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Age of the Corrupted

A hidden discovery on Aleknath opens the age in which The Corrupted Tomes takes place.

Threshold: Blood Magic
Defining discovery: Blood Magic ↗
Duration: Shorter than the preceding age

01 / The threshold

What opens
this age?

Blood Magic, or Hemomancy, is the elemental magic of Soul. Although it was historically called Ancient Necromancy, it belongs to Elementalism rather than to Necromancy proper.

Open the complete Blood Magic dossier ↗

02 / The living record

What is known
inside the age.

Discovery

Its hidden discovery on Aleknath marked the first day of the Age of the Corrupted. A plane on which everything is alive was the natural place for a magic rooted in Soul, blood and living exchange to appear.

A hidden beginning

Opening an age did not make Hemomancy widely known. It remained a secret practice and did not broadly distribute across Urmatoth.

The Redeemer God

A minor magical figure later called the Redeemer God discovered Blood Magic partly by accident and first used it to save and nurture a vulnerable people and their young empire.

Return and enslavement

After being absent for most of the empire's roughly ten-thousand-year history, he returned in its final decades. Blood Magic then spread through the empire as a means of enslavement to him.

Scale of consequence

The saga was geographically limited, affecting an empire that covered less than a tenth of Urmatoth at its peak. Its importance was causal: the collapse helped create the conditions from which Necromancy arose.

03 / World coordinates

One discovery.
Many consequences.

Magic: Blood Magic ↗
Great Power: Celestial Domain
First root: Aleknath
Classification: Elementalism of Soul

Series set in this ageThe Corrupted TomesFour books currently in development↗

04 / Connected archive

Follow the magical
relationships.

Magic dossierElementalismCelestial Domain↗Its ageAge of Power→

Magic dossierNecromancyCelestial Domain↗Its ageAge of Necromancy→

Magic dossierSorceryCelestial Domain↗Its ageAge of Discovery→

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