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| Something something /quest/ wants to be the little necromancer girl. By [[Nahkh]]. | | {{Infobox |
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| | |title=Tiffany the Necromancer |
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| | Something something /quest/ wants to be the little necromancer girl. |
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| In a few more words, the quest details the story of one Tiffany Blake, seeking to learn the black arts of necromancy to bring her brother back to life. | | In a few more words, the quest details the story of one Tiffany Blake, seeking to learn the black arts of necromancy to bring her brother back to life. |
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| Author's note: This article is intended for participants to collaborate on figuring stuff out. It'll be easier if you keep this page up to date. Also, hanging around #rubyquest or #tgchan when I'm updating is a Good Idea. Also, feel free to put wild theories in the discussion page, or the questdis thread. | | Author's note: This article is intended for participants to collaborate on figuring stuff out. It'll be easier if you keep this page up to date. Also, hanging around #rubyquest or #tgchan when I'm updating is a Good Idea. Also, feel free to put wild theories in the discussion page, or the questdis thread. |
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| [http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/152495.html First thread] | | Non-Authors note: This page was getting to be fucking huge, so information pertaining directly to the magic system has been moved to [[Tiffany: Runes]] |
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| [http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/174118.html Second thread]
| | =People and Factions= |
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| [http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/178378.html Third thread]
| | ==Tiffany== |
| | | '''The Protagonist''' |
| [http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/180187.html Fourth thread]
| | Tiffany is a little girl, a scion of both the Kinsley and Rothwald families. Her grandfather teaches her magic. |
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| [http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/185345.html Current thread]
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| | * Awareness: ••••• |
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| ==People==
| | * Synchronicity: •• |
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| ===Tiffany===
| | * Spark: •••••• |
| '''The Protagonist'''
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| Tiffany is a little girl. Her grandfather teaches her magic.
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| ===Dad=== | | ===Dad=== |
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| Dad is still hurting over the death of Tony, but lately he's been expressing it as a protectiveness of Tiffany. | | Dad is still hurting over the death of Tony, but lately he's been expressing it as a protectiveness of Tiffany. |
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| | ==The Kinsley Clan== |
| | A British Magical family. They have ancient magic stuff, a school, and some regulations regarding what is too evil to use. |
| ===Mom=== | | ===Mom=== |
| '''Julie Blake nee Kinsley ''' | | '''Julie Blake nee Kinsley ''' |
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| ===Grampa=== | | ===Grampa=== |
| '''Alexander Kinsley''' | | '''Alexander Kinsley''' |
| An old man who is skilled in necromancy. He is deemed a heretic by the Conclave. | | An old man who is skilled in necromancy. He is deemed a heretic by the Kinsley council of elders. |
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| ===Lynn===
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| The girl from the Goth shop. She's attracted to Dad.
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| ===Billy===
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| Boy with BB-gun
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| ===Joel===
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| Little Boy Outside School
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| ===The Reaper Man===
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| Death AKA Guardian of the Underworld AKA Watcher from the Abyss
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| ===Thomas Kinsley=== | | ===Thomas Kinsley=== |
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| A wise-cracking brand new apprentice from the Kinsley family. | | A wise-cracking brand new apprentice from the Kinsley family. |
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| ===Wolfgang Eidhart von Rothwald=== | | ===Duncan=== |
| The patriarch of the Rothwald Family.
| | A librarian of the Kinsleys, and an old friend of Thomas. |
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| ===Martin Rothwald=== | | ===Cain=== |
| A warlock from the Rothwald Family. Cousin to Julie Blake.
| | The artificier of the Kinsleys. |
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| ===Susan=== | | ====Joyce==== |
| Tiffany's friend
| | One of the Kinsleys' Hunters. Gareth's cousin. |
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| ===The Fosters===
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| ==Factions==
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| Turns out not everyone in the world is one big happy family working together in perfect harmony. Who'd have guessed?
