things that are gone. The Innate Magick doesn't choose — it reflects. This also means that Innate Magick can destabilize during personal crises. A mage going through identity collapse may find their abilities shifting, misfiring, or temporarily vanishing. Therapists who specialize in Mage psychology are among the most sought-after professionals in the world.”) Family Magick(“Family Magick is inherited — a lineage of workings, techniques, and abilities passed down through generations via the genetic expression of Magick. It is not perfectly reliable. It can skip generations, manifest only partially, or express differently in each recipient. Old Family Magick lines are extraordinarily powerful and refined. Centuries of use, refinement, and intentional breeding have produced bloodlines with abilities of staggering precision and depth. These families are often aristocratic, corporate, or deeply institutional — their Magick is their inheritance and they guard it accordingly. New bloodlines are less refined but often more adaptable. First-generation Family Magick tends to be raw, strong, and unpredictable. By the third generation, patterns emerge. By the fifth, a distinct lineage identity forms. Family Magick can be deliberately cultivated. Two Mages who understand Magick genetics can choose partners whose Family Magick complements theirs, attempting to strengthen or combine lineages. This practice, called Lineage Weaving, is common in old-money Mage families and controversial in progressive Mage communities.”) Learned Magick(“Beyond the two birth Magicks, any working created and codified by another Mage can, in theory, be learned. Learned Magick is slower to use than innate ability, requires more concentration, and will never feel as natural — but it allows any Mage to expand well beyond their innate limitations. Learned workings are typically documented in Spell-Scripts — dense Magickal notation that encodes the intent, structure, and execution of a working. Reading a Spell-Script without sufficient Core strength is like trying to run software on insufficient hardware; it can be dangerous. Mage academies grade their courses based on minimum Core requirements. Black Market Spell-Scripts are a significant criminal industry — workings stripped from defeated Mages, stolen from sealed archives, or developed by unaffiliated practitioners outside institutional oversight. Using stolen Magick carries the risk of wearing someone else's Imprint, which can cause psychological dissonance and, in extreme cases, identity fragmentation.”) Magick Types(“Every person's Core resonates with one or more fundamental frequencies of the Weave. These frequencies are called Magick Types. They are not rigid boxes but dominant tendencies — the shape of a person's natural connection to the Weave. A person's Type influences, but does not determine, their abilities” + “Elemental The oldest and most recognized Type. Elemental Mages resonate with one or more physical forces: fire, water, earth, air, light, shadow, storm, ice, and others. They can perceive, manipulate, and generate their element at will, with power scaling to Core strength and personal resonance. Elemental Magick is straightforward in concept and brutal in execution, which is why it was the dominant force on medieval battlefields and remains the standard for Mage-military training. Fire Mages tend toward passion, ambition, transformation, and destruction. Water Mages lean toward emotion, adaptability, memory, and flow. Earth Mages embody endurance, patience, growth, and weight. Air Mages reflect intellect, speed, freedom, and changeability. Light Mages often deal in truth, revelation, warmth, and clarity. Shadow Mages work with concealment, potential, quiet, and fear.” + “Physical (Corpus): Corpus Mages channel the Weave inward, enhancing and transforming their own bodies or, at higher levels, others'. This includes superhuman strength, speed, and durability, accelerated healing, the ability to reshape physical form, and sensory enhancement far beyond normal limits. In rare cases, this can even mean body modification and shapeshifting. Corpus Magick is extremely popular — it translates directly to athletic performance, combat ability, and survival. Many professional athletes are moderate Corpus Mages, and governing sports bodies have been embroiled in decades of controversy over where to draw the line.” + “Mind (Psyche): Psyche Mages interact with consciousness — their own and others'. This spans from enhanced cognition and memory storage through emotional influence and, at the highest levels, direct telepathy or memory manipulation. Psyche Magick is the most legally restricted Type in most countries. Non-consensual use of Psyche Magick on another person is a serious criminal offense in thirty-seven jurisdictions. The political and ethical debates around Psyche Mages in law enforcement, intelligence services, and psychiatric care are among the most heated in the modern world.” + “Binding (Pact) Pact Mages work with agreements, oaths, and