Brotherhood - Castle

This brotherhood is going to be crucial in the rebellion. There ranking system is as follows:

The ranking system is akin to that of the army. It is extremely organised and you must obey your superiors. One can however challenge a leaders decision at a latter date. If you challenge a leader about a decision you both take part in a trial. There are three sections to the trials. A fight, A hearing (jury decides who was right) and a test of your strategical abilities ( a game of chess). If you win a dispute against someone higher up in the command chain you can take there place in the command chain. the ranking system is as follows:
Johen,
Cardet,
Sertain,
Zainter (Zainters can be elected into the minor council)
the Zainter's then elect an
Obdoch (commander in chief)


The castle brotherhood can channel magic into inanimate objects to increase their strength. They reside in a large castle which control a valuable trade route . In times of peace the castle brotherhood oversee the guarding    of the realm. They are the peacekeepers and the judges. The brotherhood itself is in control of the minor and major councils troops.

Paul Meagher

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Mechanics of The World

Hi All,

In this post I am going to talk about the mechanics of the world. The first issue I am going to deal with is how the magic works.

My idea for the magic is that every living thing interacts with its environment. In other words every single living thing has countless “relationships” e.g. competition, predator – prey, interdependence etc. These relationships go all the way up to great political relationships and great decisions being made that will affect all living things.

Every living thing is connected to this web of relationships. One who is capable to do magic can draw energy from this web.

The different brotherhoods teach magic in different ways. The castle brotherhood is all about strategy. The Buddhist’s are all about attaining a higher state of being where one is “absorbed” into the web. The forest brotherhood is all about being “at one” with nature. And so on.

The cave brotherhood has a special ability. They can construct objects which can channel this energy to do a specific task such as teleport the user to a different place in the web. I have decided to name these objects as “fons”.

The magic’s energy comes from the web but magic itself is split up into the five elements: fire, water, air, earth and spirit.

Magic can be stored in objects called “cons” the capacity of these cons vary as to the object it is e.g. wood can only hold a tiny amount of object whereas gems can hold vast amounts of energy.

Each element has a gem at which it is attuned to.

Fire: Ruby

Water: Sapphire

Spirit: Jade

Earth: Emerald

Air: Diamond

Each Brotherhood has an affinity to two elements

Waterfall: Water and Spirit

Cave: Earth and Fire

Castle: Fire and Air

Freelancers: All

Forest: Earth and Air

City: Spirit and Fire

 Dedicated (Buddhists): Spirit and Water

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