Streets of Hope

- term refers to a Scribing offshoot that really came into being in the late 1880s but is now only really present online - "Techno" refers to technical skills. "Mancy" refers to arcane skills. Mixture of both Short History - started out as clank mechanics and maintenance staff, a...

- Scribing refers to the practice of laying down visual forms of magic, either in a complete form or as spell aids - specialists are called Scribes Short History - this includes not only sigils with recognizable written text or drawings, but also simple lines and delineated perimeters. Technically, ...

- as this naturally involves channelling the powers of Hell, practitioners are called Infernalists - due to the highly volatile and often aggressive nature of this School, users get a *very* bad rep Basic History - as Hell wasn't definitively shaped until Antiquity, Infernalism has its roots in all ...

- both disciplines are so close as to essentially form the same greater School, together - to fix the body, you need to understand how to hurt it. To hurt it, knowing how you go about fixing it helps - practitioners still tend to choose one or the other, but that choice implies an understanding of t...

- users are colloquially called Diviners because they get in touch with what people wrongfully consider to be divine: knowledge of the future, inaccessible knowledge of the past, goings-on of departed spirits, etc. Basic History - potentially the third oldest School, reaching back to earliest forms ...

- users of this School are called Cantors or Bards. They "sing" their words of power and charge them with as much faith as they can - this involves faith used as a vehicle for via. End results are varied and usually aligned with Good by virtue of coming from angels Short History - Seraphic...

- in Hope, being called an "Animator" refers to either one of two things. Either you're a classic 3D animator or a 2D artist in an animation studio or... - ...you make a living by giving enough support to inert matter so life can be rooted within it. You literally "animate" matte...

- users of this specific School are called Artificers - elemental magic is probably the most widely recognized School, and the most popular one - probably because it falls in line with what the public thinks magic is all about. Whiz-bangs, fireballs, lightning bolts, etc. - that popularity means it'...

Origins of Via - is part of the world's Primordial Essences, the only one of the five Elements that can still be tapped in its intrinsic form - Water, Air, Earth and Fire all exist, of course, but you can't harness *Fire* itself, Fire as a principle, for instance. - The only element that's never cha...

- superhumans are the result of arcane nodules developing along a person's DNA helixes. Long story short, mutations are triggered by ancestral via build-up - mutations can affect any area of the body or brain. They can be showy and very difficult to miss, or they can be very subtle, only manifesting...