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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 353115" data-attributes="member: 1636">Shivetya was called a 'Demon' because that was his evolved place in the southern mythos.Their might be odd cults that worship him as a god, and maybe their is even a small desert people that think of him as the Golem, placed where it is to prevent their slave masters from pursuing them from another world.There are god-like, or at least vastly superior beings in this universe.  They extend beyond their physical forms to the point where the material is either an afterthought, a prison, or a means at communication.  Maybe those are all from the Uber Dimensional of Supreme Beings, and maybe those are beings who have been purified in a Hindu/Bhuddist style cycle, and have risen to a higher state.Shivetya is probably something akin to an insanely powerful psion for whom the plane is an extension of his conscious will and biological functioning. Very few of the magic-users seemed to be pinned to this or that school.  In Core terms, One-Eye was an Illusionist.  In BC terms, divinations which are enhancements to the mind and sight, or the ephemeral energies of illusion are easiest.  So One-Eye concentrated his studies on illusion, as he could fire off lots of those to good effect in a battlefield.Genuine Conjuration and Evocation type magic would be more difficult.  Probably these guys used a mana system. In D&D, the limits of one's magical gift are left to the DM and player to decide.  If you have 5 levels of mage-gift, you stop leveling as a mage after 5th level.For worlds like BC I once considered a 'Mystic' ability score.  I was playing around with it being the DC modification for all spellcasters and, depending on the world, the score being the Maximum level you can attain in any one spellcasting thingy (wizard + loremaster, or whatever).  The average Joe would just not have this score, as it would be irrelevant to his life.Since none of my current projects needed that sort of thing very much, I decided to drop it.  Maybe it would have a purpose here?</blockquote>

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