Lore

The first star was a massive entity that brought light to the universe. Its mere presence turned the primordial essences that made up everything into defined forms of matter. Where they were once nothing more than blobs of undefined mass, they became the materials that make up our universe today.

The second generation of stars began to emerge as the first star was dying. From the materials that made reality, they were born and burned bright. They held in them the same magic to define reality, but it was weaker. And with every generation star's magic would grow lesser and lesser. The darkness returning as galaxies grow less magnificent.

The universe is filled with third and fourth generation stars, whose light can barely define a single solar system. In time, the stars will burn out forever and darkness will reign once more.

Magic

Light is inherently magical, but very muted when unfocused. By using strange crystals people were able to cut runes into different materials. These crystals acted as lenses to focus the light into beams that gave off an innate magic.

Magic could be focused further by using these beams to make runic designs. Runes were used to, in essence, program spells and then activate them.

In the past it could take months to collect enough starlight to cut a standard spell into a material, mistakes withheld. Most runesmiths made only a handful of functioning runes within their lifetime.

The process of collecting starlight requires the calibration of countless mirrors and lenses as the light is pulled from the targeted stars, sometimes the sun, and pushed through a narrow scope to relinquish a small amount of magical energy into the rune. Mistakes could not be erased.

There are several runic languages, called formations, that use the same runes to manifest magic. The following are the runic formations that determines not only the runes form, but the powers it may have.

Crown Runic - a circular formula of runes used in manifestation and transmutation. Requiring the most accuracy of any runes types the rotation, spacing, and size of each minor rune is immensely more important than in other runic formations.

Chain Runic - the distribution of runes in a long pattern that can be used for connection and the flow of energy. Unlike other runes the marks don't disappear after use, they only deepen like vents used to control the flow of water. This will damage and may even destroy the materials the runes are engraved into.

Graft Runic - melding pieces of minor runes into major runes. Used in spacial distortion and the malleability of materials. The effects of these runes are not permanent unlike other runes. They effects must be upkept or they will fade away over time.

There is said to be a perfect runic formation that can alter any aspect of reality. Each formation named before are theorized to only be partially correct and make up some part of this perfect runic formation. Basically, each design is probably present to some degree in the perfect runic formation, but no one can figure out how to properly combine them into a singular, coherent rune.

Runic Magic