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| ===The Kinsley Clan===
| | ==The Rothwald Family== |
| A British Magical family. They have ancient magic stuff, a school, and some regulations regarding what is too evil to use.
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| ===The Rothwald Family===
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| A German Magical Family. They have money, and are willing to use anything they can. | | A German Magical Family. They have money, and are willing to use anything they can. |
| | ====Wolfgang Eidhart von Rothwald==== |
| | The patriarch of the Rothwald Family. |
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| ===Lords of the Underworld=== | | ====Martin Rothwald==== |
| There are thirteen great Lords of the Underworld. All but two have signed the Compact, the missing two are Khezet the Unseen and Hakuman the Dreamer.
| | A warlock from the Rothwald Family. Cousin to Julie Blake. |
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| ==History==
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| Long ago there existed powerful city-states ruled by wizard kings. They did all sorts of stuff that pissed off the Lords of the Underworld, who eventually went to war with the mortals. The war was known as the Harrowing, and was apparently devastating for the mortal side. Eventually the wizards did something that forced the Lords to agree to peace, and the peace treaty is known as the Compact. The exact contents of the Compact are so far unknown, but it essentially forbids the extension of life by magic and returning the dead to life etc. It also defines the duties and rules of the Guardian of the Underworld. It also tasks the mortals to create and maintain the border of the Underworld, known as the Threshold.
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| ==Magic== | | ==Strange Things== |
| Every creature is composed of three parts. There's "tuaftia" or "soul", "hanku" or "breath" and "haftsusha" or "spirit". Tuaftia is like that part of your soul that is uniquely yours. It was created when you were born and it will travel to the Underworld when you die. Haftsusha is more of a hand-me-down. Some time after your birth a spirit will choose you as it's host and when you die it will eventually find a new host. The exact criteria that spirits use to pick hosts is a little hazy, but they do tend to stick to specific family lines. It's also connected to the person's name. That's where the tradition of naming children after famous ancestors comes from, by the way. The haftsusha carries personality traits and stuff like that. It's what does magic. Runes are used to define the manner in which an effect should occur, and the haftsusha makes it happen.
| | Demons, devils, and spirits. Any manner of thing which isn't human. |
| ===Known Runes===
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| Runes are the basic components of which spells are made. These are all multi-function units, which are used to compose larger and more complicated spells.
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| | ===The Cimmerian=== |
| | A very powerful and very old demon. Though he's a demon, he doesn't seem to be particularly evil, so much as dickish. |
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| | ===The Reaper Man=== |
| ====Enemy====
| | Death AKA Guardian of the Underworld AKA Watcher from the Abyss |
| Can be interpreted as 'enemy', 'threat', 'danger', or 'attack'.
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| | ===Lords of the Underworld=== |
| | There are thirteen great Lords of the Underworld. All but two have signed the Compact, the missing two are Khezet the Unseen and Hakuman the Dreamer. |
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| [[Image:Detection.png|100px|left]]
| | ==People unlikely to have continued relevance== |
| ====Detection====
| | * '''Lynn''': The girl from the Goth shop. She's attracted to Dad. |
| Can be interpreted as 'detection' or 'warning'.
| | * '''Susan''': Tiffany's friend |
| | * '''The Fosters''' |
| | * '''Joel''': Little Boy Outside School |
| | * '''Billy''': Boy with BB-gun |
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| | =History= |
| ====Reversal==== | |
| Can be interpreted as 'reversal', 'remove', or 'prevent'.
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| | Long ago there existed powerful city-states ruled by wizard kings. They did all sorts of stuff that pissed off the Lords of the Underworld, who eventually went to war with the mortals. The war was known as the Harrowing, and was apparently devastating for the mortal side. Eventually the wizards did something that forced the Lords to agree to peace, and the peace treaty is known as the Compact. The exact contents of the Compact are so far unknown, but it essentially forbids the extension of life by magic and returning the dead to life etc. It also defines the duties and rules of the Guardian of the Underworld. It also tasks the mortals to create and maintain the border of the Underworld, known as the Threshold. |
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| ====Seeing====
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| Can be interpreted as 'seeing' or 'scrying'.
