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	Linked Names	Subaspects	Primary Occupation	Primary Species
Tandh	Ancestry	Eugenics and patriarchal violence	Falboh	Feirua	Witchfinder	Ender
Ferox	Animal	Dominating and abusing animals into subservience	Divuhez		Malzoologer	Chelif
Quaestus	Blood	Draining blood nonconsensually	Fromnis, Gisburu, Imperim	Baleblood	Siphoner	Dreorcwenn
Fromnis	Body	Use of infernal substances to alter the body for the sake of achieving the imperial, industrial, or infernal ideal	Quaestus, Wocen	Arnum
Sainswn	Cacophony	Using intense noises that disrupt and harm to break matter	Narushen, Peragro, Slitna, Torri		Cacosinger	Menywod
Kurkam	Change		Narushen
Narushen	Chaos	Dancing within the gyre of violative chaos	Incursio, Kurkam, Torri		Gyroxene	Tantum
K'krsh	Cosmos/Star	Knowing the Names of the Eldritch and speaking fragments of them	Glomerorum, Malhic		Doomsayer	Inimica
Slitna	Destruction	Hexological boxes to channel destructive magic	Igniperditio, Peragro, Sainswn		Hexologer	Destroyer
Torri	Disconnection		Sainswn, Solitine
Ardentilapis	Earth		Falboh	Feirua
Drenante	Exchange	Contracts that drain people as they work for you	Desumane		Schiavista	Mammonite
Infernotex	Fabric		Infernum
Woffung	Faith	Religious supremacy	Feorg		Warlock	Fuliginite
Sterisi	Famine	Self-denial	Peragro, Xirochart		Frailthing	Harpy
Igniperditio	Flame	Burning those who violate imperial law	Infernum, Slitna		Malignitor	Ulcisorian
Glomerorum	Fungus	Using mold to scry on the rest of reality	K'krsh			Chihat
Vitrovane	Glass	Magical glass that shows you who is the fairest of them all	Desumane	Peccatum	Lure	Fair Folk
Desumane	Heart	Draining emotions from others by killing one's own emotions, creating a drain within one's heart	Draenen, Drenante, Russus, Solitine, Wocen	Feirua, Mollesse, Peccatum		Bocador
Infernum	Hell	Contracting with a demon	Igniperditio, Infernotex, Malhic		Demonologer	Demon
Helabwr	Hunt	Hunting that which should not be hunted	Draenen
Jaatynyt	Ice		Russus, Solitine
Cweaddros	Industry	Creating massive industrial machinery that poisons the world	Vilis, Zman		Industrialist
Incursio	Invasion	Invading the space of others on a small or large scale	Corrogatio, Narushen
Divuhez	Life	Corrupting life via industrial toxins or infernal spells	Ferox, Msawhat, Vilis	Pravum
Gisburu	Light	Draining people of their essences in order to create gossamer light webs that aid in controlling others without their realization	Imperium, Quaestus		Webweaver	Kashirum
Marsu	Metal		Imperium
Vilis	Microbe	Gathering infernal microbes via magical nets	Cweaddros, Divuhez		Plague-bearer	The Contagion
Stravomenos	Mind	Psionic science to drain people's minds	Wocen		Engourdissant	Mangeur
Wocen	Name	Gathering of names and identities untrue to oneself in order to build False Names to wield	Bedrog, Culpatis, Desumane, Fromnis, Stravomenos
Uafas	Nightmare	Drawing a toxin out of nightmares called uafan toxin	Desumane		Sponterezh	Mare
Imperium	Order	Using schwerstrum metal to enslave others	Atrocity, Corrogatio, Gisburu, Incursio, Quaestus, Repetindo	Fusei, Hollow Energy, Razdavit'	Imperaor	Specularo
Xirochart	Paper		Sterisi
Repetindo	Pattern	Repetition, rote, and routine enforced upon others	Falboh, Imperium
Malhic	Place		K'rksh
Draenen	Plant/Wood	Use of identity-draining plants	Desumane, Helabwr	Thorn Energy	Dewin Drain	Thornling
Atrocity	Plasma	Acts of actrocity releasing infernal powers from those having been harmed	Corrogatio, Imperium		Legionnaire	Devourer
Caligium	Shadow	Influencing from the shadows with fell whispers	Culpatus			Caligian
Solitine	Silence	Stealing the voices of others	Desumane, Jaatynyt, Russus, Sainswn	Mollesse		Unist
Culpatus	Soul	Selling one's soul	Wocen			Peccant
Feorg	Spirit		Woffung
Zman	Time	Controlling the time of others	Cweaddros
Falboh	Trinity		Imperium, Repetindo, Tandh	Feirua
Bedrog	Truth		Wocen		Illusionist	Bugiardo
Msawhat	Undeath	Ritual murder and corrupting of individuals in order to raise the dead	Divuhez	Pravum	Necromancer	Undead
Corrogatio	War	Conquering others via brutal warfare tactics and taking what they once had	Atrocity, Imperium, Incursio		Conquistador	Validus
Russus	Water		Desumane, Jaatnynt, Solitine
Peragro	Wind	Taking advantage of the people who are down on their luck	Sainswn, Sterisi	Misfortune	Wanioner	Misbegot