Name: Catie Personal Journal: darkjewel79.livejournal.com Contact Info: AIM: Catie79, Plurk Catie79 Other Characters Played: N/A Preferred Housing: N/A
Character Name: Caroline Martinez Character Age: 22 Background: ((I apologize for the level of detail, this is a character taken from a long piece of fiction I have written and she is from about one third of the way through her story.))
General Background
In the reality that Caroline is from, Earth is exactly as anyone would recognize it. The year is 2010, people worry about the price of gas, global warming, and international terrorism. Modern Earth has little patience for magic or the supernatural, but that does not mean that it doesn’t exist. It means that the supernatural has simply gotten better at hiding. Magic is real.
Magic is controlling and moving natural energy. That’s it. In the case of a mage, they are born with an innate ability to move and control the energy associated with the universe in general. A trained mage can pull energy from the planet they are standing on, since that energy has a relationship with mass. The relationship is not completely understood, but the best source of free power is the closest planet (usually the one right under their feet). All mage techniques are based on the basic concept of collecting, changing, and using energy. Most species ‘see’ this energy with shades of color, but some species will ‘hear’ or even ‘smell’ energy instead.
Wizards do not have this natural ability. Instead, they use training and power of will to collect, change, and use energy. Training gives them the sensitivity required to feel energy and manipulate it. They cannot pull energy from the planet, reducing the amount of power at their control. However, their training results in very tight control over their own energy and allows them to perform delicate, complicated techniques.
A blood wizard or blood mage will kill another magic user for the boost of energy that provides. A blood mage can collect that energy and keep it, a blood wizard must use it right away. Killing a magic user for this reason is usually a messy, painful business for the victim.
Mages are able to build portals between locations (called ‘porting), including other planets if they’re strong enough. Both mages and wizards can communicate across great distances via telepathy. On most planets, mages are the power behind interplanetary travel and trade. Magic users in general are considered a normal part of society on any planet aside from Earth. Beings can even have jobs based on their abilities, providing skills the same way a technician or artist would be employed on Earth. There are dozens of planets that know of each other and have political relationships, whether good or bad.
Earth is left out due to the human fear of the supernatural and the unknown. Mages and wizards are underground. There is structure and training, but much of it is focused on keeping the magic users out of sight and safe. Like all other planets, Earth has a Master Mage responsible for the overall protection of the planet and dealing with the magic user population, and he is supported by six regional mages or wizards (one for each populated continent). For those magic users with the ability, the reasons, or the funding to hire a mage at a ‘port station, they can visit other planets and meet other species. There are several planets that are friendly to their ‘primitive’ neighbors and allow humans to play tourist. Friendships are easily maintained through telepathy, even across light years.
The deities have not been particularly active on Earth, which also helps to keep the magic users out of sight. Other planets are not so lucky and have had direct interference from the deities. Between the meddling and research from various species, most magic users around the universe are aware that reincarnation is a fact, though only one mortal in existence (the Guardian) can remember past lives, and that there are other planes of existence where souls can be found. The Material Plane is where the mortals live out their lives, the Astral plane is where souls can be found between lives and where the deities can be found. It’s not somewhere mortals can go while alive.
Caroline Martinez || OC || Not Reserved
Personal Journal: darkjewel79.livejournal.com
Contact Info: AIM: Catie79, Plurk Catie79
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: N/A
Character Name: Caroline Martinez
Character Age: 22
Background: ((I apologize for the level of detail, this is a character taken from a long piece of fiction I have written and she is from about one third of the way through her story.))
General Background
In the reality that Caroline is from, Earth is exactly as anyone would recognize it. The year is 2010, people worry about the price of gas, global warming, and international terrorism. Modern Earth has little patience for magic or the supernatural, but that does not mean that it doesn’t exist. It means that the supernatural has simply gotten better at hiding. Magic is real.
Magic is controlling and moving natural energy. That’s it. In the case of a mage, they are born with an innate ability to move and control the energy associated with the universe in general. A trained mage can pull energy from the planet they are standing on, since that energy has a relationship with mass. The relationship is not completely understood, but the best source of free power is the closest planet (usually the one right under their feet). All mage techniques are based on the basic concept of collecting, changing, and using energy. Most species ‘see’ this energy with shades of color, but some species will ‘hear’ or even ‘smell’ energy instead.
Wizards do not have this natural ability. Instead, they use training and power of will to collect, change, and use energy. Training gives them the sensitivity required to feel energy and manipulate it. They cannot pull energy from the planet, reducing the amount of power at their control. However, their training results in very tight control over their own energy and allows them to perform delicate, complicated techniques.
A blood wizard or blood mage will kill another magic user for the boost of energy that provides. A blood mage can collect that energy and keep it, a blood wizard must use it right away. Killing a magic user for this reason is usually a messy, painful business for the victim.
Mages are able to build portals between locations (called ‘porting), including other planets if they’re strong enough. Both mages and wizards can communicate across great distances via telepathy. On most planets, mages are the power behind interplanetary travel and trade. Magic users in general are considered a normal part of society on any planet aside from Earth. Beings can even have jobs based on their abilities, providing skills the same way a technician or artist would be employed on Earth. There are dozens of planets that know of each other and have political relationships, whether good or bad.
Earth is left out due to the human fear of the supernatural and the unknown. Mages and wizards are underground. There is structure and training, but much of it is focused on keeping the magic users out of sight and safe. Like all other planets, Earth has a Master Mage responsible for the overall protection of the planet and dealing with the magic user population, and he is supported by six regional mages or wizards (one for each populated continent). For those magic users with the ability, the reasons, or the funding to hire a mage at a ‘port station, they can visit other planets and meet other species. There are several planets that are friendly to their ‘primitive’ neighbors and allow humans to play tourist. Friendships are easily maintained through telepathy, even across light years.
The deities have not been particularly active on Earth, which also helps to keep the magic users out of sight. Other planets are not so lucky and have had direct interference from the deities. Between the meddling and research from various species, most magic users around the universe are aware that reincarnation is a fact, though only one mortal in existence (the Guardian) can remember past lives, and that there are other planes of existence where souls can be found. The Material Plane is where the mortals live out their lives, the Astral plane is where souls can be found between lives and where the deities can be found. It’s not somewhere mortals can go while alive.