Getting into darkness
Vya All!
Sorry about the solemn title, but the stage two is coming to its end and the story had fell down to an even darker tone. (Or maybe because its valentine and I'm projecting...*cough*) In any case, there were only three more common events left and after that the love side shall be blossoming! Ooooh, can't wait to finally get into a bit hanky-panky 0w0 (Yes, I'm old, excuse me.)
I've adapted an old style of drawing from when I was working on a horror project. Guess, I can show you one of a mystery diary entry for an example~
If you can guess the story behind this sketch, I'll applause happily! 0w0
May the stars empower our will until the very end!
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Hmm... I'm getting a lot of different aspects of what this picture could mean. A person on the ground reaching for some cloaked person and I'm assuming those wispy things might be souls for some energy source? For some reason the drawing is good but also gives off a creepy feel. Maybe this has something to do with some dark and light type of situation where the light source is creating a barrier from some lingering evil trying to corrupt that light for their own gain?
The major ones I would guess from my weird imagination would be:
1) The cloaked person could be a reaper/soul collector of some sort and after multiple lives of some special beings(unique soul traits something similar to reincarnation and maintain memories of each life, having memories of the afterlife, or some odd past changing the value of someone's soul into some catalyst for an never ending energy source forming some crystalized energy that cannot be obtain under any normal standards and if they collect that person's soul could lead to eternal agony and suffering even absorb the being within itself as a prison of a state of living and dying if that person tends to be mortal) or maybe it could be a propchey of what may come to be for the character on the ground dying only wishing to live and get revenge for some sealed powers or from some kind of contracted deal to live if they collect specific souls each one becoming harderthan the last and if they can't adapt they become some mindless being from each failure/defeat or it could be a backstory of the person's past that is laying on the ground that wanted to experience living and how it feels to die as a mortal only to realize their life was ended before they truly understand the meaning of being a mortal and for that matter they lose all their powers they once had and having to go back to collecting each of the manifested souls of energy to regain their original state before they became mortal without their powers because they used their powers to convert it into being a mortal and from that picture the cloaked person is basically the person on the ground as a mortal the souls are of manifested beings with their own sentient life making for the trial far more harder to defeat.
2) The person on the ground could be in some twisted survival game where they have to survive without getting caught by some random being that can not be defeated unless they are under specified conditions( there are safe zone where that cloak person can't reach after a specified time or that the person has to discover if the people they find or parnter up with may actually be the cloaked person that may kill the person from certain triggers from the secrets that each person has to hold close and if their secret is exposed they are stripped of their soul for a price and having a specified power for that cost can be either used for the person's benefit to obtain another secret or power but if it is not claimed for more power to survive it could be used to set another life line for another secret to hold close to survive judgement and if someone exploit their true secret they will still have the remaining secret to live but making them more vulernable if their main secret is exposed but giving them a bonus from losing their life unless each secret is exposed. Basically if each secret is exposed they will have to lose something in return such as memory loss, losing physical parts such as a heart and for each loss makes for a disadvantage if each secret exposed)
I'm probably overthinking things a little to much but just from a drawing got me imagining a lot of things can be described from this. Vague yet seems like its a important plot to a story. Kinda remindsme of a cliffhanger where you feel like the story is going to explain everything in the end just to get through for loop. You did say it was horror so its got to be some scary but yet enticing intrigue from what this picture is saying. A cloaked person yet the face seems obscured. Could it be its face or is it a mask? Hmm... leaving death everywhere it comes into contact with for some reason the person on the ground kinda makes me feel a little sad if they are dying.
Is this the for the poor innocent guy on the ground!?!?! If only you didn't walk into the dark area you might of survived from that shadowy cloaked guy! The cloaked guy is literally shying away from the light don't reach out to the cloaked fellow they're sending you to your doom of eternal damnation~! (7 T^T)7
Unless that person planned on being dragged away to escape the light.. (ﾟдﾟ；)
Whoa!
That's a good chunk of theory you've got there! 0A0 Both ideas are on the right track especially without any context.
You're almost right about the energy source~ Magic in this world sourced directly from the livings, creatures and nature. The next clue is Magic users are people who can gathered this energy before change it into elemental spells. The cycle of good and evil isn't what they seem, they work in tandem. Taboo elements are soul and time; usually people die for trying to control them.
^w^ You've got half-of-a-clap! <3
You have a great imagination and even managed to explain them clearly! I'm happy someone spared their time to indulge me here... TAT //Sending virtual hugs//
Hmmm... so the energy is like a food source or maybe a catalyst to charge a spell for those that can wield that energy. So does that mean the source of energy could represent a specific energy source to charge a specific spell or does that mean that any energy source is consistant to any magic?
