Aniconism
Aniconism
Once there was a world named Oiris, millions of miles away, connected to other words via the land of Nyris, home of the Gods which was connected to the land by a great waterfall. But due to the machinations of the Aspects rebelling against their elder Gods, Oiris was burned away to nothing and Nyris adrift before it came to the world known as Earth. Here the Gods of Nyris and the Aspects held equal weighting but they held little sway on this new world of Earth but they decided to change that by petitioning for Magic to start sending real magic out into this world for the first time, little pockets and whispers, the likes of which Earth had never seen before. These people were spread out but the magic was sewn into them and so communities formed on the fringes of society, some forever moving so as to avoid the persecution of old. Some wanted to stay hidden, some wanted equal weighting and some wanted absolute dominion.
It wasn't too long before soldiers were mobilised, people herded into camps, scientists looking for cures or something to stop the magic from being used or from spreading.
But it wasn't something they could understand and when you can use magic, you can break free from your prisons (for the most part). And so the witch hunts began in a whole new era as families and communities looked for some safe place and begged for these new Gods to aid them in their struggles. As for the Gods? They're capricious at best and even the kindest of them may only be looking for a source of amusement.
Aniconism picks up fifty years after the first true wave and tells the story of the first 'blood borns' - the first children who are no longer humans given an ability, moving through a world that is still attempting to adjust to the true existence of magic.
The Gods
Mother and Father
Sky (Trianys)||
Weather (Xophrin)
The children - the second wave of Gods
Earth (Bron)||
Fire (Vashri)||
Water (Vitri)
Air (Gershra)||
Ice (Stranf)
Unions + children produced
Fire & Ice
Vengeance
Mischief
Death
Prophecy
Earth & Water
Fortune
Wisdom
Craft
Nature
Wealth
Travel
Peace
Earth & Air
Pestilence
Sleep
Time
Earth & Ice
Disaster
Justice
Wealth
Fire & Water
Lies
Pride
Jealousy & Greed
Chaos
Fire & Air
Love
Revelry
Light & Dark
Healing
Travel & Mischief
Larceny
Nature & Ice
Spring
Winter
Nature & Light
Summer
Autumn
The Aspects
Love (Vulina)||
Fortune (Celian)||
Lies (Lir'tchri)
Wisdom (Irt)||
War (Ullrlrln)
Healing (Thrensh)||
Peace (Sheshash)||
Death (Borgh)
Time (Caiustin)||
Travel (Dræri)
Light (Tria) &
Dark (Xoph)||
Vengeance (Revvis)
Mischief (Lyssin)||
Prophecy (Dhozhan)
Craft (Makhin)||
Revelry (Niopeliss)||
Nature (Sifloris)
Wealth (Cha'ah-vrash)||
Justice (Drenmirtis)
Sleep (Nocxys)||
Jealousy (Azini) &
Greed (Iniza)
Pride (Fo'bellan)||
Disaster (Zenvarin)
Pestilence (Pekxis)||
Chaos (Morian)||
Larceny (Firtini)
Magic (Tæleasia) - the daughter of all
The Seasons
Nature & Ice
Spring (Surti)||
Winter (Va'ar)
Nature & Light
Summer (Mimoss)||
Autumn (Oran)
The Blood Mages
The blood mages are witches who gain their magic from the spilling of blood: their own, another person or even an animal. They can perform any sort of magic they are taught that isn't prophecy unless they have Seer blood in them. Adam's bloodline is the strongest of all and most likely the largest due to him travelling and bedding as many women as possible to create his bloodline, giving all his children (that he knows of) Biblical names.
Dynamite (Dinah)||The Blood Sacrifice
Adam||Dynamite's father||The Blood Mage
Bathsheba||(Dynamite's paternal half-sister)
Belial||(Dynamite's paternal half-brother)
Dathan||(Dynamite's paternal half-brother)
Esther||(Dynamite's paternal half-sister)
Abijah||(Dynamite's paternal half-sister)
Jair||(Dynamite's paternal half-brother)
Devin (one of Adam's lovers)
Reagan (one of Adam's lovers)
Little is known of Adam save that he is a vain, vain man who wants his children to look like him hence why he picks blonde women to lie with. He is a powerful blood mage but he uses Dynamite as his blood sacrifice instead of using his own blood. He has many other children that he can also draw blood from as well but he believes that Dynamite's is the strongest as she is a product of power and rage as he raped Dynamite's mother and cast a spell over her mind to make sure she kept her daughter and raised her well. Adam keeps six of his children, three sons and three daughters with him at all times for blood sacrifices when he needs them.
