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	Methods	Primary Occupation	Primary Species
Xirochart	Infernal paper	Letting plants die from lack of water then using that to make papers
Woffung	Infernal faith, religious oppression, ecclesiastic power	Betrayal of one belief system to impose another	Warlock (Witch)	Fuliginite (Construct)
Wocen	False Name, infernal Name
Vitrovane	Infernal glass	Mirrors that tell you what you want to think
Vile energy	Infernal microbes, plague and pestilence, biological warfare	Using nets to capture diseases	Plague-bearer (Healer)	The Contagion (Insubstantiate)
Uafas	Infernal dreams, nightmares, fear, terror, dread, horror, control through fear	Hallucinatory toxins	Sponterezh (Terrorist)	Goblin (Spirit)
Torri	Disconnection, isolation, imprisonment, confinement	Imprisoning others with horrible noise or silence
Thorn energy / Thornwood	Infernal plants and wood, jealousy, envy, obsession, toxic perfectionism	Cultivating invasive, toxic plants	Dewin Drain (Botanicist)	Thornling (Plant Folk)
Tandh	Infernal ancestry, patriarchy	Patriarchal rituals and rites	Witchfinder (Faithful)	Ender (Metahuman)
Stravomenos	Infernal mind, ignorance	Draining minds	Engourdisssant (Esotericist)	Mangeur (Metahuman)
Sterisi	Famine, drought, frustration, hunger, and malnutrition	Self-starvation and starvation of others	Frailthing (Monk)	Harpy (Akhoata)
Solitine	Infernal silence, miscommunication, passivity, unspoken problems	Silencing others and taking their voices
Slitna	Infernal destruction	Hexological cube magic	Hexologer (Demolitionist)	Destroyer (Alien)
Seulune	Toxic individualism, selfishness, isolation	Self-denial		Unist (Alien)
Sainswn	Cacophony, noise pollution, disconnection, dissonance	Disharmonic noise used to drown out unified sounds	Cacosinger (Musician)	Menywod (Akhoata)
Repetindo	Infernal patterns, repetition, caught in vicious and toxic cycles, drudgery	Repetitive actions that trap people
Razdavit'	Ruthless ambition	Use of sigils of power to harm others for more power	Velikiy (Slaver)	Cythreulig (Terata)
Quaestus	Exploitation, infernal blood	Draining blood against someone's will	Siphoner (Sanguinist)	Dreorcwenn (Akhoata)
Pravum	Harm to children, toxic families	Harm to children	Stillbornist (Cultist)	Ogre (Spirit)
Perditional flame	Infernal fire			Ulcisorian (Terata)
Peragro	Infernal wind, infernal gas
Peccatum	Toxic pride, vanity, arrogance, shallowness, toxic positivity	Magical perfumes to lure people	Lure (Trafficker)	Proud Folk (Spirit Folk)
Narushen	Infernal chaos, disruption, violation, invasion, confusion	Strange dance forms that invoke the decay of existence	Gyroxene (Dancer)	Tantum (Illittum)
Msawhat	Undeath, corruption	Violating the rules of life and death	Necromancer (Esotericist)	Undead (Undead)
Mollesse	Inflicting despair, desperation, isolation, loneliness	Giving into despair, giving up hope, and then inflicting unpleasant emotions on others	Whisperer (Esotericist)	Pleureuse (Akhoata)
Misfortune	Bad luck, calamity, exploiting people down on their luck, disaster	Cheating to break the odds for personal gain	Wanioner (Slaver)	Misbegot (Construct)
Marsu	Infernal metal	Sacrifices to infernal powers to craft infernal metals		Ecfictian ()
Kurkam	Infernal stasis, staticness, unchanging
K'krsh	Infernal location, colonized lands, imperial core, infernal realm, Eldritch cosmos
Jaatynyt	Infernal ice, stasis, heartlessness
Infernum	Perdition, punishment, damnation, evil	(Unfair) contracts with demons or infernal beings	Demonologer (Esotericist)	Demon (Illittum)
Infernotex	Infernal fabric	Fabric made via exploitative labor
Incursio	Invasion, toxic tourism
Imperium	Slavery, control, oppression	Magical chains	Imperator (Slaver)	Specularo (Metahuman)
Hollow energy	Abuse, feudal power	Ritual abuse	Hollow Mage (Esotericist)	Hollow Child (Construct)
Helabwer	Infernal hunt, poaching, killing to exterminate	Ritual hunting
Gossamer light	Infernal light, manipulation, imperialism	Social engineering and sympathetic magic	Webweaver (Weaver)	Kashirum (Illittum)
Glomerorum	Infernal fungi	Cultivating and consuming infernal mold		Chihat (Fungal Folk)
Fusei	Injustice, taking advantage of others	Arranging an environment to control the flow of energies
Fromnis	Infernal body
Ferox	Infernal animals, dominance and harm to animals	Dominance and harm to animals		Chelif (Animal Folk)
Feorg	Infernal spirit, infernal legends, stories designed to control and manipulate
Feirua	Hatred, divisiveness, eugenics, assimilation	Eugenic "science"	Eugenicist (Scientist)	Froemmler (Construct)
Eldritch energy	Doom, apocalypse	Service to the Eldritch	Redeemer (Faithful)	The Eldritch (Inmortal)
Drenante	Greed	Contractual exploitation at the expense of all else	Schiavista (Financier)	Mammonite (Metahuman)
Divuhez	Corrupted life, infernal life, malmedicine, medical experimentation on people			Grisified (Construct)
Desumane	Infernal emotion, callousness, inflicting negative emotions, emotional control / manipulation	Killing one's emotions in order to control other people's		Bocador (Metahuman)
Cweaddros	Pollution, industry, filth	Industrial pollution
Culpatus	Infernal soul, damnation	Selling one's soul or eating souls of others		Peccant (Construct / Insubstantiate)
Corrogatio	Conquest, colonialism, genocide	Conquering and defeating weaker people	Conquistador (Warrior)	Validus (Alien)
Caligial energy	Infernal shadow			Caligian (Metahuman)
Bedrog	Deception, illusion, False Names	Creating false identities to craft illusions	Illusionist (Illusionist)	Bugiardo (Spirit Folk)
Baleblood	Rage, violence, wrath, infernal blood	Infusing boiled blood into one's body	Balohise (Warrior)	The Baleful (Construct)
Atrocity	Infernal plasma, genocide, mass murder, the most horrific actions		Legionnaire (Soldier)	Devourer (Metahuman)
Arnum	Pain, agony, torture	Oracular torture	Ponomancer (Torturer)	Abomination (Construct)
Ardentilapis	Infernal stone, infernal solidity
Aqua rubra	Infernal water, poisoned water, toxic water, infernal liquid	Creating and consuming befouled or corrupted waters