Aether

Energies of the natural universe have the Name of Aether. Aether existed before the universe, representing the two fundamental powers - chaos and order, creation and destruction, destruction and creation, natural chaos and natural law. As these two energies conflicted, reality asserted itself, and the cosmos was born. This moment was Named genesis, and that moment of active creation is reformed in all acts of creation.

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Anumun

The energy of elemental chaos is Named Anumun. The chaos that existed before the universe, the energy from which all things sprung. Generative chaos, natural chaos. The energy of the possibility of existance. It exists in all things, connecting them deeply, and from it comes elemental ancestry (Named enkuku) and elemental True Names (Named galmu). It is one of the precursors to genesis.

Linked Names: Anumun, Enkuku, Galmu, Genesis

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Ashar

Lifeforce. Qi. The elemental energy of life, blood, and bodies is Named Ashar. It has some crossover with enkuku, virid, the four broad categories of living things (animals, fungi, microbes, and plants) recognized on Shem. All living things have ashar in them, but some have more than others because they have other forms of life energy. Ashar in the bloodstream is Named puuyutsu, and the elemental energy of bodies, which is a form of ashar, is Named hroa.

Linked Names: Ashar, Enkuku, G'hothaaul'ghots, Hroa, Nhamo, Prasinofos, Puuyutsu, Vegrandis, Virid

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Conflueverant

The energy of elemental water in all its forms is Named Conflueverant. It is the energy of flowing aether, of the aetherial heart, and of the living things within water. It is one of the most potent, versatile, and common forms of aether on Shem. Major Names linked to the elemental power of water are hvittdogg, the Name of ice, snow, frost, winter, and cold; allagi, the elemental Name of change; and kardiaroi, the elemental Name of emotion.

Aspects of it include rivers, streams, creeks, and other flowing waters (river energy); rain (torrentia); oceans (oceanic energy) and seas (darian energy); lakes and ponds (nyanja); wetlands (parfum de marais); tidal and coastal waters; lagoons, gulfs, and bays; channels and straits; steam and tropics; the wet season (monsoon energy); and ice and snow (hvittdogg). Water at the deepest parts of Shem are called the deeps, which take on a different energy. Waters around islands, coasts, and peninsulae sometimes have ho'okuma within them. The energies of steam are called vapor energy.

The energies of islands, peninsulae, atolls, seamounts, coasts and beaches, and other landforms partially or wholly surrounded by water, are under the energy of ho'okuma. When the energies refer specifically to coastal landforms and inlets, it is called liwa. Islands, archipelagos, atolls, calves, stacks, skerries, faraglionis, islets, sandbars, polar islands, rock islands, and seamounts all count as types of islands. Beaches, coasts, cheniers, cays, capes, lagoons, bays, gulfs, fjords, fjards, shoals, sills, and other inlets are included under liwa, as well as other coastal features. Reefs are a separate landform covered under ho'okuma. Peninsulae, isthmuses, and land bridges are also included. All littoral and neritic regions count as well - coastal plains, littoral caves, continental shelves, etc.

Linked Names: Allagi, Conflueverant, Kardiaroi, Hvittdogg

Aspects of the Name Conflueverant: Darian Energy, The Deeps, Ho'okuma, Monsoon Energy, Nyanja, Oceanic Energy, Parfum de Marais, River Energy, Torrentia, Vapor Energy, Liwa

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Ethiroli

The energy of sound, of aetherial sound is called Ethiroli, or sonic aether. It is the elemental power of audible, moving vibrations through any natural media - liquid, gas, or solid. It is the echoes in a canyon, the blast of a volcano, the crackle of a fire, the whisper of wind, the rhythm of the seas, the big bang and the resonating tectonic noises, the sound of an earthquake or a falling pebble, the screech of an animal, the sound of the falling tree, the communications of fungi. It is sound that is audible at any level. Because most mortals experience sound through air, this is often associated with kiiric.

Linked Names: Ethiroli, Kiiric

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G'hothaaul'ugots

The energy of elemental fungi, one of the four recognized forms of life on Shem, considered by some to be a kind of ashar. It is Named G'hothaaul'ugots. The vast, complex lifeforms that connect via mycellium networks or form as mold in damp places, fungi are a separate taxon and have their own unique, rare, and strange aether.

