Desire — Roleplayer Guild

UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUT CHARACTERS CAN BE MADE

Intro
Magica and Machina, if you are of some intelligence, should look very similar to Magic and Machine. This whole world revolves around these two things. The advances of magic and the arcane arts, and the advances of machines and technology. But like any polar opposites, it's a difference that drives this world apart. Now before we get onto what's happening now, we have to take a look into the past before we fully can understand what is happening now, and what lies ahead in the future.

History
Many hundreds of years ago, around 4728 ARH (After recorded history), one main kingdom had erupted from the terrors and conflicts surrounding this world. We call this world Earth. This Earth is similar to our earth in many ways, but it has also some differences that we have to keep in mind. One of these is the land. There is one large super continent, that lies on the equator that the natives call Gaia. Now Gaia hold most of the population of the earth, stretching both north and south to get a varying range of climates and landscapes. Now the central part of Gaia was by far the easiest place to live. There was a lake and river system that acted sort of the heart of Gaia, branching out to the ends of the continent where the rivers eventually emptied out to. This is where most of civilization was located.

The kingdom there was prosperous since it's erection in 4269 ARH, and was in a golden age. But the struggle for advances in society pushed, as there was still lots of unclaimed land outward, and human greed itself naturally inclines toward more power. How to get this power, was the heat of the argument. One side, called the Magi, wanted to advance through magic. Learning of the arcane arts, and harvesting nature and it's energy to perform magical feats. On the other hand, the Mach, wanted to use man's brain along with harnessing resources and using science to further technology and create inventions. After dispute and a civil war the Mach were exiled to the coasts of Gaia, while the Magi stayed at the center of Gaia. At the time, since there was no time to advance technology to a great extent, the Magi won out. Years have passed and now two distinct empires are the two extremes of Gaia, and you guessed it, it's Magi and Mach.

Magica
The Magi has furthered their advances in magic and created a stable community for themselves, relying on magic for most of their needs. 

Religion
The Magi believe that humans should live alongside nature, and thrive within it's beauty. They believe in a perfect utopia, living in harmony with nature. Magica comes from nature, where the Magi get their power, and want to protect nature and live among it. They do see themselves as the superior being, or at least most intelligent, but use this to help nature as it has helped them. they believe that Machina is a bad practice that harnesses nature evilly and does not give back to it, only taking from it and leaving it to suffer. Strict believers in the Magica religion outcast Machina believers and refuse to use any machinery. Magi are purist, and believe that the Magi religion is the only way, and force their practice upon other religions and are not accepting of other religions. They do not despise them like the Machina, but will not see any other religious stance correct but their own. The goal of Magi religion is to spread purity throughout Gaia. Perfection.

Society
The Magica society is utopian, lots of tributes to nature, using light stone and glass work for most of their structures. Magica has a system described before as a strict class system. The classes are similar to financial class, except it is determined by magical abilities. Commoners, with no magical ability, tend to be the poorest and do things such as farm, the non-skilled labor force. As you grow in magical aptitude, you go up in class rank. Now, magical aptitude is genetic. The ability to harness Magica energy using your body is genetic, meaning your potential to use Magica. Magica users can sense this potential, and the stronger your potential is, the higher class you are put in. Now you must train to unlock this potential, but training in Magica is mandatory in every class besides the lowest class, as it is how the whole community runs. The most adept magic users rule over the Magi, a dictatorship run by only the most elite Magi known as the Circle. The Circle has absolute say over all rule of the Magi people. The capital lies directly over the lake, known as Kardia lake. The capital city is also named Kardia city, and is the home for the Circle. The most powerful Magi is named the Circle mage, and leads the Circle.

