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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dakkareth" data-source="post: 2344942" data-attributes="member: 9928">(I've been using that idea as background for my world)In ancient times, before mankind of even this world even existed, the Firstborn were the rulers of a great part of the universe. The Firstborn - you would know them as 'draconiae'. Yes, dragons, but nothing like your mother told you in her fairy tales. As the first species to attain intelligence and self-consciousness, they also reached perfection before all others. Their bodies were so filled with the power of life, that their blood alone could heal deadly wounds and their lifespan exceeded that of worlds. Their understanding was so great, that they would know the future of a being merely by looking at it. Great works of art enabled them to travel unimaginable distances in the blink of an eye or transform dead rocks into living worlds. These machines drew upon the power of the chaos that is in all things, the infinite permutations of existence dancing through being and non-being in the spaces between the elements of which all consists - sieving energy from nothingness.But all that was not enough for the Firstborn. The greatest of them devised a process by which their race would be able to shape the chaos not with machines but with their very thoughts. Sacrificing themselves the Twelve Archons poured the energies of their immortal lifes into a net made of frozen light, woven between all the worlds their race had ever visited. And as their spirits made of the loose web a tightly woven fabric, the energies of the chaos were tamed and channeled. By simply reaching out with their minds to the fabric of their fathers' spirits, travelling on threads of frozen light, they could call the energy to them and command it in full. Even to the Secondborn, whose mastery was close to that of the Firstborn, the new powers of the Draconiae seemed to impossible, that they referred to them by their word for 'unexplicable' - Arcana.Whenever you see a wizard conjuring power from nothing, remember this: It was not him, who made this possible. Laterborn species managed to pierce some of the Firstborns' secrets, to tap into some part of the great web and use its powers for their own ends. Often great minds of those races created their own spirit-channels to better access the power of the First and though they were far from being as powerful as the original, they made the energies available to others. The Sources available to mankind are many, but by way of countless intermediary channely they all draw from the First.---In short, the Firstborn created a kind of consciousness that transcended the need for a body, existing as a field of energy, as structures in space-time itself. This new creation had the same abilities as their machines with which they tapped Zero-Point-Energy and made it available to their entire race. Later others 'hacked' into this system and created their own versions, but unable to reproduce the original process they only could draw on the predecessor Source. Still, access was possible. Through millions of intermediaries, the great geniuses of mankinds past have managed to create their own 'tap' - a task that has become much easier now, that everyone can build on the work of those races that came before. And so human sorcerers can access these energies.</blockquote>

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