Infernal Essence

The energies of harm and control.

Arnum

The energy of harm, of agony, pain, anguish, cruelty, and violence.

• Primary species: abominations, constructs formed by violence and torture of innocents, and trucule, constructs designed via cruelty.
• Primary occupations: ponomancers, torturers who remove the face of living victims to seek information; gylianers, messengers who spread anguish; zhathoses, torturers who gain power from cruelty; and hererincs, warriors who specialize in extreme violence.

Baleblood

The energy of rage, anger, wrath, and violence.

• Primary species: the baleful, constructs created by boiling their own blood in their veins.
• Primary occupations: balohise, warriors who are empowered by baleblood; plegeres, athletes who use baleblood like steroids; avengers, investigators who bring unjust vengeance; and balemasters, esotericists who create the baleful.

Bedrog

The energy of deception, of lies, of distrust, of False Names, of treachery and treason, of infernal Name, body (baleblood), heart (desumane), soul (culpatus), and mind (stravomenos).

• Primary species: bugiardos, hidden folk with False Names, and gesiichters, metahumans with two faces.
• Primary occupations: illusionists, esotericists who create powerful false realities; velasors, artisans who make candles that spread distrust; treachers, traitors who gain power via betrayal; balemasters, esotericists who create baleblood; escorredors, hierarchs who drain the hearts of their subjects; souleaters, esotericists who absorb power from their victims' souls; name-eaters, esotericists who destroy True Names; and engourdissants, esotericists who drain minds.

Brown Aether

The energy of pollution, of industry, of filth.

• Primary species: lutipariants, aliens who befoul the world, and uligians, constructs made of sludge and metal, industrial monsters.
• Primary occupations: industrialists, professionals who own many factories to destroy the world; afulianists, esotericists who channel filth for magic; and maculants, artisans who tan leathers with pollutants.

Cacophony

The energy of noise, of cacophony, of infernal sound. The energy of discordance and dissociation, of separation. The energy of disconnection.

• Primary species: menywods, akhoata with voices that can break solid matter.
• Primary occupations: cacosingers, musicians who create music that can break solid matter; symudiadwriad, dancers of arhythmic power; rsangs, bards who spread discord, dissociation, and disconnection.

Corrogatio

The energy of conquest, of infernal war, of genocide (atrocity), of invasion, of colonization and imperialism.

• Primary species: validuses, aliens who conquer worlds, and devourers, metahumans who consume other mortals for power.
• Primary occupations: conquistadors, warriors who gain power from conquest; legionnaires, warriors who gain power from genocide; invaders, warriors who gain power from invading other realms; regulators, police who protect colonized lands; drones, warriors enslaved by imperialism; and conquerors, warriors who combine all forms of infernal war and power.

Desumane

Infernal emotion. This includes callousness, ruthlessness, ambition, anger, anguish, anxiety, confusion, cruelty, despair, desperation, distrust, envy, fear, frustration, greed, hatred, horror, isolation, jealousy, loneliness, manipulation, obsession, pride, rage, rejection, shame, sorrow, suicidality, terror, trauma, vanity, violation, and wrath. Notably, it is not the feeling of these emotions, but the infernal nature of their causes or effects, the damage they cause if unhealthily tended or acted upon.

