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