This is my random theory based on what you added granted it might be still be off by a lot on what this energy source can be:
If they collect some sort of energy such as an earth based creatures and earth based living beings(something like golems for example granted I think golems wouldn't exactly be living creatures but could be some anomaly that gain sentient life from nature or summoned familiar or artifical life created by some elemental user as some forbidden taboo on creating false life by some means of sacrifice whether from their life force or to some physical extraction from another energy source(elemental user or even a crystalized version of elementals) maybe? Nature energy would have a basic mixture that is dominant in different terrains like forests having a strong abundance of water and earth properties/affinities while places with fire energy would be more from volcanic or even heated places like vents under the water making a special case of fire/water. Basically the strength and complexity based on terrain having a high level of energy would be a diffcult situtation but trying to extract it would be considered an advanced process for only high leveled elementals or having two opposing elemental specialist working together to gain energy from an advanced area because if the elemental didn't have mastery over more than two energies and try to obtain it alone then extraction wouldn't work well for those of a single specialty even when it has their specialty entwined together. I'm basically saying that you have to get the whole package deal of both energies or the risk of losing it all especially if the energy they have trouble absorbing could counteract with absorbing their main energy specialty so they would be exposing their very weakness to the energies in a basic battle of disruption and absoption of the elemental's energy so the terrain would be considered such a cruel mistress eating away at your energy instead of them harnessing the energy or maybe the elemental just become some mindless rogue causing havoc from craving energy from any source they can get to until nothing is left because their very core is being eaten away unless they constantly feed because their control of energy isn't consistant(the elemental user would have control to contain their energy just like a balloon holding water but for a mindless elemental they would be a balloon with holes which energy doesn't substain well and even moreso if used against living beings or at any point). Taboo user would have the same effects but instead of being mindless they can freely absorb energy but at the cost of going through some sort of ritual like having to sacrificing specific things like those crystalized elementals of each source and somehow obtain a source of light and dark energy on a day of something like an eclipse or some alignment of all energies at their peak(such as the crystalized elemental used as a storage for energy from some day or month that is strongest for a specific element and for each elemental that has been crystalized will have specific colors of speciality and is depended on how bright the crystal shines so if the crystal is dull it lack energy and if it is corroded it means that it has to go through a purification which could come from light element specialist if its possible to revert the effects or setting it through a blood ritual to corride the energy even more. Maybe emotions could play a part to whether the purity could be for an elemental? The stronger the negative emotion the darker the color gets or it could go the other way the more positive the emotion the brighter it gets. kinda like if a water elemental's specialty is water but if they failed to collect energy they become crystalized but the last emotion they felt was one of regret/revenge then the bluish color would darken but if they felt hopeful/selfless then it would shine bright blue. So in order to have use of forbidden element uses would require both colors(light blue and dark blue) which could convert light and darkness as the source of energy they may need if there wouldn't be any light/dark elementals but are derived by emotions or worse case for gaining darkness could lead to the blood of the corrupted elemental since they already empty husks runnng amok and for the light energy would be a little harder to obtain but finding a source of a blossom of life of a elemental becoming such as a fledgingly awakening to their new elemental specialty basically someone who has yet to become an elemental will have a null based energy which hasn't manifested yetand have to go through a right of passage such as a pilgrimage, meditation, surviving hard climates, or even physical type of endurance like holding their hand out in flames or being dunked in to freezing water given on requirements on specific criteria the fledgingly seems to react to such a reactions to stones glowing or being born on a day where wind is at its peak to name a few and are given confirmation from their intiation to the ritual if they really quialify for that said energy control and if they can't then they die from failing to become an elemental. So thoses wanting to have control over life must exceed their own weakness by sacrificing others to gain unimaginable power over every elemental specialist and can take control of elementals abilities and even disrupt the very fabric of time to an extent if they can extract each element's potential by delving into the plains of what we see in the picture of light and darkness so basically being able to fiddle around in the world of light and dark as a way to change pieces of fate but at a cost of being exposed to a chance of being destroyed if they linger within the world as they rewrite or erase existence. So in order to change fate or hold time in stagnantion wouldcome at the cost of exposure and being weakened within the realm where beings beyond the elementals derive from. So if you try to change anything you may very well erase your existance and be expunged from both the physical and spiritual plains of energy. So not only will you gain strong powers but you may also end up being the weakest if used it wrong. So limits are playing into not being consumed and not severing your powers for good physically and spiritually not being erased from existence as well as the changes made which may as well erase those that have been created or shifted an anomaly in the world.