Drungar Magic: Stone-Binding
Drungar priests channel divine power through their pantheon: Grunthal, Murdal, Kolmorn, Tundar, and Drunara. The Drungargrath, their high priests, work stone-binding magic, shaping the very bones of the mountain through divine blessing. They collapse tunnels, mend stone, heal wounds, and consecrate sacred spaces by divine blessing alone. Their magic is safer than direct channeling, filtered through their gods, but requires maintaining divine favor and spiritual balance. Pride is the greatest danger.
Elan’vul Magic: Song-Shaping
The Vel’sharis channel power through nature itself using sound, frequency, and harmony. They worship no deity but Morneth’v’al, the Eternal Singer - The Creator of All things - a single distant, unknowable deity. They weave magic through singing, instruments, and natural sounds. Living wood is shaped and flesh is healed with melody. Both are broken with discordant frequencies. Their magic requires spiritual balance and works with nature as a partner, not as a slave or master. The Mad Queen, the first and most powerful Vel’sharis, stands as an ultimate warning of its misuse.
Human Magic: Raw and Varied
Human mages channel raw power directly from the world binding. It is dangerous even in skilled hands, but devastatingly effective on the battlefield. In the hands of the unskilled, it is almost always a suicidal endeavor. Priests of a myriad of gods wield divine blessings as varied as the deities they serve. Rarest are the Atavists, humans born with supernatural abilities echoing powers from before the world-breaking, living proof of humanity’s forgotten heritage. Most do not understand their abilities.
Imperium Magic: Devouring Power
The Tulgur are necromantic dark priests who devour magical energy rather than channel it, consuming life force to feed their insatiable hunger. Their bodies twist and deteriorate as they drain the world around them, but their power is devastating. The Imperium exalts them as holy servants of Ildune, weapons of conquest turned toward their imprisoned god’s liberation, corruption given purpose, faith replaced with dark hunger. Only these practitioners can survive in the presence of the Empress Ildune.