Linked Names: Ashar, G'hothaaul'ugots

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Genesis

The energy of creation is Named Genesis, formed via the union of virid and anumun. The shaping and crafting done by living things to the natural world.

Linked Names: Anumun, Ashar, Genesis, Virid

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Hvittdogg

The elemental energy of ice, snow, and the cold is Named Hvittdogg. The energy of of the polar regions and of winter. Cryovolcanoes and polar ice, glaciers, tundras, boreal forests, and the living things of colder climates are included, as are snow-topped mountains. It is also the energy of stasis. Any features of cold landscapes, such as crevasses in glaciers, snowslides and avallanches, cold gases, icebergs and polynyas, the icecaps of any world as well as cryomantles, frozen volatiles in space, the moraine in the mountains, polar ice and waters, slurry and slush ice, black ice, the permafrost, and the living things present in these cold regions. Technically, this is a subset of conflueverant.

Linked Names: Conflueverant, Hvittdogg

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Jingmai

The elemental energy of metal is Named Jingmai. Considered one of the five ordinal elements of the eastern countries, it is found in all metals and is found in purest form as a metal. Sometimes called the "veins of the world", some consider it a form of elemental blood, but in truth, it is found in many kinds of blood because iron is found there. There are many forms of elemental metals, usually variants of mundane metals. All elemental metals and mundane metals have a Name from which elemental power can be drawn by those who specialize in it.

Linked Names: Jingmai, Puuyutsu

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Kzdaran

The energy of earth and stone, of soil and loam, of gem and jewel, of mountain and hill, of salt and dirt, of cave and cavern. The energy of the continents and tectonics plates. The energy of stone, earth, and other minerals on other worlds as well. It is considered one of the ordinal elements of western cultures and eastern cultures.

It has many aspects. When it comes to caves and tunnels, it is cavernic power. Cavernic power covers caves, caverns, grottoes, littoral and sea caves, mines, speleothems, underground water (including lakes, rivers, streams, and waterfalls), and tunnels, all of the subterra, as well as fossae and labyrinthi on other worlds. For mountains and hills, it is montane energy. this includes mountains, planae, hills, piedmonts, undersea hills, seamounts, volcanoes, as well as farrae, collles, tholi, and montes on other planets, For any cliffs or slopes, it is pokapalo. These include cliffs, slopes, plateaus, canyons, ravines, gullies, chasms, as well as rupes, rilles, dorsae, fossae, and mensae on other worlds. For salt and salt landforms, it is salinis, including salt, salt flats, salt pans, and even salt lakes. And for mud and muddy landforms, it is ts'ekh, including mud, mudflats, some wetlands, quicksand and sinkholes, mudflows and avallanches, and shattered plains. And for anything tectonic or relating to layers or plates of the world, it is tectonis. This includes the oceanic crust, continental crust, the many layers of the subterra, intrusives, tectonic plates, stone provinces, tesserae, faults, earthquakes, and other features. Vulcanos covers magma, lava, and volcanoes, and all their features, which crossover with other elemental energies.

One of the largest aspects of hamasat, the energy of the desert, of arid regions, of xeric shrublands, of sand, and of the dry season. This also includes energies of the oases. As glass is melted sand, roshen is considered by some to be a kind of hamasat (and thus a part of kzdaran). As an aether of a landscape as well as a material, it covers many different dry regions and subsets of other aethers, including kzdaran, kiiroc, and all lifeforms (xerocoles, xerophytes and cacti, xerofungi, and anhydrolic microbes). Arroyos, badlands, chaparral, deserts, dried mudflats, dune fields, ergs, exodeserts, ferrodeserts, hamadas, hard lands, lomas (which often includes mist energy), oases, dry plateaus, playas, polar deserts (which might include hvittdogg), rock flats and rock deserts, scrub and scrub lands, shattered lands, stony deserts, wadis, xeric regions, volcanic deserts (which also include vulcanos). Dust devils and sandstorms often fall under this as well.

Other facets of the earth fall under the general energy of kazaddarean, including earth, stone, rock (which might also include crystals and ice), jewels and gems, minerals, planitias, rockflats, sediment and soil, fossils, geodes, valleys and vallises, and mixtures of earth and stone.

It also includes solids in general.

