Infernal Magic

Infernal magic is magic that is derived from control, abuse, exploitation, oppression, and terror. It is magic created by people who seek to rule and have dominion over the world. It is said to have originated in the world with an event called the Fall, but some say there were hints of it long before that. It is often split between three categories: infernal, imperial, and industrial.

Infernal, Imperial, Industrial

Infernal magic derives from the metaphysical; it is associated with demons, the Eldritch, the undead, and other entities seen as inherently evil. While inherent evil does not exist, these beings have reached a state via their own actions that have turned them into entities far removed from any goodness they once had.

Imperial magic is the magic of oppression, exploitation, abuse, and control of people by people. It is the magic of ruling and dominating all the peoples of the world, of the ruling classes, from ancient slavocracies to feudal times to capitalist and imperialist eras.

Industrial magic is the magic of oppression, exploitation, abuse, and control of nature. It is the magic of gaining wealth and power from harming the world, the magic of callous disregard for life in favor of individual achievement.

Infernal Names

There are many ways to wield infernal magic, but ultimately, it derives from the Names of infernal concepts. Some are much more common than others. Below are the most common Names, the concepts they represent, and the commonest methods used to wield them.

Name	Concept	Sphere	Description	Method	Primary Occupation	Primary Species	Notable Subsaspects
Ulul-Aa	Water	Despair	Tears, despair, sorrow, guilt, shame, suicide	Causing despair via magical whispers powered by tears	Whisperer	Pleureuse
Ulul-Addir	Connection	Disconnection	Being unconnected from one's community	Breaking bonds intentionally for the sake of power	Rsang
Ulul-Di	Order	Class hierarchy	Law and order, the authority of the ruling class, empires	Using the white chains of power	Imperator	Supravosian
Ulul-Didi	Microbe	Plague and pestilence	Plague and pestilence, preventable disease, denial of healthcare	Capturing miasmas in nets to spread disease	Plague-bearer	The Contagion
Ulul-Dim	Creation	Industry	Creation at the expense of the world	Drawing power from massive machinery that kills nature	Industrialist	Lutipariant
Ulul-Dub	Movement	Invasion	Invasion, sneering tourism, and luxury travel; colonialism	Going somewhere and taking from others	Invader
Ulul-Gada	Fabric	Abuse and feudalism	Abuse, power over others, feudalism	Abusing others ritually and emptying one's body to replace it with vermin, the skin as an empty fabric of evil	Hollow Mage	Hollow Child
Ulul-Gidim	Spirit	Pressure	Pressuing people as a form of control, peer pressure	Invoking infernal spirits to pressure and control others
Ulul-Gissu	Shadow	Subtle harm and control	Subtle control, harm, soft power, unnoticed control	Taking of souls via subtle use of the shadow	Bhantel	Caligian
Ulul-Gu	Sound	Cacophony	Noise pollution	Breaking one's voice to harm others	Cacosinger	Menywod
Ulul-Gud	War	Conquest	Conquest, colonialism, war for profit, war for power, imperial war	Acts of conquest	Conquistador	Validus
Ulul-Gul	Destruction	Destruction	Destruction with no reason, destruction for power	The power of six acts of destruction ritually captured in a hexbox	Hexologer	Destroyer
Ulul-Gur	Harvest	Famine	Famine, drought, and deprivation	Self-denial for power, starving others and taking their nourishment for power	Frailthing	Harpy
Ulul-Idim	Chaos	Violation and chaos, disruption	Chaos that benefits the powerful, violation of personal space and being	Erratic dances that evoke the violation of one's personal space	Gyroxene	Tantum
Ulul-Imi	Wind	Misfortune	Misfortune, disaster, calamity, profiting from disaster, opportunism, inflicting disaster	Surgically taking from the misfortunate for power	Wanioner	Misbegot
Ulul-Itud	Trinity	Patriarchy	Patriarchy, misogyny, male supremacy, the twisting of the three phases into a system of control - inheritor, father, patriarch	Witchfinding and magical toxic masculinity, destroying anything that doesn't fit patriarchy within oneself	Witchfinder	Ender
Ulul-Izi	Fire	Perdition and injustice	Unjust punishment as perditional flame	Arranging the area for one's advantage to draw out the perditional flame	Malignitor	Oni
Ulul-Kam	Change	Regression	Regressing to toxic behavior	Intentionally changing back into a worse version of oneself and embracing the power there
Ulul-Katar	Fungus	Mold and decay	Toxic fungi that thrives off harming the people, growing in slums and industrial spaces	Spreading and using the white mold that spawns in industrial spaces	Bolteor	Chihat
