Mage Clans (ToF)

Since the rise of magic in the known world of Carokiiv, numerous numbers of mages rose into prominence, and the most notable and powerful of these mages eventually formed their families into powerful **Mage Clans** of their respective continents. The Mage Clans are both feared and respected for their power across the world over, and is said to be the origin of almost all of the greatest Strategic-Class Mages.

## Known Clans

### Betoriv

#### Clan Aesion

The Aesions are well-known for their fame throughout Betoriv, and considered as a clan that champions what Betoriv and a majority of it's people stand for. They are considered as rivals of Clan Phenex as their first ancestor defeated a Phenex Head Mage in an arena battle. They are one of the youngest and most innovative mage clans, willing to learn any kind of magic so long as it will help them win, with no care for tradition or boundaries.

The Aesions have a family crest aligned to the lightning element, and they use lightning magic at large. They also use atmosphere manipulation magic. One of their first skills to be learnt is to summon a Perfected Grimoire.

#### Clan Ayashi

Despite having a complicated history, Clan Ayashi is known for it's loyalty to Betoriv, and sometimes pragmatic views and criticism against the other continents, especially Setora, and is known for being very defensive of the continent concerning the entry of outsiders within it's borders close to the point of being war-like and anthropocentric to all Dwarves and Elves, except Asterians due to their history with the Zero King. The location of their main Ancestral Temple remains a closely-guarded secret, both by the government and the clan itself.

The Ayashis utilize a family crest aligned to the Void element, and utilize magic aligned to Void, Shadow and Gravity most of the time. Due to their size, a lot of mages who use other elements are also present. All Ayashi mages are also well schooled in magical sword techniques to go with reinforcement.

#### Clan Phenex

The famous Phenex clan is descended from one of the greatest human mages of all time, Ahriman Phenex, and they are considered to be the early innovators of family crests and magic. They are quite traditional, and they value keeping powerful spells secret to give them an advantage. However, the clan is also staunch in defending Betoriv. Due to the inglorious defeat of one of their ancestral Head Mages by Clan Aesion, there is a rivalry between them.

The Phenex Clan uses a complicated and powerful family crest, the first one with two vitakinetic circuits in it. This is aligned to the fire element, and they are masters of fire element magic in general. The Phenex Clan is also known to learn summoning of Perfected Grimoires, as they want to rival the Aesion Clan.

#### Clan Chronopsis

The Chronopsis clan can be considered as one of the two oldest mage clans, as they are direct descendants of the Zero King Kyron Avelenyss, through his daughter Serra Avelenyss. They are thus descendants of an Asterian, which is incredibly rare. Due to this line of descent and their good inheritance of magic, the Chronopsis clan has traditionally produced many of the strongest mages in Betoriv, specializing in space-time warping magic.

Chronopsis Clan mages are known for their ability to call on Asterian spirits as well, with their female mages having similarities to a High Asterian in being able to draw power from the combined hopes of the Asterians as a whole, to a much lesser degree. Their male mages are able to summon and command Asterian spirits for various purposes as well.

The Chronopsis Clan inherited the Aether Crest of the Zero King, and their speciality is in bending space and time. While their magic range is mostly short and the area affected small, due to the sheer power of this skill, they are known as some of the strongest in Betoriv. The average mage from the Chronopsis clan has potential to become a tactical grade mage and they have produced the most strategic mages in Betoriv.

#### Clan Avelenyss

The Avelenyss clan is the direct descent clan of the Zero King Kyron Avelenyss as well, descended from his son Arailin Avelenyss. Like the related Chronopsis Clan, they are descended from an Asterian, namely a High Asterian. This grants them incredibly powerful use of magic as well as a good birth to start with the learning of all kinds of magic.

Unlike the Chronopsis clan which is closely related, the Avelenyss clan isn't known for their talent and links to the Asterian race. However, they all possess eyes able to see the flow of magic, and an affinity for all magic types.

