The Truths of Existence, (Roleplay/OOC/Sign-ups/Open)

[Kaidou]

Still haven't gotten all of the mental pieces of the puzzle that is the RP story for my characters yet.

You could post it in a dispatch and add the link to your signature, so that the fragments don't get swamped by new OOC posts.

[Naval Monte]

Still haven't gotten all of the mental pieces of the puzzle that is the RP story for my characters yet.

You could post it in a dispatch and add the link to your signature, so that the fragments don't get swamped by new OOC posts.

That is a good idea but I mean that I'm first remembering all of the events that happened on my characters in order before I can write them down.

[Kaidou]

You could post it in a dispatch and add the link to your signature, so that the fragments don't get swamped by new OOC posts.

That is a good idea but I mean that I'm first remembering all of the events that happened on my characters in order before I can write them down.

I skimmed through the old posts in the RP; that would probably help quite a bit.

[Naval Monte]

That is a good idea but I mean that I'm first remembering all of the events that happened on my characters in order before I can write them down.

I skimmed through the old posts in the RP; that would probably help quite a bit.

True. I will probably do it later.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

So what's been happening?

[Kaidou]

So what's been happening?

The Vermin has been aroused and is now causing mayhem, in the form of tsunami, the opening of new fault lines, and so on.

Also, a new Tenshi has been appointed, Ludwig is going to face General Nixa in a battle, and Iuzun has effectively thrown the Grandmasters from their seat of power.

[Naval Monte]

Also the Gnosis verse is gone and the humans in there have regain their lost divinity, so most being in there are fleeing that place to both other places in their home multiverse and into the one where everyone is in, making the demon invasion even worse. Also the Fates are falling part, Alzis lost a body to Crowe who made her into a individual being and Elizabeth's mother is now roaming around in the realm of the living meeting up with Saya.

The Knights of St. Luminia are currently inactive since they lost their leader and this replacements are either physically and mentally not well enough to take over yet.

[Contamenesia]

Will have a post up when i can. been busy...so sorry..TT.TT

[Naval Monte]

Will have a post up when i can. been busy...so sorry..TT.TT

It's alright Cont. Also I thought about posting the magic system of Gnosis for a while now so here it is and sorry for advance for the length.

Now the first thing are the rules of the thaumaturgy in that world. The first are the Law of Contagion and the Law of Similarity. They may be summed up thusly: 'The part affects the whole,' and 'Like produces like.' It should be noted that just having an object held by someone or something and seeing them still counts as the first two laws.

The most important rule is Observation changes Reality, the will, knowledge and belief of the thaumaturge can induce a change on the tapestry of existence. However to think that their own minds alone will do it is arrogant, instead a mage needs to have a paradigm behind them to give them a view how their magic can change the world.

A paradigm is a system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality. Generally when it comes to paradigms the more widely known or accepted a paradigm is the more powerful it will be, however even those underground still have more power than those recently made who only has little sparks due to their infancy stage. This state of weak infancy can only change if the new paradigm spreads and gains new followers.

However paradigms are not enough for you see even with a paradigm a mage still needs to find a way to to focus their paradigm to achieve a desired effect via thaumaturgy. As such foci or focus are used. Foci are items, rituals, and practices that mages use to tap their magical power. The foci changes depending on which paradigm you are dealing with but there are recurring ones that play important roles in magic.

The most important one is visualization, the art of using your imagination to envision your spell taking shape and manifestation on to reality as an actual Thaumaturgical effect. The visualization process not only acts as a way of setting the mood for the mage for their magecraft but it assists in their observation of the world while acting as a form of self hypnosis, thus setting the right state of mind for magic. The second one are incantations. For incantations anything that comes out from the mage's mouth will work. Chants, prayers, mantras, reciting poetry or a line from a novel, singing or speaking in another language or a made up one or even gibberish.
Like visualization the incantations are a form of self hypnosis. For incantations whatever is being spoken or song must have meaning to the mage. The third is gestures which the is physical counterpart to the previous two and any physical actions taken by a mage during their thaumaturgical work will be counted as a gesture. From there materials that go align with the paradigm of the mage is used.