Linked Names: Kzdaran

Aspects of the Name Kzdaran: Cavernic Power, Hamasat, Ho'okuma, Montane Energy, Pokapolo, Salinis, Tectonis, Ts'ekh, Vulcanos

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Kiiric

The elemental energy of wind and air is Named Kiiric. Energy of the sky, of the atmosphere (ahkeetah), of gases, and of whirlwinds and windstorms. It is linked to the the aetherial mind (t'kiir) and elemental movment (taakte. These include air masses, jetstreams, ozone, air pressure, types of wind, air density, and the layers of the atmosphere (exosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, and troposphere), as well as the atmospheres of other worlds.

Linked Names: Kiiric, Taakte, T'kiir

Aspects of the Name Kiiric: Ahkeetah

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Lahab

The energy of fire, flame, blaze, and heat is Named Lahab. The energy of ash (qua ramah) and smoke (sahar al'dukhan). The energy of passion and intensity. The energy of conflagration and consumption, volcanoes and magma and lava, tephra, volcanic smoke and ash, and all volcanic features (vulcanos). The energy of wildfires, bonfires, campfires, hearth fires, kitchen fires, and house fires. It is linked to the Name of aetherial conflict, elemental war magic (sirae), and to the Name of elemental destruction, isiphelo, which encompasses vulcanos.

Linked Names: Isiphelo, Lahab, Sirae

Aspects of the Name Lahab: Ho'okuma, Sahar al'Dukhan, Qua Ramah, Vulcanos

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Lesedi

The energy of elemental light is Named Lesedi. All forms of light fall under this, including sunlight (ma'dhahabi), moonlight lunar aether), and starlight qeernariji). The aurora is often considered its own separate subset of the bright (aurora energy). The bright is extremely powerful aetherial magic, focused throughout Shem via the Lesedian Mirror, a massive, magical, aetherial mirror on the floating island of Lesedia on the continent of Gyrah floating above Shem.

Linked Names: Lesedi, Ma'Dhahabi, Trojica, Qeernariji

Aspects of the Name Lesedi: Auroran Energy

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Ma'Dhahabi

The energy of the sun and elemental plasma is Named Ma'Dhahabi. Of the corona, of sunlight, of warmth, of summer, of the day, of honor. As the sun and its influence are so massive, there are many subcategories included that refer to its features (click through to ma'dhahabi for a full list), but the major ones include the heliosphere (heliolux), corona (coronal energy), and core (solacore). Many include aestate, the energy of summer, here. The summer solstice and the equinox are included here under diurnal power, along with day, dawn, and high noon. Some consider this a form of the bright or lahab al'qalb, or vice versa. While the sun is a star, it is distinguished from qeernariji as it is the star around which Shem circles. Ma'dhahabi becomes qeernariji on exoplanets, while their stars' energies become ma'dhahabi there.

Linked Names: Ma'Dhahabi, Lesedi, Qeernariji

Aspects of the Name Ma'Dhahabi: Coronal Energy, Diurnal Power, Heliolux, Lahab al'Qalb, Solacore

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Mulund

The energy of time is Named Mulund. This can include other forms of energy, such as bidliet for seasons, certain cosmic energies that influence orbits and gravity (birtimane), or those that include times or phases like night energy, phasic energy, diurnal power, etc.

Its largest aspect is the elemental energy of the seasons. Bidliet is a cross-section of elemental time and weather energies, but there is a deeper energy there that comes out of the cyclical nature of the seasons. On Shem, there are regions with four recognized seasons and regions (usually tropical) with two recognized seasons. Every season has its own subenergy of bidliet: spring (vernal energy), summer (aestate), autumn (autumnal energy), and winter (brumal energy) exist in four-season regions, while dry season (harmattan energy) and wet season (monsoon energy) exists in two-season regions. See below under bijalee for specific weather energies. The energy of jalavayu is a form of bijalee that crosses over with bidliet and mulund in that it is the energy of climate, which includes climate zones and seasons. It also includes special days, such as the solstices and equinoxes.

Linked Names: Mulund, Namuna, Qeernariji, Qeerstaaziim, Trojica, Ma'Dhahabi

Aspects of Mulund: Aestate, Autumnal Energy, Bidliet, Birtimane, Brumal Energy, Diurnal Power, Harmattan Energy, Jalavayu, Monsoon Energy, Night Energy, Phasic Energy, Vernal Energy

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Namuna

The energy of elemental patterns if Named Namuna. It is mostly concerned with the energy of weather.

