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[LuckyKobold]

The Blood Magic allows the User to manipulate Blood and the Life Force of beings, For Example creating a Meat Golem using the life-force of others, Or draining their health to restore the User's and so on, It is extremely versatile regarding it's possible uses, And it takes decades to become proficient, Of course Zorlock is already past the Arch-Mage level of skill in using it, Otherwise he wouldn't be here.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Scribe my goggles with when-press-[activation rune]-increase-sight. Try to see if the void goes on forever in any direction. Also make a law that says the valley is the limmit and use of essence is not allowed when it would cause the void to consume any part of the valley.

[LuckyKobold]

Scribe my goggles with when-press-[activation rune]-increase-sight. Try to see if the void goes on forever in any direction. Also make a law that says the valley is the limmit and use of essence is not allowed when it would cause the void to consume any part of the valley.

Dave receives a call on his Talking Device.
"I Plus One This Course Of Action!"
Zorlock has one of the Kill-Simulators throw a rock into the Void and observes the Results.
Zorlock installs an Kill-Simulator charger inside of The Voyager.

[Dwarmin]

Ivy sighed. Well, she supposed this had proved her theory-she could create, in her own image, life. She had all her memories, all her thoughts. She felt like herself. She was not a mindless automaton...though, she felt a sharp frisson of fear at the fact that she was powerless here, she thought her...sister? Would protect her...then again, she also knew-or knows-that in her existence was only a sacrifice to a higher ideal.

""Well. I am less than you, but I am you. I feel no different than I did a moment ago-it appears the power to create life also recreates sentience...the fact I can feel fear for myself...I don't want to die. Life is defined by it's ability to persist...and we can then reason that life created here, with a steady hand and clear morals, would not be lessened because of our own, human imperfections.

What do you say to that?"

[LuckyKobold]

Zorlock's Voice booms across the Valley.
"I SAY WE NEED MORE ESSENCE!"

[Iituem]

Ivy sighed. Well, she supposed this had proved her theory-she could create, in her own image, life. She had all her memories, all her thoughts. She felt like herself. She was not a mindless automaton...though, she felt a sharp frisson of fear at the fact that she was powerless here, she thought her...sister? Would protect her...then again, she also knew-or knows-that in her existence was only a sacrifice to a higher ideal.

""Well. I am less than you, but I am you. I feel no different than I did a moment ago-it appears the power to create life also recreates sentience...the fact I can feel fear for myself...I don't want to die. Life is defined by it's ability to persist...and we can then reason that life created here, with a steady hand and clear morals, would not be lessened because of our own, human imperfections.

What do you say to that?"

What do you say to that?

[Dwarmin]

"I would say we can be comfortable creating limited lifeforms in this world for our purposes, as long as make a world for them. We need more essence for that, however.

Hence, you need to decide if I should continue to exist-my purpose was to proof that life we would make would not be hopelessly corrupted, and I can hope we've done so."

[flame99]

Ivy sighed. Well, she supposed this had proved her theory-she could create, in her own image, life. She had all her memories, all her thoughts. She felt like herself. She was not a mindless automaton...though, she felt a sharp frisson of fear at the fact that she was powerless here, she thought her...sister? Would protect her...then again, she also knew-or knows-that in her existence was only a sacrifice to a higher ideal.

""Well. I am less than you, but I am you. I feel no different than I did a moment ago-it appears the power to create life also recreates sentience...the fact I can feel fear for myself...I don't want to die. Life is defined by it's ability to persist...and we can then reason that life created here, with a steady hand and clear morals, would not be lessened because of our own, human imperfections.

What do you say to that?"

Finally indulging his curiosity, Hastul walks over to the pair of Ivys.
"So, may I ask how and why there are two of you?"

[Iituem]

Zorlock

You give the death-bots standing orders not to harm the Velociraptors, the Sukkippu (although they are to deny entry), Wizard Kings (unless provoked or attempting to gain entrance) and to ignore all distractions unless they attempt to gain entry or attack.

You create a map.  It takes the form of a silvery sheet of what could be metal, were it not flexible and cold to the touch.  As it is, the substance is room temperature, and it displays a top-down image of the valley, the surrounding sands and the cliffs, surrounded by a small circle of black void.  The rest of the map is translucent.  The sand shimmers with a sort of blue-ish overlay.  You suppose that must be Essence.  [-1 Essence]

You create seven solar powered walkie talkies.  They have an eight hour battery life outside of light to charge them.  They work as mundane walkie talkies.  [-1 Essence]  One assumes you give everybody one.  Well, one of the Ivies one.

You don't have the technical know-how to simply build a charger, so you just summon one into place from Essence.  It runs off the tank's battery.  [-1 Essence]

You have one of the death-bots dig a small stone out of the forest's soil (it seems several hard stones formed along with the soil when it was created, as you might expect in a forest') and walk to the edge of the sands.  They are now only half a mile from the valley's edge.  The death-bot tosses the rock off the edge.  It falls.