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| | ''Main page: [[Tiffany: Runes]] |
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| [[Image:Absolutely.png|100px|left]]
| | Runes are used to define the manner in which an effect should occur, and the haftsusha makes it happen. |
| ====Absolutely====
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| It means what it says. A common expletive.
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| [[Image:Touch.png|100px|left]] | | [[Image:Tiffany_Soul.png|thumb|Tiffany's soul. Annotation is unofficial.]] |
| ====Touch====
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| This one means 'touch'. Presumably, that refers only to physical contact.
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| | Every creature is composed of three parts. There's "tuaftia" or "soul", "hanku" or "breath" and "haftsusha" or "spirit". |
| | * '''Tuaftia:''' Like that part of your soul that is uniquely yours. It was created when you were born and it will travel to the Underworld when you die. |
| | * '''Haftsusha:''' The part of the soul which supplies the energy for magic. It is a reincarnating spirit, which joins to a person some time after birth and leaves to find a new one after death. Haftsushas tend to remain within family lines and are connected to name, but specifics are unknown. |
| | * '''Hanku:''' Breath. We don't know much about it but it connects tuaftia and haftsusha. |
| | * '''X'kae:''' The Maw or Eternal Hunger. This a demon soul-component and is not normally found in human souls. It attempts to devour magic. The more it feeds, the stronger it gets, and if it gets strong enough it would overpower Tiffany's soul. It could be used to detect magic by allowing it to open, however we do not yet have this ability. Direct control is also possible, but the Cimmerian considers that to be "farther off". |
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| | ==Stats== |
| ====Forward====
| | Duncan's test measures a wizard's ability in five areas that we've labeled Awareness, Understanding, Synchronicity, Control and Spark. The scale is zero to five, and it's meant to be exponential. A three is twice as good as a two and so on. The council members all measures four or five in all areas. Balian himself managed a clean five fives. |
| Directs the spell in a forward direction.
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| | * '''Awareness''' measures how aware your Haftsusha is of this world. The lower it is, the harder it is for you to do any magic. It'd still be possible for you to use certain artefacts even with very low Awareness. |
| | * '''Understanding''' measures how well your Haftsushsa can grasp the intention behind your runes, incantations, so on. |
| | * '''Synchronicity''' measures the degree to which you can synchronize your Haftsusha with your Tuaftia. It essentially allows you access to extra reserves of power. This is the hardest to actually learn, Balian is the only one to ever get five on the test on that. Duncan suspects master Cain would rank even higher, if he would take the test. People with high synchronicity are also more able to synchronize their spellcasting with other people, either to cast a larger spell cooperatively or to counter the other's casting. That's not what the test was meant for, but it is a correlation we've discovered. |
| | * '''Control''' measures the ability to control the Haftsusha with only your thoughts. Again, hard to learn. Hunters sometimes manage this, though I'll be damned if I know how. They score low on the test, then go and do it in the field just fine. |
| | * '''Spark''' measures your ability to actually channel the Haftsusha's power. It also measures the Haftsusha's actual power, but it's hard to tell those two apart. By test anyway. |
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| | ==Enchanted Objects== |
| ====Hook==== | | Enchanted objects are divided into two categories based on how they are powered. |
| The hook carries a myriad of meanings, the most prominent being to ensnare, to capture, to keep hold, to catch. | | ===Talismans=== |
| | Talismans are objects with a spell cast on it. The casting is a one-time event and the object is infused with magic. Over time the magic will fade and lose effectiveness. Talismans range in complexity from simple ad-hoc creations to highly complex ones that are reimbued time and time again. An example of a simple talisman is Tiffany's anti-scrying amulet. An example of a complex talisman is the wardstone in the Adeleine safehouse. |
| | ===Artifacts=== |
| | Artifacts are objects with a spirit bound inside it, powering the magic. Artifacts are inherently more powerful than talismans. The complexity of the artifact is directly proportional to how cooperative the spirit in question is. The creation of artifacts is a time-consuming process that is prone to error, and is best left to people who truly know what they are doing. The most difficult part of creating artifacts is defining the desired effect. If you use a spell A to describe the desired effect B, something of the A can very easily leak into B. The methods used by master artificiers to avoid this are carefully guarded secrets. |
| | The most sophisticated artifacts feed the spirit with the users power, essentially allowing them to function indefinitely. Artifacts have even been known to grow in power as they age and are kept in use. An example of an artifact is Thomas' lance. |
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| Splits the power flow. (used to devote a part of the power into the barrier and another part into the attack)
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| | ==Revenants AKA the Undying AKA the Immortals== |
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| | Mulder has appeared once [[Inside the Quest]]. {{post|17951}} |
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| ====Circle====
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| The oldest symbol of them all. A boundary. The circle divides the world into an inside and an outside. Often used as a base symbol.