Dynamite, the child he truly wants, gave up one of her eyes for him and he can see everything with it unless she covers it up with an eyepatch which is what Dynamite does when she wants to escape.
Idina||The Blood That Travels
Idina and Adam have crossed paths before, back in the early days when they were on the run from the government and soldiers and while she did not lie with him, they used their blood magic to bring about a child, a child purely of magic, wild and uncontrollable. Adam would dearly love to get his hands on her, Idina instead has bound her magic as much as possible and she is often given calming herbs to make her sleep.
Nyx||Begotten of Blood
Idina is prone to travelling and she has picked up a 'family' of sorts of blood mages that look up to her as mother, aunt and sister.
Charlotte||Idina's wife
Robin
Willow
Marta
Arabella
Vincent
Peter
Jasmine
Oz
Hye
Nathan
Bich
Ophelia
Veronica
The Seers
Seers are traditionally female; with men it is rarer and often it manifests in violence.
Comet||The All-Seeing
Lilian||(Comet's mother)
Patrick||(Comet's father)
Comet and her family are all Seers, her parents some of the very first Seers who organised a community. Particularly powerful, they have turned to drugs to deal with their visions as it is a hard thing to live with and as such, Comet has sort of become their parent. They set up their own little Seer community in a lazy dustbowl of a town. Comet is particularly strong although she's the first child of two known Seers so it isn't saying all that much
The First Seer||The Link to the Gods
Jasper
Philippa
Cherish
Saffron
Katashi
The Fates
Blackjack||The Fallen One
Father Fate||Inevitable
Mother Fate||Spinner
Sister Fate||Alotter
No one is quite sure who made the Fates or when but they are an external source outside the Gods and the Aspects; Father Fate who is the one cuts the threads spun by Mother Fate with their daughter the Alotter measuring the thread of a persons life. Their son, known now as Blackjack was cast out for shirking his duties of influence, allowing the new Gods too much sway and so he has a life of confusing memories, a life where he has been dealt cruel hand after cruel hand as the thread of his life is cut and woven once more, all of his old memories clustered together until he can prove that he can perform his duties again.
The Oddities
Miasma||The Gravedirt
Miasma is a child of Pestilence, created with a little help from Death; the children of Pestilence are all planted by him but the mothers die before the child is even born. The children grows in the body of the dead mother and then Death plcks them from the ground and turns them into a fully grown person. Miasma is able to spread virus and disease through bodily fluids, thoughts and touch, just like any child of Pestilence.
Nemo||Nameless One
No one is really sure what Nemo is beyond being rage, hate, bitterness and tears. Miasma befriends him though and they travel together at times. Nemo has magic but no one is sure what it stems from. He himself has no memories apart from waking up one day on a beach.
Bao &
Bai ||The Witches
Agapito||Witch
Nuria||The Scryer
Afrim||The Hunter
The Others
Amelia (Dynamite's mother)
As far as Amelia knows, she's just a normal woman who unfortunately ran into the blood mage Adam who raped her and then cast a spell over her to make sure she kept her child; she loves Dynamite, he blood mage daughter by Adam, but at the same time, she can't help but wonder if that's just his doing. She ended up marrying later to a normal human man, having two more children before settling down in a Seer community where she sparked up a friendship with Comet's parents. The Seers know about her rape and outside of Dynamite, blood mages are banned from entering their community.
Jenna (Dynamite's maternal half-sister)
Brett (Dynamite's maternal half-brother)
Jeremy (Dynamite's stepfather, Amelia's husband, father of Jenna and Brett)
Dorian (soldier)
Alejandro (soldier)
Nguyen (soldier)
Russ (soldier)
Ajit (scholar)
Masaru (Amelia's lodger)
Sergio (soldier)
Generic Information
Light & Dark are also called Day & Night and Fortune is called Luck by humans. Craft covers anything from written or spoken works to actual craft and Nature covers things like agriculture and hunting. Sleep covers the realm of dreams and nightmares depending on who he works with as well (Peace for good dreams, Mischief, Lies or Vengeance for bad dreams). Love is all love but if she is alongside someone like War or Jealousy or Greed, Mischief or Vengeance, she is also hate. [Names written as x & y indicate twins]