The Avelenyss Clan inherited the Aether Crest of the Zero King, and they specialize in the art of spell tracing. This makes them generally weaker than specialized mages in casting single lines of magic, but they have great versatility in casting all types of elemental magic.

#### Clan Heimdiall

The Heimdiall clan is also one of the older mage clans, descended from the witch Brynhild Heimdiall and wizard Siegfried Heimdiall, who were both disciples of the Zero King Kyron Avelenyss. They are also very staunch in their belief that the creation of Betoriv's current state is right, and will always pledge their full support and protection to the Betoriv Government. They are a proud and powerful clan with many members. Almost all of them have powerful physiques, and they are mostly physically able to fight like front line warriors.

The Heimdiall clan possesses an ice aligned family crest, and their specialization in magic reaches into skills that manipulate water and ice at large. They are also extremely experienced in stagnation and slowing magic, making them strong defense mages.

#### Clan Kudaigenov

The Kudaigenov clan is one of the more infamous and darker clans in Betoriv, due to the magic types they specialize in. They tend to keep to themselves, and the clan itself isn't very large due to how they insist on only having a limited size at all times. Their magic is focused on diseases, cursing, necromancy and atrophy, making them sometimes feared. However, they are generally supportive of the Betoriv state, and most are loyal to the country.

The Kudaigenov clan wields shadow magic thanks to their shadow aligned family crest, and as mentioned, they specialize in dark arts in general. They are also extremely skilled at the use of poison magic and biological magic. However, this also makes many of them the greatest doctors in Betoriv, due to their experience with toxicity and human anatomy.

#### Clan Ninsun

The Ninsun clan is a line descended from one of man's greatest heroes as well, the legendary King of the End Mithras Ninsun, who is the first member of the clan, and started it with his wife. All the mages of Clan Ninsun are his descendants, and they unconditionally all have vivid green eyes (similar to Mithras' wife) and blonde hair, due to what Mithras drew in the family crest. All Ninsun mages have psionic talent from birth.

Due to the nature of their first ancestor, the Ninsun mage clan is also one of the more famous clans for the production and creation of high quality enchanted and spirit weaponry, and in fact they have a tradition of creating powerful high tier swords. As the creation of spirit swords from Near Human souls has been outlawed, sometimes their clan members travel out of Betoriv to make such weapons, in parts where the law cannot touch them.

The Ninsun clan has a powerful light crest that grants them the usage of light magic, which is their primary support magic . Their main magic is projection magic, which allows them to create weapons, equipment and more from thin, as well as psionic magic to capitalize their natural power.

#### Clan Kukikosa

The Kukikosa clan is another highly regarded human clan, and they are known for being simple living mages who do nothing but dedicate their time to studying the depths of magic to a greater extent. Their great talent in magic therefore stems from this, but it also results in their family being generation after generation of simple scholars and teachers, giving them little political power.

The Kukikosa clan is also well known for their dedication to studying the arts, along with martial arts, making them skilled in areas of physical strength and dexterity even outside the realm of magic usage. They are therefore also known for their capacity to fight without magic, and many are famous artists and poets who comment on the state of the world through their art.

The Kukikosa clan uses a wind based family crest, and they are known to have mastery over all forms of wind and gas based magic via the manipulation of air. A good number of them are gravity mages as well, and it is noted that almost all Kukikosa mages are able to fly even from a young age.

#### Clan Caelestae

Clan Caelestae is a small and not very famous human clan, being relatively new. They are known to produce generation after generation of refined, highly educated scholars. Many of them work in various artistic or literary fields, pursuing interests in the humanities. They are noted to be highly talented in magic, probably as a side effect of having many archaeologists and adventurers.

The Caelestae clan uses a gravity crest for their family, and are known to be very skilled at using gravity based magic. They are also known to practice radiation manipulation. Most of them therefore are quite useful at protecting their allies and keeping enemies off balance if push comes to shove. Their high level of education also helps during dungeon exploration and moving around the world, since they can recognize a lot that's around them.

