Infernal Essence

Energies derived from harming, controlling, oppressing, exploiting, enslaving, abusing, or poisoning people. It is split into three broad categories: imperial magic, the power of control of people; industrial magic, the power of control of nature; and infernal magic, the power of control over identities.

Aqua Rubra

Infernal water. Waters poisoned by industrialization, by the blood of the enslaved and murdered, by the runoff of conquest. Waters from the lungs of those drowned by the cruel and tyrannical; waters from the blood-soaked fields of genocide. Aqua rubra is primarily industrial; it is waters from those who see nature as something in the way of progress. But there are those forms that are also imperial.

Ardentilapis

Infernal stone. Brimstone from the realms of the infernal. Stone and earth poisoned by the industrial processes that leave soil barren and stones stained with blood. Stone used in machinery; earth in which the victims of conquest are buried; jewels extracted with slave labor. Ardentilapis can be imperial, industrial, or infernal.

Arnum

The energy of harm, of agony, pain, anguish, cruelty, and violence wielded to control, to harm, or to terrorize people for power. Not pain for pleasure, not pain for defense, not pain for justice. Pain for blatant cruelty. Anguish inflicted, not experienced. Agony inflicted for power, agony caused by the whims and evil of the ruling class. This is imperial magic.

Baleblood

The energy of rage, anger, wrath, and violence. The energy of these emotions wielded against the innocent, weak, and vulnerable. The energy of these wielded not for justice or resistance, but for dominance and control. Fromnis, the infernal power of the body, includes baleblood. This is infernal magic.

Bedrog

The energy of deception, of lies, of distrust, of False Names, of treachery and treason, of infernal Name, body (fromnis), heart (desumane), soul (culpatus), and mind (stravomenos). This is infernal magic. It is the power of creating a false persona not to survive, but to force others to be what you want. It is lying for power and exploitation. It is deceiving people about who and what you are so that they are surprised when you stab them in the back. It is political deceptions for power; corporate deceptions for wealth; and personal deceptions for control.

Brown Aether

The energy of pollution, of industry, of filth. The main industrial magic. This is an energy derived from the destruction of nature. Not just industrial processes, but ones designed to over-produce and consume, to turn the world into something to sell for profit. It is clearcutting, thick smog, and waters turned deadly by corporate interests. It is industrialization destroying green spaces, exterminating whole species, and making the air unbreathable. It is climate change, radioactive waste, and even litter.

Cacophony

The energy of noise, of cacophony, of infernal sound. The energy of discordance and dissociation, of separation. The energy of disconnection (torri). This is a major industrial magic. This is not some experimental noise piece; this is industrial sound. This is the clang of pistons as they pump toxic sludge into the environment. It is the squawk of horns in a busy street. It is engines roaring as they pump toxins into the world. It is the screams of the dying on the battlefield. The wail of those imprisoned, yearning for freedom. The cries of starving children. It is the sound of misery inflicted upon the world by the cruel, those who wish to isolate and control us. The power of disconnection, the opposite of harmony, the power of a wall of disinformation to make us feel completely alone. It is the sound of hell.

Caligial Energy

Infernal shadow. This is the power of consumption, of deception, of shadowy observation. The energy of stalking and surveiling, of unknown, soft power, and of draining the very soul of the people.

Corrogatio

The energy of conquest, of infernal war, of genocide (atrocity), of invasion, of colonization and imperialism. Infernal plasma. This is a major imperial magic. This is the power that comes with conquering and subjugating others, of taking land, resources, and people through any means necessary. It is the power of assimilating cultures, wiping them out, or eradicting even the memory of them. This is invasion, occupation, and replacement. It is bloody, violent, and dominant.

Culpatus

Infernal soul. Damnation. This is the energy of giving up one's own essence in favor of power and wealth. This is the energy of taking on what others have learned, experienced, and done, absorbing it as one's own, and being utterly empty save for the need to harm, control, and abuse.

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. This is infernal magic. While many of these have healthy, non-infernal variations, the act of inflicting them is rarely anything but infernal, especially if done for the sake of control or power.

Drenante

The energy of capitalism. The energy of greed. The energy of contracts, of wage slavery. It is the energy born from having others serve you, do all the work, whilst you take the credit and wealth. It is the energy of taking taking taking and never, ever giving.

Eldritch Energy

The energy of the Eldritch. The energy of doom, of apocalypse. Also infernal fungi (glomerorum). This is a major infernal magic. This is the energy of evil so ancient and profound, many think it older than all the other forms of infernal energy, though this is heavily debated. The ultimate source of this energy is unknown, as is the source of the Eldritch.

Feirua

The energy of hatred, racism, division, othering, and eugenics. This includes ancestral magic (eugenics) and nationalism. It is the energy of dividing the people against one another, mostly on a racial, national, or species basis, to keep them from fighting the ruling class powers, and it is the energy of both the doctrine and practices that derive from that, especially eugenics.

Ferox

Infernal animals. Animals dominated, tormented, and twisted into weapons. Animals designed to horrify and harm. Animals in service to empire and industry. Warhorses trained to kill without reason. Drug-sniffing dogs and plague-carrying insects unleashed in war.

Fromnis

Infernal body.

Fusei

The energy of injustice.

Glomerorum

Infernal fungi.

Gossamer Light

The energy of manipulation and imperialism. The energy of control. Infernal light and imperial power.

Hollow Energy

The energy of abuse, trauma, and feudalism. An imperial magic.

Ibbissu

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

Imperium

The energy of control, of oppression, of slavery, of class society in all its forms. The main imperial magic. It also includes atrocity, the energy of genocide.

Infernotex

Infernal fabric.

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. The main infernal magic.

Malsingularity

The energy of toxic individualism and selfishness. Isolation and infernal silence.

Marsu

Infernal metal.

Misfortune

The energy of misfortune, bad luck, and disaster, calamity. This includes peragro, infernal winds.

Mollesse

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

Msawhat

The energy of corruption and undeath.

Peccatum

The energy of pride and vanity, of shallowness and arrogance.

Peragro

Infernal winds.

Perditional Flame

Infernal flame.

Pravum

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

Quaestus

The energy of exploitation of all kinds.

Razdavit'

The energy of ambition and ruthlessness.

Slitna

The energy of destruction. A major industrial magic.

Sterisi

The energy of famine, drought, frustration, and malnutrition. A major industrial magic.

Stravomenos

The energy of ignorance, of the infernal mind.

Tandh

The energy of patriarchy, of infernal ancestry.

Thorn Energy

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

Uafas

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

Vile Energy

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

Vitrovane

Infernal glass.

Woffung

The energy of blasphemy, oathbreaking, and rejection.

Xirochart

Infernal paper.