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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarellion" data-source="post: 2092679" data-attributes="member: 6254">Edited: Not a contributionThis are my thoughts about the origins of the universe, why magic works, where the divine magic comes from and Taufenachts motivations and position. As these are major points I don´t mind if people want to discuss it. The celestial council and the elders of the other planes have a certain theory how the universe came to be. Nobody knows as the ones who are supposed to know have removed themselves from the company of their fellows. The elemental lords merged with the plane, the legendary ruler of Celestia  dissappeared and Taufenacht doesn´t reveal secrets. There was a creator deity who created the prime and all planes.However this deity is a timeless, eternal  being so it CANNOT ENTER OR INFLUENCE the timestream of the prime and the surrounding planes.Some creatures were set to watch over the other planes, the elemental lords, Taufenacht and his counterpart on the celestial side Mythria. Something that only this beings know for certain is that mortal souls carry within them a (really) small spark of the creator being. So mortals souls can bestow powers on other beings by worshipping them. This works like some kind of power transfer. Magic works because of the same spark. Arcane magic is the ability to tap into the power inherent in reality and to change this reality in minor ways. It is not possible for a single being or even millions to redraw reality and the laws of nature in a permanent way. Divine magic is the ability to harness the power bestowed upon beings or concepts that are worshipped.Psionics is the ability to harness the powers of the divine spark within.Mythria: The shining celestial queen of the angelic realms. Her power equals that of Taufenacht and she is the paragon of cestial virtues, but alas not one celestial has seen her for milenia. It is believed in the ranks of the celestial choir that she has left space and time to be one with the creator again. Demons in the abyss say that Mythria was killed by her underlings stating that not all is shiny and good in Celestia. A council of celestials govern in her stead.  Nobody on the prime have heard of her but the metal mithril was named in her honor.  Elemental lords: The elemental lords are the nominal rulers of the planes of spring, summer, autumn and winter. However no one has seen this beings for a long time. They all merged with their element and have not appeared for a long time. They think that the conflict betwen good and evil is childish and prefer not to interfere. They refuse to be worshipped and so never made their existence known to mortals. Even most of their own subjects remember them only as some kind of rumorTaufenacht: It is believed that his goal is it to bend all mortals to his worship so that he can gain the power of the creator himself and remake the universe as he likes.</blockquote>

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