Gift of Magica
Magica is the energy which Magi use to conduct magical abilities. Magica is found in nature, and it is the only source of Magica. But nature is everywhere, from the land to the sky to the sea. It is limitless Magica! But with a catch. The user gets tired the more they use magica, and how adept they are at Magica and their genetic make-up determines how much Magica at a time they can use and for how long. But, the abilities that come from Magica are all up to the user and how they use this MAgica source. Fire, water, earth, air, these are four common things that Magica users can control. But it goes far beyond that. If it has to do with nature, or anything naturally occuring, the Magi can use Magica to perform what they need to do. However, if Magica is not available to them... or available in small quantities, the Magi gets weaker in his abilities and how much he can use this Magica. The less nature that is around, say inside a building, the desert, wastelands, artic regions, etc. the weaker the Magi is. And if they are not exposed to nature at all and can not receive any Magica from the nature around them, they are powerless.

Machina
The Machs have migrated around the coast, spanning an empire that encircles Gaia, the outer edges, especially north and south, being the harshest climates. The north holds it's major capital, and the whole layout is all machines, technology, robotics and electronics in all spans of life. 

Religion
Machina is the practice that humans are the superior beings, and that humans shall use the nature around them to their advantage as tools to construct inventions and machines, advance technology to the benefit of humankind. That humans are the rulers of Gaia, and should take it to their advantage as the most intelligent beings. It is less of a "religion" and more of a "belief" and use science rather than Magica to explain what goes on. They believe that Magica users are foolish, and should take command of nature, not live with it. Science is the superior way. Magica users are outcasted by strong believers in the Machina faith, and pure Machina believers don't dare use Magica or practice it, as Magica users refuse to use machines. 

Society
Metal skyscrapers, factories, machines, robots. This is what litters the metropolis outlook of major cities of the Machina, ecerything is man made. Outside of these cities are resource outposts where robots collect raw materials and ship them to factories where they refine these materials and produce goods. The manual, unskilled labor is managed by robots, making one large middle class. These people maintain and operate the machines. Their leaders are a very high-class society known as the Inventors. The Inventors are gifted in Machina and are able to upgrade, utilize, and create machines. With their superior intellect and skills, they run the Mach people and govern them in this dictatorship. The Machina lie all around the coast of Gaia, sticking toward desert land, arctic land, where their superior technology helps them survive in these conditions and create their own perfect environment. A large forcefield surrounds each city, food is chemically made, and water is refined from the coast. Small Inventor groups exist in each city, which is quite large. The capital lies north, on the polar ice caps, and is called the city of Ice. The lead inventor communicates back and forth with each city to instruct them and see that everything is running smoothly.

Gift of Machina
Machina can make extraordinary machines, devices, contraptions, weapons, traps, inventions. They are gifted in math and science, using technology to create masterpieces. The resources that the Mach use are similar to our Earth, but the Mach are far more advanced and as long as science can prove it, they can make it. In addition, a rare material called Cortex is used as a powerful supply of energy. It works like a battery. It has the ability to replicate any form of energy, and has it's own unique, powerful energy, and the usable form is kept in crystal shards. In it's natural state, it is a glowing blue liquid. Now these usable crystal forms are like batteries, and soon the crystal shard runs out of Cortex. Cortex needs to be filled back into these crystals in order to be used, or another crystal needs to be used. Machs can use electricity, natural gas, any source of fuel and energy to use machines. However, Cortex must be used to make the most technologically advanced machines, and most machines have adaptations for cortex to be used. Cortex makes up 1 percent of all of Gaia. It's not extremely abundant, but they won't run out any time soon. However, it has to be mined from the ground, like oil, and refined to be usable. 

The Scale
The scale measures the balance of Magica and Machina throughout the world. Over time, smaller countries have formed between the Machina and Magica, and have mixed to form the numbers between 1 and 7. Here is the association with these numbers.

1-Magica 
2
3
4-Neutral
5
6
7-Machina

Now here is the usage of Machina and Magica for each number:

1: 100 Magica 0   Machina
2: 80  Magica 20  Machina
3: 60  Magica 40  Machina
4: 50  Magica 50  Machina
5: 40  Magica 60  Machina
6: 20  Magica 80  Machina
7: 0   Magica 100 Machina 

As far as society goes, religion is somewhat scattered, new ones have been made, some loosely follow Magica and Machina, even making their separate versions of them. The closer the number is to one of the extremes, however, the more closely related they are to that extreme.

