Elemental Enlighteners

Those who use elemental magic to learn, teach, or gather information.

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Cosmogeologer

Type: Scientist

Cosmogeologers study the geology of asteroids. They do this either by finding them after they hit the moon they are on, by traveling to them, or via telescopes and other devices. As they study them, they learn the magicks within them as well. They study from mentors and elders or in schools, but those who truly understand cosmogeology do not study via any imperial or colonial center of academia. They go into the highlands or out into space to study.

Cosmogeologers use magical telescopes made from bia, a kind of star metal, and magical astral glass. They use special probes made of similar materials that can travel to the asteroids and back by bending space, and they take samples and study them in special chambers with the right magical tools, like astral spectrometers, microscopes, and scales. In order to study properly, they have developed other tools that have broader uses:

• Dust armor: they create a thin barrier of asteroid dust all over themselves to repel radiation and infernal energies.
• Chewer pick: picks made from the chitinous fangs of asteroidchewers, the giant ants that live among the asteroids, that are able to break up asteroid samples.
• Lens of discerning: a lens made of astral glass that shows the mineral and metal content of any object.
• Orbital spectrometer: a spectrometer that measures the orbital velocity of anything it shines its beam on.
• Scaling claws: a pair of claws that allow them to cling onto anything solid or climb better, used to move among the asteroids.

Cosmogeologers sometimes have small ships that can fly into the cosmos, or they book passage on one going through the asteroid belt. But most study from the moons' highlands.

PRO / ATH / STR -1 AWA +2 WIL +1 PRS -1 STH /

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Hyperastronomer

Type: Scientist

Hyperastronomers study the magic of the cosmos itself. They study all forms of astronomy and astrophysics and the magical versions thereof. They work more in theory than in practice, knowing great depths of astral and cosmic lore without having many applicable abilities, but they have a depth of knowledge unmatched when it comes to the cosmos.

Hyperastronomers study mostly among the local communities, trained and taught by mentors and elders, but there are some at the imperial and colonial universities. Some even travel into space to study. They have some technologies to aid them:

• Deep space telescope: a telescope with magical lenses that see deeper into space than any other.
• Star map: a map of the known cosmos and more.
• Cosmic trajector: a protractor, sextant, and mapping tool that allows the hyperastronomer to determine the trajectory of cosmic objects.
• Astral shielding: a box that exudes an energy field around the bearer and protects them from heat, cold, and radiation.
• Astronomical calculator: a counting machine that performs astronomical and astrophysical calculations rapidly.

Hyperastronomers have a long list of lores, ranging from cosmic lore, astronomy, astrophysics, astrology, lunology, mathematics, physics, and more. One who is an enemy of nature or the comos will not be able to use these tools or study these lores fully.

PRO / ATH -1 STR -1 AWA +3 WIL +2 PRS -1 STH /

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Hyperphysicist

Type: Scientist

Hyperphysicists study the fundamental forces and interactions of the universe and the magical variations of them. They learn about electromagnetism, gravity, and weak and strong nuclear forces, all of which have elemental magical aspects to them.

To become a hyperphysicist, one must be taught by an elder or mentor. Though there are some in the imperial or colonial universities, their understanding is limited compared to that of those among the local communities.

Hyperphysicists use special tools to study these elemental forces:

• Electronomagical microscope: a microscope that can view atomic particles via magical lenses.
• Lodestone arrow: an arrowhead that is made of magnetic stone that helps them measure or sense magnetism.
• Putrefacient solvent: a solvent that escalates nuclear decay.
• Gravitational scale: a scale that shows the full power of gravity in an area.
• Hyperbonding glue: a special glue that causes atoms to bond to one another.
• Charging core: a metallic battery that fills with and discharges electricity.
• Ultraviolet cube: a cube that focuses and controls ultraviolet light.
• Infrared sphere: a sphere that fills a place with infrared light.
• Radioactive cone: a cone that pulses radiation.
• Radiorepellant suit: a suit that repels radiation.
• Lightstream clicker: a device that clicks as different wavelengths of light hit it.
• Radiostream crystal: a crystal that glows when radio waves hit it.

