Chiasm, the path to peerless insight.
A mystical fantasy world ridden with epic style monsters and adventure, a world named by its inhabitants "FERO", deriving from the the earthly realm bearing and anchoring all other realms togheter, acting as the central hub of the universe, ruled by the "Five Magics" and its forlorn dietys, Sorcery, Divinity, Alchemy, elementary arts and the disaster arts.
[Story Overview]
Follow through the story of Astran, a solider who walked the path of time, plunging forward in time with all his important memories gone, only left with the knowledge of the world, follow through his journey of re learning the truth of the world as he encounters various relics of his past, battling with a corrupt and tainted order and uncovering the mysteries held by the stars and those beyond Earthly realms boundary.
[Magic Overview]
The 5 magics compromise of different mediums to invoke the magic, ultimately however, all forms of "magic" derive from the stars and draw on the power of constellations or any of the material world, how powerfull the sources one draws on will depend on the users innate ability, sorcery is a special magic which rather than needing a source it will fuel its own source with the users immaterial self, which makes it grow as the user and their mind grows, it can be used as a source for the other magics, in rare cases unique "inner" abilities may be blessed upon someone, wether by a god or a fleeting memory, a blessing holds great power regardless of who endows it due to the difficulties of granting one, the constellation one can draw on will mark their status and will greatly affect standing in the world, magic is a rare enough as it is, only have roughly 30% of the world proficient in one type of magic, making subsequent mastery of multiple magics less than 5% starting with 2 magics, those who do not posses the ability to wield at least one type of magic fall under the Earthly guilder ranks.
A 6th magic exists, unattainable by regular means, theorised to draw on neither godly, humane, or impure sources, said to grant a unique insight into the universe, driving all its users mad to extinction.
There are 12 known ranks, each bearing the name of a star, constellation, galaxy, or super cluster, dividing the ranks into 4 separate categories of magic capable warriors. Magic wielding warriors are also capable of joining the Earthly guilders, though most chose to pave their own path.
[Non-Magic overview]
Non-magic wielders are divided in the Earthly guilder rankings, consisting of the 9 factions and kingdoms that rule over the earth realm, the guilder rankings consist of 9 classes, this is due to the fighters predominantly produced by each kingdom and faction, each class has 4 ranks, roughly going from Novice -> Adept -> Echoed -> Insightful. Each rank followed by the class affix, e.g Novice swordsman. Each rank is equivalent to the 4 categories of the Magic Rankings.
Beyond both the magic rankings and the Earthly Guilders are the 'named' varying in strength and insight, these are those deemed worthy of walking a path separate to the realms will, due to their overwhelming strength that can directly threaten the balance of the world, often being nicknamed after their enormous sources.
In addition monsters also fall into these categories, as most species are highly intelligent they fit in their own unique sub class within the 9 and are more likely to unique titles, monsters being the only ones of the 9 classes that allow subclasses, the sub classes are simply regarded by the 4 rank standard, but may use 2 affixes, such as Echoed Silver-Tounged dragon. Which would signify that despite being of the Echoed dragon rank, it would be much more dangerous than a red tounged dragon, due to the silver species being much more deadly, roughly being one rank higher in terms of innate ability.
[Author Note]
This is my first novel so any suggestions about moving forward with the plot, critiques on the writing style etc. Are much appreciated!
