Witches & wizards

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Witches and wizards are a species in Touch of Magic. They are supernatural creatures but unlike vampires the magic manifests in the person itself, and is passed down, resulting in the fact that witches and wizards can only be born as such.
Most witches and wizards in Touch of Magic are royals whereas they only represent a small percentage of the magical population. In the magical dimension lives the majority of the magical community of witches and wizards.
The witches consider the magical dimension (Magicae) as their homeland and native culture. Despite of this their pressence in the human world is rich. The earliest royals were hunted down by the enemies their ancestors created. This caused them to flea all over Europe. Later they spread out all over the world, increasing in numbers to form a steady 20% population compared to the rest of the world.
They declined in numbers to 1.2% with the arrival of the Witch Trials and the increasing numbers of Vampires. A portion of the royals returned to their homeland in an effort to escape the tragedy. The original portal was then destroyed, and anchored portals surrounding the settlements of the bloodlines formed a connection between the two worlds. The royals that came back through portals were considered heroes and the Magical dimension adapted a monarchy-system. This caused witches living in the human world to be seen as superior to those living in Magicae, thus creating the system that all witches from the human world become royals over the rest of the population.
==History==
===Ancient Witches===
To see more about the very origin of the species, see Witches and Wizards/Ancient Witches.
===Royals===
The survivors became known as true Royals, getting monuments in their hometown and their legacies being told in nurseries across the magical dimension. Yet they were also missed, and many families were left with no heirs or descendants. This was the beginning of the division between the upper and lower class in the magical dimension.
Unable to return to the magical dimension and the rest of their species, the royals were forced to domesticate the human world. They increased their numbers, breeding with humans which proved to not carry negative affects for their offspring.
Five generations later, the island of Andros became too small to populate all the royals, so the royals spread out, travelling nomadic until they settled all around Mediterainean Europe. The Greek Island of Andros was used frequently as a meeting point.
With this expansion came the realisation that their ancestors had made enemies before their departure, and when vampires started to notice the pressence of the witches, they started being hunted. Eventually the vampires discovered the sacrism of the island Andros and they invaded. The royal families fled, and spread out across Europe even more in the land that had been known by mankind at that point.
=== Overseas ===
When mankind started to explore the globe, witches took the chance to get away from the vampires, who started to pose a large threat. Once atlantic travel was regulated, most of the witches chose the option to relocate to a land unknown to the vampires.
The Ambroise Bloodline travelled overseas but were unfortunate to face disaster in their first crossing. This discouraged the bloodline to attempt another crossing, and they decided to settle in Western Europe, focussed in clusters around France and Spain, Scandinavia and braches in Eastern-Europe.
The Hainasoni Bloodline travelled through the north of the new continent, settling in Canada and Alaska.
The Silverstone Bloodline followed explorers to the pacific ocean, founding a town called Waterfall Creek and generally settled in the north-western quadrant of the current United States.
The Arlen Bloodline settled around the Great Lakes, in the north-eastern quadrant of the land. They also had a strong pressence in the original colonies along the Atlantic ocean.
The Greene Bloodline originally settled in the centre of the new land, centering around current Colorado. Later on they migrated towards the coastlines, part of the bloodline moving towards The southern Pacific ocean, while others moved to the Gulf of Mexico. Through reconnection between the bloodlines, their pressence can be found all over Mexico.
The Curtis Bloodline mainly travelled south across the ocean, where they ended up in the north of Latin-America. A second wave of descendants from the bloodline however never made it there, leaving the bloodline fractured. Attempts were made to travel to Asia on sea-routes, leaving pressences in South-Africa and even Australia.
No witches are known to have ever arrived in Asia, the Middle East or Central Africa.
=== Return to Magicae ===
Those who did not flea remained around the mediterainean and tried to regain control of the portal. For hundreds of years they were unsuccessfull in doing so, until their numbers grew big enough. At some point in the 12th century he magical community gathered efforts to return to their homeland. With the risk of the vampires reclaiming the land and discovering the original portal, they destroyed it.