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| Combines the runes inside it tightly together. Often used as a base symbol.
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| These are associations of runes which serve a given purpose, and can be integrated as a unit into a spell. In terms of logical hierarchy, a compound rune is equivalent to operator within parenthesis.
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| A commonly used combination of "Detection" "Reversal" and "Absolutely". It conceals the spell to which it is applied. "Seeing" is most commonly the rune on the bottom.<br><br>
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| ====Soul Anchor====
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| :Holds a captured soul or piece of soul in place for use later in the ritual.
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| Moves a captured soul from one container to another.
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| It transfers power
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| ====Sever Soul Piece====
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| This spell was used as the initial step in the creation of Tiffany's familiar, Mulder the raven. According to Grandpa, this spell summons a soul eater, which he called "a common enough critter from the outskirts." That creature attempts to eat a portion of the caster's soul, but since the soul anchor holds the soul piece in place it is unable to escape with it after severing it from the caster. The soul eater will begin to digest, but the soul portion remains intact for long enough to prepare significantly complex rituals. There is no known reason to doubt this information.
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| [[Image:souleater1.png|thumb|left|The initial spell diagram.]]
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| [[Image:souleater2.gif|thumb|right|While chanting; animated.]]
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| The right hand is held above the central circle in the Soul Anchor rune of the diagram. The rune is focused upon, and the following chant is uttered repeatedly.
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| ''lafta nian tuaftiatsa
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| <br>''tuaftia nian 'iaianuutsa
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| <br>''laftkaktu u'shan.''
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| As the chant is repeated, the rune appears to come alive as a giant mouth, which devours the caster's hand and with it a portion of their soul. After the hand is completely severed, the caster may stop chanting with the spell complete; they will find their hand intact, if pained. A severed piece of the caster's soul is held within the soul anchor, with a soul eater slowly digesting it.
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| This spell was used as the second step in the ritual to create Tiffany's familiar. It banished the soul eater being held in a soul anchor after it had severed a portion of Tiffany's soul, successfully separating the creature from its meal. Grandpa said that Tiffany would feel an easing of tension when the spell was complete, but if she did or not was never noted; it is possible that she did and was simply too agitated to effectively perceive it at the time.
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| It was mentioned that the banishment would take place "using the outer circle", referencing the runes involved. This may imply that the circle surrounding the soul anchor in this spell could actually be used as an independent rune in other contexts, but this has yet to be confirmed or investigated.
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| When asked about dangers, Grandpa said that "Al-Asmari is pretty failsafe against this kind of thing", implying that the spell is quite reliable. Exactly how broad "this kind of thing" is has yet to be determined. It was implied that a stronger type of creature might be able to somehow fight back, but that the soul eater being banished would not be able to; in spite of this it was able to make the table upon which the spell cloth was set groan and detonate a nearby lamp. Other creatures would likely be able to accomplish substantially more.
