Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
The Hub => Accepted Requests => Accepted Races => Topic started by: King Jeebus on August 17, 2011, 03:35:24 PM
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History
Waves themselves actually come from the Sage Dimension. While most sages come from mythical beasts that chose human form Waves are considerably different.
Each and every sound runs through soundwaves in the air; They are then picked up by your ear and processed by the brain. Waves evolved from the soundwaves created by Sages in the Sage Dimension. They congealed in one place and combined with residual magic in the air and became sentient.
They now had a survival instinct.
Slowly but surely they observed Sages and their creation into human form, they saw that while their lives were fleeting and short without constantly resounding from one another those of a Sage were long; Almost constant.
Once more did they congeal but this time they took on the form of a humanoid; Using magic to thread their consciousness into bodies.
These were the first Waves.
While in Humanoid form, they found themselves capable of reproducing but not like they themselves had done; While they had come from their own waves they now required the soundwaves of two Waves to create a new one.
These new Waves they spawned were different.... They were stronger.
They were capable of manipulating sound waves in any way they wanted and were capable of higher level magic; They were true Waves.
These are the Waves known today.
Most sages regard Waves very lowly, believing them to be mere copies of themselves that some sentient sound made.
Key Powers and Skills
The key skills of a Wave are their skills in sound manipulation; Not only can they affect sound naturally they are also capable of manifesting it into various attacks by imbuing magic into the waves. Most Waves use instruments as 'focuses' so to speak since attacks and skills are easier to manifest when put to music.
Waves are also known for being somewhat capable in AM fields, due to their abilities with sound waves. So long as they have sound waves around they are capable of using their power.
Wave Sages are also capable of turning into their true form of magical sound, becoming insubstantial and capable of resonating through almost anything.
Alongside all else, Waves can hear on a considerably higher spectrum than other beings; On frequency and loudness. They can also perform echolocation.
The main downside of a Wave is that it takes a lot out of them to use their abilities in space or other vacuums in which sound cannot travel because they then have to resonate through solid objects or use magic to resonate their sounds through.
Reproduction
If two full Waves reproduce, they enter their true forms and resonate through one another; Creating a new being. If it is a full wave and any other race, they simply mate in humanoid form. Half waves, as their true form is the form of their non-Wave parent they mate in their humanoid form aswell.
To kill a Wave, one would either need to eliminate them in their humanoid form faster than they can enter their sound form or think of a way to eliminate them in their sound form.
That seems like everything, do let me know if its approved or not.
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The only thing I'm edgy about is using magic in an AM Field. Since you said next to none. There is none at all. AM Fields break up the converted existence back into regular ethereal existence and it can't convert back while in an AM Field.
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Its essentially just their sound manipulation that is unaffected
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Kay, just as long as they can't like blow things up with magic, or cast spells that aren't sound.
Other than that. Approved!
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Hrn, Im still edgy about the magic-in-AM(just because of how its always been explained as stopping any and all magic), buuut if Hik's saying its fine, I guess I cant complain(since she's the one who knows this stuff blah blee blah blee blaaaaa), so approved...Not to mention, I suppose they would still need something to keep them from dissipating when in a AM field(obviously, I would also assume that they cannot change when in a AM field), since their bodies are made of magic I think?
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In AM, yes they need to focus effort on keeping themselves in a corporeal form by manipulating their own sound waves to keep in the pattern they're in. Their bodies are mostly made from sound waves, the most magic there is is essentially keeping the waves in a pattern without having to focus on it.
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AM Fields actually just suppress magic from being used, they don't cancel it out of existence, hence why sages don't grow old in an AM Field, their magic is still in their body. Approved.
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AM Fields actually just suppress magic from being used, they don't cancel it out of existence, hence why sages don't grow old in an AM Field, their magic is still in their body. Approved.
That was changed because you asked Gaser and I to later explain AM fields which we did. It cancels it out.
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To further explain what Hik just said, it cancels it out but cant get through the body, which is why its possible to create a internal AAM from within(though there are also now IAM, or Internal Anti Magic, which has this capability).
Or at least thats just how I think its been explained...Am I correct or have no clue what Im talking about? :/
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To further explain what Hik just said, it cancels it out but cant get through the body, which is why its possible to create a internal AAM from within(though there are also now IAM, or Internal Anti Magic, which has this capability).
Or at least thats just how I think its been explained...Am I correct or have no clue what Im talking about? :/
This is acceptable.