==="Witch Trails"===
Around the start of the Early Modern period (1480) the witch trails started in Europe. When the witch trails started in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 it caused a lot of fuzz in the magical community. A lot of  humans were unrightfully convicted and many witches wanted to expose the secret to stop the witch trails by explaining they were good people with healing abilities, etc. The magical community therefor held a meeting. They decided not to reveal themselves to the world, but some disagreed with it. As a result , some réal witches were killed in the witch trails as those who did expose themselves were executed by their local witchhunters.
From the 20% of world population in Ancient Greek, after the medievals less than 1.2% of the world population were witches and wizards. 
=== Fighting for Survival ===
The magical population was now spread out globally but their numbers were going down. Following the witch-trails and several natural phenomenons that the witches couldn't foresee, many families were in fear of extinction.
The Ambroise Bloodline in Europe and the Hainasoni Bloodline in Northern America recovered from the losses, whereas the Curtis, Silverstone and Greene Bloodlines suffered severe blows in numbers.
A feud between the Hainasoni and the Arlen Bloodlines caused the latter to be massively killed by allied vampires. Out of the 4 remaining Hainasoni bloodlines, three supported the massacre and they turned on the fourth one.
=== New Era ===
In the middle of the 20th century a new harmony came into existence within the magical community, with better communication methods both in the human world and the magical community.
==Species==
===Ancient Witches===
The Ancient Witches are the mythical personification of the first witches born in the human dimension, who later created a refuge from the vampires in another dimension, The Magical Dimension or Magicae. Each Ancient Witch had a specialty of trait that is often found in that bloodline's power, or personality traits of the witches and wizards within the bloodline.
* Divinity, immortality, life, sun
* Fire and blood
* Wealth, leadership and moon
* Water and air
* Earth and woods
* Compassion, love and knowledge
* Ferocity, Fierceness and death
===Royals===
Royals are the strongest type of Witches and Wizards, and leaders of the kingdoms in the magical dimension. They are the only type of witches and wizards capable of living in the human dimension, where they balance their magical duties with human lives. 
Royals gather in the human dimension to open portals, something that requires great magical strength. Royal families are stronger when they live close to their portal because they can pull magical energy from it. In the Magical Dimension they don't gather as frequently, except when a royal dies. In that case, the royal families might send a representative to the spiritual ceremony.
Royals have a strong connection to eachother and their magic grows significantly stronger when they are close. Royals can pull from eachother's magical energy if needed. Royals often experience what is described as 'entangled souls', where they share strong connections with other royals. Mostly this connection remains amicable, but sometimes it develops into romance such as was the case with Lillian Silverstone and Christopher Greene, Payton Silverstone and Pierre Ambroise or Chloë Curtis and Liam Greene.
If a witch and a wizard procreate, a twiceblessed witch or wizard is born, as was the case with Payton and Claire, as well as Sophia Greene. The twiceblessed offspring shares equal rights to the throne of their parents respective kingdoms, but they don't necessarely need to rule simultaneously. In the case of the Silverstone-Greene children, their aunt Lucy ruled over Divitia for another 15 years after her brothers dead, only then passing the throne to her nieces, who were already on the throne of Divitia.
===Primaries===
Royals follow the birth order in the line of succesion by default, but sometimes the bloodline will decide to choose a Primary, an important member of the bloodline who can cut in line for the throne in certain events. An ancient proficy in the magical dimension states that all seven bloodlines would be united under the rule of the 'Chosen Ones', a group of Primary witches that would bring prosperous times to the magical world.
Known Primaries include;
* Pierre Ambroise, who was named the Ambroise Primary postmortem after his sacrifice in the battle against The Anconi
* Phoebe Curtis, who became the only royal in her family to have advanced powers, thus being named the Curtis Primary and heir to the throne of Amertas.
* Kendall Hagano, who became the only surviving member of The Hagano Family and the Hainasoni Primary and heir to the throne of Sanguis.
* Amore Dawson, who became the Silverstone Primary after her death was faked in the human world and she became the heir to the throne of Divitia.