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| [[Image:Al-Asmari1.png|thumb|left|The relevant portion of the diagram is in the upper right.]] | |
| [[Image:Al-Asmari2.gif|thumb|right|The spellcasting process.]]
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| The following chant is uttered three times while the caster focuses upon the rune circle.
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| ''hiat luut laha hanku
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| <br>''kiaufta'autsan naatsa
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| <br>''uftus niaftfta hx'ä 'anku
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| <br>''nxs kasua shu taatsa ''
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| ====Animate Familiar with Sense Spirit====
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| This spell was used to bring Tiffany's familiar Mulder to life. It defined his familiar ability, specifically Sense Spirit, placed part of Tiffany's spirit inside him, and reanimated his corpse.
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| This spell is obviously comprised of several discrete parts- use of the spirit pump, the application of the sense spirit ability to the familiar, the binding of the soul fragment to the body, and the body's reanimation- and could likely be broken down into separate spells, all connected and cast in sequence. Unfortunately, lack of background knowledge regarding the diagrams used and the error which occurred during spellcasting make it very difficult to extricate them from one another for more generalized use.
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| An error occurred in the casting of the spell, which came very close to resulting in Tiffany's demise. The spell was completed successfully in spite of this. Exactly why the error that we made caused Tiffany's near-death, and how Grandpa managed to keep her alive, are at the moment unclear. It seems likely that the anchor on the severed portion of Tiffany's soul gave her the ability to find her way back to her body and thus revive herself, but beyond that the details of why exactly things occurred as they did remain uncertain.
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| When asked, Grandpa said that stopping between each section of the spell would be safe, and that it was stable for as long as a few hours between each part. However, stopping in mid-sentence would be unsafe, and stopping during the binding section of the spell would result in "a world of hurt". The reanimation section was described as much less dangerous- even stopping after a mispronunciation would result in nothing worse than needing to repeat the spell.
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| =====Procedure=====
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| [[Image:spiritpump.png|thumb|left|The required drop of blood is added to the spirit pump.]]
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| [[Image:binding1.png|thumb|right|The diagram as the binding was attempted. The hook on the left of the spirit pump has been smudged; this is incorrect, as the right hook should have been the one removed.]]
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| The spell should begin with a piece of the caster's soul already in the soul anchor rune.
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| For the spirit transference, a drop of blood is placed on the rightmost circle in the modified spirit pump diagram. Then the following chant is uttered five times.
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| ''A krudk vavk kravk dhlaikh avai''
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| At this point, the hook on the right side of the soul anchor should be smudged out. It was not.
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| For the sense spirit ability, the following chant is uttered while focusing upon the bottommost rune.
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| ''naan nakxnassunan
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| <br>''luuftaktu'an lu'ian
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| <br>''uftan ha"anu tuftnas
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| <br>''sha utansanu ku"as ''
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| At this point, the hook on the left side of the soul anchor was smudged out in an attempt to correct the previous mistake.
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| [[Image:binding2.gif|thumb|left|The binding in action; animated.]]
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| [[Image:error.png|thumb|right|The most dramatic results of the flawed binding.]]
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| For the soul binding, the following chant is used seven times, focusing once on each symbol on the binding section of the diagram. The first symbol focused upon is the one closest to the caster, and each subsequent symbol is the adjacent rune when moving counter-clockwise.
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| ''tuaftia tian 'iaianutaat
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| <br>''hanku hangassunaan
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| <br>''kiaufta'atsa afta'aktu
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| <br>'' 'aagutsa 'aasashaktu ''
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| At this point in the spell, an error became apparent. As described, each repetition of the above chant should cause increasing discomfort; other evidence of the spell's working is unknown. As performed, the binding circle began to glow and the table to shake as the final chants were uttered. No discomfort was experienced until the seventh repetition was completed, at which point the caster experienced excruciating pain and was rendered unconscious and close to death; outside action was taken to ensure her survival. In spite of this unanticipated event, the binding apparently succeeded.
