In the Late Ages, their Magma Man magic is forsaken in favor of either Fire and Blood or Fire and Death, which has incidentally made them worse at Fire than ever before. Generational Magic Decline: Abysia's Anathemant Order declines precipitously over the Ages, as the best Abysians (in terms of magical power) gradually die out with lesser and/or half-human heirs.Dishing Out Dirt: Some Abysian mages are capable of learning Earth magic, though this is rare.Blood Magic: Half of their mages and their thematic Pretender have access to it, due to the influence of infernal forces.Time will only tell whether these developments will be able to reverse the decline of Abysian society. The Warlocks, meanwhile, have continued their crossbreeding experiments - though they have long since lost the art of breeding Demonbred mages, they have now perfected the Warbred, a special breed of humanbred that is strong and obedient, but also stupid and short-lived. Desperate to maintain their power and traditions in the face of the Smouldercone's fading power, the Anathemant Order has turned to blood magic, inducting an ancient order of assassins into their ranks as a Slayer Cult that practices ritual murder as a sacred rite. Though they retain control of Abysia's most prominent leadership positions, the purebloods have now become dependent on the newly freed humanbred majority for their continued survival.
The Warlocks would remain focused on perfecting their Demonbred creations, but they would also begin dabbling with crossbreeding experiments with other races as well - in particular, their experiments with humans, a weak but relatively quick-breeding species, showed promising results for a new slave race.īy the Late Age, the ancient fears of the Burning Ones have come true, but in the way they least expected - as the Smouldercone's life-giving heat continues to fade, the numbers of pure-blooded Abysians would decline along with it. The Middle Age would see the Warlocks supplanting the Flame Cult as the last of the Burning Ones gradually faded away with the weakening of the Flame at the heart of the Smouldercone, though the Anathemant Order remained to provide support in both religious and military affairs. The Burning Ones tolerated the Warlocks for the promises of power their research promised to deliver, though some remained paranoid of their ambitions and feared that the Warlocks' experiments would see the doom of the Abysian people. In the latter days of the Early Age a rival order, the Warlocks, would come to prominence, performing obscene blood rites to summon demons for use in crossbreeding experiments to create a superior race of Demonbred Abysians. The highest order of the Abysian Flame Cult, the Anointed of Rhuax, was made up exclusively of Burning Ones, who set up the Anathemant Order to perform the daily sacrificial rites and support Abysia's heavily-armed soldiers in battle. In the Early Age the oldest and most powerful Abysians were led by the Burning Ones, drawn from the older and more revered lineages of Abysians whose bodies were perpetually wreathed in flames. As lighter and less sturdy materials tend to melt or burst into flames in their presence, purebred Abysian soldiers tend to favor iron weapons and armor and generally lack ranged weapons outside of magic or the flaming breath of their specially-bred salamanders. Born from the magma that flows within their volcanic home of the Smouldercone, Abysians possess an inner magical fire that makes them immune to harm from intense heat and allows them to radiate heat themselves. Deep within the bowels of the earth, it is said, the Kings of Elemental Fire lie dormant, and the Abysians claim to be their children.
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