Post by Draemar Oakentree on May 9, 2007 23:15:23 GMT -5
The level Jewel is an indicator of the bearer's psychic strength; the darker the Jewel, the stronger the power. A Jewel acts as a reservoir for that power, and an uncut Jewel is large enough to produce a pendulum/necklace, a ring, and several chips for varying uses. Getting an uncut Jewel from an offering is very, very rare, however. The Jewel more often appears in the pieces it was cut into by its previous bearer, leaving the current one to reset it in any way she or he wills. The Jewels can be cut and refined like any normal gem, with no loss of power. Each cut Jewel holds a reserve of power independent from the other Jewels that were cut from the same stone.
A Birthright Jewel can be received by any of the Blood from a Dark Alter at anytime past their 16th birthday. An Offering to the Darkness to possibly gain a greater Jewel strength can be made after the 20th birthday. Whether or not they make either offering to gain strength is up to each individual person, but an offering is needed to gain that strength. When making an offering, it is possible to go down at maximum three Jewel levels from your Birthright. So, for example, a Birthright White can remain the same, or descend to Yellow, Tiger-eye, or Rose.
Wearing a Jewel and using Craft (spells) puts a strain on your body. Channeling that much power is akin to doing major workouts daily, or training for a sport. The darker the Jewel, the more this applies.
No witch can channel power during the first three days of her Moontime- or, she can, but it is physicly painful for her to do so. During the first three days, a witch also tires easily, is far weaker then normal, and needs more nutrients then her body would consume at other times.
A caste is something you are born into. While anyone can take the training for a particular set, only those born into those sets can use/take that training to its fullest. It is possible to be born into more than one caste; for example, there can be a Priestess/Healer. The rarest, and most powerful, combination is a Queen Black Widow Healer. Only three currently exist (correction- are known) among the Blood. A rank can be revealed by the psychic scent an individual gives off- if the person who receives that scent recognizes what it means, which isn't a guaranteed. Several other things can be told from that scent, too, including current temper.
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1) The Winds, also known as the Webs, are psychic currents that run across the Three Realms. In the Three Realms, the Winds form a web that meets at Ebon Askavi, the Black Mountain. The lines strait out from the mountain are called tether lines, the lines between the tether lines are called radial lines. Blood who wear the Jewels can travel the Winds like a spider over a web, and use this to cross distances more quickly and with less problems then in normal travel.
There is a Web for each rank of the Jewels. The darker the Web, the more tether and radial lines there are, and the faster faster the Wind is. You can only travel on the Webs that are your Jewel rank or lighter. You can't ride a Web of darker rank unless you are being sheilded by someone who CAN ride that web, or are in a Winds Coach being driven by someone that can ride that Web. There are specific points, called Landings or Landing Webs, that are the official drop points. They are marked by pieces of clear Jewels, which act like a psychic beacon to everyone on the Webs. Thus far, this is the only use discovered for those clear pieces.
2) I didn't mention this before, but differnt races of humans have drasticly differnt life expectancies. For Halliyans and Eyriens, 17 centuries is considerd 'young' and 'in the prime of your life.' For others, they only live as long as us. For simplicities sake, all the races that I deal with will all be the very, very long lived ones. There are also differnces in coloring for various races. The most notable characterisitcs, however, are the fact that Eyriens have wings. For an image, picture bat wings. Big, black, webed. One other race has wings- the Jhinka. They are the mortal enemies of the Eyriens, don't wear Jewels, and are considered to be little more then barbarians.
3) Warlord Princes are dangerous, agrresive, edgy, protective of females and friends that they love, and are the type of males that most need contact with their Queen, or other dominat females in their life. They're considered laws to themselves, To sum up their mindset, I give you a quote from the series: "I'm an Ebon-Gray Warlord Prince. I can do anything I d**n well want to." Please keep in mind that this was said AFTER threatening to cut off a man's hand.
4) Next up: Psychic scent. What it really is is an indication of your presence, an echo of who you are and your feelings at any given time. If you stay in a room for more than a few minutes, or handle an object for a while, your psychic scent gets imprinted onto it. If you stay in that room almost constantly, keep the object with you 24-7, or experience very intense emotions in the room/with the object, the scent gets stronger. If you leave the room for a long time, or abandon the object, the scent gets harder to detect. Extreme emtions experienced there at a later date can cover up the original psychic scent, especially if the new ones are stronger than the old ones.
5) Tangled webs are what a Black Widow weaves to trap or fool the mind. They can induce nightmares, create illusions, hide certian selected things, supress someone's memory, create dreams, tear your mind apart, and many other things. The best known tangled web is one woven to see images of the future- but it's hard to interpret and apply to everyday life. Anyone CAN, in theory, get out of a tangled web that's trapping them, if they have the psychic strength to do so. But they need to first recognise that they're IN a web, and then they need to knowledge of how to fight it.
6) Psychic threads. A psychic thread is a connection between two minds. Words, emtion, power, and knowledge can be sent along the bond. You can only send threads that are the level or your Jewel or lighter, and can't recieve any from a darker Jewel. Threads can be made open to all, narrowed down to one group, one gender, or one mind. If you wear a Jewel darker than the thread being sent, than you can 'listen in' without anyone being aware of it, so long as it's doesn't exclude your gender or mind. There's no limit to the distance that can be reached with this- though more distance does need more strength.
