Artageca Magic is a structured magical system from the book "Veingloria," centered around the interaction of personal astrological triads and elemental magic. Below is an in-depth explanation of its key elements, practices, and types with examples extracted from the text.
Structure and Triad System:
Astrological Basis: Artageca magic functions on the alignment of an individual's natal chart—specifically their ascendant, sun, and moon signs. These signs determine their affinity to specific elements such as Earth (Terrae), Fire (Pyrae), Air (Aerae), and Water (Hydrae).
Triad Combination: Each individual has a unique combination called the Artageca triad. Some examples:
Gloria’s triad is Earth-Earth-Earth, granting her access to advanced Terrae magic.
Mother Crimsonia’s triad is Fire-Fire-Earth, making her proficient in fire-based defense and offensive spells, enhanced with earth magic.
Execution and Examples:
Elemental Command and Manifestation:
Magic users can invoke and manipulate elements based on their dominant signs. For example, Terrae users, like Gloria, possess abilities related to the physical Earth, such as triggering landslides, earthquakes, and commanding plant life.
Pyrae magicians wield fire-based spells, such as Morgana's demonstration where she cast "Incendia Vita," summoning fiery whips from the sky.
Personal Affinity and Multi-Layered Spells:
A magician’s dominant element influences how spells are channeled. For instance, Crimsonia defended against a fire spell by combining her fire and earth elements—using vocal incantation and stone magic to swap her physical position with a marble statue.
Mental and Morphic Arts:
In the realm of mental abilities, some magicians can read or manipulate minds, as Osara describes her triad-linked ability to discern lies and influence thoughts.
Unique Types of Artageca Magicians:
Channelers:
Channelers are rare magicians who possess a vast reserve of magical energy within them. This energy can be borrowed by other magicians, regardless of their elemental affinities. However, Channelers lack focused abilities in any one element, limiting their direct magical utility but making them essential resources for others.
Kindred Magicians:
Kindred practitioners have weak innate magic but can borrow energy from other magicians either by proximity or as a gift. This type of magic requires cooperation, often necessitating a spell from the energy donor.
Practical Application:
Training in Artageca is conducted through exercises specific to each triad. These practices help students explore how they can harness their magic more effectively. For instance, during one lesson, magicians were encouraged to cast spells with intent and emotional focus to enhance effectiveness.
Artageca magic blends astrology, elemental mastery, and personal discipline. The triadic nature offers a complex system where personal traits, magic style, and collaboration among magicians converge, creating a versatile and unique magical framework tailored to the strengths and challenges of each individual.
VEINGLORIA BLURB
The witches at the Beltraine Sisterhood are becoming more cold-blooded every night. Gloria just watched them burn a vampire to death with fire magic. And while she laughs with them as the sickening scent of burning flesh assaults her nostrils, Gloria is absolutely terrified of her own fate in the Sisterhood. She’s a vampire herself, hiding her dark secret from the murderous witches. One wrong step would have her skin-scented ashes scattering into the campus’ eternal blackness. But the chilling fact is her blood cravings are intensifying each night, and Gloria is wise enough to know it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose.
On the other side of the city, tension is high among the four royal vampire families. Tamsyn Blackcross, daughter of the ruling Vampire King, struggles with a problem of her own: she’s a witch, the very faction her ruthless father wants to slaughter. And as she seeks desperately to hide her secret, Tamsyn’s magic continues to blossom like a dark flower. Coupled with a forbidden love with Kain Fangsworth from the disgraced Fangsworth vampire house, Tamsyn plays a deadly game of death and deceit. And as her devious father drafts Kain into the vampire army to attack the witches at the Beltraine Sisterhood, Tamsyn’s clairvoyant reveals he’ll die there. Refusing to lose the love of her life, she’ll do everything in her power to prevent that from happening, even if it means using her magic for all to see.
Fans of dark, atmospheric fantasy like The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, and The Black Witch by Laurie Forest will be drawn into the shadowy world of Veingloria, where witches, vampires, and forbidden magic collide in a tale of deadly secrets, dangerous love, and power struggles that will leave you mesmerized.
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