• Primary species: bocadors, metahumans who drain emotions from others.
• Primary occupations: escorredors, hierarchs who drain the hearts of their followers; abschart, esotericists who gain power by cutting out hearts and burning them; velikiy, slavers who drain power from others for magic; gemmariuses, artisans who make crimson jewels of hatred; wystelans, bards of confusion; plegeres, athletes who are empowered by anger; gylianers, messengers who spread anguish; masquer, maskers who wield the power of despair; rimeurs, poets who spread anxiety; desolators, esotericists who wield desperation to destroy lands; casematists, armorers who make armor out of isolation; dammoguses, scholars whose loneliness fuels mad revelations; pelerins, pilgrims driven by an unspoken shame; dolorians, messengers who spread sorrow; whisperers, esotericists whose whispers drive people to suicide; avengers, warriors empowered by wrath; balemaster, esotericists who create the baleful via rage; zhathoses, torturers who gain power from cruelty; velasors, artisans who make candles to spread distrust; balopuppeteers, puppeteers who manipulate people with their dolls; anwastads, wranglers whose toads spread envy and jealousy; ysbiwrs, spies who stalk victims they are obsessed with; chemiker, artisans who create chemicals of fear; sponterezhes, terrorists who spread terror (go figure); lure, slavers who lure people in by manipulting their vanity; trompers, fools who use pride to destroy people; filtends, wranglers of mephits whose musk causes trauma; warlocks, witches who violate their oath by rejecting it; luzuhs, thieves who violate people's safety to steal from them; ypaliloses, functionaries who create frustration via bureaucracy; and grinns, clowns who spread horror.

Drenante

The energy of capitalism. The energy of greed.

• Primary species: mammonites, metahumans who gain power from not working.
• Primary occupations: schiavistas, criminals who drain value from people via contracts, and ceapungers, oligarchs who gain power via capitalist exploitation.

Eldritch Energy

The energy of the Eldritch. The energy of doom, of apocalypse. Also infernal fungi.

• Primary species: the Eldritch, inmortals representing the fact that bad things happen; inimica, constructs made from followers of the Eldritch; and chihats, illittum resembling infernal fungi.
• Primary occupations: redeemers, faithfull who doom people with the power of the Eldritch; llothakekrs, warriors who bring about the apocalypse; boletors, artisans who make things from infernal fungi; and hacaulhus, messengers of the Eldritch.

Feirua

The energy of hatred, racism, division, othering, and eugenics.

• Primary species: froemmlers, constructs made via eugencis; steinvolken, metahumans with crimson jewels for hearts; spuckers, strange folk who spew red slime to divide people; and erstellts, constructs created from prisoners othered into monsters.
• Primary occupations: gemmariuses, artisans who make crimson jewels of hatred; eugenicists, scientists who use eugenic magic; boslehrs, teachers of divisive lies; kludds, chaplains who spread racism; and summoners, slavers who create othered monsters to summon.

Fusei

The energy of injustice.

• Primary species: onis, strange folk who inflict injustice for their own fun.
• Primary occupations: satsujin-sha, esotericists who arrange things for their own advantage.

Gossamer Light

The energy of manipulation and imperialism. The energy of control.

• Primary species: kashirum, illittum who resemble arachnids, and igothuses, insubstantiates of infernal light.
• Primary occupations: webweavers, weavers of tangled webs; balopuppeteers, puppeteers who control people via puppets; and drones, warriors manipulated by imperialists.

Hollow Energy

The energy of abuse, trauma, and feudalism.

• Primary species: hollow children, constructs made by hollow mages.
• Primary occupation: hollow mages, esotericists who gain power via abusing people; cnihts, warriors bound to feudal lords; and filtends, wranglers of mephits whose musk causes trauma.

Ibbissu

The energy of infernal chaos. The energy of violation and confusion, decay and disruption.

• Primary species: tantum, illittum who are birthed from infernal chaos, and delothians, aliens who create crystalline illusions to confuse.
• Primary occupations: gyroxenes, dancers who spread chaos; wystelans, bards who spread confusion; taricheftises, artisans who capture decay via taxidermy; wanin, wranglers of disruptive crabs; and luzuhs, thieves who violate what they steal from.

Imperium

The energy of control, of oppression, of slavery, of class society in all its forms.

• Primary species: speculari, metahumans who walk on clouds and enslave others; stragulians, aliens who are eye watching from above; and supravosians, metahumans with a dominating presence.
• Primary occupations: imperators, slavers who wield schwerstrum to enslave others; augustuses, imperials who rule an autocratic society; cnihts, warriors bonded to their feudal lord; basileuses, royals who rule over a feudal kingdom mensariuses, professionals who contract to steal value from workers; ranchers, farmers who colonize stolen land; drones, warriors enslaved to imperialism; custodators, police who enforce oppression; domini, hierarchs who gain power from class oppression; legionnaires, warriors who commit genocide; and ictu, spies who engage in mass surveillance.