Now why does the mind play a role in this? Because it serves as a gateway to the real source of Thaumaturgy, the soul. In Gnosis thaumaturgy the soul is the source of magic for most mages. The reason being that the soul produces a vast quantity of a primal energy called Quintessence (though the name changes depending on who you are talking too). Quintessence as been called both a life and spirit energy, a magical particle, the essence of existence, the data of reality, these and many more are gross oversimplifications of what it is.

This energy exists throughout existence and it is thanks to Quintessence that mages can even use their wills to warp reality. However how Quintessence does it is interesting. You see when the mage is performing their work their inner Quintessence leaves and interacts with the Quintessence outside, in particular the Quintessence that has formed a existential pattern. Existential Patterns (or patterns) are metaphorical vessels of Quintessence, and as such, constitute all known reality, acting as "lego bricks" to Prime's "building blocks". Using their own will a magi using their own Quintessence to override the information contained within a targeted pattern(s) and change the information within them and change definition of what those patterns) use to say, as such warping reality.

Patterns are formed when threads of the tapestry of reality and existence, also called "Spheres", interject, bringing context into possibility and acting as variables, functions and instances. Patterns are usually composed of numerous smaller Patterns, for example, the Pattern of a human body contains individual Patterns for its internal organs, limbs and overall appearance. As a result, every Pattern is unique, and because they are constantly in flux through the eternal stream of Quintessence, they are not static.
Patterns do not only compose the material parts of existence, it also composes ephemeral substance like spirits, thoughts and even powers like time, space and entropy are affected since these forces govern how and in what relation these Patterns interact. Note that the term Pattern is a generic term for many magi have different terms like the Platonic world Eidos.

Now here is where we get to the crazy part. You see while the soul is the main source the subconscious mind is also helping. You see there is an unknown link between the subconscious and the soul and when the Quintessence of a mage is changing a pattern all of that information from the pattern is flooding into the mage, however while their conscious mind is focus on the thaumaturgical working the subconscious and soul are the ones doing the heavy duty computation to understand the information of the patterns and learn how to change and override them.

However having this vast cosmic, existential knowledge does have it's drawbacks. For some species, like humans, having that information continuously go through their heads will slowly drive them mad due to information overload among other hazards, like attracting lovecraftian horrors who may find the extra bit of information in their heads tasty and want to nibble on it and their juicy brain.

Before you ask, yes, having a work being interrupted in while it is going on does cause problems as the conscious mind gets exposed to alien information in their mind fully. Also they suffer physical exhaustion from ritual work and anything else they done in their works but otherwise never have to suffer from mana drain or stuff like that. Back lashes are a mage's true enemy. Each shift in reality causes a backlash which can take on any form. Ways to counter them have always been to use casting circles and geometric patterns: to redirect the backlash into predictable patterns.

Using reagents, incantations and one's own will can also help settle down backlashes and while some mages can use glyphs around the circles themselves a few take a step further and cast the backlashes on themselves, into their own minds and bodies. Insanity, mutations and death are to follow for those who deal with backlash in this manner.

Another drawback to magic is that it's addictive. This addiction bites in two ways; on one hand it gives a magi the motivation and enthusiasms to study and work their craft but on the other it makes them desperate to gain even more scraps of knowledge and power to be willing to sell their souls to dark powers and can push them into self destructive actions, sometimes it can even cause them to harm others around them. Depending on your paradigm you may find restrictions as you are forced to follow a set of mindsets and avoid taboos, your paradigm even restricts how your magic will work. Also another reason magic can be addictive is the fact that many magi who perform magic claim that once they are making and casting their effect they feel a sense of euphoria and a sense that they have become gods for a few seconds, this feeling becomes the main addictive hook for most mages.

More importantly there is a major weakness to thaumaturgy that is also another rule, Equivalent Exchange. Nothing is free in this world and not even magic is free. Every spell, ritual, summoning, curse, scrying and divination will always have a price and while some may be immediate others will come in latter time. Some of these prices can either last for a few hours, days, months or years or they can last for life or even generations. The path of a mage is one of dedication and conviction along with will.

A few beings like the Archons and Daevas seem to have found ways to break some of the rules of magic, in particular they can use magic by their own will alone and they seem to either be immune to backlashes or they found a way to deal with them to create the illusion of immunity.

