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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8305043" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>I would say Awareness if you wanted to go that direction, while Warlocks are the Charisma Casters.</p><p></p><p>You're welcome!</p><p></p><p>Not out there at all. It's not the direction I personally went for, but that's because I want my Monks to guard occult relics and be lightly magical while my Psionics are different. Not a form of magic at all, in fact.</p><p></p><p>Though Barbarian Rage -is- tied to Primal and Occult Power.</p><p></p><p>Bards are mostly looking for Music and the Power behind it. Though another aspect of them is that I give them Patrons in the setting, so they also often work as spies for nobility.</p><p></p><p>So... it is and it also isn't.</p><p></p><p>The world was originally created by the Five Fates, the Yaktu Kai. These entities dreamed the world into being. Filled it with creatures. With plants. With everything. And dreamed of Gods. And those Gods helped their chosen people (Humans, Elves, all that jazz) rise up against the "Elder Things" that the Five Fates dreamed into being. Basically Aberrations.</p><p></p><p>True magic, REAL magic, the FIRST magic, in the setting is Occult. Secret, hidden, dangerous knowledge tied to those Five Fates, to the Dream they've constructed, to the very basis of all things... That's why the Monks and Bards can tap into the Self. The Occult -is- us.</p><p></p><p>But the more people who tamper with Occult magics, and the stronger they are, the more of a lure they are for the Elder Things. For the Five Fates. For all the bedtime stories and nightmares to burst forth into reality. So use of the Occult is taboo pretty much everywhere.</p><p></p><p>In it's abject function it isn't explicitly evil. But great evil can come from it, more often than not. So people -consider- it to be evil. It's labeled Black Magic as a result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8305043, member: 6796468"] I would say Awareness if you wanted to go that direction, while Warlocks are the Charisma Casters. You're welcome! Not out there at all. It's not the direction I personally went for, but that's because I want my Monks to guard occult relics and be lightly magical while my Psionics are different. Not a form of magic at all, in fact. Though Barbarian Rage -is- tied to Primal and Occult Power. Bards are mostly looking for Music and the Power behind it. Though another aspect of them is that I give them Patrons in the setting, so they also often work as spies for nobility. So... it is and it also isn't. The world was originally created by the Five Fates, the Yaktu Kai. These entities dreamed the world into being. Filled it with creatures. With plants. With everything. And dreamed of Gods. And those Gods helped their chosen people (Humans, Elves, all that jazz) rise up against the "Elder Things" that the Five Fates dreamed into being. Basically Aberrations. True magic, REAL magic, the FIRST magic, in the setting is Occult. Secret, hidden, dangerous knowledge tied to those Five Fates, to the Dream they've constructed, to the very basis of all things... That's why the Monks and Bards can tap into the Self. The Occult -is- us. But the more people who tamper with Occult magics, and the stronger they are, the more of a lure they are for the Elder Things. For the Five Fates. For all the bedtime stories and nightmares to burst forth into reality. So use of the Occult is taboo pretty much everywhere. In it's abject function it isn't explicitly evil. But great evil can come from it, more often than not. So people -consider- it to be evil. It's labeled Black Magic as a result. [/QUOTE]
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