Infernum

The energy of perdition, of hell, of infernal life (microbe, fungus, plant, and animal), of materials (metal, wood, stone, and fabric), of infernal sound, infernal flame, water, life, light, shadow, and wind.

• Primary species: demons, illittum who are the unrighteous dead who chose the path of power; chelifs, beast kin who resemble infernal animals; peccants, insubstantiates made of the souls of the damned; ecfictians, constructs of infernal stone; caligians, metahumans whose shadows commit acts of evil; turpivents, spirit folk who ride infernal winds to spread evil; incustians, hidden folk who dwell with infernal metals; and ulcisorians, strange folk whose insides are made of infernal flame.
• Primary occupations: demonologers, esotericists who make contracts with those seeking power; cwelmaners, torturers who are the proprietors of perdition; plague-bearers, healers who spread disease via infernal microbes (vile energy); boletors, artisans who are apothecaries who make concoctions from infernal fungi (glomerorum); dewin drainiaid, botanicists of infernal plants (thorn energy); malzoologers, wranglers of infernal animals (rugiet); schmieden, smiths of infernal metals (marsu); saer drainiaid, carpenters of infernal wood (thorn energy); maurers, masons of infernal stone (ardentilapis); tricoteuses, artisans of infernal fabric, stitchers of flesh; cacosingers, musicians of infernal sound (cacophony); bhantels, rangers of infernal darkness; malignitors, arsonists of infernal flame; malmedicians, healers who wield infernal lifeforce; marauders, pirates of infernal waters; ogguaths, preachers who wield infernal light; and swaemaners, seekers who follow the infernal winds.

Malsingularity

The energy of toxic individualism and selfishness.

• Primary species: n/a
• Primary occupations: malsingularists, esotericists who drain Names and powers from others.

Misfortune

The energy of misfortune, bad luck, and disaster, calamity.

• Primary species: misbegotten, constructs made by inflicting misfortunes on the already misfortuned, and aelavels, insubstantiates that are living disasters.
• Primary occupations: calamitists, gamblers who can tweak the ill winds of misfortune; ruiners, esotericist who create disasters; wanioner, artisans who make the misbegotten; ceneros, arsonists who violate with volcanic flame; diluvators, pirates who use flood waters to raid places; phalzabolans, terrorists who use meteorites to attack people; quassors, riders whose conquering steeds cause earthquakes; lugus, martial artists who twist chaotic winds into tornadoes or whirls; naidyddiaid, dancers who control cacophonic cyclonic winds; lleidriaid, bandits who attack like consuming wildfire; hatans, artists who invoke injustice via collapsing structure and avallanches; lapsotors, transporters who sled on polluting sludge; hirateuchis, warriors whose warfans bring tsunamis of pure destruction; bevakares, spies who blanket areas via callous snow and blizzards; gueules, faithful whose prayers open the ground to sinkholes of despair; tuuwayokvas, musicians who summon sandstorms; frailthings, monks whose self-denial gives them powers of famine; and swam masters, wranglers of insect hoards that devour resources and cause droughts and famines.

Mollesse

The energy of despair, anxiety, desperation, isolation and lonelines, shame, sorrow, suicidality, and senescence.

• Primary species: pleureuses, akhoata whose tears have magical powers; unists, aliens from lonely, distant places; and griles, illittum who dwell underground and fight to break the world with desperation.
• Primary occupations: masqueurs, maskers who spread despair with their powers; rimeurs, poets of anxiety; desolators, esotericists who destroy lands with desperation; casematists, armorers who build isolating armors; dammoguses, scholars who learn things via loneliness; vieillisseurs, healers who drain age to ensure youth; pelerins, pilgrims driven by shame; dolorians, messengers of sorrow; and whisperers, esotericists who drive people to suicide with their whispers.