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| [[Image:reanimation1.png|thumb|left|The diagram as the reanimation is attempted; it is unknown if the damage would have occurred in the absence of Tiffany's error.]]
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| [[Image:reanimation2.png|thumb|right|The results of the reanimation.]]
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| For the reanimation, the following chant is uttered once while focusing upon the binding circle.
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| ''Kiauftftaatsa afta'aktu
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| <br>''ftiaiatsa ftuhaktu
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| <br>'' 'aagutsa 'aakuftaaktu
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| <br>''kaftnutsa ka'shakuktu
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| ''Osa tuaftia, tugu haftsushaan
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| <br>''usa haftsusha, tugu tuaftiaian
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| <br>''tugu 'iaianut, tugu aftana,
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| <br>''hangan kiaftsautaftfta ftangaftfta ''
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| That completes the spell. To fully realize the familiar's potential a name must be chosen, but this can wait for some time if necessary.
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| ====Anti-scrying Protection Spell====
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| =====Notes=====
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| This spell was used by Tiffany's mother to protect the key used to unlock her wardrobe. It disabled Tiffany's postcognative abilities entirely for about a day.
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| [[Image:AntiScrying.png|100px|left|The rune that flashed before our eyes.]]
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| The chant for this spell is unknown. It shares a few runes with other spells (notably Concealment and the Postcog dampener) but uses two unknown runes in its construction.
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| ====Terror Ward====
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| This spell was used to protect the contents of the wardrobe. Causes intense paralytic fear to anyone who beholds it.
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| [[Image:TerrorWard.png|100px|left|Painted on the black cloth surrounding the wardrobe interior.]]
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| The chant for this spell is unknown. Its rune incorporates "Enemy" and an unidentified rune, withing "Blade". It can be countered via a friend circle spell.
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| ====Friend Circle Spell====
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| Tiffany improvised this spell when countering the Terror Ward in her mom's wardrobe. While not completely effective, it "lessens" the feeling of fear. It functions by negating enmity within the circle; this causes "enemy" dependent spells to malfunction, in a manner dependent on the nature of enemy's usage within that spell.
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| [[Image:FriendCircle.png|100px|left|Drawn around the wardrobe.]]
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| This simple spell has a chant, but was not explicitly mentioned. Adding a "Concealment" rune to the outside will make it become invisible. It incorporates the runes "Enemy," "Reversal," and "Circle".
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| ====Knockout Spell====
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| Martin cast this on Tiffany after cornering her in an alley.
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| It's unknown how this was cast, as it appeared out of nowhere, not written on anything in particular. However, Grampa at one point mentioned that it is possible to prepare a spell ahead of time, so one might surmise that this has something to do with that.
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| [[Image:Knockout.png|100px|left|Out cold.]]
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| This consists of "gently" "Extremely" and "sleep", unified by a blade. This causes the target to be made unconscious while remaining unharmed. It is connected to "forward" rune, which defines the target as a person in front of the rune. The purpose of the three brackets around it is unknown.
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| ====Labyrinth of Hak'keth====
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| Grampa had Tiffany prepare this in the second chapter. It is a trap with the purpose of causing a target's huftsasha to fight itself. It is extremely dangerous for the person caught in it. Technically, the Labyrinth of Hak'keth consists of only the circle and those portions within in it; the outside items are modifiers to the manner in which the Labyrinth interacts with things that are not within it.
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| [[Image:Trap.png|100px|left|Out cold.]]
