Infernal Esotericists

Afulianist
A wielder of brown aether who uses industrial machinery to generate the energy and spread it. Only done on a mass scale, poisoning lakes, rivers, land, and air, to weaken the aether in the area and kill the people.

Siphoner - primary quaestus user
A mage who uses blood as their primary medium for casting magic. Though neutral variations of this exist, most use quaestus in order to gain power from stealing, using, or draining the blood of others.

Bonecaster
One who uses Raesian energy by snapping, crumbling, disintegrating, and otherwise breaking dried bones, which they use for making predictions, calling up phantasms, and creating powders that corrupt the living flesh. See also Necromancer.

Demonologer - primary infernum user
One who gains infernal powers by making a deal with a demon. Demons require payment in souls, which can be taken from the user or from a murder victim of the user. Depending on the demon and their power, what is gained from such a deal varies, but usually a contract is involved.

Desecrator
One who wields desperation in a moment of absolute hopelessness to desolate the world around them, making it a haunted, unlivable landscape.

Engourdissant - primary stravomenos user
A user of the psionic energy stravomenos, which drains knowledge from the minds of others and destroys it. Learned through painful meditative arts, the use of this power also empties the mind of the user.

Gemmarius - primary feirua user
The concept of "race" was invented by the gemmariuses. They believe in and use purity of blood and body, mind and soul, to create gems called feirua, which reflect the hearts of mortals and allow them to control them.

Gyroxene - primary entropy user
Unpredictable, violent dancers who spin and twist and contort themselves wildly in order to capture entropy and fling it about dangerously, altering reality around them.

Hexologer - primary rending user
A numerological art, hexology requires the use of a special cube. Reconfiguring its six sides leads to different effects that unleash the power of rending, which destroys all.

Hollow Mage - primary hollow energy user
Cruel, petty tyrants who torture a victim until their soul breaks, then use the hollow energy that provides to cast evil magic. Their insides slowly dissolve, to be replaced by vermin.

Illusionist - primary Bedrog user
One whose Name is False. From this, they derive Bedrog, which they an use to create alternate versions of reality in the form of believable illusions. Their Name is made False through ancient rituals or accident, and their powers are channeled through __.

Infernalist
Those who wield the infernal energies of infernum, razdavit', quaestus, gossamer light, imperium, thorn energy, hollow energy, Bedrog, and Peccatum. Usually acquired through deals with demons.

Maleficer
One who can use all infernal essences to some degree, usually acquired through esoteric means such as stealing powers or demonic contract.

Necromancer - primary msawhat user
Those fell magic users who wield pure msawhat to corrupt mind, body, soul, and heart in order to create, control, summon, channel, gain power from, or otherwise interact with the undead. They wear funeral shrouds, keep bones as tools, and stink of decay.

Persecutor
Those who use all of the arnic energies, usually as a means of torture.

Ponomancer - primary arnum user
Cruel users of arnum who generate the power from acts of torture and self-flagellation, ponomancers wield their evil energies to make predictions and inflict more pain. They carry meat hooks and wear the skin of their victims.

Puppeteer
Rather than the innocuous mundane entertainers, puppeteers use gossamer light to create puppets and dolls that allow them to control others.

Satsujin-sha - primary fusei user
A form of onmyoji who intentionally imbalances spaces in order to maximize the amount of fusei, which they use to inflict punishments on others.

Smogcaster
An afulianist who specializes in corrupting bijalee to create gouts of foul smog.

Velikiy - primary razdavit' user
The use of razdavit' means drawing power at the expense of others. The velikiye do this by means of ancient script and brands.

Vlasnyk
A mercantile user of a combination of Drenante, quaestus, Bedrog, imperium, and razdavit' who creates a matrix of exploitation to drain thousands at once.

Warlock - primary blasphemy user
An oathbreaker who takes their state of rejection and turns it into a weapon, wielding curses from the blasphemy created by their betrayals. They place their powers into sticks, which they break in order to unleash a curse.

Whisperer - primary Mollesse user
Those who use Mollesse do so vocally, whispering into fans and using them to toss the whispers like a ventriloquist, placing them in the ears of their victims and driving them to acts of self harm.

Yozlashtiriczi
One who wields all forms of msawhat, usually as an undead being.

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