Divine Script

== Divine Script ==
=== Gods ===
Whether it is Ragnarök or revelations, heaven has been seized by calamities and all the old gods have fallen to earth. In their time here, they have spread their influence and created new Pantheons. 
The Fallen are ageless but not immortal, and they no longer have access to their heavenly abilities. During The Fall, the gods were stripped of their magic, and it spread throughout the world, becoming one with nature, creating new magical landscapes and infesting the world with monsters.
Any human who wishes to serve a God on earth can join their Pantheon and in return for their faith, the gods award their followers with Runes.
=== Runes ===
Divine Scriptures are able to collect magic from the surrounding world, store it, and release it. Runes can be tattoos, carvings, sheet music, poetry, prayer, mandala, sacred geometry, or any other meaningful work a god creates. Runes can be applied to living bodies and objects. The amount of magic a rune can store is known as its Mass. The rate at which a rune collects magic is its speed, and the amount of magic it can disperse at any given point is its efficiency. These are generally organized on the RGB spectrum, so Runes glow different colors depending on their stats. 
==== What can Runes do? ====
Rune capabilities are organized into the 7-deadly sins and are based on which god applies the rune
Wrath: simple and effective, wrath runes are defined by their output. Breathing fire, shooting lightning, exploding punches
Pride: the opposite of Wrath, Pride runes seal in the flavor. It's the difference between a sword that shoots flames, and a sword so hot it melts whatever it cuts. If you want super strength, speed, durability or extra effects, Pride runes will solve your problems
Lust: rather than being purely sexual, lust runes encompass passion, leadership, charisma, bravery and control. Throw a weapon and call it back to your hand, get matching tattoos with your pet bear (you're now magically linked), a full chest tattoo of an eagle to inspire your troops, or maybe have a god design the flag of your country so it inspires patriotism on sight.
Envy: sight beyond sight. Granting abilities like knowing the future, seeing the past, hearing over great distances, tracking targets based on changes in air pressure, x-ray vision, and reading surface thoughts. 
Gluttony: a special class of runes that don't have a direct function in terms of application. Gluttony runes act similar to batteries, incredible mass with a long charge time and decent efficiency. Gluttony runes can be used in conjunction with other runes to boost them up. A wrath rune might have very high efficiency but a low Mass. Allowing for very strong output but low ammunition, slap a gluttony rune on it and boost it up
Greed: opposite of Gluttony. Greed has a strong efficiency and near instant speed with a very low Mass. Useful in rapid fire bursts rather than extravagant and explosive spells
Sloth: rounding out the support runes, sloth greatly increases size and range of magical effects. Slap a sloth rune on a small buckler and project a protective barrier. Carve sloth runes into your light armor to fill in the gaps (for all the chainmail bikini lovers). Extend the range of a sword, or combine with other runes to increase their range. Shoot lighting farther, control others at a greater distance, enhance a whole castle instead of a single wall. Sloth runes are very versatile, but usually have high Speed and Mass, but low efficiency so extending something slightly is easy, but doubling something's range can be taxing.
==== Examples ====
Any god can apply any type of rune to a person or object, but each God will have certain affinities. Heimdallr and Athena might lean toward Envy Runes for their enhanced senses. Zeus, all though usually characterized by lust, has a much easier time crafting Wrath Runes since they line up with his innate magic. Kagutsuchi would have a greater affinity adding Runes to metal or creating fire with runes.
Heresy
Humans who were born after The Fall have an abnormal amount of magic within them, this is why they can control runes bestowed by gods, but some have chosen to create their own power without divinity.
Heresy is a type of physical magic that can be used to boost the user's speed, strength, skill, dexterity, durability and any other physical factor. Heresy still abides by the 7-sins. This means a Heretic needs to mentally switch their flow of magic to match their action with the appropriate sin. Sharpen your senses with Envy, improve your dexterity and control with lust, increase your explosive potential with wrath, harden your body with pride etc
Heresy is much more difficult to control and much more limited than Divine Script, but has a much higher potential. Many gods fear Heretics more than they do each other
=== Tid Bits and Fluff ===
Runes generally require localization to be effective. So a rune that increases sight would be best used near the eyes. Hermes could give a Pride rune on the ankles that allows one to fly or move at greater speeds
Two runes can be activated together if they are touching. So an Envy rune on the forehead and a Sloth rune on the hand can be joined together to use a combination of Runes
Transferring magic between runes is based on the runes' efficiency, so many people have gluttony runes that they can use to refill others. This still requires the runes to touch. Some people have even developed "engines" a system of Greed and Gluttony runes that quickly gather and store energy to be redistributed
Much like the kidneys and liver, the soul works to filter magic. Overwhelming your soul by attaching too many runes to your body can lead to Ego Poisoning and be fatal. This also means Gluttony runes are not compatible with everyone as a single gluttony rune could lead to Ego Poisoning if the users body can’t bear that much Mass
Those given Runes are generally referred to as Heroes. This is a hugely politically divisive term as is Heretic for anyone not allied with god
Runes and Heresy do not mesh; if a heretic wants to use Runes, they would need them inscribed on an object rather than their own body. Inscribing runes on the body would diminish the effects of Heresy by automatically diverting magic to runes instead
Gods are unable to sire children with mortals. The bodies of female gods devour their demi-children before they are ever able to fight back, and any woman impregnated by a male god dies before giving birth. Heresy grows stronger every generation, and eventually mortals will be strong enough to bear a divine child. Most god's view this as the true end of days
Though multiple languages, dialects, and alphabets still exist, everyone can understand each other. Because of the new flow of magic, people read the meanings rather than the actual text. Even if someone just scribbled or yelled gibberish, they would be understood as long as there was a clear meaning behind their nonsense. 
Scholars believe this will end in a Singularity (Lingual Singularity) where all languages and texts devolve into a still decipherable madness. This means if humanity does achieve a Lingualarity then loses access to magic, years of information will be left as indecipherable babble 
When the gods fell, it reshaped much of the earth's surface and oceans. This led to widespread casualties and the destruction of major infrastructure, as well as The Fall itself destroying the global satellite network. A new singular continent exists, and the population has been cut down to around 1 billion
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