A Sampling of Magic
Geises & Curses
The Geis-of-Protection –> A snippet of programming that makes the WuShi assign a fire-dragon to a NuliZhu as protector. In their insecurity, the NuliZhu hard-coded into the WuShi a geis-of-protection on any fire-dragon it could find which forced the dragon to protect the NuliZhu individual with its life. This is why a fire-dragon must always accompany Elijah. It creates an agony-of-compulsion until satisfied. The fire-dragons also call this the Curse-of-the-WuShi.
The-Dreaded-Geis –> The curse-of-immolation. The Sisteren’s ultimate punishment reserved for the most violent crimes. Results in the complete immolation of the perpetrator.
Confrontation-by-Source –> When two adepts go at it in a battle to the death.
Curse-Cobra –> Song-of-the-Hamadryad, a songspell that materializes a curse-cobra long enough to rise up and stare the victim in the eye. A forbidden songspell only the Keeper of the Curses would know. Old Nebhet was the Keeper of the Curses, and she knew the Song-of-the-Hamadryad, which she kept as part of her secret role.
The-Baneful-Chaos –> The Black Chaos. The-Blasted-Sisters, a sect of corrupt, hedonistic, and power-besotted source-singers who practiced human sacrifice using black rituals and evil conjurations to enhance the purity of their dark arts—these practices were collectively called The-Baneful-Chaos. This became the moniker for the forces of lust, greed, and murder by life-force inhalation [gluttony] that eventually possessed Yenara when she misused the ShahRen.
Dragon Magic & Dracomancy
A Summoning –> Name-magic in the formal forms of the Long Shai of the Elder Dragons is used when someone wants to call someone else to them. Like a geis, the one who name had been invoked must somehow seek out the one who performed the summoning.
The Long Shai –> Magical language of the dragons.
Dracomancy –> The art of employing dragon-magic or acting on behalf of the dragons using their powers.
Flaming Pearl of Wisdom –> The power of the Pearl is used for a specifically desired outcome. Yu Long gives this to Elijah which makes him Regent to the Dynasty of the Golden Dragon.
Passing of the Pearl –> Ceremony to coronate a new Imperial Sovereign.
Songspells
of the Huan Long Shui Sisteren
Song-of-Summoning –> Sung by dragons to invoke a Pentakulum
Song-of-Thoth’s Fire –> Sung to toggle the Razing on the Pentakulum off and on..
Song-of-the-Sigil –> Selene sings to create the Sigil-of-Opening at the Pillar’s of Thoth, the ancient ritual-of-opening.
Song-of-Secrets –> Creates a zone of privacy.
Song-of-the-Voids –> Sung in the Long Shai language of the Dragons, written by Alahna to find a hero by opening the Forbidden Gate. It causes the WuShi to generate a transdimensional-arc between the Pillars-of-Thoth at the Plaza-of-the-Forbidden-Gate.
Song-of-the-Healing-Waters –> Sung when someone is immersed in water to heal them of their injuries or illness. This is driven by the power of the WuShi’s connection to water. This songspell also calls chi or life-elixir into the recipient as a tonic or restorative.
Song-of-the-Winds –> Wind-song, used to call on the Powers-of-Air. Wind-singers use their powers to call up breezes strong enough to propel ships upriver to Riverbend and to cross the ShenLan Sea.
The Awakening –> Huan Long Shui Order’s name for bringing the WuShi up into higher levels of consciousness.
Song-of-Successive-Deactivations –> Used to sing the WuShi into lower and lower states of consciousness.
Emerald Katana –> Eli’s sword made from the fangs of the emerald queen dragon. Imbued with dragon-magic along its surface, the almost imperceptible greenish aura from the sword flowed up Eli’s arm and surrounded his body.
Mind-lance –> Power imbued into Eli. Using it, he can control or kill. It is also a power dragons have, and Yu long teaches Eli how to use it so he can defend himself. Eli eventually uses this directed killing power, amplified by the WuShi, as a weapon of mass destruction against the ZhuRen aka long-heads or Pures.
Techno-magic
SijanPao –> The Sphere-of-Power is a hollow sphere of time-shifted energy a high- adept can spawn and deresolve at will. Whether spawned or not, this power runs through her life as a symbiotic, telepathic technology that unites her with the rogue artificial-intelligence—known as the WuShi—when she gets initiated into the Huan Long Shui Sisteren.
ChongtuPao –> The combat mode of a Pao which can move as fast as thought itself.
BaohuPao –> A sphere-of-power sung by a high-adept for the HaiChuan Black Ships—Frigate Class stealth spacecraft with ferocious, boson-beam weaponry.
Quaver –> The Pao is ever present as potential or reality from the moment a Sister moves from inductee to acolyte. The truer purpose was as a Quaver, minimally composed of one source singer and one dragon, and up to seven source-singers and two dragons. In the extreme case, one dragon helps direct fire at enemies while the other coordinates battle-mind to prevent confusion. One adept manages each quadrant while another two manage respective top and bottom to provided fire in all directions or even coordinated volleys. The seventh adept is the one who owns the ChongtuPao and is responsible for vector navigation. By employing time-distortion, usually fast-time, depending on what is called for, the Quaver becomes an almost irresistible and indestructible, localized battle-construct.
ShahRen –> The weapon worn by the High Priestess of the Huan Long Shui Sisteren on her wrist. A high-adept with a ShahRen can expose an enemy to a lethal bath of radiation so hot it vaporizes them completely–no corpse left behind–without instantiating or firing a bolt of blackfire.
Magicfire –> Source-energy azure flamelets summoned forth from the body of an adept during SijanPao or songspell when they control and command source-magic