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| The base is a circle.<br>
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| The hook on the left covertly lures someone into the trap. Grampa said it lured an enemy, but in practice it seemed indiscriminate, and it lacks an accompanying "Enemy" rune, so it is likely he used that word merely in keeping with his facade. Were we to be more discriminate, we could likely bind the hook and enemy runes together in a blade. <br>
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| The circle to the upper right is the location in which Gramps was stored. It serves to allow a mage control over the whole shebang. It could be omitted if the purpose were merely to cause harm to or neutralize the target. In this case, the victim would likely eventually die.<br>
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| The central circle on the line is a reference point. It appears to refer to the victim, but this is not entirely certain.<br>
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| The right side contains the Mad Eye of Hakuman. It determines the place from where the enemy is least likely to defend. We know very little about this compound rune, and thus should not mess with it. It is connected to the reference point with "touch".<br>
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| Above the reverence point is an enemy rune, which likely identifies our victim. It is connected to Power Transference, which is in turn connected to the Mad Eye of Hakuman.<br>
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| ===Revenants AKA the Undying AKA the Immortals===
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Something something /quest/ wants to be the little necromancer girl.
In a few more words, the quest details the story of one Tiffany Blake, seeking to learn the black arts of necromancy to bring her brother back to life.
Unfortunately, it now seems she has gone over her head.
Author's note: This article is intended for participants to collaborate on figuring stuff out. It'll be easier if you keep this page up to date. Also, hanging around #rubyquest or #tgchan when I'm updating is a Good Idea. Also, feel free to put wild theories in the discussion page, or the questdis thread.
Non-Authors note: This page was getting to be fucking huge, so information pertaining directly to the magic system has been moved to Tiffany: Runes
People and Factions
Tiffany
The Protagonist
Tiffany is a little girl, a scion of both the Kinsley and Rothwald families. Her grandfather teaches her magic.
Tiffany's current scores are as follows:
- Awareness: •••••
- Understanding: •
- Synchronicity: ••
- Control: •
- Spark: ••••••
Dad
Gregory Blake
Dad is still hurting over the death of Tony, but lately he's been expressing it as a protectiveness of Tiffany.
The Kinsley Clan
A British Magical family. They have ancient magic stuff, a school, and some regulations regarding what is too evil to use.
Mom
Julie Blake nee Kinsley
A powerful warlock
Grampa
Alexander Kinsley
An old man who is skilled in necromancy. He is deemed a heretic by the Kinsley council of elders.
Thomas Kinsley
A warlock who's job it is to hunt evil stuff
Gareth Kinsley
A wise-cracking brand new apprentice from the Kinsley family.
Duncan
A librarian of the Kinsleys, and an old friend of Thomas.
Cain
The artificier of the Kinsleys.
Joyce
One of the Kinsleys' Hunters. Gareth's cousin.
The Rothwald Family
A German Magical Family. They have money, and are willing to use anything they can.
Wolfgang Eidhart von Rothwald
The patriarch of the Rothwald Family.
Martin Rothwald
A warlock from the Rothwald Family. Cousin to Julie Blake.
Strange Things
Demons, devils, and spirits. Any manner of thing which isn't human.
The Cimmerian
A very powerful and very old demon. Though he's a demon, he doesn't seem to be particularly evil, so much as dickish.
The Reaper Man
Death AKA Guardian of the Underworld AKA Watcher from the Abyss
Lords of the Underworld
There are thirteen great Lords of the Underworld. All but two have signed the Compact, the missing two are Khezet the Unseen and Hakuman the Dreamer.
People unlikely to have continued relevance
- Lynn: The girl from the Goth shop. She's attracted to Dad.
- Susan: Tiffany's friend
- The Fosters
- Joel: Little Boy Outside School
- Billy: Boy with BB-gun
History
Long ago there existed powerful city-states ruled by wizard kings. They did all sorts of stuff that pissed off the Lords of the Underworld, who eventually went to war with the mortals. The war was known as the Harrowing, and was apparently devastating for the mortal side. Eventually the wizards did something that forced the Lords to agree to peace, and the peace treaty is known as the Compact. The exact contents of the Compact are so far unknown, but it essentially forbids the extension of life by magic and returning the dead to life etc. It also defines the duties and rules of the Guardian of the Underworld. It also tasks the mortals to create and maintain the border of the Underworld, known as the Threshold.
