Casting

## The Song of Creation

The world runs on the songs of creation.  Each face of divinity (God’s split personalities) sings a different song of creation that affects the world in a different, sometimes inexplicable way. People who harmonize, listen to one or multiple songs of creation and seek to understand what different phrases mean and how they affect the world. This is the source of incantation. Incantations are phrases heard and understood by people who harmonize (often going by different names depending on which face of divinity they follow, such as Incanter, or Anointed, names TBD). Incantations have the same effect on the world as the original phrase in the song of creation would. Incantation have a rebounding effect on the caster that has a slow mutating effect.

## Levels of Casting

There are three levels of casting. Incanting, Harmonizing, and Conducting

##### Incanting

Reciting words, phrases, and sounds from a song of creation. Typically requires a redirection of energy.

##### Harmonizing

A literal harmonization between the caster’s mind and a song of creation. It's achieved by playing the first chord of a song of creation (the Chord that serves as a seed for every aspect of the song). It allows the Incanter to hear the song as it’s being played and view its effect on creation. This is the primary method of magical research though its primary danger is that it opens up the harmonizer to potentially be warped into the song’s image and domain (mutating, or succumbing) but it can also be addicting. Incanting while harmonized with a song of creation allows the caster to draw energy from the song itself instead of a natural source.

##### Conducting

The process of not just harmonizing with a song, but physically changing and redirecting the original song. Generally this is considered impossible without divine understanding or guidance.

## Masters of the Song

##### Bard

A true master of harmonizing, this is a caster who has successfully found a way to offset the mutative effects of harmonizing and can do it at will. They are considered reckless and brash, bard’s garner only grudging respect as they rarely achieve this without some loss of sanity. Some consider the act of harmonizing without consequence to be an attempt to be like divinity.

##### Paladin

A caster bound to a song of creation and oath-bound to protect the interests of it and its deities domain. Typically there is only one Paladin per domain, sometimes with an apprentice. They give themselves fully to the domain, losing the ability to effectively access other songs of creation but gaining incredible potency with their sworn song. They surpass simply harmonizing and drawing a song’s power and are able to CONDUCT the song.

## Unique Methods

##### Musical Incantation

He thought on the meaning of musical incantation and his past lessons both taught to him and learned on his own. Whether it was a spoken incantation or one played on an instrument, the core understanding was the same if the sounds were different. Most incanters focused on the way songs were spoken but a musical incanter focused on how a song is heard.

They were both bound by the need to understand the meaning of the song and the will to speak it into the world. But musical incanters were made from a willingness to perceive, not just act, because the playing of their songs meant that they were strongest when they could hear their own tune running like waves up their arms and filling their ears with the pleasant sounds of creation. And with that incantation they could speak their incantation in tandem, and reach heights of complexity that modern incanters could only dream of.

Musical incantations weren’t a science like that of a modern Incanter, turning out proprietary knowledge and guarding it jealously for power or monetary gain. Their incantations had heart, they were artful and for the benefit of many. Trent had once said that two masters of musical incantation could play together and cast the same song, and all who heard it could cast it too.

Perhaps this was why modern incanters scoffed at musical incantation. There was something communal about it that made it dangerous in their minds. What’s more, there was a greater urge to harmonize when incanting through music. It was a taste of what could be had when the songs weren’t just played, but understood in real time and all incanters were taught to resist that craving. Perhaps that’s why Regibast sought that strength so doggedly.

-Regibast, to himself in his dream

## Succumbing

Sometimes people who harmonize will embrace too much of the song of creation and instead of merely mutating will fully succumb to the song and will lose their old identity, transforming into an entity of that realm.

RADIANCE: Archon, Oracle (mindless soothsayer)

ORDER: Familiar, Djinn (Slaves), Trickster Entities

CHAOS: Demons, Desecrated

VOID: Shade, Wraith

LIFE: Elemental, Primal Guardian

SPIRIT: Ghost