Magical Hybrid Technologies (Magitech/Magitek)

Where godly magic was responsible for creating the mortal plane, and technological innovations can threaten even the most powerful of empires with mass produced arms and locomotion, there exists an intersection of the two that, when it is at its zenith, eclipses them both. Magical Hybrid Technologies, shortened to either Magitech or Magitek, take the foundations of the raw unlimited power of magic and the defined parameters in technological innovation to create fantastically powerful machinery that takes the best of both operations, and then does it better. Magic has an unlimited source of power, is only limited by imagination, and those who wield it successfully naturally dominate others, whether they mean to or not. Technology, is imitable, reachable for anyone who has the brainpower to innovate, and can be used to equalize the playing field for all and give power to everyone who has access. When both come together, it places the power to dominate and control everyone and everything, while giving the illusion of strength to the masses, and is extremely hard to copy while also being easily mass produced.

## History

Magitech is not a liberating advancement, and naturally all usages have been used by only one race who was given the power and knowledge over it to them by their Goddess. Aradia granted two gifts to two warring monarchs after they united in a bid to subjugate their neighbors and conquer the world and bring it to heel for the grace of Aradia's will. The same will she had implanted in them at birth to ensure they followed this exact trajectory, in the same way she would do for the likes of Dul-Sansiska the Shield Maiden, Al-Zehin, and even Divankul Dul-Sansiska in death via fail safes. These two rulers were known as Queen Nadia and King Narn, and in their union of the kingdoms of Kal-Surnia and Mak-Karasai, they initiated a plot they were not even aware of yet to dominate the world. Aradia would gift Nadia the total mastery of Animancy as a gift by which to rule over all peoples and be a tempered edge against the powers of Terramancy, and give her a silvered tongue to bewitch all who were captivated by her. Narn received knowledge, vast troves of it, stolen from Molak and Erynols, and became the smartest person alive at the time.

In addition they were given three sacred treasures to hold reverence over and pray to to keep Aradia's blessings and carry out her whims, the Eyes of Dawn and Dusk and the Heart of Obscura, and in using the yes they were granted a wish by the power of the creation magic sealed inside them. Narn wished for the power to weaponize his knowledge, and Nadia wished for the ability to subjugate those she could not beguile with her gifted tongue. The answer to both was the same, Magical Hybrid Technology, the fusion of magic and the mortal technologies that had begun to develop on Terros, and thus they forged a path ahead and the two kingdoms merged into what would be known as the heart of the new Empire, The Capitol. Magitech was used to quash anyone who resisted, those who simply rolled over and accepted were granted gifts.

Magitech even had the power to crush the infamously powerful Three Kings Alliance, where once the Three Kings ruled the entirety of the East, in but a decade the powerful magitech and the divine treasures brought them to their knees, an alliance that had stood since the dawn of creation was shattered in a decade by two upstarts because they had the most powerful means of subjugation at their disposal. Thus, Magitech is regarded as the most evil power that one can weaponize, turning the Void into an endless battery, or a mighty unlimited forge, and crushing anyone who comes against it. The only downfall would be someone utilizing it themselves to destroy those who knew how to operate it...

Magitech was used mostly in military applications at the start, automatons, cannons, shielding, flying ships, armored warships propulsed by special engines, etc. These military marvels were able to slaughter en masse any armies that came up against them, outside of the Three Kings who were able to put up a fight due to their vast supply of manpower and their own technological advancements. After they dominated the Drow and the Obscurans, they used the divine artifacts to create Capitol Elves, a race that was designed to be able to use magic very easily, then they modified the Drow to be able to use magitech more efficiently, and left the Obscurans relatively in the dust as they removed their ability to use magic altogether and hampered their skills with magitech. This was because the biggest roadblocks for the burgeoning Empire had been the colonial powers rebelling so ferociously, or in other words, the Three Kings had tried to exert their sovereignty and protect their race and their cousins from the terror of the Empire and were to be punished for standing against 'progress'.

