Sea Wizards


Origins of Sea Wizards


When a person dies their mortal soul dies, but not immediately. The soul degrades slowly, “active” soul, known as cita is turned into active energy, known as gal, which is used for magic of regular mortal mages. A Sea Wizard is born when a young man drowns and while his cita is in the process of degrading and the Sea God, Woda gives them new life by transferring part of his divine soul. For mortal mages magic comes from manipulating their cita to control gal, because of this mortal magic is limited by the strength of the cita. Divine Souls are able to control all forms of energy, not just gal, in larger quantities.

When a human is given a divine soul (a demigod) for all it’s advantages it also comes with disadvantages. Having part of a divine soul means speaking the language of the divine, it makes the demigod unable to communicate with those who are fully mortal. These demigods are also now a part of both the mortal world and the divine world, while they are stronger than all who are mortal they are now on the playing field of the divine, of which they are the weakest.

Woda’s goal for Sea Wizards are to be the most powerful of the demigods, in case of conflict of other gods or for manipulation of mortal forces as a god can only interact with the mortal world through demigods. Woda’s way of making Sea Wizards more powerful is to dedicate their life to training and fighting. Sea Wizards are forbidden from entering land or seeing land, the more time they spend on the sea the more powerful they get. Attachments besides a teacher and student are also forbidden, a Sea Wizard will only be given one of each by Woda. Most Sea Wizards go their entire life only meeting two people their entire existences. Families are the most taboo for Sea Wizards, children of a demigod have the power to take the divine souls of demigods whom their parent’s divine soul stems from (A child of a Sea Wizard can take the divine souls of all Sea Wizards) without being subject to the God that the divine soul came from originally.

Worthy of note are Behemoths, Behemoths happen when a Demigod dies. The ratio of cita to divine soul is switched making Behemoths extremely powerful but they lose most of their rationality in the process. Behemoths are much more at the mercy of their parent god but also much harder to control. Most gods give their demigods a much smaller amount of divine soul in order to create much weaker Behemoths. Woda uses his Behemoths to try and kill his Sea Wizards, making those who live stronger.


Sea Wizard Life

Sea Wizards awake from their transition with no memory of their previous life. Wota takes them to the place of another Sea Wizard in order for the new Sea Wizard to be mentored. The basic knowledge of Sea Wizardry includes controlling of water, wind, and weather among various other spells depending on a Sea Wizards tutelage and specialization.

Sea Wizards have specializations in order to give them an edge on Behemoths. Having a specialization gives them the advantage of minute control being that they can’t beat a Behemoth using brute strength.

Sea Wizards have boats, normally passed down from student too teacher, a boat of a sea wizard is their home and Sea Wizards enchant their boats for various offense, defensive, and supplementary purposes. A boat passed down for generations is enchanted heavily and extremely valuable.



Sea Wizards


Brime
The Protagonist of the main story, specializes in water control, taught by Saga and taught Wai. Spends the story fighting Wota’s control over him, breaking taboos placed on him and facing the consequences of them. After Sagar’s dhow breaks Brime decides to use a canoe as his boat.

Sagar
The teacher of Brime, very elderly man with dark complexion with a great beard and lots of hair. Has lived for a hundred and fifty years, specializes in winds. Floats on a dhow that is known to be faster than any other boat. Dies fighting a Behemoth.

Maw
The teacher of Sagar, the eldest living Sea Wizard, over nine hundred years old and specializes in Salt control. Saves Brime from the Behemoth after the death of Sagar. Boat is known a Khufu, the boat of the first Sea Wizard. Bald and extremely frail, of medium complexion.

Oke
The most powerful living Sea Wizard, in his mid 50s and specializes in control of the ocean floor. Only sea wizard to have every killed 3 behemoths and the pride of Woda. His boat is a Trireme and is the most powerful of boats, often using it to drive through enemies and tidal waves. Light complexion, very intimidating presence and extremely tall and muscular. Teacher of Van

Hai
The second most powerful living Sea Wizard, specializing in Storm Control, is in his mid 40s and his boat is a Junk, known for the fact it’s good at everything but the best at nothing. Physically he reflects his boat. Very wise and calm.

Van
Sea Wizard known for his control over ice and freezing, in his mid 20s and closest thing to a friend that Brime has. Very light complexion, long blonde hair and beard. Very blunt.

Ki
Sea Wizard in his late 70s, specializes in heat, lava, and boiling. Has been in active defiance with Woda for decades. His boat is an Atakebune and is known for it’s defense. Aggressive buy loyal and honorable. Taught Hai.

Wia
Young boy, student of Brime who dies to a Behemoth.

Plot Outline

Book 1 - Takes place over 5 years (Brime aged 15-20)
Introduction and teaching of Brime, introduces many concepts of Sea Wizardry. The first half is lessons of Sea Wizardry and an introduction into the basics of the world. The second half is Brime taking on the challenges of the Sea, fighting natural disasters leading to a fight with a Behemoth, which Sagar dies fighting and killing. The end of the book is Maw saving Brime.

Book 2 - Time Skip ~ 10 Years  and takes place over 5 years (Brime Aged 30-35)
Brime is on his own in the first half, becoming an extremely powerful Sea Wizard in his own right, he meets Van and Oke in the first half. The second half introduces Wia and has Brime as a teacher. Wia dies from a Behemoth attack and Brime

Book 3 - Time Skip 10 Years, takes place over 1 year (Brime aged 45 in this)
After the death of Wia, Brime decides to move onto land, on an island nation known as the capital of magic. He has a family and regular (in comparison to Sea Wizards) life for 10 years including learning mortal magic. The book ends with Woda sending a tidal wave that engulfs the entire island nation as punishment for Brime. Brime is the sole survivor and is saved by Van.

Book 4 - Takes Place immediately after Book 3 over a year or two time period
After the death of his family and student Brime decides to break out of Woda’s cycle. The first half is trying to get Oke and Van to fight with him. Unable to succeed he hears about Ki and decides to join him. Maw tries to get him to stop his crusade against Woda.

Book 5 - Takes Place immediately after Book 4
Ki, Brime, and Van try and defeat Woda’s presence on the mortal world by killing every behemoth and then fighting the Avatar of Woda.