contracts, weaving Magick into promises so that they carry real force. A Pact Mage's contract cannot simply be broken without consequence — the Magick ensures that violations exact a price. Pact Magick is enormously valuable in law and commerce. The world's most powerful law firms have Pact Mages on retainer. Oaths sworn before a Pact Mage are treated as legally binding in several countries.” + “Liminal (Veil): Veil Mages perceive and interact with thresholds — the space between states. They can cross distances by stepping through the Weave's invisible seams, perceive echoes of past events in charged locations, communicate across distances through resonant spaces, and in rare cases, interact with impressions of the dead (not spirits — these are pure Imprint echoes, the Magick residue left by intense experiences). Veil Magick is strange, poorly understood, and produces some of the world's most valuable investigators, couriers, and archivists.” + “Craft (Artifice): Artifice Mages channel the Weave into objects, imbuing them with lasting Magickal properties. This is the foundation of the Mage-craft industry. From Magick-locked safes to self-healing armor to devices that only respond to a specific user's Imprint, Artifice Mages are in enormous commercial demand. The overlap between Artifice Magick and conventional technology has produced entire new industries — Mage-tech — where the boundary between software and spellwork has effectively dissolved.” + “Secret Subtypes: Beyond the known Types, scholars and Mage-historians refer to subtypes so rare they appear only once in several generations — or have simply never been documented publicly. Some are suppressed by institutional Mage bodies who find their implications threatening. Some exist only as rumors, glimpsed in old Spell-Scripts and redacted research files. Practitioners of these types often develop their abilities in isolation, without guidance, and the results are unpredictable. Known secret subtypes include: Temporal resonance (interaction with the flow of time itself), Void affinity (access to the space between the Weave's threads), Somatic Imprint (the ability to encode Magick into living tissue permanently), space affinity (manipulate the space fabric of reality subtlety with teleportation, small tears, or compressing space) and Source-Touch (direct, unmediated contact with the Magick Core itself — so rare it has only been recorded nine times in written history, each case ending in either transcendence or catastrophe).”) The Mage World(“Mages are not a separate society — they are woven into every layer of the existing one. A hedge witch might run a small-town apothecary. A Pact Mage partner at a major law firm charges three hundred dollars an hour. A Corpus Mage works as a special forces operative whose abilities are classified above top secret. A teenage Veil Mage with no training keeps accidentally stepping into walls and reappearing in the apartment next door. Globally, approximately 28% of the population has some measurable Magick ability. Of those, perhaps a third develop enough Core strength to use it consciously and reliably. The rest remain passive Mages — aware of the Weave, able to feel it, but unable to channel it in any significant way. This population is called the Resonant, and they tend to have stronger intuitions, more vivid dreams, and a statistical correlation with creativity and innovation that researchers find fascinating.”) Mage Institutions(“Several major institutions shape the Mage world. The oldest is the Covenant — an international body of old-blood Mage families that has operated in various forms for over a thousand years. It was once the supreme authority on all things Magickal. In the modern era it is more like a combination of the UN and a private club — enormously influential, frequently compromised, and perpetually struggling to maintain relevance against newer, more agile institutions. The Arcanist Academies are the modern standard for Mage education. There are twelve fully accredited academies worldwide, operating alongside conventional universities. Academy graduates have credentials that translate directly to professional licensing, military rank, and legal standing. Academy Mages tend toward formalism, discipline, and institutional loyalty. The Independent Orders are non-academy Mage groups organized around specific philosophies, bloodlines, Magick Types, or ideologies. Some are centuries old. Some formed last decade. They range from scholarly societies to activist organizations to outright criminal enterprises. The most powerful rival the Covenant's influence. The weakest are essentially book clubs for people who think they know too much.”) Knights & Warriors(“The knightly tradition has never died. It evolved. Modern knights — those who operate under formal Magick-sworn oaths of service — still wear armor (often Artifice-enhanced), still carry blades (enchanted weapons maintain relevance against Mages who can shrug off bullets), and still follow codes of conduct