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