Are there still ashes to seperate? I was under impresion that any unstolen angels have allready revived.
(To be honest I have no idea.)
Golems and Gremlins are given permision to chainsaw Malakath's new angels on sight.
"Why are you doing this? Ever since I came into the world you've been antagonising me and I have no idea why."So now they have to chose between serving you and condeming one of their bretheren to uncertain fate. From lies to threats I see.
"You have a point in that it is an uncertain fate, though I'm fairly certain I haven't lied to them. To clarify, any soul that my body hold enters a sleeping state, save for when I speak with them or summon them as familiars."(Malakath: -2E)
(What did I spend this 2E on? It couldn't have been from entering the dimension - I still have the two angels within me.)
A Controller angel has been struck down!
Who was the Controller's master? Malakath or Yaos? If it's Yaosian, I claim the soul and place it in the Heavenly Plane. If it's one of mine, it should've gone there automatically. I find the soul and ask them how, where, and why they were killed as well as who killed them.
I release one of the Controllers' souls within my body to inhabit the Heavenly Plane. He can confirm what it's like to be a soul contained within me. ((Like sleeping in a warm bed, completely at peace.))
Now that I have a dimension, I can do blood stuff! Blood oaths and blood marriages are now a thing.
Blood oaths:
By drawing blood and declaring a blood oath, a person binds themselves to adhere to the blood oath. If they fail, they will die and Malakath eats their soul. Thus, blood oaths are extremely serious business. Blood oaths cannot be taken if the conditions to completing the oath are impossible to complete. If a person takes two blood oaths and they contradict each other, the person is required to complete the oath they swore to first with no consequence. If a person swears a blood oath knowing that it will contradict a previous blood oath, they will die and their soul eaten by Malakath.
Blood marriages:
There are three categories of blood marriage. Blood marriages are enacted in a similar fashion to a blood oath.
The first category is one where if one spouse dies, the other one dies too.
The second category of blood marriage is much more radical. Both spouses can only die if the other spouse is also dead, except for when the cause of death is old age. If a spouse is killed and the other spouse is still alive, the dead spouse will return to life within a few minutes. A large amount of both spouses' life spans will be used to power this marriage.
The third category is one pertaining to fidelity, can be layered over the first two categories, and has two sub-categories. The first sub-category will kill an unfaithful spouse and their soul will be eaten by Malakath. The marriage is automatically annulled. The second sub-category simply annuls the marriage. In both cases, the faithful spouse gets back their lost lifespan but the faithless does not (assuming the chose to get a category-2 marriage as well).
All categories of blood marriages increase the love felt between the two spouses for each other.
All successful blood marriages allow both spouses access into the Heavenly Plane.
I arrange for the Heavenly Plane to be a utopian civilisation rather than a pure feel-good place like the Paradise Plane. It'll also have its own volunteer army to defend it from any intruders who attempt to kill them or eat them. (Since they're immaterial, they can only harm beings inside an immaterial plane.)
Blood magic is defined. It now branches Ritual magic, Elemental magic (bending), Divine magic, and Necromantic magic. Blood is defined as being the silver of the soul and gold of the will. That means that unless the blood's owner is dead, it cannot be used in magic unless the owner itself chooses to use it themselves.
Even then, Necromantic blood magic is pretty weak and is only decently useful in the hands of vampires (who don't exist.) Mind-control prevents blood magic.
Rules of blood magic:
Blood magic can't be "powered up" by killing people. There are two magic classes that use dead people blood - Elemental and Necromantic. Necromantic blood magic, as we've already covered, is pretty much useless unless used by a vampire (which don't exist, unless you count Malakath). Elemental magic makes more sense because it's basically blood-bending but mana usage is still a concern. More blood manipulation = more mana usage at a linear rate. On top of that, using dead people's blood is more mana-intensive than using your own blood. The only advantage is that you don't make yourself physically weaker. Even then, dead animal blood works just as well as dead people blood with the same mana-usage.
(Just to make it clear, I'm expecting to not have to use Essence to perform any of these actions.)
"The silver of the soul and gold of the will." I'm not entirely sure I'm sourcing this right but I think I got this phrase from Hellsing. Blood magic was NOT defined the way it was to fit the phrase - it just so happens that the phrase fits well enough to have it as a label. Considering my spheres of Souls and Blood, it makes sense that the two would be connected - thus "silver of the soul". Blood magic would be overpowered if blood mages could control all blood since almost everyone they meet is likely to be filled with blood; making sure that only owners of the blood can use it is a mechanical necessity - thus "gold of the will".
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