The Theories of Hermunitism

**Written by Magnar H. Godwinson**

## **The Theories of Hermunitism (Chapter One)**

 A mancer’s burden is not an easy one, or at least not mine. I’ve ventured the lands of Ludwag for years limited to it’s political conflicts and it’s quarrels, distracted from the thoughts and curiosity that call for my research on the process of mancy and the origins of such a powerful mana that I define as the power of will and spirit. A mancer’s power comes not from his vitor nor his level of mancy, but his determination to knowledge and his uphold to the values of mancy and it’s mystical essence. Hermunitism can be defined as the belief that vitor is equal to spiritual mana, spiritual mana is gained through willpower and committed mind sets, and through mindset and will comes the power of magic, and magic is empowered by the user and their thoughts. Once a mancer learns to control their thoughts and mana, they may transcend reality and create power limited to the boundaries of their studies.

I’ve grown to believe that mancy is inherited through all men, though some are stronger than others. The boundaries and limitations of vitor are false, and mere ideals and obstacles of the mind that limit a user to what powers they believe they are bound to, and not to what expansive powers they are able to achieve. In the belief of Hermunitism, vitor is created by the mancer through their self commitment and will to create power that transcends the mortal realm from their own realms and minds, in a way mancy can be defined as Thaumaturgy. While Thaumaturges define Thaumaturgy as divine power granted by gods to perform miracles, Thaumaturgy can be considered mancy as mancy is a miracle that transcends and depends on the thoughts and power of the mind, and through the power of the mind the physical laws and rules of the earth such as gravity and mass can be broken and bypassed through the sheer power of mana empowered through the will of a user’s spirit.

Through the same context of thaumaturgy being in a way a parallel to mancy, I believe spirits have achieved a greater significant power of mana, so powerful that they have become vitor itself. In a theory of Hermunitism I have deemed it fit that once a user grows to powerful and controlling of their mancy, with proper balance between vitor and control over both the physical world and the mental world, vitor begins to define its user and the body is no longer needed to operate the mystical elements of a mancy, rather one turns into a spirit, a mere force of energy created through the former mind of a living being that has learned to transcend beyond reality, virtuality, and illusion. In the same context that the conjuration of vitor can not be defined in a physical form, spiritual mana can not be defined by physical power or the limits of a mancers level, but rather through the power of the mind and it’s intellectual and expansiveness of wisdom within the boundaries of vitae.

## **Theory of Vaetic Evolution** **(Chapter Two)**

To understand the evolution of a mancer through physical form and through their mental capacity, we must first understand and define the journey that a mancer crosses to achieve such a mindset and mentality to comprehend “Vaetic” Evolution and transcendence beyond reality, but also achieve a collateral between the physical world and intangible world completely created through mana and vitor. A mancer’s journey in mancy is completely defined by their concept and perception of vitor and the vitae realm that they create. To contain mancy, first a mancer must learn to inherit spiritual mana and energy in order to maintain pools of vitor that are created through the sheer empowerment of the mind and will as explained before, and through that journey the mind grows more powerful than the body and weakness the physical form of a user, and while the physical weakness of a mancer is explained in the magic theory, the depths of the theory are explained subjectively rather than morally and spiritually.

After my years of full fledged studies to mancy, I refuse to believe that mancy can be defined through natural forms and studies that theorize the flow of mancy and how it can be operated in the tangible world, because mancy as a whole is spiritual and can only be defined and controlled by a mancer who has sustained vitor and who has created a world that only they can describe, and each mancer carries different divisions and beliefs of mancy because they form different concepts and dimensions that empower them in the tangible world and allow them to exert vitor sheerly through the power of belief, and in the same way that Thaumaturgy can be defined by faith in the gods, mancy can be defined through a faith in self empowerment and mystical divinity in divide from the pantheon.

Once the mancer has completely begun to rely on their mind and spiritual strength, they completely strand away from the physical world into the world that they’ve strengthened themselves through, where they are to slowly become flowing forms of vitor that become a middle ground between the virtual worlds and dimensions that they’ve created, and the physical world that they formerly infested. Thus they are defined as spirits, because while they have lost physical forms that they took up in the modern world, they have lost it in sacrifice of becoming flowing spiritual mana with only their thoughts and mystic powers in mind, bound to never uptaking physical forms of the tangible world. And through empowering mass, energy, and gravity you are able to create a light source that expands the void and creates equal amounts of mass and places matter on the contradictory for creating.

## **Limits of Vaetic Spiritualism (Chapter Three)**

While a mancer does have willpower a source of achieving power in conjuration and vitor use, they can not define their power as simply willpower, because through willpower they must also master spiritual mana and wisdom, which does not include their natural understanding of Mancy, but rather one completely depending on blind faith and virtual enlightenment on the mystic theory and finding a way of comprehending their mystic dimensions, and sacrificing consciousness and physical existence.

To comprehend Vaetic Spiritualism, one must completely give up on society, natural studies, life and their journey in the physical world in their physical forms, and reality as a whole. In a way they must completely risk their consciousness in the current world and transcend into a reality that they have created through their own realm, a pocket dimension in a way where they are completely abandoned and left alone, to live as spirits that create their own realities through their minds and their thoughts in the form of an energy and flowing vitor. This process of Vaetic Spiritualism leaves the body on the physical world to finally collapse and turn to bone, and if Vaetic Evolution is accomplished, the body slowly combusts into ashes as the vitor and mind of a mancer leaves to their own dimensions that they have created over the years by passing the vitae trials and attunement over the levels.

The main question that must be asked is, at what point can a mancer achieve that? This is only achieved in the final level of mancy known as archmancy, or so as I have read from the archmancy tome of the Horserider which is the strongest known point of achieving vitae power. Once an Archmancer grows too powerful and attached to their arts, they are left with living the world as mere skeletons who have grown dependant on the beauty of their minds and their own realities parallel between the real and virtual worlds, or completely give up at the end point and release their vaetic spirits to the other world, a theorized afterlife of mancers that can be defined as pocket dimensions created by mancers, where they will never take physical shape or return to the physical world ever again, and live an eternity abandoned in an eternal flow of their own thoughts and conceptions.

## **A Bittersweet Conclusion (Chapter Four)**

**I'**ve written this with a heavy heart knowing that the possibility of this theory being a fact is high, but how do we perceive this theory? The greatest tragedy of a mancer that has achieved the end of their journey, is the tragedy of the mind over the world. Many archmages who reach the end of their trials may grow so taken away from the world that they infest themselves with only their thoughts and their feelings, and through that end they live and eternity of what they formerly knew on the conscious world and what they create in the virtual one, so can this be described as death? Is it another form of afterlife, a bittersweet alternative to the fields of ankoun? Only the dead may ever define that.