I'm still working on a few things with it, like should I change the names of the Patterns and Spheres into something else or are they good?

[Kaidou]

I'm having a pretty bad fever and tightness in the chest, so I probably can't post for the next few days or so, so as to avoid suffering from karoushi.

Feel free to take over my characters if needed.

[Naval Monte]

I'm having a pretty bad fever and tightness in the chest, so I probably can't post for the next few days or so, so as to avoid suffering from karoushi.

Feel free to take over my characters if needed.

I hope you get better man.

[Kaidou]

I will throw a massive celebration on the day that Gabriel Weston dies.

[Contamenesia]

I will throw a massive celebration on the day that Gabriel Weston dies.

i made sure he didnt kill the thing and considering how HUGE the creature is i doubt the tiny holes he has put in it will kill it. Also...i cant beleive a loner theif is more hated than some of the more evil characters in our rp...

[Kaidou]

I will throw a massive celebration on the day that Gabriel Weston dies.

i made sure he didnt kill the thing and considering how HUGE the creature is i doubt the tiny holes he has put in it will kill it. Also...i cant beleive a loner theif is more hated than some of the more evil characters in our rp...

It's not so much his actions as much as his personality.

You did say he's the guy that everybody hates, so I suppose you've been doing a good job at it.

[Contamenesia]

True...though i also said that he's the kind of guy that despite typically being the guy you hate, he's also the guy that, you might not realize at first but when you do, that he's actually one of the best friends you can have...

[Kaidou]

True...though i also said that he's the kind of guy that despite typically being the guy you hate, he's also the guy that, you might not realize at first but when you do, that he's actually one of the best friends you can have...

The frenemy relationships that could evolve would be pretty interesting.

Hiccup, for example, would despise Gabriel's insensitive approach to morality, but would also find him a useful ally.

Were Maju still alive, his inferiority complex would also have put him in a tricky situation if he was trying to ally with Gabriel.

[Naval Monte]

Well with Maju I wish that my characters could have had the honor of either killing or assisted in his demise but he and them never met with the sole exception being the Moon Sisters but that was from a back story. Haikara is another wanker I would have love to throttle. who I actually had the chance with Alzis but that battle was interrupted by Goku. As for the Archons and Daevas they are still around and are hiding. Iuzun right now is way too far to be a threat now and well the world that most characters are in is blocked from him. Though right now I can't help but to have the assuming thought of one of my characters fighting against Iuzun and dwarf tossing the guy.

As for frenemy not sure with Tandem and Alice but Elizabeth can be a maybe become a frenemy.

[Kaidou]

Well with Maju I wish that my characters could have had the honor of either killing or assisted in his demise but he and them never met with the sole exception being the Moon Sisters but that was from a back story. Haikara is another wanker I would have love to throttle. who I actually had the chance with Alzis but that battle was interrupted by Goku. As for the Archons and Daevas they are still around and are hiding. Iuzun right now is way too far to be a threat now and well the world that most characters are in is blocked from him. Though right now I can't help but to have the assuming thought of one of my characters fighting against Iuzun and dwarf tossing the guy.

As for frenemy not sure with Tandem and Alice but Elizabeth can be a maybe become a frenemy.

I was actually planning to bring closure to Hiccup and Felix's alliance by having them defeat Maju by a hair's width after Steiner's forced suicide suggestion failed.

Since he was killed out of the blue, though, I figured that it would be good to extend their alliance a bit more.

And then there's Nixa.

[Naval Monte]

Well with Maju I wish that my characters could have had the honor of either killing or assisted in his demise but he and them never met with the sole exception being the Moon Sisters but that was from a back story. Haikara is another wanker I would have love to throttle. who I actually had the chance with Alzis but that battle was interrupted by Goku. As for the Archons and Daevas they are still around and are hiding. Iuzun right now is way too far to be a threat now and well the world that most characters are in is blocked from him. Though right now I can't help but to have the assuming thought of one of my characters fighting against Iuzun and dwarf tossing the guy.

As for frenemy not sure with Tandem and Alice but Elizabeth can be a maybe become a frenemy.

I was actually planning to bring closure to Hiccup and Felix's alliance by having them defeat Maju by a hair's width after Steiner's forced suicide suggestion failed.

