The Many Writings of K. A. Jones

Written for Livejournal user ysabetwordsmith’s prompt: Autumn twilight, the crisp air and the way the season smells.

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Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

The Arctus, the race of night, are the third race of Beshaki and live in the final section, where it is permanently night. When they were created they were given night magic, the opposite of the Lumen day magic, which the Arctus keep secret in the same way the other two races do, although they know that the Walkers, whose knowledge covers the whole web, have a basic understanding of what night magic can do.

Unlike the Lumen the Arctus’ war on the Umbra started due to fear of what the race could do, because twilight magic, the magic between night and day, was seen as better than either and much more dangerous. The war ended when a new barrier was created between the Arctus and the Umbra, but no one knows who exactly created it. Most of the walkers believe it was a demon, getting involved in things they shouldn’t, while both the Umbra and the Arctus believed it was created by the other race.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

The second of the three races of Beshaki, the Umbra live in the twilight third. This is the central third, trapping the Umbra between the night third and day third, which hasn’t been good for the Umbra. First they had to deal with the Lumen trying to take over their territory, by the Lumen Knights, and not long after the Lumen gave up they found themselves under attack from the Arctus. There are still problems between the three races, so the Umbra work hard on keeping their borders safe.

Twilight magic, the power of the Umbra, is something that only the walkers and the Umbra know a lot about. It’s a very different magic to many of the others because it gives them an ability to work with both the dark and the light. This is part of the reason both the Lumen and the Arctus tried to destroy the Umbra, believing that they could easily take over Beshaki and use their magic in all of the three parts. What they don’t understand in the limitations of twilight magic, which are more limiting than those of day or night magic.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

One of the three races of Beshaki, the Lumen live in the third that is permanently day. They have what is called day magic, abilities that only the Lumen are born with on this world, although they may also be abilities other magic users have on other worlds. Due to the knowledge the walkers have they know exactly what abilities the Lumen have but apart from them no one else quite understands what day magic is, not even the Umbra and the Arctus, the two other magical races on Beshaki.

For centuries the Lumen have kept their side of the river dividing the day section and the twilight section, but things weren’t always that way. There was a time when the Lumen attempted to destroy the Umbra, and planned on moving onto the Arctus when that was done, believing that they had the right to rule over the entirety of Beshaki, and that was when the Lumen Knights came into existence. Now they work to keep peace between the Umbra and the Lumen in an attempt to make amends for what the first Knights attempted.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.