Arcane Theory

Post-Abandonment Oral History from He-Who-Reads-Stones

Long ago, so long that many moons rose and many suns fell and today we cannot count them, there was a smart little oshun (Loremaster's Note: Some tribes claim the lad was Oshoshi. Neither narrative is particularly prevalent) lad who had a might hunger. It was the drying season and many plants had not yet begun to bear fruit and so many animals were not easily found to be hunted. The little oshun found a small pool at the bottom of a dried up pond. At the bottom of the pool, he could see little pinchbugs scurrying. Whenever he tried to grab them they would quickly - flip, flip, flip - their tails and swim in their mud holes. The oshun boy was so hungry he could feel his stomach eating itself. Surely, he thought, if I do not eat get food, I will die and then I will be food for these bugs and my mother will mourn. 
The little boy thought and thought, he tried and tried to capture the bugs but they ran every time. The sun was beginning to set and the oshun boy knew he must succeed or go home hungry. The thought of a bird or lizard eating the bugs before him made him furious. "I must convince them," he thought. So he lay on his belly in the dry dirt and put his hands in the water and with all his might imagined the bugs crawling into his hands. He imagined feeling their prickly legs on his palms, he saw them crawling out of their mud holes and said, "There, little pinchbugs. I will not hurt you. You will come out of your holes and come to my hands to see the sky." 
The boys fingers tingled with energy but still he imagined the pinchbugs hearing his words, he imagined them being so interested in seeing the sky that they happily crawled up his arms. When his opened his eyes, there were five fat pinchbugs on his arms, antenna waving, all looking at the sky. However, his hands and fingers were shriveled and weak and he knew that what he had done had a high cost. Still, he and his mother would have food that night and if she made a stew, many nights.
Carefully, he walked back home in the dim light with the pinchbugs staring at the moon right until they fell into the pot. And that, was the very first spell in the whole world.

Sample from Pre-Abandonment Source

...confluence of multiple planes such that arcane energies are... [sample integrity untranslatable] ... ideation as the initial arcane nucleus. Once the nucleus is resolved and the arcane energies layer probabilistic matrices around the ideation point which require ... [sample integrity untranslatable] ... focuses: physical, energetic, divine, and arcane transference materials, or ATMs. Different arcanist utilize one or more ...
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Type

Metaphysical, Arcane