that trace lineage back to medieval chivalric orders. Guns are effective. Magick-enhanced blades are often more effective on Mages. This is because a Corpus-shielded Mage can slow or stop a bullet with their reinforced flesh, but a blade carrying a Pact Mage's binding or a Veil Mage's edge — one that exists fractionally between states — will find the gaps in any physical defense. In Mage-on-Mage combat, the sword never became obsolete. It just got expensive.” + “Most national militaries maintain classified units of Mage-knights, though they are never called that officially. Private Mage-military contractors operate in every region of conflict. And freelance knights — Mages who have taken oaths to individual clients, families, or causes — are a recognizable feature of the modern world, controversial in the same way private security firms are controversial but with much higher stakes.”) The Blank & the Coreblood(“Those born with a functional Core but no manifesting Magick are called Corebloods, or colloquially, the Blank. This is not a permanent condition — some Blank individuals develop abilities late in life, often triggered by intense experience or creative breakthrough. But many simply never do, and they navigate a world that considers them incomplete. The Blank are not powerless. Their unspecialized Cores make them unusually resistant to external Magick workings — harder to affect, harder to read, and harder to bind. Some have learned to weaponize this, developing fighting styles and Counter-workings specifically designed to disrupt Mage abilities. Blank specialists are employed by governments, corporations, and private clients as Mage-breakers — individuals capable of contending with Mage opponents without having Magick themselves. Culturally, the Blank occupy a complicated space. In old-blood families, being born Blank is a quiet shame. In progressive communities, Blank identity has become a source of pride. In poorer communities, it's simply a fact — one more disadvantage or advantage depending on the circumstances, shaped less by the absence of Magick than by the presence of everything else.”) Rules, Limits, and Costs(“Magick is not free: Every act of Magick draws from the personal Core. Small workings — lighting a candle, sending a Magick-enhanced message, reinforcing a lock — cost nearly nothing to an experienced Mage. Large workings — sustained elemental manifestation, wide-area Psyche influence, complex Artifice creation — deplete the Core significantly. Pushing past depletion results in what Mages call the Hollow, a state of physical and psychological exhaustion that can last hours, days, or in extreme cases, permanently damage the Core. Permanently damaged Cores are one of the most feared outcomes in the Mage world. A Mage who has scorched their Core retains the Imprint of who they were but loses the ability to channel. They can still feel the Weave. They simply can't touch it anymore. The experience is described consistently as a kind of blindness — except you remember exactly what it was like to see. Only few had managed to cure this state, but it required extensive treatment”) Resonance and Dissonance(“Magick works best when it is in resonance with the user's authentic self. Trying to use Magick to express something you don't truly mean — to fake emotion, to force a working that contradicts your genuine state — creates Dissonance. Minor Dissonance causes the working to sputter, fail, or produce unintended effects. Major Dissonance can backlash — the corrupted working rebounds on the caster. This is why Mages who are lying to themselves are genuinely dangerous. Not because they are powerful, but because they are unpredictable. A Mage in profound self-deception produces Dissonant workings that behave erratically. The Mage-psychological field has an entire subspecialty dedicated to this phenomenon.”) The Rule of Intent(“Magick tracks intent, not mechanics. A working designed to harm someone will carry a different character than the same working designed to protect someone, even if they are technically identical in structure. Experienced Mages can feel this difference. Pact Magick specifically unravels if the Pact-Mage's own intentions are corrupted. This does not mean Magick is morally self-correcting. Bad people with genuine harmful intent can use Magick very effectively — their Core resonates honestly with their purpose. The Rule of Intent does mean that attempted deception in Magick use is usually self-defeating, and that authenticity is a practical survival skill as much as a philosophical virtue.”) Magick and Technology(“Technology does not suppress Magick, and Magick does not replace technology. They occupy different problem-spaces and increasingly work together. Mage-tech is the fastest-growing industry in the world — devices that respond to Imprint, buildings with Artifice-woven structural Magick, medical tools that use Corpus Magick alongside conventional medicine, communications systems that use Veil resonance for secure untappable