Taigan Magic

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In common terms, magic is the art of producing a desired outcome through occult means. Various arts are described as magical, from common street illusionists, village herbalists, and rituals for the intercession of deities. However, true magic is the art and science of elemental mastery, harnessing elemental creatures and instructing them to perform simple or complex tasks. was a highly ritualised style of elemental magic in the High Iskean culture of Traste during the Jade Epoch. Little is known of its formal practice, but its masters were highly praised and awarded rich gifts of cloth and treasures for their services.

Taigan magic involved harnessing wild elementals, called deivat, training and imprinting them to obey the will of the magician. Trained elementals became esserat, or familiars. The power of a magician was measured by the number of elemental familiars they could bind at any one time.

Taigan magic involved lengthy rituals and incantations, the equivalent of sequents or magical instruction sets.

A cultural tradition developed that esserat are the good spirits which aid humanity, whilst the deivat are pernicious beings of the wild places that play tricks and cause harm. This belief was integral to the ancient culture of northeast Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera, particularly in the religion of Emanuné, and still persists in folkloreplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFolklore

Folklore

This is in a series of articles about oral traditions, tales, folk practices, and folklore.

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