Ulul-Kilim	Animal	Beast	Abusing and controlling animals	Using animals as things, abusing and controlling them magically	Malzoologer	Chelif
Ulul-Ku	Paradigm	Evil	All infernal, imperial, and industrial values and powers combined	Making deals with demons	Demonologer	Demon
Ulul-Kug	Metal	Chains	Imprisonment, chains, sealing away	Forging the white chains of power	Schmied	Specularo
Ulul-Kuku	Ancestry	Eugenics	Breeding and genetic control	Either by husbandry, matchmaking, or magical eugenic science, but always with a cost	Eugenicist	Froemmler
Ulul-Mamu	Dream	Nightmare	Terror as a means of control	Creating or using toxins to create terrifying visions	Sponterezh	Goblin
Ulul-Mu	Name	Imposed identity	Telling others who they are and what they can be	Inflicting False Names on others	Name-eater	Devourer
Ulul-Mul	Star	Doom	The Eldritch, evil from a place where there was no hope	Speaking part of the Name of an Eldritch	Doomsayer	Inimica
Ulul-Namush	Death	Undeath	Corrupting death for power	Committing profane acts on the dead to draw the grey mist	Necromancer	Undead
Ulul-Ni	Body	Agony	The pain in the body caused by a cruel world	Ritual cruelty and torture	Ponomancer	Abomination
Ulul-Nu	Light	Manipulation	Manipulation and blinding or distracting lights, webs of lies, imperialism, soft power	Creating a web of light that controls minds and hearts	Webweaver	Kashirum
Ulul-Rara	Paper	Disempowerment	Weakness imposed, causing weakness to control others, exploiting weakness	Sealing someone in magical paper to make them feel weak		Hician
Ulul-Ri	Exchange	Greed and hoarding	Taking from others for the purpose of having, greed, hoarding wealth, capitalism	Contracts that force others to do the work for you and taking magic from it	Schiavista	Mammonite
Ulul-Sag	Mind	Ignorance	Controlling what others think, spreading ignorance, embracing and acting on ignorance	Psionically taking the thoughts and minds of others	Engourdissant	Mangeur
Ulul-Sha	Heart	Callousness	Callousness and negative emotions inflicted on others	Destroying one's compassion and becoming an eater of emotion	Escorredor	Bocador
Ulul-Sheg	Ice	Isolation	Isolation, loneliness, alienation in the form of completely encasing in infernal ice	Self-isolation in order to remove all feeling for others, then creating infernal ice	Casematist
Ulul-Shuba	Faith	Blasphemy	Claiming the supremacy of one's faith or deity over others, violating religious rules intentionally out of disrespect for the true believers, religious oppression	Belief in the God Above All, violating oaths and promises to others as a form of rejecting their beliefs	Warlock	Fuliginite
Ulul-Sig	Silence	Selfishness	Selfishness, toxic individuality	Selfish actions to the point that one is unique		Unist
Ulul-Su	Glass	Pride and vanity	Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Vanity and pride to the point of harming others	Using special glass to see oneself as better than others	Lure	Fair Folk
Ulul-Taka	Hunt	Extermination and poaching	Hunting unsustainably, hunting for sport, poaching the hunt of another, hunting to extinction	The cruel hunt, ritual hunts that kill that which should not be killed	Helabwr	Corniog
Ulul-Tila	Life	Stillbirth	Corrupted life, harming children, loss of a wanted pregnancy	Harming children ritually	Stillborn Cultist	Ogre
Ulul-Ud	Plasma	War crimes and genocide	War crimes, genocide, and baleblood	Boiling blood of victims of a massacre, then injecting it	Legionnaire	The Baleful
Ulul-Uhus	Pattern	Boom and bust	The cycle of boom and bust, the pattern of a ruling class society	Exploiting the bust to cause the boom
Ulul-Urash	Earth	Concrete	Turning the earth into something that harms the earth	Grinding earth into industrial stone	Maurer	Ecfictian
Ulul-Ush	Blood	Exploitation	Taking blood payment via coercion	Taking blood without consent to use as fuel for magic	Siphoner	Dreorcwenn
Ulul-Usudra	Time	Rote	Time that is not your own, taking someone's time, punch-clock	At least eight hours of someone's time for your own benefit
Ulul-Uu	Plant	Thorn	Plants cultivated for power or decor that harm the environment, invasive plants, poisonous and deadly plants	Growing an evil garden to choke out the native plants and take their powers	Dewin Drain	Thornling
Ulul-Zag	Place	Palace or vault, ambition	The ambition to be in a palace, the ambition to rule, ruthless ambition, palaces, vaults, and places of luxury and splendor	Ritually stealing power from others to create palaces	Velikiy	Cythreulig
Ulul-Zi	Soul	Damnation	Sin as defined by others, causing guilt in others until they break, unjustly	Stealing souls by causing them to be damned in the eyes of an imperial deity	Souleater	Peccant
Ulul-Zidug	Truth	Deception	Lying, deception	Lying to oneself for power, then using that magic to create illusions	Illusionist	Bugiardo