It keeps falling.  After a while, there isn't enough light for you to see it keep falling.  You... are pretty sure that's a bottomless void.

The Blood Magic allows the User to manipulate Blood and the Life Force of beings, For Example creating a Meat Golem using the life-force of others, Or draining their health to restore the User's and so on, It is extremely versatile regarding it's possible uses, And it takes decades to become proficient, Of course Zorlock is already past the Arch-Mage level of skill in using it, Otherwise he wouldn't be here.

Insufficient definition.  That's a wish-list of what it should do.  Please establish hard rules on how it works, what (if anything) powers it or it costs, and what you have to do to make it work.  You don't have to specify every single application, but a broad definition of how it works is needed.

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

The Blood Magic allows the User to manipulate Blood and the Life Force of beings, For Example creating a Meat Golem using the life-force of others, Or draining their health to restore the User's and so on, It is extremely versatile regarding it's possible uses, And it takes decades to become proficient, Of course Zorlock is already past the Arch-Mage level of skill in using it, Otherwise he wouldn't be here.

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well.
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts.
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled.

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King.

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety.

Spoiler: Contents (click to show/hide)

The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up.
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.

Zorlock's Vale - A pair of interlocked valleys that surround Zorlock's Wood and lead to Zorlock's Lake.
  Zorlock's Wood - A region of densely wooded forest, populated chiefly by deciduous trees that filter blue and green light from the sky, giving them red and purple leaves.  Dense foliage, grasses and underbrush (all of purple and red hue) cover the soil beneath.
    Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world.
  The Rivers Cross - Two crossed rivers, intersecting beneath Zorlock's Hill.  Their tributaries start at the heights of the Vale and the mouths meet at the Lake.  Sparse vegetation covers the surface.
    Salmon - A tasty fish.
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials.
  Zorlock's Hill - A great hill rising above the Vale.
    The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill.
    Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree.
    Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon.
    Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.
      Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls.
      Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone, suspended 600m above the Tower.
      Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order!
    The Voyager - M1 Abrams Tank
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
    Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators
  Zorlock's Lake - A body of water at the base of the Vale.
  Resident: Sukkippu

Sukkippu - Giant lobster men.  Immortal.  [24 total]
  Image-Based/Empathic Telepathy - Can transmit images and emotions between Sukkippu freely.
  Simple Toolmaking
  Simple Architecture
  Night vision.

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total]
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total]
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows.
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
Ivy Carmine - Princess
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility.
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted.
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
Grey - A Cat
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed.
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)

Essence: 8 Clumps

[LuckyKobold]

"I say we team up to create a Magical Zeppelin to explore the Void for other Islands, Who supports this proposal?"

[The Froggy Ninja]

((Forgot to bold.))
Scribe my goggles with when-press-[activation rune]-increase-sight. Try to see if the void goes on forever in any direction. Also make a law that says the valley is the limmit and use of essence is not allowed when it would cause the void to consume any part of the valley.

[Dwarmin]

Finally indulging his curiosity, Hastul walks over to the pair of Ivys.
"So, may I ask how and why there are two of you?"

The Ivy's take turns finishing each others sentences, no doubt for their mutual amusement.

"One cannot create life..."

"...Without understanding the consequences"

"We needed to know..."

"If you make a living being?"

"Does it think?"

"Does it feel?"

"Is it right?"

"So we used ourselves."

"It was the only moral choice."

"...And we are nothing, if not moral beings."
"...And we are nothing, if not moral beings."

[LuckyKobold]

Insufficient definition.  That's a wish-list of what it should do.  Please establish hard rules on how it works, what (if anything) powers it or it costs, and what you have to do to make it work.  You don't have to specify every single application, but a broad definition of how it works is needed.

Blood Magic is powered by the life force of any living being and the extent of the spell depends on how much life force is sacrificed, For example if a Blood Mage Sacrificed a squirrel the spell would be very weak and would be able to do very little, If a Blood Mage Sacrificed a Major Demi-God then the spell could wipe out an entire continent. Users can sacrifice some of their own life force or sacrifice another's but to do the latter you need to do a fairly long ritual to drain their Life Force, This is a very lengthy process and because of this most mages store surplus Life Force in various magical gems for easy access. The Spells themselves can do things like draining the Life Force of another and using it to heal yourself, Or condensing it into a floating mass of boiling blood that could be thrown, You could also use the Life Force to power a Golem of some kind although you would need to enchant it to ensure it's loyalty. Blood Magic is most effective against living creatures which is why in his Home Dimension they used Robots and Golems to hunt down the Blood Mages. Blood Magic is very dangerous to the user and as a result a large portion of Blood Mages are clinically insane, Including Zorlack.

