The Council of Wizards

The Council of Wizards are the oldest and most powerful organization of magic users in The Multiverse, so powerful in fact that they were highly regarded by The Council of Life, who even requested assistance from them in certain times.

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## History

When The Multiverse was still quite young, The Astral Plane of Magia had just formed, along with its ruler, the god Thestus.

Thestus was able to manipulate and control an extremely powerful and unpredictable force known as Magic. Magic was different in nature from the Five Multiversal Energies, as it was not as old as The Multiverse and did not comprise its structure, and it was more a force of physics than an energy. Yet despite this, it was quite very powerful.

From the main consciousness of Magic that was Thestus, manifested a group of several smaller, less powerful entities/consciousnesses that were formed from the essences of the Astral plane. These were the very first souls of The Multiverse, known as the Primaiar.

Meanwhile, The Council of Life was still organizing itself at this time. They endeavoured to create life and structures to inhabit and fill this Multiverse, but they did not yet fully have or understand the exact means to do so.
Thestus, seeing this, decided to offer help from behind the scenes, since he also desired the same goal as the Council.
And so, he gave the Primaiar corporeal bodies for their souls to inhabit, and sent them down to the Realm of Life. The Primaiar, however, were unaware of Thestus being behind this, as Thestus was an enigmatic being who rarely showed himself to any being. And so, the Primaiar believed the creation of their bodies to be a natural event.

When the Primaiar first met the angels, they offered assistance in the shaping of The Multiverse and creating life within it. The Council of Life agreed to this, and they formed the group of maiar into an organization known as The Council of Wizards.

By collaborating together and employing a combination of Magic and Primordial Energy, anything seemed possible (and was) for the wizards and angels.
After successfully laying down the foundations for The Multiverse's lifeforms and structure, the wizards taught the angels the methods of shaping life and matter with the employment of magic, as well as many other magical techniques. Many angels became adept in magic, but one particular Archangel, Raziel, was the most so, and he easily became the most magically powerful angel, and in fact even more magically powerful than the Primair themselves.

The original members of the Council of Wizards would eventually dwindle. They would go on to recruit mortal members from the outside, and passed on their knowledge to future generations. These new-generation wizards, known simply as the Maiar, were not quite as powerful as the Primaiar, but they were close to it as they possessed their knowledge, and underwent an initiation ritual to attain lesser versions of powers similar to those of the original Primaiar.

Of course, no race of supernatural beings is wholly perfect. There have been Maiar who have strayed from the intended path of the Council of Wizards. These beings are known as Fallen Wizards. (Or witches, for the female equivalent.) They are the polar opposite of the standard Maiar, using their powers for evil and doing harm upon others. Upon their death, however, like all Maiar, they lose their memories of the previous life and start anew. There have been Fallen Wizards who try to find elixirs and spells to keep their current body alive eternally, but none have been successful.

## Powers/Abilities

The exact amount and nature of the powers and abilities of the Maiar remain unknown, and are presumably diverse. Given the nature the Maiar were to aid the The Council of Life in the shaping of life and geography in the Multiverse, they presumably have considerable power to augment the environment around them. Maiar, as primordial spirit beings, are functionally immortal and essentially immune to the ravages of time, even from physical destruction they remain in spirit form.

When a Maiar’s current body or form is mortally wounded or harmed in a way that would end in death, the Maiar’s spirit is removed from the body and reincarnated again, with new memories and a new personality. As such, there seems to be a large amount of Maiar over the ages, when there were only a few. A maiar can, of course, create new Maiar if they choose to join with another Maiar in the act of creating one. It takes the magical and spiritual strength of multiple Maiar to create a new one. Since Maiar are so widespread and rarely find or interact with each other, the amount of new Maiar is very small.

A maiar can access it’s previous lives’ memories through intense meditation and concentration, usually unachievable unless the maiar in question has lived in its current form for a long period of time and has become a master of Magic.

Being of divine origin, they can shapeshift if they so choose. They wander the world unseen, or shape themselves in any fashion, be they humans or other such mortal beings.

It is suggested that the Maiar, in their service to the Council of Life in shaping the world, presumably had the ability to manipulate the elements and energies like their Primaiar counterparts. They are able to be given a physical body again over time. Quite obviously, the Maiar possess the abilities to perform incredible powerful Magic, thus being able to perform blessings, spells, curses, exorcism, etc.

Maiar typically choose to “specialize” in one realm of magic, whether it be healing, dealing with the elements, creating new forms and life, advanced potion making, etc etc. However, they are able to perform all aspects of Magic at a level of Mastery if they choose to.

Given the vastness of the Multiverse, and the ability of the Maiar to occupy such points, they are capable of teleporting vast distances. By taking the form of a flying creature like vampires, bats, birds etc. the Maiar were able to fly.

## Known members

* Kyran
* Rohan
* Ryen