The patterns of weather, the energies of every major form of weather exist as subtypes, though most do not have specific names. There is deep crossover with conflueverant and kiiric, and some consider it part of bidliet. The named subtypes are cirria, the magic of all kinds of clouds (including fog); fulmenic power, which is thunder and lightning; and torrentia, which comes from all forms of rain.

All forms of wind are under bijalee and kiiric. Forms of weather that are recognized include but are not limited to clement weather, clouds, cyclones, derechos, dust devils, firewhirls, fog, hail, haze, lightning, mist rain, sandstorms, snow and blizzards, sunshowers, thunder, thunderstorms, tornados and whirlwinds, waterwhirls, windstorms, and winds. Jetstreams, weather fronts, weather circulation, weather belts and bands, and storms cells all fall under this. The energy of jalavayu is a form of bijalee that crosses over with bidliet in that it is the energy of climate, which includes climate zones and seasons. This energy can be used to explore aetherial patterns. It is also more abundant on gas giants or in cloud forests.

The most potent linked Name is Lubun, the elemental power of dreams, which is the energy of mists, fog, and haze.

Linked Names: Lubun, Virid, Mulund, Kiiric, Conflueverant, Lahab, Tmakikan, Ma'Dhahabi, Trojica, Sodagari

Aspects of the Name Namuna: Jalavayu, Bijalee, Bidliet, Torrentia, Fulmenic Power, Cirria

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Nhamo

The energy of animals is Named Nhamo. It includes all living things within the taxon animalia, incuding mortal species and microscopic animals (which also fall under vegrandis), but it is most potent within those animals closest to nature, unseparated by other energies.

Many animal taxons have their own aspects of the Name: amphibians, arthropods, birds, fish, mammals, mollusks, novotheria, pluribi, reptiles, worms, and other animals all can be targeted with aspects of the Name nhamo. It is part of ashar, and it is considered one of the four main categories of life on Shem.

Linked Names: Ashar, Nhamo, Poarta, Vegrandis

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Poarta

The energy of death is Named Poarta, and it is linked to aetherial souls (suflet) and aetherial spirit (fiinta). The energy of death as a part of nature. It is the power of the elemental that exudes into the afterlife, and it is the seat of elemental magic within the soul. Death is a natural thing, neither evil or good, but something that makes life possible.

Linked Names: Poarta, Suflet, Fiinta

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Prasinofos

The energy of plants, of verdure, is Named Prasinofos. The energy of the forest (huldran energy), of the plains (livadi), of the wetlands (parfum de marais), of all plants. Trees (coniferous ((tykva vlast) or deciduous), flowering plants (hasken fure), ferns (which are not infernal), cycads, algae (algic power), mosses (bryonian energy), and other plants, as well as non-taxonomic categories like crops (tmakikan), succulent and cacti (yo'ongo), herbs, bushes, gourds, and vines.

Elemental paper is Named (fysikochart) and and elemental fabric is Named (vamvaki), and both are linked to prasinofos.

Linked Names: Prasinofos, Fysikochart, Vamvaki

Aspects of the Name Prasinofos: Aglic Power, Bryonian Energy, Hasken Fure, Huldran Energy, Livadi, Tykva Vlast, Yo'ongo

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Qeernariji

The energy of the cosmos, of stars, nebulae, blackholes, constellations, and other objects found in outer space is Named Qeernariji. The energy of objects in orbit around the Angeldawn sun, specifically the planets, mesoplanets, asteroids, meteors, and comets, as well as other cosmic objects. It is also the energy of rotation and revolution around the sun. Some features are included in subcategories. All orbital bodies and features of the solar system are included in birtimane, and planets of all kinds, including mesoplanets, centaurs, asteroids, synestias, planetary rings, rogue planets, and exoplanets are included in graha. Nova, supernovae, kilonovae, hypernovae, blackholes, and pulsars are included in nova power. Anything galactic, including galaxies, galactic superwinds, filaments, quasars, galactic cores, and more are included in nounou.

The Name Qeerstaaziim is linked to this, as it is the Name of elemental Places.

