Grimoire-3

*Grimoire-3, 1895
*Divergence: 1816
*TL(5+1)^, with experimental tech at (5+2)^. 
*Mana Level: low with leylines of normal and up
*Quantum: 6
This Earth appears never to have been a secret magic setting, as the Cabal suspects that it was a no-mana or very low mana worldine prior to the Year Without A Summer, which appears to have been when it became a mostly low mana world with leylines of normal mana and up. Also during this year, many folk who tended to pay attention to dreams began to dream of magic, and in 1819, several of them began publishing Books on various magical styles. The most famous of these was Mary Shelley, who published the Book of Frankenstein, a work on Ritual Alchemy (that is to say, Path/Book Magic - Effect Shaping, in this case - that uses Alchemy as the core skill) which allows the revival of dead bodies, as well as preserving food, and reversing the decay of dead flesh. It cannot be used to truly bring the dead back, as the body is merely being preserved and animated by the spirit within, and the book contains no information on summoning, so the spirit that enters is simply the nearest one that desires a body. Shelley was quite surprised to learn in 1820 that a scientist, using her book, managed to bring a metal and ceramic puppet to 'life,' something that not only had neither brain nor muscles, but had never been alive in the first place.
No human has orbited this Earth by 1895, though each of the Great Powers have put unmanned satellites in orbit, stating with France's Marianne I (a five-channel radiotelegraph repeater, powered by a mercury boiler), in 1891. Much like on Qabala, Embodied spirits as servants are quite common, but as they are mostly not created by acts of worship, there are fewer religious limitations on them. Large Embodied spirits serving as walking vehicles (Mecha) are a familiar sight in much of the civilized world, and some serve as watercraft or even aircraft. Miniature 'golems' serve to assist watchmakers and surgeons, or are used as toys. Few spirits are capable of much skill in mathematics, a lack made up for by the analytical engines, which thanks to quite tiny golems, can be made far smaller than would be possible with human hands alone. The technological aesthetic of this world is aggressively Steampunk, to the point that fashion is affected. Goggles with strange features are often in style, mostly as what amount to sunglasses that look like goggles. Many of them have secondary lenses on the sides, to avoid obstructing peripheral vision.
In the USA, the widespread use of Embodied spirits (mainly thoughtforms) as servants made slavery so economically disadvantageous that when Kansas Senator John Brown introduced a bill in 1855 to amend the US Constitution to end slavery within the next ten years, the Southern Democrats gave it only pro-forma resistance, and the slight modification to eleven years after ratification (which itself took only three years).
Prior to the 1830s, all known styles were single-Book, and the first multi-Book styles were the result of people taking several Books with similar styles, and reworking them into one style. A similar but more difficult process was begun in the 1880s to create the first Path styles, which are more versatile. Path styles are still very rare on this Earth, making up less than 2% of known styles, though they are becoming more common.
Mystic Symbols are fairly common on this Earth, frequently in the form of Books. In many cases, they grant some often-limited form of Path/Book Adept (generally One Book Only, but Two Rituals Only, Moon-phase Aspected, or some such thing are not rare). Some magical styles on this worldline have developed efficient methods of learning various forms of Path/Book Adept. It is fashionable for mages to have a pet that they call a familiar (though which animal is preferred varies over time - owls are currently de rigueur for male magicians in Western Europe and much of North America); some of them may even be magical in some way.
The governments of this Quantum 6 worldline are as yet unaware of the outtime agents that have operated here.
== See Also ==
* The Grimoire Timelines
== References ==
* Fan-made
Category:Quantum 6
Category:Normal Mana