Since he was killed out of the blue, though, I figured that it would be good to extend their alliance a bit more.

You still have the demon horde running around and the reason I haven't posted more on their actions is because it would end up sounding too samey if I kept making posts about them.

[Kaidou]

I was actually planning to bring closure to Hiccup and Felix's alliance by having them defeat Maju by a hair's width after Steiner's forced suicide suggestion failed.

Since he was killed out of the blue, though, I figured that it would be good to extend their alliance a bit more.

You still have the demon horde running around and the reason I haven't posted more on their actions is because it would end up sounding too samey if I kept making posts about them.

I see…

[Naval Monte]

You still have the demon horde running around and the reason I haven't posted more on their actions is because it would end up sounding too samey if I kept making posts about them.

I see…

Right now I'm waiting and thinking of the perfect time for them to make a post for them so right now they are a background threat. Growing in larger numbers and claiming more victims but doing so that it is an issue known to anyone who travels to other universes since let's face it you wouldn't know about demons invading different universes unless you were aware of the existence of the multiverse.

[Contamenesia]

Trivia: The Bards, Celestia, Apox, Misery, The Four and Jason....

The Bards are a force of Magic that is best described as the embodiement Existencial Web. Bards embody connection and bonds of every and all sorts With Music being their Envoy connecting what they are to what we consider to be Existence, and their magic travels through and relies upon the enter lying Threads of Existence. Celestia is one of these said Threads. She is the Thread that embodies and connects all Skill in Existence, but has been torn away and stolen. Why do we still have skill then? because the thread is ever repairing, what was Stolen can never be returned. While now but a small fragment of what she used to be, she is still Infinite, Limitless, and an "object" that is beyond our mortal comprehension. To Know her is to know the Thread of Existence, and in short, know the Entirety of ALL that exists Everywhere and Anywhere.

The Theif who stole her was a man no one can recall, only the Ahmarhan can recall his existence. but not his name or face, (Except for the King of Course, She is the only person aside from Celestia herself who knows who he was.) And How he stole the String is unknown, it was not recorded nor witnessed, So it cannot be repeated. At the very moment that he took the String, he ceased to exist, Entirely, not simply memory of him but all evidence and proof of his existence as well. A New being was then born, a being that was not Thread nor Mortal, it was an entirely new being unlike anything else in all existence. It was neither God nor Entity, but could be considered both yet neither. This being was Apox, the Threaded Being, whose existence was beyond comprehension. And power and ability Limitless beyond all else Within Existence. Yet Apox was not One person, nor was Apox the two parts that created it, but rather, something more...

This brings us to Misery: The Threaded Goddess. This being was created when a stolen Thread melded to a Thread-touched being who bore the True Code of Immortallity and Misery. Misery is akin to the very Entities themselves, yet not an Entity, but something Else....an Abomination, a Threaded Being like no other rivalled only by Apox. (We dont count the Ahmarhan.) It's only purpose is Misery in every sense of the word, and the power and ability to not only Cause it, but Suffer it indefinitely.

Now The Four are a bit harder to explain. The Four Existencial Dragons are each also a Part of the Thread. They are....Anchors to which all hold in place the Web of Existence. They are NOT threads themselves but are no less important to to the Weave that is ALL of Existence. They are not mortals nor gods, and do not have "minds" like we think of them, indeed, their conciousness is a weave in of itself, And they are Only what they Embody and Nothing more, but nothing less. Time is a foriegn thing to them they do not concieve Time as they are all above its influence.

And now to Jason and the Calm. The Calm is The Bards, but not what we see of them. The Calm is the part of them that is The Bard, the that is the Force of Magic that embodies all Connections and Bonds thatsing and flow upon the Threads of Existence. Because Jason can hear the Calm...he can do things that defy logic and reality, he can overcome Gods and Mortals Alike because He is Thread-touched. He is Limitless, and his True potential is beyond our comprehension.

And Naegling is much like the Bards. it does not cut the threads, but uses them to kill. This is Why it is perhaps the most feared Weapon in all Existence.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

I should probably post :l

[Naval Monte]

I should probably post :l

Yeah best to post before you get lost.

[Naval Monte]

Random funny video just to all of your day better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d7Llx4rm8