#### Clan Kinaste

A relatively infamous clan in Betoriv due to their preference for assassination, many members of Clan Kinaste end up working for the government in clandestine ops. They are masters in the use of concealment, transport and illusion based magic, making them very dangerous spies and assassins, along with their unique familial training to wield many weapons. They are almost never academic in nature.

The Kinaste clan is noted to produce a very strange ratio of males to females, with most of their descendants from the male line being female. Thus, only their rare male members learn Vitakinesis and high tier magic to teach the rest of the clan. The mostly female clan has their women do everything else, most notably perform assassination feats for the Betoriv government. This normally leads to very short lives. The most notable member is the witch Shaelin Kinaste, who married into the Felsionn elven clan, which brought a lot of shame to her clan when it happened.

The Kinaste clan is known to have a kinetic crest, which is the very crest that is inherited not just by them, but also the elven Felsionn clan. This allows for the use of spells and magic that are related to causing physical interference for no mana. The Kinaste clan is also known for their high speed multi teleportation technique and sword manipulation via high precision telekinesis.

#### Clan Arrhynias

A relatively small and knowledgeable clan in Betoriv, who produces quite a number of high ranking officers in the Betoriv Army, as well as a supplier of quite a few tactical class mages despite their lack of any strategic mages. They are focused on quality over quantity, and believe in the power of untransmuted mana for the use in attacks and spells.

The Arrhynias Clan is known for their usage of pure mana transformation and manipulation of pure mana for use in combat. They also train specialist mage killers who are able to suppress the mana of other mages by usage of pure mana. They are also notable practitioners of vitakinesis in all its forms and make for great support mages along with strike mages.

The Arrhynias Clan has a unique crest that produces untransmuted mana, which grants them the use of mana blasts and beams, as necessary for normal combat. This crest supplies a lot of extra mana, which means Arrhynias Clan mages are able to learn any form of elemental magic, even if they cannot use it to the fullest. They are also famous for their mana control and reinforcement, therefore.

### Flinrock

Asterians do not form clans and are not known to breed genetically, except in the rare case of a High Asterian marrying out of her race. Hence, there are no established mage clans that originate from Flinrock.

### Kyrsides

#### Clan Felsionn

The Felsionn Clan is a powerful monarchy's Royal Family, and is one of the most powerful clans in Kyrsides. They are believers in the power of the Monarchy, and all of them protect the single relative they place on the throne every time a king or queen passes away. They are considered to be the most powerful High Elven mages for most part, even though not all of them are powerful mages. The very famous strategic mages Kyra and Aran Felsionn are part of this clan.

The Felsionn family crest is descended from the human witch Shaelin Kinaste, who possessed a Kinetic Energy Magic crest, thus technically they possess the Kinaste crest of the human Kinaste clan. This grants them an unusually high quality and high power human drawn crest. Other than that, the Felsionn family specializes in the use of Kinetic, Wind, Light and Aether magic.

#### Clan Asyrrieon

The Asyrrieon clan is another powerful High Elven clan, and they are a powerful faction in Kyrsides. Unlike most of the other elves, they do not desire power for themselves, and would rather focus on the protection of the family itself from outside harm. They have also bred many extremely powerful mages, who have led to great successes in defending their lands from other clans. Most of the Tactical and Strategic Mages from the High Elven families have historically came from the Asyrrieon clan.

The Asyrrieon clan also have a human ancestor which is shared with the human Ninsun clan, and thus they inherited a very powerful light crest as their family crest. Their magic is based on the power of wavelength modification, and thus all of them are talented light and sound manipulation mages, with some molecular magic users. Clan Asyrrieon has dimensional manipulation techniques as well.

#### Clan Dianieon

The Dianieon clan is a lesser known, but still strong High Elven clan, being a significant and strong faction in Kyrsides with many members. They tend to be less political and more businesslike than the Felsionn clan, and prefer to control and manipulate systems through favours and money rather than social standing and power. The family is known to be experienced in the usage of healing magic as well as water magic, which they often use to accrue favors. While the family has not produced a nationally recognized Strategic Class Mage, it has a disproportionate amount of Tactical Class Mages.

