#Occultism is just a placeholder name btw

[bossa-61240]

Idk how to really word this but I'm out here working on like magic* system for a sort of urban-ish fantasy setting (like parts of the world are hyper urban mega cities but other parts are closer to traditional fantasy). I call it a Magic* system because it's actually 4 different powersets with each having at least 3 subtypes. Going down the list in terms of rarity there's (throwing in a read more so people can more easily scroll by):

Aura, which is physically outputting spiritual energy into the world to complete a desired effect. This has a variant focused on attacking, defending, and healing. Everyone is capable of using aura abilities, you just have to either teach yourself or find someone to teach you.

Magic, which draws in energy from the caster's surroundings which are then channeled through the body into spells. I went with the traditional magic schools for the subtypes here (Abjuration, Evocation, so on and so forth). Magic is a bit strange with it's rarity, technically everyone is capable of minor magical feats but very few are born with the resilience of body to actually weaponize it.

Psionics, which are a result of an extra energy running through the user's neurons. There are actually 8 variants here due to the 8 different kinds of energy that can be coursing through the psychic, each one of these changes the color of a psychic's powers among other effects. As of the modern day within the setting only 6 have been found to occur naturally, the remaining two have been recreated in a lab setting and the powers associated with them are beginning to be explored. Unlike Magic and Aura, psionics are something you have to be born with.

So the last set of powers are a little strange but stay with me here. There was a large war, and after its conclusion a mysterious illness settled into the land infesting the way that peoples powers would manifest making them wild and unstable. In order to combat this the people developed a new set of abilities under the blanket name Occultism due to their shared origin. So the way Occultism works is that its like the main 3, but they have to be done through a medium. And through the path that has branched off the Occultists have developed new powers that their original counterparts can't do. Magical Occultists are the ultimate detectives, wielding the ability to magically read objects. Psychic Occultists use what remains of their psychic powers to manipulate the elements, generally they prefer to be called kinetics. Lastly you have the Aura Occultists, which have drawn in spiritual energies from beyond becoming able to commune with the dead and sometimes even grant them access into our world. Occultists are extremely rare, with only a few families remaining as such throughout the ages.

Inheritance works like this:

2*Any = the same (Ex. Psychic + Psychic = Psychic)

Any Standard + Any Other Standard = 50/50 for parent 1 or 2 (Ex. Aura + Magic = 50/50 Aura or Magic)

Any Standard + Occult = Any Standard (Ex. Aura + Occult = Aura)

#world building #magic #writing #this is probably dumb #but I had fun making it #Occultism is just a placeholder name btw