Nascita Notes

Architecture

 * majority of the castle in the northern lowheart/ bale region are similar to Stokesay Castle, as more fortified timber frame manors than stone fortresses. eeee

Drugs

 * Spice, a drug that increases mana absorption and gives a feeling of ecstasy, highly addictive and damages the body, mind and soul with extended use
 * a drug that removes all feelings of pain and allows the user to fight beyond normal human limits, highly addictive with terrible withdrawal symptoms

Loose Thoughts

 * magic ritual that binds a person's soul with an animal, used by witches(and wizards?) for familiars and by shamanistic tribal hunters.

On Mages

 * A mage is just someone with magical abilities


 * A wizard is someone born with great magical ability and trained from birth until the death of his master, inheriting the title of wizard.
 * alternatively, a wizard is a mage who makes a pact with a powerful being to gain great magical ability. (essentially a d&d warlock/male witch)
 * A sorcerer/sorceress is a mage who has magical ability and is taught to use them formally.
 * A witch is a female mage who makes a pact with a demon or powerful spirit for greater magical ability

On Interracial Breeding

 * Only humans and elves may reproduce because of the mutation of the elven race
 * half-elven children with the human dominate gene simply carry elven blood without altering their appearance and gain long livelihood
 * half elven children with the elven dominate gene become sterile mules and only have the extended half-blood livelihood
 * elven dominate half-elves retain their pointed ears and grow facial hair
 * the elven gene is carried generation to generation and the elven dominate can still occur several generations after the initial half-breed child
 * Humans and dwarves from secluded valley have been the only exception to the rule
 * their offspring are shorter and hairier than humans and are sterile with the dwarven lifespan

Necromancy

 * preformed with sound, such as through the ringing of a bell or singing a song
 * the ringing of a bell would be enough to give the resurrected a simple command(attack someone in front of them, retrieve and item in the next room, etc,) while more complex commands would need a song played
 * a necromancer could preform a ritual to turn themselves into a lich as long as the sound is continuous simulating a heartbeat
 * a lich in bale using a grandfather clock
 * a jiangshi who attached a bell to themselves and continually hops to animate themself

Thralls

 * either a magically mutated or manufactured humanoid created by some mages to preform small tasks
 * thrall's bodies are filled with mana, which if needed, a mage could tap into to cast spells at the cost of the thrall's life