Linked Names: Qeernariji, Qeerstaaziim

Aspects of the Name Qeernariji: Nova Power, Birtimane, Nounou, Graha

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Rlathas

The energy of elemental darkness and shadow, of the night (night energy), of the equinox and winter solstice, of the new moon, of the eclipse. It includes the benthic zone of the oceans, the darkest parts of the subterra, dark matter, and the farside of the moons. This is linked to the Name of elemental silence (ruych), to fiinta, and to suflet. It is often linked to the Name trojica because of that Name's association with the night.

Linked Names: Rlathas, Ruych, Fiinta, Suflet, Trojica

Aspects of the Name Rlathas: Night Energy

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Roshen

The energy of elemental glass is Named Roshen. It is also the energy of clarity, which is embodied by the Name of elemental truth (sadgh). Roshen is the energy of natural glass, like obsidian, or molten sand (and thus it is sometimes associated with kzdaran).

Linked Names: Roshen, Kzdaran, Sadgh

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Sodagari

The elemental energy of exchange is Named Sodagari. All forms of exchange in nature are covered here, encompassing physics, chemistry, biology, and other hard sciences and their relationship to nature. But two major subsets of this Name are most commonly wielded:

The energy of the four fundamental forces is called kuvva. It is the largest aspect of sodagari. The aether of gravity, of electromagnetism, and of the weak (decay) and strong interactions (binding). This is a very common aether that is rarely wielded, as so few understand it. All forms of (electro)magnetism, elemental bonding, molecular and atomic physics, and some forms of pressure default here. Electricity can be generated here or with bijalee.

The elemental energy of chemicals and chemistry is ngaregot. It is usually divided between elemental acids and bases. Chemistry, including scientific elements, are often included here.

Other sciences fall into other Names: biology falls under ashar, psychology falls under t'kiir or kardiaroi, meteorlogy falls under namuna, etc. The study of any element falls under sodagari and its main element.

Linked Names: Sodagari, Ashar, Virid

Aspects of the Name Sodagari: Kuvva, Ngaregot

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Tmakikan

The energy of the harvest, of nourishment, of crops and livestock, of the natural nourishing cycle of growth and consumption, is Named Tmakikan. Linked to this is the Name of the aetherial hunt, both predator and prey (hoikwa). Many include puuyutsu, the Name of elemental blood, here as well as under ashar. Some include this under nhamo, ashar, prasinofos, g'hothaau'ghots, and vegrandis, and mulund, kzdaran, and conflueverant have strong ties to it. It is often considered the "latest" form of aether, though this is inaccurate.

Linked Names: Ashar, Tmakikan, Hoikwa, Puuyutsu, Prasinofos, Nhamo, G'hothaaul'ghots, Vegrandis. Kzdaran, Conflueverant, Mulund

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Trojica

The energy of Shem's moons, of reflection and cycles, mirrors and witchcraft, of the night, is Named Trojica (the j pronounced as a y). Other moons and satellites, including submoons or quasisatellites, are included here, and features of the moons, such as rupes, rilles, promontoria, maria, swirls, the farside, dorsa, craters, and sublunar regions.

It also hsa the aspects of the phases of the moons (phasic energy - new, crescent, half, gibbous, or full), certain times (night energy - night, dusk, gloaming, twilight, the winter solstice, and the equinox). And it includes the tides of sky and ocean (tidal energy). Some consider this a form of rlathas, lesedi, or qeernariji.

Linked Names: Lesedi, Qeernariji, Rlathas, Trojica, Mulund, Conflueverant

Aspects of the Name Trojica: Night Energy, Phasic Energy, Tidal Energy

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Vegrandis

The energy of elemental microbes is Named Vegrandis, which sometimes considered a form of ashar. This includes any microscopic lifeform, including ones that might technically be animals, plants, or fungi, but it mostly includes protozoa, bacteria, protists, and archaea.

Linked Names: Ashar, Vegrandis, Nhamo, Prasinofos, G'hothaaul'ghots

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Virid

The energy of natural law is Named Virid. It is linked to the Name of elemental connections (nyembojoaju). When combined with the generative properties of anumun, it forms genesis. It is also linked to the Name of respect for nature, the elemental power of belief and faith, jingburom.

Linked Names: Nyembojoaju, Virid, Jingburom, Anumun, Genesis, Namuna

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