Talk:Dantia/Storylines/Mana Surges & Wild Magic

This is an ONGOING ROLEPLAYING EVENT. Information is being updated as it becomes available.

The Lead Up

Date	Summary	Link
438-05-38(ish) Jun/Jul 2021	People started receiving occasional odd messaging when casting spells. During Hollow Eve 2021 (and 2022), several Merelew Greeters asked adventurers if they had been having these strange feelings, too. For a comprehensive list of messaging and probability over time, see Urbaj's roundup.	N/A
448-05-04 Mar 2, 2024	Mazrian hosts the "Investigating the Magical Mind" event, where adventurers participated in an experiment to try to recreate these oddities in a controlled way. Various mana types and spells were tested, with casters being observed, and other casters attempting to tamper with the mana streams to induce resonance or dampening, with the goal of inducing a similar state as the oddities. There were no conclusive outcomes of this investigation..	N/A
449-05-20 Jun 14, 2024	The magic oddities (sometimes referred to as surges) begin increasing in frequency, eventually culminating on June 14, 2024 to occur on each and every each cast. Several meetings are held to discuss what this might signify, with no solid hypothesis. One idea that comes up is to try to reduce the amount of casting that adventurers are doing, but it's decided that would be too hard to orchestrate.	N/A

Normal Magic is Out, Wild Magic is In

Date	Summary	Log
449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024	A realm-wide magical disruption caused all magic users to experience intense pain as their specific magical attunements were suddenly severed, rendering the magic system inoperative. Over the next hour, characters experienced a series of sensations ranging from coldness to overwhelming surges of mana, culminating in the restoration of magic but in an uncontrollable "Wild Magic" state. Expand for details. Realm wide, people felt one of the below messages, depending on their mana type/Guild: Pain stabs through your mind and body as your attunement to the breathing rise and fall of Life is suddenly severed! (Empath / Ranger) Pain stabs through your soul as your attunement to the footsteps of the gods wavers and becomes lost! (Cleric / Paladin) Pain stabs through your mind and body as your attunement to the elemental forces around you is suddenly severed! (Warrior Mage / Bard) Pain stabs through your mind and body as your attunement to the heavenly bodies is suddenly severed! (Moon Mage / Trader) Pain stabs through your scarred mind as your multifaceted attunement to the mana spectrum is suddenly undone! (Necromancer) After this, attempting to use the magic system (such as prepare a spell, harness, invoke a tattoo, or use a wand) you would receive one of two messages. Magic was off! [The magic system is inoperative at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience.] Strangely, you can sense absolutely nothing. It's as if magic didn't exist. Over the next hour, we felt (in this order): Your body trembles as your mind instinctively reaches toward that place where you usually feel your connection to magic. It is cold. You feel a surge of mana reaching toward you! You instinctively reach out to grasp it. You struggle to hold on, but it slips away again, leaving you feeling exhausted. You sense a fleeting trace of mana. It briefly grows stronger, but quickly fades away again. Your senses explode and you are momentarily blinded! Mana overfills your being, and you struggle to control the flow! Just as suddenly, it seeps away, leaving you empty. You feel a deep sense that something has changed. Your attunement to the breathing rise and fall of Life is restored, but it does not feel controllable! Casting had returned, but now it was Wild! For more information on how Wild Magic works, the messaging, or effects, please visit Wild Magic (Concept).	N/A
449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024	Shortly after the the Wild Magic release, there was an invasion of Vile Plague Wraiths throughout Shard, Zoluren and Therengia. Expand for details. > look wraith Held aloft by two expansive skeletal wings, the massive plague wraith towers over thirty feet tall. Under its tattered cloak, a black mass of writhing insects and serpents cling tightly to a nearly fleshless skeleton. Four elongated arms, covered in a tangle of scorpions and spiders, end in wickedly curved talons that twitch in anticipation of its next victim. Practically obscured by the inky shadows cast by its voluminous hood, two flaming emerald eyes partially illuminate its malevolent hook-toothed skull. Some of these creatures drop an emerald scarab medallion with a delicate gold inlay, which was cursed (meaning you could not drop it until it was uncursed).	N/A
449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024	Along with the release of wild magic was the addition of a new RESEARCH option, RESEARCH WILD. On completion, each Guild receives a different message with hints as to what is going on. Expand for details. Trader: Breakthrough! Lunar mana fizzes out of focus with unknowable, periodic perturbations from the planets in your range. Oddly enough, it is the Negotiants' unbidden tutelage that nudges you toward the research's endpoint and a wealth of knowledge relating to wild magic. You are assured that the Contract is still inviolate and binding, and all prohibitions remain. The Contract is all that matters. Moon Mage: Breakthrough! Lunar mana fizzes out of focus with unknowable, periodic perturbations from the planets in your range. Oddly enough, your calculations prompt you to think back to a time with Katamba unburnt and Grazhir whole, the golden age of near-effortless Lunar miracles. All lost now, and the threads are converging on a similarly disastrous trajectory! Paladin: Breakthrough! You have come to an alarming conclusion you attribute the changes in Holy mana's behavior to long-standing and widespread lopsided practices of magic. An imbalance is shaking the Bulwark loose, which seems bafflingly vulnerable against this menace. Cleric: Breakthrough! You have come to an alarming conclusion you attribute the changes in Holy mana's behavior to an 'upward' lurch in the flow. Something is stymieing or etiolating the Font of Creation, and Divinity itself is suffering for it! Bard: Breakthrough! Something is broken with the replenishment cycles of Elemental mana. Even though you have not noticed a decrease in available power, it seems inevitable. From what your research has evoked, you have the smallest understanding, the barest shape, of an eonic plan that stretches back to the dark histories -- gods and demons, mortals and monsters all helpless before it. Warrior Mage: Breakthrough! Something is broken with the replenishment cycles of Elemental mana. Even though you have not noticed a decrease in available power, it seems inevitable. Lessons from long ago prickle at your mind concerning the lore of Sraan Mehath. You cannot shake a feeling of deep dread. Empath: Breakthrough! Life mana has buckled under vast pressures from what feel like above and below. Although this instills a fear in you for the fate of the cycle of life, you do not think the repercussions will echo to the natural world just yet. Ranger: Breakthrough! Life mana has buckled under vast pressures from what feel like above and below. You have an intimation that the Life dragons are keenly aware of the causes, preparing and further isolating their conserved lands. However, as usual, they have withheld their counsel. Necromancer: Breakthrough! You just concluded the unpleasant task of tracking the continual disruption in Arcane mana, step by minute step. Some force beyond your ken, nothing short of godly, has been changing the rules with a brutal hand. The Great Work is tipped on the brink of impossibility as the mana streams become increasingly immiscible, sterile, and foreign textured all at once. Necromancer (Redeemed): Breakthrough! You just concluded the unpleasant task of tracking the continual disruption in Arcane mana, step by minute step. The grand order ordained by the gods is under attack by... itself? In ways you cannot approach grasping, the mana spectrum is separating out, each strand resisting attempts to bend it into patterns.	N/A

Player Story: Remembering Keishalae

Date	Summary	Link
449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024	Dantia struggles with sleepless nights due to the concerning implications of the Wild Magic phenomenon, which seems to threaten the cycle of life and death. While researching, she has a sudden epiphany connecting the nature of Life magic to a mysterious figure named Keishalae, who had previously demanded death as payment.	Full Story

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