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jackA dimension exists parallel to ours where matter and spacetime can be influenced by certain thought and symbols, called Flux. The right spells on our side can cause it to breach through, making an area in our universe where the natural laws become like those in flux, which correctly used can be like magic. Someone discovered a ritual with pentagrams, blood, candles and chants that could cause it, and several different effects he could make that cause -- eg. levitation, telepathy, pyro/telekenesis. Or most easily to detect other magics. A more determined caster, or more casters, or a larger diagram, or more accurately positioned marks in the diagram, or more satellite supporting diagrams can make a more accurate and powerful spell. It is possible to make a spell in minutes, but it will either be very weak or unpredictable. Or a sorcerer could calculate for a year and yet still not have perfected it.
However, there it can be used in two particular and persistent ways. Some flux can be infused into a person making him permanently able to use some magic effects, though he deteriorates; or the air, making a genie; or an object, making a talisman; or a statue making a golem; or an animal, making a familiar; in all cases having some magic effect without ritual or with different ritual.
Also repeated use of related spells, or major spells, form things in the flux, specifically intellegences aka demons. Depending on the subconscious thoughts and intentions of people involved and some chance, these may be like angels or demons or something else. They're not able to affect anything much unless a spell goes wrong, except perhaps to give advice on how to, eg, cast spells.
There are very few times this has been put into practice. There are records of only one, and the sorcerer's notes haven't been found. He did experiments which confirmed an amount of this theory, though it's unknown if he deduced it himself or was working from an older source. He conceived that imbuing flux into a recent corpse could resurrect it and indeed give it immortality. He never tried it until his unrequited love died, and he decided bringing her back would win her love. But despite spilling pints of his blood into it his spell wasn't perfect, and acheived a form of resurrection and immortality and love in a tragicly twisted way -- his would be love rose from her coffin with an unquenshable thirst for blood and a desire to share her immortality with him, and fell upon his: she was the first vampire.
CB learns of this and attempts to perfect the original spell, but is led astray by the demon created by it, who seeks to be incarnated as a demon in this world. All vampires have a sliver of flux in them, on which lives the persistent remains of the original spell that gives a vampire specific and fixed supernatural abilities and flaws. CB's abortive attempt created a reventant, a vampire wih more extensive flux, which slowly warps matter near it according to its and other people's subconcious expectations and general entropy. For instance, electronics and machinary slowly fuse, and with multiple revenants random effects like walls melting and shadows coming alive can happen.
However, there it can be used in two particular and persistent ways. Some flux can be infused into a person making him permanently able to use some magic effects, though he deteriorates; or the air, making a genie; or an object, making a talisman; or a statue making a golem; or an animal, making a familiar; in all cases having some magic effect without ritual or with different ritual.
Also repeated use of related spells, or major spells, form things in the flux, specifically intellegences aka demons. Depending on the subconscious thoughts and intentions of people involved and some chance, these may be like angels or demons or something else. They're not able to affect anything much unless a spell goes wrong, except perhaps to give advice on how to, eg, cast spells.
There are very few times this has been put into practice. There are records of only one, and the sorcerer's notes haven't been found. He did experiments which confirmed an amount of this theory, though it's unknown if he deduced it himself or was working from an older source. He conceived that imbuing flux into a recent corpse could resurrect it and indeed give it immortality. He never tried it until his unrequited love died, and he decided bringing her back would win her love. But despite spilling pints of his blood into it his spell wasn't perfect, and acheived a form of resurrection and immortality and love in a tragicly twisted way -- his would be love rose from her coffin with an unquenshable thirst for blood and a desire to share her immortality with him, and fell upon his: she was the first vampire.
CB learns of this and attempts to perfect the original spell, but is led astray by the demon created by it, who seeks to be incarnated as a demon in this world. All vampires have a sliver of flux in them, on which lives the persistent remains of the original spell that gives a vampire specific and fixed supernatural abilities and flaws. CB's abortive attempt created a reventant, a vampire wih more extensive flux, which slowly warps matter near it according to its and other people's subconcious expectations and general entropy. For instance, electronics and machinary slowly fuse, and with multiple revenants random effects like walls melting and shadows coming alive can happen.
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Date: 2005-04-13 04:25 pm (UTC)I like the idea of demons as 'crystalisations of flux', sort of. How much of demon/angel is intention, and how much is type of spell?
I like the 'sliver of flux' - kind of like naquadah in the blood, lol! And the 'supervampire' makes sense.
One question: how does a vampire feeding on another transmit their flux, thereby making them? I think that's how it works at least, correct me if I'm wrong
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Date: 2005-04-13 04:31 pm (UTC)I was planning on making up details like how the type of spell affacts things as I go on, because no-onen in the story really understands it either (they have a sample space of one or maybe two :)). I know that's a horrible bodge, but it's the essense of flux to be uncertain :)
Yep, a vampire bite transmits both flux, and the vampire-making-magic that relies on it, because the flux is obeying the magic whcih says it should do that.
One question: do you have any idea what I should call flux? I basically stole the name from a rather awful fantasy book that used something in some ways similar, so I'd like something else.
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Date: 2005-04-13 04:40 pm (UTC)I sort of like flux, but for me it suggests a manipulation of some other-dimensional forces, which I don't think is exactly what you want. You could go with ether, but that's a little boring. Sub? Or make up a word - something crazy like stoon, or prewt. Or 'ether' in a different language - eg, 'etere' in Italian.
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Date: 2005-04-13 04:47 pm (UTC)It's *sort* of like a manipulation of other-deminsional forces. Asimov had something like it, it's the spacetime of another universe replacing the spacetime of our universe, and in it different laws apply. And also the spacetime is dragged by matter. Except his spacetime just had the strong nuclear force slightly different :)
Did you know the Italian?! :) I like those. How about something like 'otherether' or 'fluxether' -- suggesting that it's equivalent to our ether, but different?
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Date: 2005-04-13 04:59 pm (UTC)I like otherether actually
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Date: 2005-04-14 09:53 am (UTC)Ah, *that*'s what I'll do. I'll have them constantly trying to find a name for it. That'll be funny :)
Thanks, talking to you always helps.
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Date: 2005-04-14 10:11 am (UTC)Erm, I'm glad I could help, even if I did very little...
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Date: 2005-04-14 10:22 am (UTC)You did help. Mum and I do it all the time: a dummy of the other would be enough, because it's in explaining that understanding comes.
And I was forgetting this story is supposed to be funny :)