Currently there are two official organizations which deal with the advancement of Dragsa's magical technologies and studies concerning the Roots of Life: the Magic Smiths and the Mages of Life. The former focuses on the creation of artifacts and tools used for supporting the army. The latter are responsible for the creation of beastkin and other experimentation on living beings. Apart from them, there are also some noble houses and few individuals who also delve into magical studies, though without bigger achievements to their name.
Magical Concoctions
Magical energy from the Roots of Life are extracted in order to create potions which enhance the abilities of whoever drinks it. These potions are sometimes used in armies, though the prolonged usage of this magic has shown to bring quite unfortunate side effects, such as cellular necrosis. It seems that without special filtering, the power from the Roots of Life is too much for anyone to handle and slowly destroys them from the inside. So the development of these fields focus on finding solutions to problems of properly filter the magical power in concoctions or dealing with the side-effects.
Soul Layering
The exact procedure is only known by the Mages of Life, but by mixing souls, new races such as the beastkin can be created. The souls of both specimens are extracted from their bodies and are crushed into particles while they mixed in with the Roots of Life to stabilize these souls fragments and prevent natural disintegration. Each of the specimens' soul particles are then designed to be put as different layers atop of each other. After using all of the soul particles, this agglomeration of souls is coated with a heavy layer of Roots of Life and then put into huge magical pressures to extract back Roots of Life while the soul particles join together as a new soul. After the new soul is created, it is put back into one of the bodies, from which the initial souls were taken. The body naturally follows and adjusts itself to new soul.
Immortalization Procedure
This process was initially created to prolong
Queen Anara's life. Conceptually, it is quite similar to the Soul Layering process, but rather than mixing both souls, the soul particles are randomly injected along with the Roots of Life. Then the whole soul is coated with a heavy layer of the Roots of Life to prevent its self-disintegration and the soul is then put back into the body.
Essence Alloying
The Magic Smiths utilize a technique that has allowed them to create great artifacts in order to support Dragsa's armies. The founder of Magical Smithing has had problems with proper modification of the Roots of Life for decades as their initial artifacts were usually too harmful for the users. Yet, after years of practice, they perfected the process to both lower the excessive use of power and alter its properties.
Magic Smiths Innovations
Apart from Essence Alloying, Magic Smiths are also masters of experimenting with innovative usages of magic. Because of this, they have created a plethora of magical trinkets and useful tools. While they refrain from using their magical knowledge to manipulate living beings, like the Mages of Life, some of their creations bear an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. They create constructs that remarkably emulate true life, but they're crafted entirely from steel.
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