Charles Hodges Letter of Address
The year is 2016. The world you were born into, the one filled with Apple T.V. screens, and excessively beefed up tech is mostly a facade. Yeah, you read that right. Even writing this I feel clique, like I can't even believe my own words. Maybe it's all just been a dream. Well if it was a dream it was damned realistic, and it had drawn on for more than six years now. Six painstaking years.
No, this isn't a dream, and I'm not going to wake up normal again. Since you're reading this you too are like me, another fool dabbling in the arts he knows not of. Where do I begin? Let's start with this little daisy of inspiration… Demons, they're real, pretty much all of them. I know what you're thinking sounds pretty crazy right… Or maybe it doesn't to you? It doesn't really matter if you believe these words, because one day you will. With every fiber of your being you will believe in those words and those words may consume your life. You will not be the same after this.
Here’s another Daisy for you, this one doesn't hurt the head as much. Magic, not that harry potter, wand shit that amature wrote about, most of us grew up reading. Its dark, its bloody and it rarely ends well for every party involved. I’ve seen powerful mages, though, ones that were masters of their arts. Some were hermits living as monks in one certain remote region to another. Others, well one was Steve Jobs, partly why i don't care for the Apple products entirely. When you're a powerful mage you don't show it off. You keep your shit to yourself.
I’m not here to help you along your path, and I'm not here to hold your hand. I'm here because at one point I, was you. I'm here to tell you just a few things then i'll get back to my amazing life… it's hard to convey sarcasm through text, I see that now. Any way so Demon, that one is pretty self explanatory I mean I can go down to the Library and find a book full of random demons from so many different times. Knowing what they are and there names and stuff… Well that would be the easy part. Now summoning one of those bastards, that's where things get tricky, and fast. There are countless spells and incantations one could use to summon a demon or even a Deity given enough power but that's not the hard part… not by a long shot.
See the best way I can explain every Demon i've come across, is particularly easy. I have never met one that would not rather kill or eat you, than serve you. So novice mages keep that in mind during your first incantations, simple salt barriers should do the trick for any minor Demons but the big ones… now thats were the real fun comes in. Enter Agares… as far as Demons go they are one of my favorites, I say ‘they’ because they appear in the form of an elderly man with a hawk or a fair maiden, whenever convenient. This is one being and there is only one of them. She (for the sake of argument) is of the rank Duchess and during my summoning I had to, not lying here, wrestle a Tiger. Now most people wouldn't in their right minds wrestle a great cat, but I'm not most people.
Needless to say the Tiger took out my left hand, by take out I mean ate, of course. Anyway when she appeared these were her words and I shit you not. “A whole hand? You have to be fucking with me!” Now if you knew anything about her here general outlook on life isn't a disdainful one, it's just rather rude, she also loves cursing. So i gave up my hand to her and in its place grew a new one, the flesh bound me to her and her to me. A really stupid thing to do i realize now. It's very hard to get rid of a Demon that you have blood bonded with not without loosing whatever was replaced. I was young and inexperience i'd later learn that a simple ring could hold most greater Demons with the easiest of preparation spells.
Though do I regret ever having summoned Agares? My answer would be no, not entirely, i mean as far as Blood Bonded Demons go, she wasn't a bad one to have around if you could mind the cussing, and boy did she like her cursing. So the Blood Bond right, it means I can behold any of her powers without a summoning ritual or even her physical form there, my hand would take her place. Now just Bonded Demons spells have to be said usually to bring them out of there shells and more spells for them to do your bidding. But let's use Arges as an example, the more spells and incantations I learn the more power i can take from her. She can help me speak in any language, consol the most lost of souls, instill fear into the hearts of my enemies, make cowards stand still as they run away. Even cause earthquakes but I’ve never done that.
Now Magic, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Try this hat on for size, Magic is whatever you believe it is. Listen to this a Child Mage prodigy was born in Georgia. Yeah that Georgia, anyway the kid made up his own language when he was 4 and can speak it fluently, it has its own system of grammar and the whole lot. So this kid, as far as I know of that is, is the first person to do Magic in that language. You should see his work it's so… just different. But because he does Magic in this made up language he cares so deeply about, no one can crack his enchantments. You would have to translate it to whatever language you thought it actually was then (the fun just keeps rolling) you'd have to translate it to a language you knew well to dispel it.