The profecy of the Chosen Ones comes to furfillment in Season Seven with several primaries and natural born heirs bonded in an alliance against the hunters. 
* A firstborn of the Ambroise bloodline: Sebastien Ambroise
* A secondborn of the Hainasoni bloodline: Laura Thornton
** Laura is the second child of her father Peter Thornton after her older half-brother Louis Ignatius.
* A thirdborn of the Silverstone bloodline: Riley Silverstone
** Riley is the third witch in her generation after Payton Silverstone and Claire Silverstone.
* Fourthborn of the Arlen bloodline: Meredith Winchell
** Meredithis the fourthborn of her generation after Ruby Lennox, Michelle Lennox and Calliope Winchell.
* Fifthborn of the Greene bloodline: Payton Silverstone
** Payton is the fifthbornin of her generation after Ben Greene, Sam Greene, Levi Greene and Liam Greene.
* Sixthborn of the Curtis bloodline: Phoebe Curtis
** Phoebe is the sixth child of her mother
===Powers===
Witches or wizards are all born with basic elemental powers in the form of geokinesis. In addition, a bloodline can contain special powers that may be passed down through generations. Special powers manifest randomly but the chances increase as the bloodline grows stronger. Witches born with a rare special power usually become the primaries within their bloodline.
While every witch or wizard remains minimal control of Geokinesis and certain spells, witches and wizards can be stripped of their  special powers by unanimous decision by the council. 
*Christopher Greene lost his advanced powers after refusing to let his 8 month old twiceblessed daughter Payton raised in Divitia. He was deemed to be reckless and unequiped to protect her properly with the target she would become. Unlike her husband, Lillian kept her powers because she mediated in the compromise to let Payton travel with her to Divitia in order to prepare her as crown princess, and thus securing her safety for a large portion of time. 
*Linda Curtis lost her powers, as well as her three surviving children Connor Curtis, Ariël Curtis and Chloë Curtis. The council decided that Linda risked the lives of her two oldest children, resulting in their death. Linda's unborn child, Phoebe Curtis was born with the advanced power of tactile energy affinity and duplication. Phoebe Curtis insists that the council restore her family's powers when she gets coronated.
*Payton Silverstone and Claire Silverstone lost their powers in Season Two after the council decided their alliance with The Dawsons endangered the magical community. Their powers return in Season Four due to Payton's pregnancy.
*Bryan Thornton and Peter Thornton lost their powers because they put their own children and other witches in danger. Laura Thornton originally did not want them to lose their powers, but she agreed to the council's decision when they refused to join in the fight against The Anconi.
An overview of all powers that exist in Touch of Magic :
====Elemental Powers====
*Geokinesis
**Pyrokinesis (All active witches - Specialty of the Ignis witches)
**Aerokinesis/Anemokinesis (All active witches - Specialty of the Arlen witches)
**Aquakinesis/Hydrokinesis (All active witches - Specialty of the Arlen witches)
**Agrokinesis/Anthokinesis (All active witches - Specialty of the Greene wizards)
**Photokinesis (All active witches - Specialty of the Silverstone witches)
**Terrakinesis (All active witches)
*Atmoskinesis
**Electrokinesis (Amanda & Alexis)
**Heliokinesis (Amanda)
**Lunarkinesis (Alexis)
====Mental Powers====
*Empathy (Payton)
*Telepathy (Claire, Amanda & Alexis with eachother)
*Tactile Hypnosis (Pierre)
*Tactile Hallucinokinesis (Alena)
*Mnemokinesis (Amore)
====Kinetic Powers====
*Gerontokinesis (Cassidy Hagano,Kendall Hagano)
*Haemokinesis (Laura Thornton, Lydia Thornton, Louis Ignatius)
*Telekinesis (Payton Silverstone, AJ Dawson)
*Symphokinesis (Connor Curtis)
*Electrokinesis (Amanda and Alexis Silverstone)
*Ferrokinesis (Lucas Ambroise)
*Thiriokinesis (Charlotte Ambroise)
====Other Powers====
*Healing (Payton Silverstone)
*Astral projection (Claire Silverstone)
*Flyrokinesis (Claire Silverstone)
*Oneirokinesis (Liam, Christopher)
*Quintekinesis (the Witches of the Ambroise (in the form of Vitakinesis) and Garfunkle bloodline(in the form of Thanatokinesis))
===Twiceblessing===
The occurance of Twiceblessing is the birth of a child from both a wizard and a witch. This event happened twice in the 20th century, yet becomes more frequent once the Bloodlines of witchcraft get more intertwined. Payton is the original Twiceblessed, furfilling the prophecy in 1990. Claire is second, Sophia is the third case of this.
