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Sorcelator

Sorcelators: men of magic. Extreme magic, in this case. Any old loser can imagine a world of generic wizards (cough Tycho Brahe cough), but only the genius of L H Franzibald could have come up with sorcelators. In The Song of the Sorcelator Saga (or The Song for short), a sorcelator is any being who has the power to wield magic - man, machine, or otherwise. Sorcelators are looked upon by the rest of the population of Fehtahn with awe, respect; even fear.

Sorcelators range far across (and in some cases, even beyond) the moral spectrum. Any given sorcelator's powers have no bearing on his morality, although there are negative and positive stigmas commonly associated with certain elementials. Sorcelators of Bedarkening, for instance, are often thought to be the most mondo uncool and evilicious of sorcelators, but, like Grimm Shado, many practitioners of Sorcelatory break this mould and are fine upstanding citizens instead.

There are seven elementials; more information on them can be found here.

Sorcelators manipulate one of these elementials - they do not get to choose which at leisure, their affinity for a certain elemential being bestowed upon them alongside their magical prowess at birth. Certain exceptional sorcelators, such as Grimm Shado , are born with an affinity for two separate elementials, and their lives are often extreme and pulse-pounding to the maxx. Dual-elemential sorcelators, or Xorcelators, usually have troubled upbringings and find making friends difficult. On the other hand, they also usually find kicking righteous amounts of evil robot ass, along with bedding righteous amounts of robot cyberpunk women, surprisingly easy.

The power which fuels a sorcelator's magic is drawn from Fehtahn's core: the Source Well. In the heart of the world lies the Source Well, a pulsing sphere of pure magical energy, threads of different elementials intertwining in a neverending battle of balance between the powers they represent. In layman's terms, it's like a really big ball of wool, except all different colours and made of magic. When a sorcelator is born, a tiny amount of a given elemential is bestowed upon them from here, and when they call upon it, they can channel its magic through their appropriately-aligned wand(s). After use, it flows back through the cracks of the world to the Source Well. Since the very existence of the world is reliant on the Source Well being stable, and sorcelators possess inherently energy from it, 14% of the sorcelator population must therefore be aligned with any given elemential. There is also a rogue .28% element, which can be assumed to represent those rare few bestowed with the power to manipulate two elementials.

The concept of balance is highly important to sorcelatory. Since the Source Well is highly volatile and the energies sorcelators possess and manipulate are intimately intertwined with it, great care must be taken. Nature does its best to keep the balance in check itself, but every so often members of The Imperious Dozen, a top secret council of the world's most powerful sorcelators, must take a matter of balance into their own hands. For example, when a sorcelator of Fieriness is killed before his time, an unlucky man on the other side of the planet might for a brief second see a wizardly figure in a black robe, wand fizzling, strolling away from the charred dwelling of a sorcelator of Riverin. Matters are not always this clearcut - but as of the first book, the Dozen's shadier Bedarkened-Ops activities are only hinted at, never spoken of.

Also See: Burn Outs