Red is the Color of Energy — all forms of energy, from movement to nuclear power. It is the magic that rules over the hearts of stars, gamma rays, or gravity. Red sorcery is considered the most flashy, the most destructive, and one of the most versatile colors; yet also the fuel that keeps modern civilizations going.
Red Flux, one of the most common, is found aplenty in volcanoes, stars, and areas touched by devastating energies such as nuclear explosions. It is said that Red Flux gathers wherever heat rises. It powers most energy infrastructures, from cars to spaceships, making it the most vital for interstellar powers; Red Flux is also used to power most energy-based weaponry, including Concordia’s standard rifles.
Red’s opposite color is Green, while it is allied with Violet, Orange, and White.
Applications of Red:
— Magnetokinesis
Magnetokinetics are people learning to master the fundamental force of magnetism, starting with basic applications such as electricity control, and moving to more complicated techniques such as the manipulation of metals and magnetic poles. Creative magnetokinetics have also been known to generate strange effects, such as turning others into living magnets.
— Exaltation
Exaltation, originally created by a star-worshipping Red cult, is the art to become a living sun by replicating its energies. Low level users appear as pyromancers, but eventually learn to replicate stellar energy, altering gravity, releasing plasma, and harnessing nuclear reactions. The goal of these Red Sorcerers is to eventually achieve a godlike state, leaving their body behind to become pure energy.
— Spellsinging
While often confused as sound manipulation, Spellsinging is the manipulation of wavelengths, from sounds to radio waves, or even the forces bringing atoms together. Most spellsingers use wavelengths as vectors for their spells, giving them a far wider range than their rivals.
— Quickening
The control of motion and kinetic energy, quickening allows the user to alter the speed of matter, or increase or decrease kinetic impacts. Expert quickeners can become near-invulnerable by dispersing the energy from impacts, shrugging off bullets or even missiles.
Red Sorcerer
Red Sorcerers are what most people think about when they imagine magic-users, powerful individuals hurling fireballs and raining lightning with a glance. Almost to a fault, Red Sorcerers revel in their power, forgoing subtlety or grand schemes for the simple effectiveness of brute force. This makes them the most likely Sorcerers to rebel against authority, and often emotionally volatile.
While some Red Sorcerers use their magic for constructive purpose, such as becoming one-person power plants, most turn to warfare. Either pushed by a primal impulse, adrenaline addiction, or cultural encouragement, Red Sorcerers thrive in situations testing their limits. The smartest of them learn to channel their might in a focused manner, becoming deadly generals worth an army on the battlefield.
Red Sorcerers are infamous for the trail of destruction they leave behind them, as they are the magic users with the greatest firepower in direct combat. Most are classified as artillery when joining the military instead of soldiers, and live up to their hype. While this makes them powerhouses, this also makes them noticeable, and more than one Red Sorcerer has met death at the hands of a subtler assassin.
Escalation: Ira: Red Sorcerer escalation can be summed up as a never-ending rampage. Snapping due to perceived wrongs (whether real or imagined), wrathful Red Sorcerers decide to lash out at society through mass murder. Spree killers par excellence, they destroy everything around them until killed themselves. Never subtle, they are usually stopped by authorities before they can rack up a sizeable body count. If not, a vicious momentum is set in place; the Red Sorcerers refine their MO, grow more efficient at killing, and become adept at devastating hit and run tactics. Some extreme cases eventually forgo communication, becoming little more than living natural disasters.
Magik Spell Store
Dot 1
Stockmight
Affinity: Red
Dot: 1
Price: 3-5
Activation: Passive, Physical Touch.
The user’s body stockpiles kinetic energy, lessening impacts and numbing hits. The user can then release the energy in bursts on physical touch, enhancing their strength.
Heatriser
Affinity: Red
Dot: 1
Price: 3-5
Activation: Active, Voice.
User gains the ability to increase the heat around their body, increasing temperatures while remaining unaffected.
Quasar
Affinity: Red
Dot: 1
Price: 3-5
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The user gains the ability to psychically direct light within sight, creating artificial darkness, or blinding flashes. The user cannot create light and is limited to using existing sources.
Biosurge
Affinity: Red
Dot: 1
Price: 3-5
Activation: Active, Voice.
User can produce a burst of bioelectricity around them, shocking living beings and disturbing electronic devices.
Firekin
Affinity: Red
Dot: 1
Price: 3-5
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The user gains the ability to psychically direct existing fire within sight, moving the flames in any direction he wishes. The user cannot create or extinguish flames, however.
Dot 2
Quicken
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 6-10
Activation: Passive, App Switch.
The user’s speed and stamina exponentially increase as they move, with no upper limit; their body and anything in direct contact with it suffers no effect from friction or inertia. Inactivity disperses the accumulated energy, which must be built up again.
Lightningrod
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 6-10
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The caster can perceive, control, and absorb electricity; while they cannot generate it, they can absorb it within their body for eventual release with no ill effect. All electricity within one meter of the caster is immediately redirected towards them.
Soundwave
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 6-10
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The sorcerer can enhance, produce, or alter soundwaves within a ten meters radius, such as creating shockwaves, inducing silence, or disrupting voice-based communications. The soundwaves produced with this spell also carry voice-based spells and magical effects.
Kinetic Choke
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 6-10
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The caster creates four invisible “hands” of telekinetic force, with a five meters radius. Those hands possess enough force to lift roughly two hundred kilograms each, and can manipulate objects with the same dexterity as hands of flesh and blood.
Immolator
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 6-10
Activation: Passive, Thought.
You can cause anything within a range of ten meters to spontaneously ignite, so long as you can perceive it directly; this ability does not work through mediums such as videos. The more you focus on a single target, the stronger the combustion effect and the fire’s heat.
Dot 3
Crimson Requiem
Affinity: Red
Dot: 3
Price: 9-15
Activation: Active, Direct Touch Vector.
The spellcaster can charge an item or person with Red Flux on touch, causing them to violently detonate a few seconds after the physical contact ends. The longer the contact’s duration, the more energy the target absorbs, and so the stronger the explosion.
Deathcry
Affinity: Red
Dot: 3
Price: 9-15
Activation: Active, Thought
Converting all their available spellcasting reserves into unstable Red Flux, the spellcaster initiates a suicide attack, detonating their body and destroying anything within range in a fiery detonation. The more Flux energy available before casting Deathcry, the greater the destruction, from a city block to a continent.
Magnawave
Affinity: Red
Dot: 3
Price: 9-15
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The user’s body can produce microwaves at will, both for offense or defense.
Shooting Strike
Affinity: Red
Dot: 3
Price: 9-15
Activation: Active, Direct Touch Vector.
The caster accelerates the motion velocity of something they touch, such as a thrown javelin or a car they give a light push to, to supersonic speed. Thus, the caster can turn anything they throw or push into a deadly projectile.
Forcefield
Affinity: Red
Dot: 3
Price: 9-15
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The user can project forcefields of Red Flux within a five meters radius, whose shape they decide; these forcefields have enough power to stop artillery or crush cars, and can even manifest within a living being’s body if within range. The forcefield collapses the second the caster stops paying attention to it.
