Unaligned Magic

Unaligned magic is magic that is not connected to the four aligned magicks. It is considered a sundry category, and it has multiple sources: the beliefs of people, the identities of people, conflict, and paradox.

Ambrosial, Nommic, Paradoxical, Shebvic

Unaligned Names

There are many ways to wield unaligned magic, but ultimately, it derives from the Names of unaligned 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	Sphere	Description	Method	Primary Occupation	Primary Species	Notable Subsaspects
Esh-Gul	Destruction	Division	Division, splitting	A constant splitting action	Mern Zikh	Aummeglekh
Esh-Namush	Death	Mortality	Mortality as opposed to inmortality	Accepting one's mortality and putting faith in it	Mortalist	Mechanical
Esh-Zi	Soul	Soul	The souls of all things, the metaphysical	Attuning to one's soul and channeling it via special rods	Sorcerer	Pusaran
Esh-Aa	Water	Fluidity	The fluidity of reality, the phase of matter that is liquid	Becoming fluid in every sense		Fnismi
Esh-Zidug	Truth	Divine truth, Divinity, absolutes	The absolute, the power of truth from Divine perspective	Being Divine	Lawcaster	Divinity
Esh-Ush	Blood	Blood	Blood as part of the body	Blood rituals and rites	Bloodcaster	Reodcwenn
Esh-Zag	Place	Structure	Structures, buildings, and massive things shaped by mortals	Building towers that channel energies	Bitol	Ambage
Esh-Ud	Plasma	Decay	The way the universe excites and decays	Burning reality via special candles	Putrewicker	Aamer
Esh-Kug	Metal	Bone	The understructure of things	Casting bones to understand what exists beneath the surface	Bonecaster	Ukaersan
Esh-Gada	Fabric	Iconography	Worship or faith using icons and objects	Channeling faith through icons and objects	Iconographer	Nechozi
Esh-Gidim	Spirit	Spirit	The external forces of faith, the invisible, intangible, conscious beings that serve belief	Communing with spirits directl	Spiritspeaker	Servitor
Esh-Dub	Movement	Movement	Movement and travel of all kinds	Constant movement until it becomes second nature	Wayfinder	Mutumwa
Esh-Dim	Creation	Technology	The advance of technology	Creating a feedback loop while making devices	Hypermachinist	Syskevi
Esh-Kilim	Animal	Animal	Animals of any kind, natural or not, domesticated or not	Engaging with animals via a mutual need	Accipitrary	Chakuk
Esh-Addir	Connection	Interstice	The places between, where things intersect, and connections	Entering the realm of the Interstice and threading its energies together	Matrician	Nedulant
Esh-Urash	Earth	Resource	Resources, resourcefulness, found in the form of dark minerals	Finding and mining menab'e, the mineral of resource, then refining it	Ruddy	Dongxue
Esh-Shuba	Faith	Faith	Faith in the Divine	Gaining the favor of a Divine by worshiping to their terms	Lay Believer	Golem
Esh-Gur	Harvest	Value	How much something is worth and how to gather it	Gathering things without value and imbuing them with value	Tosher	Gondal
Esh-Rara	Paper	Boundary	Boundaries and borders, walls and barriers, paper made impassable	Infusing one's own toughness into paper	Memnew'e	Gargoyle
Esh-Itud	Trinity	Skill	The trinity of unlearned, learning, skilled, all skills are one skill	Learning to juggle until one is able to convert that into other skills	Wabeno	Brannish
Esh-Mu	Name	Name	The whole of a thing	Learning True Names and invoking them	Namecaster	Uruvankankal
Esh-Sig	Silence	Balance, wordless faith	Faith without word, an understanding of balance	Living and not speaking a faith, maintaining a balance		Aunoama
Esh-Mamu	Dream	Concept faith	Belief in a philosophy, ideal, idea, or concept	Living and worshiping and believing in a concept and invoking it	Mandimi	Elimo
Esh-Di	Order	Law	Mortal law, rules and codes and guidelines	Living by a code and invoking its power	Log-mathaer	Vaettir
Esh-Ni	Body	Body	The actual body of living things	Magical diet and exercise	Wisin	Homunculus
Esh-Su	Glass	Science	Experimentation and study and research in the name of scientific understanding	Magical experiments using special glass	Hyperscientist	Cephalan
Esh-Katar	Fungus	Systems	How things play out, systems of all kinds, physical or not	Magical rube-goldberg devices	Turogzot	Gnome
Esh-Usudra	Time	Measurement	The measurement of time and all things	Measuring to a supernatural precision	Magnamensur	Zalawo
Esh-Kuku	Ancestry	Ancestral memory	Memory beyond one's current life, back into ancestors	Meditation on one's ancestors until they speak back	Shaman	Ancestor
Esh-Ku	Paradigm	Neutrality	Unalignment and neutralizing	Moving things around a room to control the flow of energies and neutralize them	Red Mage	Geliqurofi
Esh-Nu	Light	Mathematics	The infinite, and the constant of light	Numerology	Numerologer	Lemniscate
Esh-Gu	Sound	Prayer	Spoken and acted prayers	Praying to greater powers	Supplicant	Fotipisti
Esh-Izi	Fire	Dragon	The fire of dragons and their five qualities (power, discipline, majesty, accumulation, and territory)	Proving oneself to a dragon and gaining their fire	Pentologer	Dragon
Esh-Tila	Life	Vitality, viscera	Life embodied in the viscera	Reading entrails to find life energies	Haruspex	Deme
Esh-Uhus	Pattern	Pattern	All patterns	Recognizing patterns and altering them		Pidayidakulu
Esh-Gud	War	War	Conflict of any kind	Ritual combat	Weaponmaster	Valkyrie
Esh-Taka	Hunt	Survival	Hunting for survival	Ritual hunts and bonding to the spirits thereof	Vadaszno	Cocidian
Esh-Didi	Microbe	Quantum	The tiniest things	Seeking the smallest known things and moving with them	Iotan	Pelledare
Esh-Sheg	Ice	Form	The form and function of things	Shaping ice into specific forms to make things		Katuu
Esh-Ri	Exchange	Trade	Trade, fair or not	Special magical contracts	Mercator	Drvolug
Esh-Sag	Mind	Mind	Thought, logic, memory, and reason, analysis and understanding	Tapping into one's mental energies and extending them outside the mind	Psionist	Menstriae
Esh-Mul	Star	Void	The emptiness of reality, negation	The science of negation	Irritologer	Athak
Esh-Kam	Change	Change	The power of all things to change	Tweaking the flow of flux, the energy of change	Alteror	Shapeshifter
Esh-Imi	Wind	Probability	Probability itself, the phase of matter that is gas, chance without fortune's influence	Understanding magical probabilities and tweaking them		Kudonha
Esh-Idim	Chaos	Paradox	The impossible	Unknown	Trickster	Manifestation
Esh-Sha	Heart	Emotion	Emotions of all kinds	Using string figures to capture and release emotion	Ennead	Empath
Esh-Gissu	Shadow	Crime	Breaking of mortal law and the unaligned shadow	Violating mortal laws and using a forbidden Cant	Scelestian	Wearg
Esh-Uu	Plant	Faith in non-Divine	Faith in non-Divine beings, like inmortals	Worshiping non-Divine being (often represented as plants, but not always)	Vruthaakrithiyilulla	Karangannu