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More info on the Miraculum Chronicles:

The name of the planet MC is set on is known as Teragard where there are dozens and dozens of countries. The time period is roughly equivalent to the 1920s and 1930s, but with a culture similar to the colonial era of Europe. Some of the far off continents remain largely unexplored due to how dangerous they are.

Miraculum is the primary source of magic in this world, and it's mainly used in reactors to power cities and other electricity-heavy structures. It's capable of altering matter on a physical level and it can transform elements on an atomic, and even its radioactive nature causes one to mutate and acquire powers such as telekinesis. Overexposure transforms you into a mindless ghoul, so there's a few political movements that oppose the use of miraculum as unethical, especially since one of the reasons why so much technology is possible is due to mages who work in sweat shops producing the miraculum. I am aware that some of this can relate to current real world conflicts, but by no means do I intend any allegories.

Other variations of magic exist which are done mostly to appease the old gods which have mostly been forgotten due to the prevalence of monotheism. There's been a growing trend of the return of the worship of these old gods is coming back, so there's a general hostility and fear towards it since it's poorly understood. I would compare it mostly to witchcraft as opposed to shooting fire from your hands.

The world is mostly human-dominated, and I have yet to decide on much of the other races. I'll likely include dwarves and elves as different hominid species sort of like the Neanderthals of ancient Earth. The only truly magical creatures I've defined are the gods which are believed by most to be miraculum-based beings. Everything else is generally very down-to-earth at least on Teragard.

And as for the storyline, well, I have a few of them, but the one that is most planned out involves a knight whose mother was supposedly killed by a member of an opposing noble family competing for the throne. He desires to exact revenge, and eventually ends up in a cult that worships a god that desires human sacrifices. He initially sees it as an outlet for avenging his mother, but after getting himself deep within it, he eventually gets concerns and regrets, finding himself in a bad spot.

This storyline primarily takes place within one country, but I was intending this for to be an anthology of stories set within different countries from around the world. A few of the others include a lost colony of mages, and a straight-up invasion by Leir into Xeng. For now, I'm keeping these stories around the same time period since I'm looking to focus most on how these different countries in the present day.