The Magic Cycle

For the last millennia, Requiem has been a world of dormant magic and magical technology.
A delicate array of cycles exists:

• Arcane magic is fueled by arcane energy, or arcana. This resource quickly dwindled as powerful wizards hoarded and consumed what little was remaining. No more could be created without the Goddess Arcane.
• Divine magic is created by divinity, and gifted to their followers, whom give power back to the divine through worship and preaching. The deaths of divine figures cut off all magic to their clerics and paladins, all but removing divine magic from the world. The few survivors of the original pantheon still had sparks of divinity within them, but with no Overgod to manage them, or worshipers due to their being in hiding, these few gods were no longer able to produce a reliable stream of divinity, and kept what they had, using it only in dire circumstances.

• The cycle of Nature magic is as much of a constant of nature as the phases of the moon and the rising and setting of the sun. As the flow of water, and the gnawing of erosion. As long as nature persists, its innate magic will. This means that nature magic and its cycle is completely separate from arcane and divine.
• Soul magic

Type

Metaphysical, Arcane