Sopensen and Humans

Both Sopensen and Humans had an awfully long time to be in charge of everything and contact every race, so it seems to me that they've got elements of the others while having their own innate 'racial' ability.

The Sopensen have the ability to cleans and bring peace and order to the world. Its kind of like the Jarral's ability but extended beyond hearthstones. They were the only force that was able to heal the world after the ravages of Bleyok.

I'm thinking that they have a lot of the technological secrets of the Abysmal, and that they have learned science, but the forward way instead of doing it backwards. I'm also thinking that they've learned some of the magic secrets of the Simsaur, but they have secured contracts and permissions rather than automatic authority over everything the way the Simsaur do. They also have hearths. I think the one thing they won't touch is the Bleyoki stuff. They also don't have destiny or fate.

So in practical terms, humans have all of this stuff. A human wizard has to learn secrets which just as well might be magic authority, extraplanar contracts, hearth or healing, science tricks or the like. There will probably be traditions amongst humans, many of which were lost or changed or refined over the centuries. Since the world is in stagnation by the time our story starts, so too will most magic, and whilst some knowledges might exist in vast moldy tomes, most people don't bother to learn it because they have no need to.

Humans don't know about Day and Night. Their concept of destiny is very blurred. They believe in destiny and that everyone has one, and that sometimes a diviner can help someone determine their destiny but it isn't written in stone. I picture entire religions based around different interpretations of destiny.

Prophesy, on the other hand, is now long established as the 'mightiest' power of all. It shapes worlds and empires, and now everyone expects there to be another empire. It has happened so many times before, why not again? As such, most rulers spend a significant amount of time learning and interpreting prophesy. There is, of course, millenia of junk that has accumulated in all of this. It is a nebulous science at best, but since it is an area so many people pay attention to, others want to add in their two cents to gain a bit of immortality.

Having said that, there would be enough interest at preserving it, that there would still be those that have at least a close symmetry and understanding, and an understanding of what is a real prophesy and what isn't. Indeed, those truly in the know understand that most prophesies have been fulfilled, though exactly how many have been fulfilled is a little gray. Those with the gift are watched for very carefully, lest anyone and everyone try to get an edge within the 'wiggle room' such a prophesy allows.