Magic is a strange virus that kills most of its victims. At microscopic levels, it appears like a blue tangled thread. The virus either kills the carrier, or they develop antibodies to effectively use it. Those that survive are mostly young and become witchings.
Witching[]
Witchings are people who survived the magic virus and now can use magic. By understanding the science behind something, they can manipulate it.
ex: someone with informational knowledge could have technopathy. "to move a ball across a room without touching it, one must have knowledge of physics".
The deeper the knowledge, the more powerful become the ability becomes.
The "presenting power" is the power a witching gets first.
Fevermadness (viral intoxication)[]
The magic virus can still kill a witching. Every witching has a certain number of antibodies in their blood that keeps the magic virus in check. If a witching uses their magic too much, it can cause the viral load in their blood to rise and the body will produce more antibodies against magic. The body's immune system starts to attack its own tissue and the brain will be affected first, then the rest of the body. The witching becomes insane,paranoid, and gets mood swings and fevers and fatigue can occur. If this syndrome doesn't get treated, the witching can die.
Powers given by magic[]
- Technopathy: the presenting power of Noam, the ability to manipulate binary code with simple thought, allowing hacking the firewall, programing and data analysis, requires an understanding of binary language
- Telekinesis: the ability to provoke movement by manipulating force of inertia and magnetism
- Illusions: the ability to fool one's senses, by making appear things that do not exist, by manipulating the neuron impulse in the brain
- Healing and raising: the ability to close wounds, speed up healing process. this power can be used to trigger reflex on body, turning them into efficient puppet, thralls that obey their master command.
- Immortality: the power to extend someone's lifespan, demonstrated by Lehrer, being 123+ years old.
- Shrinking/Enlarging: the presenting power of Taye, the ability to make any object, including himself, bigger or smaller at will, requires knowledge of exponents and math
- Persuasion: the presenting power of Lehrer. The ability to instill ideas into a victim’s minds and to be able to convince them of things. Once their powers are used on you, you won’t know what things in your head are your ideas or theirs. The only way to break free is if you are unable to accomplish their command anymore.
/!\this list is following the adaptation on Webtoon, so it will gradually keep filling itself