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No. 1498
>>1496
Oh dear. A good opportunity to clear up the misleading "witch", "demon" and "magic" terminology, I suppose.
And just to make reading easier: Asividan pronunciation is very English-esque, and we pluralize words with s/as, while n/an often indicates using a word as an adjective.
... there will be a TL;DR at the bottom that skips all the explanations. :^)
Thus, no worries; if a quick overview is all you want, simply scroll down.
First of all, rather than using the incorrect term "magic", I will use the Asividan term "Endora"; it is the proper term coined for the innate powers of Asividans, derived from the words for "imagination" and "willpower".
So then. There were originally just two native species in Asivida:
- Humans (Asividan: Udans), native to the universes contained in Asivida; not naturally capable of utilizing Endora despite their powerful imagination due to lacking the required willpower
- Evonnas, native to extrauniversal space in Asivida; a separate term for a matured Evonna capable of using Endora to its full potential is "Arna"; naturally capable of utilizing Endora; look like humans except for their pupils, which look like those of a snake; the misleading English term you may know them as is "demon"
Here is where things get a tad more complicated.
Due to a change made to the laws of nature by Archlord Alistair V. Hartford in the ballpark of 40,000 to 70,000 years ago, a long time before even the founding of Salis, pure humans are actually extinct in all of the livable / traversable regions of southern Asivida (Arvida, Osrevida, Tovravida, Rivida, Adovida, Imvida, Irgevida, Movida and the region now known as Acnova, assuming any life still exists in the latter).
(The reason this affected only the mentioned regions is the fact that most kinds and magnitudes of conceptual energy, and thus most of any effects of Endora, cannot pass through Asivida's unlivable / impassable regions.)
Instead, humans born in all those regions are born as part-Evonna. These humans can then awaken to their Evonnan side and the heightened willpower that comes with it (which is in most cases triggered by an extremely heightened emotional state, psychological trauma, or something along those lines), allowing them use of Endora.
This part-human part-Evonna species, when fully* awakened that way, is referred to as "Stista"; this is the dominant species here in Salis, the one you may have previously heard of under the misleading term "witch".
Here too we have a separate term for a matured Stista fully attuned to their use of Endora, that being "Arsta".
Stistas are generally capable of using much higher-magnitude Endora than Evonnas due to having both the powerful imagination of humans and the great willpower of Evonnas.
* Humans can also awaken to merely a portion of their Evonnan side. We still refer to those as humans, despite them being capable of utilizing low-magnitude Endora.
(The Japanese warrior Fujiwara Suzuko and Crown-Princess Agahara of Kozu, in that sequence of events currently taking place in one of Asivida's countless universes which you may or may not be observing for entertainment, are two such humans, for instance. There is a thread about said events here on 9chan, if you are interested.)
In that sense, Archlord Alistair V. Hartford is generally seen as the originator of most or all Stistas, and likely the first of our kind.
Lastly, there is extrauniversal life present in the northern parts of Asivida as well; there is a sizable portion of livable extrauniversal space there that we can say for certain does exist (we even mapped it out precisely), but we have yet to find any way of actually going there due to being cut off from there by impassable regions in between.
It might be populated by Evonnas, it might be populated by something entirely different. We do not know anything about the extrauniversal inhabitants of those regions outside the fact that they have a strong conceptual signature not unlike Evonnas, meaning they too are users of Endora.
We also suspect that they might have much more advanced scientific knowledge about our world than we do, due to the fact that one livable / traversable region in the north, an offshoot of the Trodevida region designated TDV-4, borders directly on Sovida, which is a luxury we in the south do not have (the closest we can get to Sovida is the westernmost parts of Arvida).
TL;DR:
- Humans (Asividan: Udans), native to universal space; pure humans exist only outside our explored and lived in regions, the rest are part-Evonna
- Evonnas (Matured: Arna), native to extrauniversal space, presumably the oldest species in Asivida, founding and majority species of the nation Lavon, founding and sole species of the nation Laed
- Stistas (Matured: Arsta), aforementioned hybrids after awaking to their Evonnan side, presumably the youngest species in Asivida, founding and majority species of the nation Salis
- Possibly one or more other species in northern Asivida that, should they exist, we know next to nothing about
And that should cover everything. : )
PS: Yes, there are two types of Creators in Asivida.
We call them Odsas (lower-tier, seemingly any Asividan, or at the very least any Stista, can become one) and Irstas (higher-tier, it seems only two of them exist), but thus far we have no evidence that either genetically differs much or at all from Stistas, so we do not technically count them as separate species of their own.
The only distinguishable differences are that Irstas have white pupils and seem to give off no sign of conceptual energy radiation that others (or at least non-Creators) could sense / perceive.
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