Msawhat

The energy of corruption and undeath.

• Primary species: the undead, corrupted life and death.
• Primary occupations: necromancers, esotericists who create the undead, and tathakels, professionals who are corrupted.

Peccatum

The energy of pride and vanity.

• Primary species: proud folk, tall folk empowered by their own pride and vanity.
• Primary occupations: lures, slavers who lure people in with their vanity, and trompers, fools who use pride to destroy people.

Pravum

The energy of harm to children, of stillbirth, and the dangers of the depths of the oceans.

• Primary species: ogres, strange folk who eat children, and lzs'mas, illittum dwelling in the depths.
• Primary occupations: Stillborn cultists, cultists who gain power from eating children; agennesicists, healers who perform nonconsensual sterilizations for power; and yigozotes, transporters who dive to the depths for the powers there.

Quaestus

The energy of exploitation of all kinds.

• Primary species: dreorcwenn, akhoata who bathe in blood of the exploited.
• Primary occupations: siphoners, esotericists who drain blood for power.

Razdavit'

The energy of ambition and ruthlessness.

• Primary species: cythreuliaid, beast folk who gain power from dominating "lesser" beings.
• Primary occupations: velikiy, slavers who gain power by draining slaves, and abschart, esotericists who gain power by cutting out hearts and burning them.

Slitna

The energy of destruction.

• Primary species: destroyers, aliens who come to destroy the world.
• Primary occupations: hexologers, demolitionists who use hex cubes to obliterate things, and hirateuchis, warriors whose warfans bring tsunamis of pure destruction

Sterisi

The energy of famine, drought, frustration, and malnutrition.

• Primary species: harpies, akhoata who devour anything, and lofios, insubstantiates who embody desiccation.
• Primary occupations: frailthings, monks who gain powers of famine and malnutrition via self-denial, swarm masters, wranglers of insect swarms that devour everything; ypaliloses, functionaries who create frustration via bureaucracy; and megairases, cooks who create things to malnourish people.

Stravomenos

The energy of ignorance, of the infernal mind.

• Primary species: mangeurs, metahumans who can drain people's minds.
• Primary occupations: engourdissants, esotericists who can drain people's minds.

Tandh

The energy of patriarchy, of infernal ancestry.

• Primary species: enders, metahumans who are all male-assigned and who harm people with their touch.
• Primary occupations: witchfinders, faithful who hunt witches, and eugenicists, scientists who seek to create "pure" bloodlines.

Thorn Energy

The energy of consumption, of envy and jealousy, of infernal plants and wood, and of poaching and excessive killing.

• Primary species: doppelgangers, metahumans who can take on the forms of those they envy; corniogiad, horned folk who hunt to exterminate; and thornlings, green folk made from infernal plants.
• Primary occupations: dewin drainiaid, botanicists who grow infernal plants; anwastads, wranglers whose toads cause envy and jealousy; saer drainiaid, carpenters of infernal wood; llofrudiad, assassins who steal people's Names; and poachers, rangers who kill excessively or hunt for sport.

Uafas

The energy of nightmare, fear, terror, and horror.

• Primary species: goblins, hidden folk who spread nightmares, and raghjus, strange folk who fly and terrorize people.
• Primary occupations: sponterezhes, terrorists who gain power from terror; grinns, clowns who spread horror; chemiker, artisans who create chemicals of fear; and anbieters, chemists who create uafan toxins to create nightmares.

Vile Energy

The energy of pestilence, of infernal microbes, of plagues, of maladies.

• Primary species: the contagion, insubstantiates who infect metahumans and turn them into venomirs.
• Primary occupations: plague-bearers, healers who spread plagues; venenators, assassins who poison people; and viledancers, dancers who cause maladies.

Woffung

The energy of blasphemy, oathbreaking, and rejection.

• Primary species: fuliginites, constructs made from being infused with fuligin.
• Primary occupations: warlocks, witches who have broken their oath, and apostates, priests who spread a false faith for power.

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