(Alright is the above description sufficient?)

[Iituem]

Dave

You adjust your goggles and peer at the void, circling around the cliffs.  You stretch the telescopic view of the goggles as far as you think they will go (testing it by looking up at one of the moons above and getting quite a clear view of one of its craters - zooming in, you can see individual grains of rock) and see... nothing.  As far as you can tell the void is abyss infinite.

You try setting a rule to prevent the void destroying the valley, but as far as you can tell there is no effect.  Maybe the void's destruction cannot be prevented, or perhaps the void will not destroy the valley anyway.  As you ponder this, you feel the ground beneath your feet start to crumble - you make a mad dash towards the valley as the sand beneath your feet falls away into endless void, just making it to the edge of a new set of cliffs before falling to your doom.  You scramble up to the edge again.  A quick check reveals that the Voyager similarly managed to evade destruction and is now pulling a safe distance away from the edge.  Someone must be consuming Essence.


Zorlock

[Those definitions are excellent, they just require a bit more Essence to implement.]

You run through your mental definition of Blood Magic and begin applying the rules, one by one.  Blood magic consumes the vital essence of living creatures as a power source, either voluntarily or unvoluntarily via lengthy ritual (using fairly standard verbal and somatic components).  Quantity of elan vital determines strength of magic that can be used.  Basic spells manipulate life force, draining it or infusing it into one's self or another.  It can also be used to animate blood for use as a weapon or tool.  [Essence already paid.]

Life essence (or elan vital) can be stored up to a limit in a caster's own body, or more practically in gemstones (enchanted using a verbal and somatic ritual).  It can then be drawn out and used at will.  [-1 Essence]

Blood magic can be used to animate inanimate beings (golems) by infusing them with stolen elan vital, reshaping inanimate components to function as biological analogues.  Golems do not produce their own elan vital and therefore require it to be provided to act as fuel.  [-1 Essence]  Blood magic can be used to manipulate the mind, using elan vital as fuel and medium, particularly simple minds such as those of constructs or animals (but not true robots).  With simple or weak minds, it can reshape them to enforce loyalty or obedience.  [-1 Essence]  Because blood magic works heavily with the mind, long term use can have adverse psychological effects beyond the corruption usually caused by power.

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well.
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts.
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled.

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King.

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety.

Blood Magic:  Consumes vital essence (elan vital) from living creatures as fuel and medium.  Quantity determines power.
  Elan vital can be extracted willingly, or unwillingly through a lengthy ritual.
  Elan vital can be stored in enchanted gems (enchanted through a simple ritual).
  Spells manipulate transfer or exchange or life force.
  Spells can animate blood using elan vital as a medium.
  Can animate constructs (golems) using elan vital to warp inorganic matter to work as a biological analogue.
  Golems require elan vital as fuel, cannot create their own.
  Spells can manipulate the mind in broad ways, changing feelings and perceptions.  Strong minds can resist.
  Long term use of mind magic can have adverse physical effects.

Spoiler: Contents (click to show/hide)

The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up.
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.

Zorlock's Vale - A pair of interlocked valleys that surround Zorlock's Wood and lead to Zorlock's Lake.
  Zorlock's Wood - A region of densely wooded forest, populated chiefly by deciduous trees that filter blue and green light from the sky, giving them red and purple leaves.  Dense foliage, grasses and underbrush (all of purple and red hue) cover the soil beneath.
    Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world.
  The Rivers Cross - Two crossed rivers, intersecting beneath Zorlock's Hill.  Their tributaries start at the heights of the Vale and the mouths meet at the Lake.  Sparse vegetation covers the surface.
    Salmon - A tasty fish.
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials.
  Zorlock's Hill - A great hill rising above the Vale.
    The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill.
    Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree.
    Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon.
    Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.
      Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls.
      Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone, suspended 600m above the Tower.
      Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order!
    The Voyager - M1 Abrams Tank
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
    Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators
  Zorlock's Lake - A body of water at the base of the Vale.
  Resident: Sukkippu

Sukkippu - Giant lobster men.  Immortal.  [24 total]
  Image-Based/Empathic Telepathy - Can transmit images and emotions between Sukkippu freely.
  Simple Toolmaking
  Simple Architecture
  Night vision.

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total]
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total]
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows.
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
Ivy Carmine - Princess
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility.
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted.
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
Grey - A Cat
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed.
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.  [On-Activate:Rune-Increase-Sight]
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)

Essence: 5 Clumps

[LuckyKobold]

"Oops, Okay guys, I got this."
Zorlack Uncreates the Samon and the Sukkippu, He then uses the Essence to Give The Voyager The Ability to Travel through space and time.