What I'm saying here is Magic is what you make it. We are finding lost and new Magics every day. And lucky little you, you get to help. My name is Hodges, my home is in England on 921 Lowly street in London. I help those like us, the ones that are lost. There's a whole world you’ve never even tasted out there people. I look forward to meeting you all…
Now that that's said the setting of our little RP will be mainly based in London though feel free to make your Char from anywhere on the globe. You do not have to start off with a Demon though it is recommended and I will advice you don't get too crazy with your Magic so others can understand it and i won't have to answer to many questions about the lore of your particular Magic.
This is going to be a magic fantasy role play that instead of being focused around whiz bang harry potter magic, is going to be dark, blood and conjuring magic. Rather than resort to waving wands at each other, "magicians" power comes from the demons they summon. Easy rituals produce weak demons, elaborate rituals that take years to perfect the encantations and summoning process and just as long to acquire the objects required, will produce truly powerful demons. The demons generally do not like magicians as they've had bad experiences in the past, but due to the ritual, are binded to us and bound by the rituals magic. Ultimately meaning an elaborate and complicated ritual performed with the utmost precision, will yield unfathomable demons. Lesser rituals will produce lesser demons, maybe not as powerful, but still just as useful depending on their powers.
A quick guide in making your Magic:
How Magic works is quite mysterious and few know its true origins. Some magic may be from the Astral Plane others from Planes not yet discovered. But be warned no Mage has ever killed a Demon on this Plane and its Home (a only sure fire way to erase its existence) without the help of a Demon Servant so keep that in mind when entering this RP and don't lean too heavily on your Magic, it is more of a way to obtain a Demon and thereby control it. It is not very practical outside of this for more than a few parlor tricks and maybe magic missiles and such. The use of Magic in combat is rare and if you're going to do it you must have practiced in Battle Magic which takes years of devotion and meditation daily. Keep all that in mind while making a Magic and be wary when creating an unconventional one, you only get to chose one. Battle Magic is found in all forms of Magic in one way or another it is not a form of Magic itself, forms of Magic are Necromancy, Pyromancy and the like.
I'm letting people have some liberties on this ground so please don't abuse that or Magic will be changed to Strict Classes and designated lore.
So this is an RP about… You guess right. MAGIC, and Demons but psh MAGIC guys right. Anyway you are welcome to create any kind of plausible char you like in this world and you do not have to start off as a novice Mage seeking help from Mr. Hodges here. There are many ranks and classing of Demon so do your research on the ones you summon because i will, we can't make any Demons up they have to be real.
If it's not states just ask, there are no DUMB questions.
Rules:
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1.No God Modding/ OP char’s/ Omnicomplex.
2.Try to keep it as clean as you can
3.All Demons must be based off of a real one(Unless accepted by GM)
4.Magic must be as Original as you can make it
5.May start as a low level Mage or a more adept one.
6.Keep problem out of the RP and OOC AKA discuss them in private or not at all.
7.There are no stupid questions so don't be afraid to ask if something is okay or not.
And here is a list of different Grimoire and other References
I will add more as i find them.
Char Sheet:
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example CHAR SHEET
Name: Charles Hodges
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Rough around the edges, dosen't like to talk that much. His solitary life has led to him not liking people that much and many find his company a bit weird but his knowledge is where he shines. The constant Voice of Agares haunts him always and has driven him a bit mad. As he says 'though to some madness is just societies label of genius they're afraid of.'. He love the outdoors and nature and can talk for hours about Botany and mythical creatures one can find here and there.
Country of Origin: England
History: Charles was born to a prestigious family and raised in New York City until his 15th birthday when his Father passed and he was left an orphan. He soon travel to London and found a place in the academic societies there. One day he got a slip of paper with an odd language he later found out was Greek, on it. Being a man who prided himself on his knowledge he followed the instruction on the paper, his first taste of Magic. He spent his days trying to figure out how it worked and how to master it.
Method of Magic: Blood Magic: when Charles Hodges cuts into his arms and blood flows from his veins there he draws power from it. Only his blood and expelled lifeforces into his Magic will have an effect. Trying to use someone else blood will poison his own leading to his eventual down fall it is the same with all Blood Magic Users and most dont live long tough there incantations and wards are some of the most powerful, any spell or summons will require his blood.
Demon Servants: Agares
Other: His house is a place of wonder, hes spent a lot of the last six years perfecting it. It has massive libraries and the inside is bigger than it looks from the outside...