The Dianieon clan is very proud of their water crest, which was the only elven crest drawn with the same quality as a human one, since their earliest ancestor learned the art of drawing crests from a human mage. This gives them the use of low tier water magic for no mana usage, and they are able to utilize high tier water magic as well. The Dianieon clan is known to be able to utilize the elusive and powerful Atmosphere Magic via water vapor as well.

#### Clan Typheon

The Typheon clan is a Dark Elven clan, and they are the only clan who consistently produces Dark Elven mages who can compare with those of the High Elven clans. The clan specializes in mainly alteration based magic that changes rather than adds or destroys. Their mages are noted to have human ancestry, like all the other "true elven mage clans" which explains their top tier family crest.

Clan Typheon has a family crest that uses shadow elemental magic, and thus is experienced with dark magic. They are also masters of alchemical transformation via magic, and transmutations. Some of them are known to be skilled in forms of earth, fire, water and air magic, for very specific applications.

#### Clan Saramenn

The Saramenn clan is a Dusk Elven clan, and they are one of the known dusk elven clans who are talented in magic beyond the common elf. Their specialty is in fact in the use of golems and various conjured entities to fight, and they are very big on the creation and summoning of high strength familiars. As such, they are known to overproduce children, and thus sacrifice the weak to give their stronger members more Grimoire Spirits, although it is rare to see anyone with more than three spirits. They are known to dislike spirit equipment in general.

The Saramenn clan has a earth based crest that's used to cast their basic magic, and they are talented at bending the earth and material world. Some know the art of flora manipulation, and can control and manipulate plants for their magic. Some of their mages are able to bend the souls of other people to a certain extent via special magic.

#### Clan Aquilenn

The Aquilenn clan is another Dusk elven clan, also known to be relatively talented with magic compared to the average Dusk elf, although they have not produced a single Strategic Class Mage. They are known for their production of mages who are able to summon and command twisted effigies of various beasts and creatures for their own need, based on their unique family magic. They are also experienced in the art of stealth and subterfuge.

Clan Aquilenn is known to utilize a crest aligned with poison and toxin. This allows them to use dangerous poison based spells for no mana, which makes them very deadly in combat. Their skill in the creation of demonic beasts is also a very strong ability that can easily overwhelm weak foes.

### Setora

#### Clan Khybelay

The Khybelay clan is the only mage clan in Setora, and consists of the brightest, most magically inclined dwarves. They are the only Setoran clan, therefore, as other Setorans tend to form unions of unrelated individuals rather than clans. As such, the magical power of the Khybelay clan is extremely high, on par with humans and elves for most part, unlike all the dwarves around them. They are treated with some scorn by many dwarves for their adherence to magic.

The Khybelay clan is known to have a history of trying to produce a Dwarven Strategic Class Mage, an endeavor which has succeeded with the birth of Radriarc Khybelay, and their eugenics program forms the core of the clan's belief. They only accept marriage from Dwarves with a certain talent, and all the Dwarves in the clan take the last name of Khybelay as their last name, overwriting their previous name. They also occasionally take in humans, elves or dryads to further their magical potential. The Khybelay clan also tries to combine magic and technology, as well as learn advanced magic techniques like circuit drawing.

The Khybelay clan is known to perhaps have one of the most advanced crests in Carokiiv, despite being a dwarven clan. It has extreme complexity, due to being a product of ridiculous genetic legacies and cross breeding. While it's not stronger than any crest in terms of output, it reflects the unique magic of the Khybelay clan. It is also the second crest which has two Vitakinetic Channels, explaining the longevity of all the clan members compared to the average dwarf.

The Khybelay clan has a powerful fused crest, made from a Water, Air and Earth Crest. This is the Molecular crest, and allows their powerful molecular transformation magic for no mana. As such, their mages use strong force and weak force techniques for their basic attacks. For their main magic forms, other than Earth, Water and Air magic, the Khybelay clan uses Nuclear and Molecular spells.