Channelling

Legend

“As the Monster charged, he remembered words by a stranger he had met. On the verge of death, the stranger’s name quietly on his lips, an astral door appeared in a flash. Grinning, the stranger nodded hello, plucked the charging monster’s head, and vanished.”

Skjald Sejrik

Description

Channelling is the act of drawing power directly from divine entities — not through worship or prayer, but through alignment, invocation, and resonance. Practitioners of this realm do not cast spells in the traditional sense; they become conduits, allowing divine will to flow through them like molten gold through a carved vein. Each god’s energies manifests differently: a war deity may surge as fury and flame, while a god of secrets may whisper through shadows and silence. The channeller’s body, mind, and soul must be prepared to host such forces, lest they be overwhelmed or consumed. Rituals, relics, and sacred oaths often serve as stabilisers, anchoring mortal flesh to immortal flame.

Unlike other magic realms, channelling is both learnt — and granted. The gods choose their vessels based on obscure criteria: bloodlines, dreams, deeds, or even accidents of fate. Some channellers awaken during moments of crisis, when divine attention pierces the veil and binds itself to a soul in need. Others train for decades, hoping to earn a glimpse of divinity. The magic itself is volatile and deeply personal; no two channellers wield it the same way. What one calls a blessing, another may endure as a burden.

Philosophers argue that channelling blurs the line between autonomy and servitude. Is the channeller a master of divine power or merely a mouthpiece for unknowable will? The realm invites both reverence and rebellion, as some seek to understand the gods they serve, while others attempt to bend divine force to mortal agendas. The greatest channellers walk a razor’s edge — part prophet, part weapon, part sacrificial flame. And though the gods may speak through them, it is the silence between invocations that often reveals the true cost of their gift.

Skjald Ulrich

History

Dark Ages

One could argue channelling is the youngest of the three realms, but one could also argue it’s the oldest, as mana is the very core of gods and mana was the element that created and shaped all divines. That debate aside, channelling as such began to unfold greatly when the Boriac used mana to link to things, and these links became sentinent, slowly evolving into the gods.

Skjald Sigurd

First Age

Not all divine races have let their energies flow into or through worshippers, and generally all but the gods stopped this back in the dark, or First Age.

But as the willpower of gods is exhibited via their worshippers, they continue the practice. Allowing powerful enough channelling to modify the Vornir's already complicated network of mana threads.

For these magic path releases, not only deity energies are channelled but also the target object’s truename is used. Loyal worshippers are not only nodes of whimsical godly energies, but they are also capable of bending reality as they see fit, as long as they do not depart too far from their deities.

Skjald Vinotis