Hyperphysicists understand mundane and magical physics in depth. One who is an enemy of nature or the comos will not be able to use these tools or study these lores fully.

PRO -1 ATH -1 STR +1 AWA +2 WIL +1 PRS -1 STH /

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Mensicca

Type: Teacher

Mensicca are teachers who are attuned to the dry regions of the moons. They use their attunement to clear their minds and affect the minds of their pupils, helping them learn.

This magic is a matter of connecting to the climate and landscape both, something that takes great study, meditation, and a devotion to protecting nature. Mensiccas commune with the dry regions of the moon they are on by living in them for many revolutions of the moon, being part of them, and protecting them. After years of this, studying under elders and mentors, they go on a solo journey into the wilds, and have deep visions wherein spirits give them special abilities. If they are deemed worthy, they are given certain abilities to teach others:

• Dry mind: the mensicca can go without water for a day in order to expand their awareness, allowing them to clear their minds and focus on any single subject for a lunar day.
• Arid wind: the mensicca can convey their thoughts on vaporless winds to everyone within 100' around them.
• Preserving touch: the mensicca can remove all moisture from documents to preserve them better with a touch.
• Rasping words: the mensicca can dry their throats and speak in a rasping voice that breaks through confusion, unfocus, and distraction to teach with.

Other abilites are possible. Consult the GM.

PRO +1 ATH +1 STR / AWA +3 WIL +1 PRS -2 STH -1

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Microbist

Type: Scientist

Scientists who use elemental magic to study microbes. In a world where most people do not yet know germ theory, those who wield elemental magic rarely understand the existence of microbes deeply without a scientific background. Thus, microbists are very rare.

To become a microbist, one must both have some knowledge of microbes and be a friend to nature. They are often kicked out of academia for not being loyal to the powers-that-be, thus being mad scientists in the eyes of the public. Usually after they are kicked out or in secret while in academia, they begin going out into nature to study it more closely, and they begin working against the wishes of the powers-that-be who wish to destroy, control, or defile it. In doing so, and in focusing on microbes or some variant understanding of them, they come across rare elemental beings that guide their understanding. Eventually, if they prove worthy, they will find they can alter the tools of their study to help them:

• Elemental microscope: as naturalists who study microbes, they always have a set of microscopes to use. These are magically empowered to view the tiniest living things.

• Gathering dish: they can create a rudimentary, magical petri dish out of a common saucer.

• Cellular feast: they can attract microbes by providing them with a small feast of elemental material they create by chewing special seeds, fats, and dirt.

Microbists use their elemental powers to gather, influence, and in a very strange way, befriend microbes. They do this in part because of their scientific fascination, but also in part because if they do this, they might avoid infections and diseases. They seek to find a way to coexist with these living things without having to destroy them to survive. They are also aware of the microbes that do this, often helping mortal beings, and they want to foster them as well.

If they do manage to befriend a specific kind of microbe, they can wield it in a focused way by transforming it into an elemental fluid called ygroia. This fluid will only affect those the microbist direct it toward (physically). Players choose one microbe to have done this with and colleced for use.

PRO / ATH -1 STR +1 AWA +2 WIL / PRS -2 STH /

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Potentist

Type: Scientist

A potentist is a scientist who studies elemental acids and bases. They are skilled chemists.

Wielding elemental acids and bases requires the wielder to understand acids and bases, to have a sincere respect for nature, and to test themselves ritually by burning parts of themselves with acids and bases until it no longer affects them. Once they can do this - by building up resistance and communing with nature - they are able to wield it on reality itself, though to a lesser degree than someone who lives their life by elemental magic. They then use this to study them and other elemental chemistry.

A potentist develops two main substances to wield:

• Potent elemental acid: a burning agent that can dissolve almost anything.
• Potent elemental base: a neutralizing agent that can cleanse almost anything.

These can be altered by mixing them with various other chemicals for a near limitless list of effects that resemble other elemental magicks. Consult the GM.

PRO +1 ATH -1 STR +2 AWA +2 WIL +2 PRS -2 STH -1