Witches

**Witches** are magical beings that can influence reality to manipulate change in the physical world by commanding the forces of nature. They primarily reside in the Otherworld, but on rare occasions, witch children would be placed in the First World as changelings, unaware of their magical nature or sometimes witch bloodlines decide to reside in the First World by choice. Over the centuries, witches have lost the ability to access transformation magic in order to manifest their wings, as well as the art to craft powerful relics, such as their ancient and lost powerful wands.

## Overview

Witches have a similar physiology to humans, but when using their magical abilities, their eyes glow and change color in accordance with their own magical aura. Some witches are born with an affinity for a specific element, power or a type of spell. But they have the potential to master other forms of magic as well. Witches commonly represent their power in a specific aspect of life, such as light, nature, wisdom, storms, emotions, animals, memories, fire, etc.

Witches are able to channel draw extra power from nature, the elements, celestial events, from other witches or magical beings to boost their magic. This lets users harness energies in their surroundings to perform greater magical feats, and cast stronger spells beyond that which they could usually accomplish solely with their own magic. Depending on the rarity of the celestial event, more power can be channeled by the witch.

It is rare for witches to tap into large quantities of tremendous power, that allow them to change and transform the world around them in unimaginable ways, accomplishing insurmountable feats, (such as the creation of the Second Sun of Solaria). This is so rarely accomplished that it is only achieved by discovering and unleashing powerful passionate emotions, that they are only represented as colossal bursts of white light. These witches who accomplished this feat were considered "gods" among the witch race, being some of the most powerful of their race, known as Saints and afterwards demonstrated silver eyes when they tap into their magic. Saints are said to possess a rare and special magic, which is what allows them to accomplish such feats.

Boarding schools, such as Osiris Academy are formed for young witches in order to learn how to control their magic. Young witches often use finger glows as a crutch for learning magic. Witches who have graduated from Osiris play an integral role in Otherworld society, as many have ruled realms, led armies, forged powerful relics and rediscovered long-lost magic. Messiah, for example, is a powerful witch who rules over the realm of Solaria, as its king.

Upon death, witches release their life essence into the surrounding environment. Powerful witches release a powerful life essence that is able to be tracked and detected by a mystical compound used to find the whereabouts of the deceased witch's remains. Although a mystic hotspot is a place eternally marked by the violent death of a witch. These Mystical Hotspots allow witches to tap into the power of the dead witch to use as their own.

## History

### Origins

Witches have a rich recorded history dating back much further than recorded human history. They originate from the Otherworld, and have ventured out throughout the realms. Long ago, there was a group of thirteen extremely powerful witches known as Saints, who were said to be born of the Great Ones, and were capable of extraordinary feats.

Ten-thousand years ago, during the time of the 7th Millennium B.C., when magic was everywhere, witches began to form both family bloodlines and covens throughout the realms.