Magic
Main page: Tiffany: Runes
Runes are used to define the manner in which an effect should occur, and the haftsusha makes it happen.
Soul
Tiffany's soul. Annotation is unofficial.
Every creature is composed of three parts. There's "tuaftia" or "soul", "hanku" or "breath" and "haftsusha" or "spirit".
- Tuaftia: Like that part of your soul that is uniquely yours. It was created when you were born and it will travel to the Underworld when you die.
- Haftsusha: The part of the soul which supplies the energy for magic. It is a reincarnating spirit, which joins to a person some time after birth and leaves to find a new one after death. Haftsushas tend to remain within family lines and are connected to name, but specifics are unknown.
- Hanku: Breath. We don't know much about it but it connects tuaftia and haftsusha.
- X'kae: The Maw or Eternal Hunger. This a demon soul-component and is not normally found in human souls. It attempts to devour magic. The more it feeds, the stronger it gets, and if it gets strong enough it would overpower Tiffany's soul. It could be used to detect magic by allowing it to open, however we do not yet have this ability. Direct control is also possible, but the Cimmerian considers that to be "farther off".
Stats
Duncan's test measures a wizard's ability in five areas that we've labeled Awareness, Understanding, Synchronicity, Control and Spark. The scale is zero to five, and it's meant to be exponential. A three is twice as good as a two and so on. The council members all measures four or five in all areas. Balian himself managed a clean five fives.
- Awareness measures how aware your Haftsusha is of this world. The lower it is, the harder it is for you to do any magic. It'd still be possible for you to use certain artefacts even with very low Awareness.
- Understanding measures how well your Haftsushsa can grasp the intention behind your runes, incantations, so on.
- Synchronicity measures the degree to which you can synchronize your Haftsusha with your Tuaftia. It essentially allows you access to extra reserves of power. This is the hardest to actually learn, Balian is the only one to ever get five on the test on that. Duncan suspects master Cain would rank even higher, if he would take the test. People with high synchronicity are also more able to synchronize their spellcasting with other people, either to cast a larger spell cooperatively or to counter the other's casting. That's not what the test was meant for, but it is a correlation we've discovered.
- Control measures the ability to control the Haftsusha with only your thoughts. Again, hard to learn. Hunters sometimes manage this, though I'll be damned if I know how. They score low on the test, then go and do it in the field just fine.
- Spark measures your ability to actually channel the Haftsusha's power. It also measures the Haftsusha's actual power, but it's hard to tell those two apart. By test anyway.
Enchanted Objects
Enchanted objects are divided into two categories based on how they are powered.
Talismans
Talismans are objects with a spell cast on it. The casting is a one-time event and the object is infused with magic. Over time the magic will fade and lose effectiveness. Talismans range in complexity from simple ad-hoc creations to highly complex ones that are reimbued time and time again. An example of a simple talisman is Tiffany's anti-scrying amulet. An example of a complex talisman is the wardstone in the Adeleine safehouse.
Artifacts
Artifacts are objects with a spirit bound inside it, powering the magic. Artifacts are inherently more powerful than talismans. The complexity of the artifact is directly proportional to how cooperative the spirit in question is. The creation of artifacts is a time-consuming process that is prone to error, and is best left to people who truly know what they are doing. The most difficult part of creating artifacts is defining the desired effect. If you use a spell A to describe the desired effect B, something of the A can very easily leak into B. The methods used by master artificiers to avoid this are carefully guarded secrets.
The most sophisticated artifacts feed the spirit with the users power, essentially allowing them to function indefinitely. Artifacts have even been known to grow in power as they age and are kept in use. An example of an artifact is Thomas' lance.
Creatures
Soul Eaters
Wraiths
Revenants AKA the Undying AKA the Immortals
ITQ
Mulder has appeared once Inside the Quest. [1]