This would spell the Empire's downfall, for as they lived by this wondrous technology, they would also die by it. Though before that end time, they would progress into the manufacturing of consumer goods, floating islands, great mighty trains and teleportation pads, and innumerable other technologies lost to time in completion. This was all for naught, as by the same way they had conquered everyone and enforced an imperial peace, including managing to support their High Elven cousins enforce their own territorial claims, and provided help and military assets to their Wood Elf cousins to the south, they were always dealing with the bubbling up of rebellious factions and power hungry nobility chomping at the bit to take command over the infrastructure that made the Empire run.

Not only this, but their campaigns to reduce the dwarves to nothing, their enslavement of humanity and enforcing the 'Children' to stay technologically impaired and reliant on their elvish overlords for all the prosperity they had ever known, and their constant attempts at eradicating all orcs, high felines, and anyone deemed as 'savages'. all of these military escapades kept them constantly spread thin, despite their 'unlimited' resources. This twisted the knife of Magitech and accelerated the corruption and distortion it brought due to being powered by the Void. They were fueling and shaping their technology to lust for blood and war rather than for prosperity and peace, and thus it reflected in how the magitech would continue to evolve, ever greater weapons and ideas that could shatter Terros. This would give Xanvani the tools he needed to bring the Empire to the ground, and he would use Magitech to destroy Magitech. Xanvani's Cataclysm Mechanism was built on the foundations of Magitech, now very much warped, and Xanvani himself was being influenced by unseen players that wanted to use him and the other kings to destroy the Empire, die in the process, and leave the play field open for these usurpers to take full power.

The end of magitech as a notable concept would come when the Cataclysm Mechanism was powered on, it engulfed The Capitol in deep winter and destroyed the center piece of what made all magical technology possible: Magitech requires a dedicated intelligence to constantly moderate the balance of the hybridization or it will destroy itself in a massive reaction. Without this large central intelligence, most advanced mechanism completely distorted and self-destructed, and the lower end stuff was only held onto by redundant systems and other regional intelligences, but these would eventually degrade and break, reaching their own ends in the First Demon War.

Magitech has never recovered to the state it was originally built into, and according to Divankul Dul-Sansiska, this is for the best. The slate, in his mind, needs to be wiped clean and done over again but with the idea of helping everyone in mind, and not just ruling over and subjugating them. To this end, Divankul believes that what little remains should be destroyed, but is unable to carry this work out as it is owned by the population of Narn's Son, who happen to be what remains of the Empire culturally in 1086AE. The other properties still in play are owned by the people of Mok Surial in that the Maiden's Shield Array and several other integral pieces of infrastructure, most of which he brought fully online, are vital tot he prosperity and safety of the region. Lastly any remnants found on Nagari, Avamor, or within the confines of the Northern Kingdom are under guard of his nephew, King Drake Morvala, who is trying to utilize the full power of the technologies to support his people and was a basis of how he could survive away from the blessings of the Monarch.

In essence, Divankul can't rebuild from the ground up because these other nodes continue to operate, and pull in energy, energy which he can't do anything with because of the corrupting effect it has after so long connected to the darkness of the Empire of Dusk. Until then, he's kind of stuck with what is currently in operation, and he refuses to let magical technological advancement grow beyond the rudimentary levels it currently sits at, and even that's degrading more and more rapidly as technological advancements increase all over Terros. As it stands, Divankul does not think Magitech is the right tool for the job of fixing this broken world, and that if anyone outside of him were to use the more advanced infrastructure it would absolutely devour them in corrupting and distorted influences and shift the balance of power entirely in their hands, damning everyone to yet another Empire of Dusk situation.

That being said, if most of the nodes go down, he could cleanse the whole thing and maybe it could be made to automatically revert to simply being like the Monarch's Realm of Logress, but infinite and not tied to a mortal. Who knows?

## Basic Concepts

Magitech works on the fundamental qualities of merging technological outputs with magical inputs, for instance, a Spirit Cannon fires what amounts to a directed energy blast by having a magical ore loaded into it that draws in Arcanum and Flux, melds it into arcane energy, and then transforms it into a defined property by which the cannon can then fire from its barrel. Attach this concept to legitimately everything and you have yourself the basic understanding of how the process works.