Twiceblessed witches or wizards are incredibly strong. They are first and foremost Royalty in both kingdoms, above any other family member, yet they can assign Regents. They posses the ability to survive in both dimensions without any effort. Their powers often include rare powers, and are magnified intensely. As shown on several occasions, Payton or Claire's contributions to a spell can substitute for several other royals' magic.
* Phoebe Curtis is able to come close to this level of power, both by being a Primary and Chosen One but also because Payton and Claire were her mentors and she had the ability to duplicate magic which means she most likely absorbed some magic while she was living in a high magic intensity house like The Silverstone House.
===Bloodlines and Houses===
The Ancient bloodlines are the bloodlines of the 7 Ancient Witches. They are always dominant to other (human) bloodlines, and as a tradition the witches usually keep their ‘magical’ last name. Most bloodlines are also Matrilines.
The 7 Bloodlines are further split up into sub-bloodlines, that are called Houses. Every bloodline has at least one or a few beside the main house (the house of the royal family and the house that has the name of the bloodline). The main house is dominant over the other houses in the bloodline, despite the fact that they have less of a pressence in the magical dimension.
Most members of a main house are royals residing in the normal world. Lesser houses do not carry enough magic to have a pressence in the normal world.  
Some Houses could take over as Regents in the Magical community with the consent of the Royal Family, such as was the case with the Curtis family when their powers were taken away.
==Known Witches & Wizards==
For an overview of the known witches and wizards, see Magical Community.
==Trivia==
*The oldest living member is considered the leader of the bloodline in corelation with holding the royal title in their respective kingdom. There are 2 exceptions to that :
**Phoebe Curtis lead her bloodline, despite being the youngest child of 6 in her family. She becomes Queen and later agrees with Liam to hand over the rights to Sophia Greene, her niece.  Phoebe trains her niece in all things magic, and later hands over the leadership to focus on her family.
**Laura Thornton lead her bloodline from 2016 onwards, after she and her siblings and cousins had made a coup d'etat on their parents. She has trapped her father, the oldest living member of her bloodline, in Sanguis. She passes the rights over to Kendall Hagano as a marriage present for her and her Solos-native husband Tobias. Laura remains active leader of the Hainasoni Bloodline in the human world.
*Witches have a mortality code, stating all witches must remain mortal to keep the balance of nature. However this rule was broken several times
**The Valkyries experimented with immortality and the spell used to create vampires.
**The children of Claire and Payton being Dhampires made them immortal. They're still accepted by the royal community, but not so much in the Magical Dimension.
*Witch magic can be transfered to objects partially or entirely.
**The lifeforce of a Hainasoni witch was used to make Alyssa, Jason and Seth's rings.
*Witches are taught from a very young age to hide their powers, and to some extinct it is based in their DNA as seen by Payton and Claire as kids, and Phoebe untill she reached adolescence. They're generally also good at deceit towards the human world, and they sometimes have entire false identities.
**If humans who are not supposed to know find out, the witches have a contingency to create a memory-potion but the ingredients have grown rare because of the overuse in the 80's/90's. Some humans are trusted by the witches to know their secret, such as Mila, Mike, Justin,... They all have some sort of affiliation with a known witch/wizard/vampire
*Laura, Bash, Payton, Calliope, Liam and Phoebe are referred to with codename 'Alpha' by hunters. The groupname 'The Alphas' points to the most prominent members of witchcraft royalty as a target.
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