Infernal Occupations

The users of different kinds of infernal essence:

Avenger - baleblood
One who infuses baleblood via a special tattoo (made with baleblood as ink) and has some control over it, even when in a state of rage. They wield specially fitted claws (if they have none of their own), because weapon-use becomes primal in the rage state.

Siphoner - quaestus
A mage who uses blood as their medium for casting magic. Though neutral variations of this exist, most use quaestus in order to gain power from stealing, using, or draining the blood of others.

Cacosinger - cacophony
The creation of cacophonic energy requires the disruption of sound via sound. Cacosingers can use their voices (or instruments) to turn any sound into dissonant, painful noise, and thus wield it by casting the cacophony vocally.

Calamatist - misfortune
The energies of fortune and misfortune are impossible to fully control, but many have learned to sense them, capture them, and nudge them. Calamatists take on misfortune unto themselves in order to become sources of the energy, then go about rigging games of chance in order to spread misfortune to others.

Conquistador - corrogatio
A conquering warrior who invades lands to take them from indigenous populations.

Demonologer - infernum
One who gains infernal powers by making a deal with demons. Demons require payment in souls, which can be taken from the user or from a murder victim of the user. Depending on the demon and their power, what is gained from such a deal varies, but usually a contract is involved.

Dewin Drain - thorn energy
A gardener of [thorn energy, one who crafts and creates the intricate Aeldian gardens< that grow the plants that create thorn energy. From these gardens, they can gather materials to make poisons and substances that allow them to consume identities, steal abilities, and gain power.

Doomsayer - eldritch energy
The Eldritch's secret Names contain the power to end all things. Doomsayers learn fragments of these Names, which they never speak, and write them with special quill and ink onto special paper, which they roll into scrolls and never look upon. But so long as they carry them, they may invoke their power to inflict a doom upon someone. They stitch their mouths shut so they cannot accidentally speak the secret Name fragments, but break the stitches to inflict a doom.

Engourdissant - stravomenos
A user of the psionic energy stravomenos, which drains knowledge from the minds of others and destroys it. Learned through painful meditative arts, the use of this power also empties the mind of the user.

Frailthing - sterisi
Ascetics who starve themselves in order to create [Sterisi, which they let consume and control their bodies until they are vessels of famine and drought. Their touch becomes a desiccating, malnourishing act of violence, and their spittle is acid, which they use to attack others.

Gemmarius - feirua
The concept of "race" was invented by the gemmariuses. They believe in and use purity of blood and body, mind and soul, to create gems called feirua, which reflect the hearts of mortals and allow them to control them.

Gyroxene - ibbissu
Unpredictable, violent dancers who spin and twist and contort themselves wildly in order to capture entropy and fling it about dangerously, altering reality around them.

Hexologer - slitna
A numerological art, hexology requires the use of a special cube. Reconfiguring its six sides leads to different effects that unleash the power of rending, which destroys all.

Hollow Mage - hollow energy
Cruel, petty tyrants who torture a victim until their soul breaks, then use the hollow energy that provides to cast evil magic. Their insides slowly dissolve, to be replaced by vermin.

Illusionist - Bedrog
One whose Name is False. From this, they derive Bedrog, which they an use to create alternate versions of reality in the form of believable illusions. Their Name is made False through ancient rituals or accident.

Imperator - imperium
Those who wield chains made from schwerstrum, which contains imperium. This white metal allows the wielder to control those bound by the chains. They wear collars of the same material to connect themselves to the chained.

Industrialist - brown aether
One who owns, runs, and draws power from massive industrial projects.

Irritologer - void
Scientists and engineers who work with technology that controls void, an energy which nullifies other energies.

Lure - peccatum
One who wields Peccatum via dance and special perfumes in order to entice others to commit acts of atrocity, or to lure them into situations where they are made victims of such.

Necromancer - msawhat
Those fell magic users who wield pure msawhat to corrupt mind, body, soul, and heart in order to create, control, summon, channel, gain power from, or otherwise interact with the undead. They wear funeral shrouds, keep bones as tools, and stink of decay.

Plague-Bearer - vile energy
Those who use special nets to capture miasmas and spread disease.

Ponomancer - arnum
Cruel users of arnum who generate the power from acts of torture and self-flagellation, ponomancers wield their evil energies to make predictions and inflict more pain. They carry meat hooks and wear the skin of their victims.

Satsujin-sha - fusei
A form of onmyoji who intentionally imbalances spaces in order to maximize the amount of fusei, which they use to inflict punishments on others.

Sponterezh - uafas
The energy uafas infuses certain hallucinogenic compounds that can be wielded by skilled users on darts and other projectiles in order to cause nightmares and visions of terror.

Schiavista - drenante
Those who wield Drenante use ancient ledgers that track ownership of mercatorial contracts. They make deals with others in order to capture powers and abilities from them.

Stillborn Cultist - pravum
A horrible cult of childkillers who gain powers via pravum, acts of depravity that give them strength. They craft knives of unholy might from the bones of their child victims, stalk and harm pregnant people, and kill new mothers as well.

Velikiy - razdavit'
The use of razdavit' means drawing power at the expense of others. The velikiye do this by means of ancient script and brands.

Warlock - blasphemy
An oathbreaker who takes their state of rejection and turns it into a weapon, wielding curses from the blasphemy created by their betrayals. They place their powers into sticks, which they break in order to unleash a curse.

Webweaver - gossamer light
One who uses webs to control many at once.

Whisperer - mollesse
Those who use Mollesse do so vocally, whispering into fans and using them to toss the whispers like a ventriloquist, placing them in the ears of their victims and driving them to acts of self harm.

Witchfinder - tandh
A seeker and hunter of witches who wields tandh to bind and destroy them in the name of patriarchal power.