Note: This is only for tracking society and beliefs, what people believe in, and what proportion of people are in each society roughly. This is also how much Magica and Machina is used in each.

Neutral
The Neutral society is the most accepting, most diverse nation in all of Gaia. Haven is the capital of this Democratic nation, and has freedom of religion, accepting any number into the Neutral nation. The Neutral nation is the third largest country in Gaia, and Haven resides in the forest and grassland area north of the Magi nation. The two smaller cities are east and west of the Magi nation.

It is indeed a Republic, but a Republic is a kind of Democracy, you see. A constitution has been written, and there is federalism to an extent as each subdivision of nations has it's own smaller government and so do the two smaller cities. There has been no need for an executive branch of government and that power has been bestowed upon the legislative branch, which is bicameral. There are two senators from each subdivision and a number of representatives based on population. Haven is directly controlled by the national government and the smaller subdivisions take care of personal matters to most of the extent besides money, defense, foreign affairs, etc. But the national has power over all subdivisions and can overrule them. Like a judicial review. There are court systems but they are under rule of the legislative. They are peaceful, however, and do not mobilize armed forces to attack any nation to conquer them, purely only to defend themselves and make allies.

All sorts of people live in 4, so representatives are used to reflect the ideals of each number community. People who classify themselves under 4 are the most abundant number, however, as they are the most common in Gaia, and are accepted in most number societies. How Neutral cities work is there is an urban area, where the government resides. Then there is a surrounding suburban area, then a rural area around that. Cities tend to have a bigger amount of urban and less suburban and rural, naturally. They live in balance of machine use and magic use, enforcing capitalism and having varying classes, but being able to work hard to work up the class system. They use a balance of Magica and Machina to live their lives and run the country. 

Races
There are only three races of human on the world, as described above:

Neutral, Magi, and Mach.

Magi can use Magica, Mach can use Machina, and Neutral can use both to a modest extent.
Abilities

Here are the branches of Machina and Magica that one can specialize in:

Magica:
Destruction- Use Magica for destructive purposes, such as shoot lighting, create fires, control a wave of water, etc.
Defensive- Use Magica for defensive purposes, such as creating barriers, armor, shields, healing, etc.
Conjuration- Able to use summoning to create creatures, elementals, necromany, conjuring natural-made items.

Machina:
Mecha-Machina- The creation of robots and mech suits used for combat
Bio-Machina- The Machina engineering of oneself for improvement
OMA-Machina- Creating tools, able to have varying amount of uses, as well as small weaponry

Each character must pick a specialty under which they're elligible. Such as Mach pick Machina, Magi pick Magica, and Neutral pick one from each.

Also, each character gets 3 abilities that go under their specialization. Like a spell for Magica and a piece of machinery for Machina. Neutral only get two for each specilization. Note: Neutral abilities will be weaker compared to Magi and Mach, but have one more ability and can use both Machina and Magica.

Character Sheet
Name: Your name

Age: Your age

Appearance: What do you look like

Race: One of the 3

Affiliation: What number on the scale is your character afiliated with, which side of the number scale do they lean toward.

Specialization: The branch of Magica or Machina you chose (Neutral get 2)

Abilities: List what abilities your character has
1-
2-
3-
(4 if Neutral)


You
Now where do you come in? For some reason or another you live in the Neutral capital of Haven, which is accepting of anybody 1-7, living a very peaceful and democratic lifestyle. For some reason or another your character is drawn to this place. That is for you to decide. But the war between Machina and Magica is heated, and the forces are starting to advance toward each other, wanting purification of their own respective side. And they'll demolish all other numbers in the process. What will stop this chaos from consuming Gaia?

That, will come in due time. First you must weave your story, and then weave it with others so that the fabric of time can be woven into place. And a future awaits, as your decisions throughout will determine the outcome.
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