*All explinations are curticy of my friend Silver Cateyes. I will have the link to her fic up soon. Please leave her a message!!
A Birthright Jewel can be received by any of the Blood from a Dark Alter at anytime past their 16th birthday. An Offering to the Darkness to possibly gain a greater Jewel strength can be made after the 20th birthday. Whether or not they make either offering to gain strength is up to each individual person, but an offering is needed to gain that strength. When making an offering, it is possible to go down at maximum three Jewel levels from your Birthright. So, for example, a Birthright White can remain the same, or descend to Yellow, Tiger-eye, or Rose.
Wearing a Jewel and using Craft (spells) puts a strain on your body. Channeling that much power is akin to doing major workouts daily, or training for a sport. The darker the Jewel, the more this applies.
No witch can channel power during the first three days of her Moontime- or, she can, but it is physicly painful for her to do so. During the first three days, a witch also tires easily, is far weaker then normal, and needs more nutrients then her body would consume at other times.
A caste is something you are born into. While anyone can take the training for a particular set, only those born into those sets can use/take that training to its fullest. It is possible to be born into more than one caste; for example, there can be a Priestess/Healer. The rarest, and most powerful, combination is a Queen Black Widow Healer. Only three currently exist (correction- are known) among the Blood. A rank can be revealed by the psychic scent an individual gives off- if the person who receives that scent recognizes what it means, which isn't a guaranteed. Several other things can be told from that scent, too, including current temper.
* * * *
1) The Winds, also known as the Webs, are psychic currents that run across the Three Realms. In the Three Realms, the Winds form a web that meets at Ebon Askavi, the Black Mountain. The lines strait out from the mountain are called tether lines, the lines between the tether lines are called radial lines. Blood who wear the Jewels can travel the Winds like a spider over a web, and use this to cross distances more quickly and with less problems then in normal travel.
There is a Web for each rank of the Jewels. The darker the Web, the more tether and radial lines there are, and the faster faster the Wind is. You can only travel on the Webs that are your Jewel rank or lighter. You can't ride a Web of darker rank unless you are being sheilded by someone who CAN ride that web, or are in a Winds Coach being driven by someone that can ride that Web. There are specific points, called Landings or Landing Webs, that are the official drop points. They are marked by pieces of clear Jewels, which act like a psychic beacon to everyone on the Webs. Thus far, this is the only use discovered for those clear pieces.
2) I didn't mention this before, but differnt races of humans have drasticly differnt life expectancies. For Halliyans and Eyriens, 17 centuries is considerd 'young' and 'in the prime of your life.' For others, they only live as long as us. For simplicities sake, all the races that I deal with will all be the very, very long lived ones. There are also differnces in coloring for various races. The most notable characterisitcs, however, are the fact that Eyriens have wings. For an image, picture bat wings. Big, black, webed. One other race has wings- the Jhinka. They are the mortal enemies of the Eyriens, don't wear Jewels, and are considered to be little more then barbarians.
3) Warlord Princes are dangerous, agrresive, edgy, protective of females and friends that they love, and are the type of males that most need contact with their Queen, or other dominat females in their life. They're considered laws to themselves, To sum up their mindset, I give you a quote from the series: "I'm an Ebon-Gray Warlord Prince. I can do anything I d**n well want to." Please keep in mind that this was said AFTER threatening to cut off a man's hand.
4) Next up: Psychic scent. What it really is is an indication of your presence, an echo of who you are and your feelings at any given time. If you stay in a room for more than a few minutes, or handle an object for a while, your psychic scent gets imprinted onto it. If you stay in that room almost constantly, keep the object with you 24-7, or experience very intense emotions in the room/with the object, the scent gets stronger. If you leave the room for a long time, or abandon the object, the scent gets harder to detect. Extreme emtions experienced there at a later date can cover up the original psychic scent, especially if the new ones are stronger than the old ones.
5) Tangled webs are what a Black Widow weaves to trap or fool the mind. They can induce nightmares, create illusions, hide certian selected things, supress someone's memory, create dreams, tear your mind apart, and many other things. The best known tangled web is one woven to see images of the future- but it's hard to interpret and apply to everyday life. Anyone CAN, in theory, get out of a tangled web that's trapping them, if they have the psychic strength to do so. But they need to first recognise that they're IN a web, and then they need to knowledge of how to fight it.
6) Psychic threads. A psychic thread is a connection between two minds. Words, emtion, power, and knowledge can be sent along the bond. You can only send threads that are the level or your Jewel or lighter, and can't recieve any from a darker Jewel. Threads can be made open to all, narrowed down to one group, one gender, or one mind. If you wear a Jewel darker than the thread being sent, than you can 'listen in' without anyone being aware of it, so long as it's doesn't exclude your gender or mind. There's no limit to the distance that can be reached with this- though more distance does need more strength.
*All explinations are curticy of my friend Silver Cateyes. I will have the link to her fic up soon. Please leave her a message!!