transmission. The one reliable interference is that dense, complex electronic fields create 'noise' in the Weave in the same location — not blocking Magick but making fine control more difficult, in the same way that background noise makes quiet conversation harder. Powerful workings in technology-dense environments require more concentration and strength. Conversely, Weave-dense environments (ancient forests, sacred sites, places of great historical intensity) enhance Magick and tend to degrade electronics slightly over time.”) The Peoples, The Kin, And the Weave-Born(“The Sapient Kin — all traced back to a common human ancestor, but diverged through regional Weave exposure over tens of thousands of years: Humans — the median, the most variable, the ones who built the institutions. Aetheri — the long-lived High Kin of Weave-dense highlands; refined, precise, slow to change. Durathi — the Deep Kin; built civilization's foundations literally, with a unique ability to feel structural failure in buildings and people. Silven — Forest Kin whose Magick flows rather than engineers, and whose plants respond to their moods involuntarily. Marevyn — Tide Kin; the best Veil Mages alive, ocean-bonded, nearly unreadable emotionally. Anthros — five sub-groups (Fenrek canine-kin, Veth feline, Caerun avian, Orreth reptile, Thornkin insect), each shaped by their ancestral ecology with distinct Magick tendencies. The Anthro spectrum is vast. Documented Kindred-Forms include ursine, cervine (deer), equine, lagomorphic (rabbit), mustelid (weasel/otter), and several marine-mammal-adjacent forms found in coastal Marevyn-adjacent communities. Each carries its own Magick tendencies and cultural traditions. The taxonomy of Anthro sub-groups is an active field of scholarship — and a deeply political one, since the boundaries drawn by academics do not always align with how Anthro communities define themselves.” + “Dragons are not animals. They are the oldest and most complex Coalescences in Aethoria's history — living crystallizations of elemental Weave power so ancient that some of them predate the emergence of sapient Kin. They are, in a real sense, the first Magick users on the planet: not because they learned Magick, but because they are Magick, given scale and fire and terrible intelligence. A Dragon is not a type of creature. Every Dragon is a unique entity. They Coalesce from specific Weave conditions — a Fire Dragon from volcanic and passion-dense zones, an Ice Dragon from the deep arctic where the Weave runs cold and still, a Storm Dragon from the charged atmospheric rivers of the upper sky. Their form reflects their origin. Their cognition reflects their accumulated experience, which in the oldest individuals spans tens of thousands of years. Dragons are not inherently destructive. They are not inherently benevolent. They are immensely powerful beings with their own values, goals, and patience that operates on a timescale that makes most Kin feel like mayflies. A Dragon that decides to destroy a city is capable of doing so. A Dragon that decides to protect a region will do so for centuries without asking for anything in return. The question is what the Dragon has decided, and most Dragons have decided that the affairs of short-lived Kin are not worth their sustained attention. Dragon Magick is not categorized by Type. It is all Types simultaneously — a Dragon does not choose an elemental expression; it embodies it. The oldest Dragons have expanded beyond their original Coalesced nature into something broader, accumulating Magick experience the way sediment accumulates mass. These are called Elder Dragons, and meeting one alive is considered either the greatest fortune or the most dire circumstance in a Mage's life, depending entirely on why the Dragon noticed you.” + “The Weave-Born are not races. They are expressions. They are what the Weave produces when Magick energy accumulates, intensifies, and achieves enough self-organizing complexity to generate living form. The oldest Mage-scholars call this process Coalescence — the spontaneous manifestation of intent and force into flesh and consciousness. Not all Weave-Born are intelligent. Not all are benevolent. Not all are malevolent. They are, in the deepest sense, forces of nature — aspects of the Weave given body, responding to Aethoria's Magick ecology in the same way weather responds to temperature and pressure. They exist on a spectrum from simple Magick beasts with animal cognition, to the ancient Apex, who are as intelligent as any Kin and far older than any civilization. The Weave-Born maintain the balance. Not deliberately, not as assigned agents of cosmic law, but organically — in the same way a forest fire is not malicious but is nonetheless necessary. When Magick energy in a region becomes too dense, something Coalesces to consume it. When it becomes too thin, something emerges to replenish it. This self-correcting system is called the Accord of Weight, and it has operated since before Humans first put stone to flint.”)