#Writingunicorn

[writingunicornuk]

THAUMAQUIR HIBANIMMENT A type of spell used to check if an object is alive. The object in question can be anything, including sentient billiard balls, or intelligent brickwork, but it is most commonly applied to dolls to check for curses of one sort or another Often required to check that the figure placed on top of a bonfire in on Guy Fawkes Night isn’t sentient. Some prankster spirits have been known to imbue their own life force to animate the ‘guy’ such that the doll only starts to become aware it can move as the fire is lit, making the figure move and sometimes even dance in the flame. It should be noted that in most of these cases the animated doll has awareness but doesn’t know, care or even feel that they are in the fire. However, there have been cases where a more advanced awakening or a curse has been present and it is quite useful to know beforehand if there is life in the bonfire. Also good for detecting if there are any Roasted Hedgehogs living in the fire.

[cityofbrokenglass01-blog]

Of Fate and the Unexpected

https://writingunicorn.wordpress.com/multi-chaptered-stories/of-fate-and-the-unexpected/ While trying to gain the Hokage’s trust and carry out his plan to destroy Konoha, Sasuke remembers just how much Team Seven meant to him. He begins to look toward a different future—one that suspiciously begins to focus around Sakura. Rated: T - Genre: Romance/Adventure/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 43 - Words: 194,359 - Sasuke U. & Sakura H. - Complete

[littleaskingalexandriathings]

SO MUCH BEN. ITS SO BEAUTIFUL.

ISN'T IT JUST? :)

[jackrolexvic]

hiiii! do you remember me? probably not aha. i've been studying physcology in college. life is ok. how are you? we haven't talked in a long time. :).

KYLE KYLE KYLE KYLE KLEKYE LYKLE I MISSED YOU

I hope you’re having fun in college omfg, psychology??? That’s so cool sdhcbsdgv I’m lovely, thank you, I hope you’re doing wonderfully, okay. omg i m i s s e d you i almost screamed when i saw this??? 

[writingunicornuk]

CYANIPHONOAPHOBIA A fear of blue fireworks Literally a fear of the loud noise from blue fireworks. It is not know how the mechanism works, but why regular phonoaphobes (people with a fear of fireworks) are scared of all loud noises, cyaniphonoaphobia only hate the sound of the blue fireworks and are affected by this even if they cannot see the colours of the bright sparkly trails. It is thought that the chemical copper in the rare blue fireworks burns with a slight difference in frequency that irritates the sufferer's brain.

[writingunicornuk]

IGNIMALAPEDURGE Dancing around a bonfire. Or through a bonfire. Also known as Thimithi. Many people are fascinated with fire, and in the late summer and on to autumn, when the debris from the fields and forest are piled up to be burned, or just when camping out in the woods, people feel the compulsion to dance around and sometimes jump through the burning flames, burning shoe rubber in the process. The truly insane people actually try the traditional fire walking, praying to some god that they haven't been stupid enough to do this having been drinking too much and trying to not get burnt. More people don’t know that they are praying to Draupati Amman, a Hindu god at this point, but in the days of increasing atheism, most of the gods will take any worship they can get these days even from the passing and unspecific tourist trade.

[writingunicornuk]

The Knights Templar. They have a reputation here in the Aetherwood too. The strong connection between religions and the mystical creatures of the world, or the hate of them in some cases. The Templar got to know about some of the occult practices of the people they didn't like, including some of the more esoteric secular beliefs in Israel. This is how they came across the Keresh, my own counterpart in the Middle Eastern region, an ambassador to the other areas of the Aetherwood for his area. The Keresh at the time was bound by eldrich methods to assist the Knight and guard their treasure for all eternity, though it wasn't long after the knights abandoned the site that a collective of local Jann (a type of low-level Genie) managed to release their friend from the spell.

[writingunicornuk]

MEGTHESOMPHOLAPHOBIA A Dryad's fear of exposing too much bark in public. Most nature spirits are naturists, by nature, and the Dryads are perhaps most noted for revelling in their naked form, in part because their ability to merge with their tree homes would be inhibited by a polyester-cotton mix. Also while Dryads are noted for their willow forms, especially those that live in Salix viminalis, the texture of their bark-like skin makes it difficult to see any details that humans would be embarrassed about. However, some Dryads still feel self-conscious exposed in front of both other dryads and any wondering humans. This is why, if you find an apparently random coat or cloak hanging from a branch randomly in the woods, you shouldn't take it, as it may be the tree diving equivalent of stealing the clothes of a skinny dipper. *It should be noted that Dryads are thought to be evolved directly from early magical humans, while the majority of nature spirits like Green Jack and Pan are of Unicorn decent.

[writingunicornuk]

HESIVITRIGNIT CALVATHAUM Magical activity missed by humans while distracted by a mobile phone. There are many magical creatures that are capable of syncronising their movement to the perceptional focus of the humans around them: It's so fundamental that even non-magically attuned creatures can do it. For millennia, it was a core survival trait, but the advent of mobile phones had increased the level of humans general self-absorption and so some think the latest generation of supposedly lithe spirts, such as the brownies, are becoming sedentary.

[writingunicornuk]

PYRBALBRONCHIZOINE CASTEMEBOL A hairball of carbon produced by fire breathing animals It is inevitable that as a creature that produces flames from their oesophagus, sharing the same tube as normal breathing and eating, that sometimes it will go the wrong way. Even with fireproof mucus everywhere, soot manages to build up in the stomach and has to be ejected by pulling it into a small tight ball of dense charcoal-like substance before being 'coughed up' in a violent fit that sometimes induces interesting colours of sparks as other random chemical elements are burned off. The coughing of large creatures is often mistaken for fireworks. The result is an odd combination of flammable carbon and inflammable Mucus that has hardened and is semi-transparent. Larger ones are sometimes known as dragon balls, and power some of the everlasting flames in temple entrances when there is not an enchanted flame, as they burn slowly, occasionally lasting up to a century.

[writingunicornuk]

NUTAGNA A tea leaf with no predictive properties Tea leaves are not uniquely blessed to know the future, and like any form of fortunetelling, it is rather the user's ability to telepathically latch onto the random patterns that form in the medium being used. However, there are 'cursed' tea leaves (tea stalks are almost impossible to curse) that resists the ability to see the future in them at all costs, refusing to agree on a specific portents. Most of the time they are the result of either psychics playing practical jokes on each other or the leaves are being under-appreciated, though there are several rare types of tea that are thought to have been neutered by one of the dragon gods many years ago after a batch correctly predicted that he shouldn't live in a well.

[writingunicornuk]

CLARIMIN OPERDEMNON a type of micro-gremlin Gremlins are a type of forest spirit that are mechanically minded and have been known to be very helpful in the maintenance of such things, especially aircraft in the second world war, although initially they played havoc because of a disagreement over the use of woodland they originally lived in. Microgremlins are different from their larger cousins, in that they are so small they cannot be seen with the naked eye, but they do have the same propensity Microgrmlins are so small they live in computer electronics, living off the magic smoke that exists inside all these machines, and are a major cause of unnatural computer slowdown as the magic smoke is consumed, leaving behind little piles of dung, which can gather and may require regular cleaning to prevent the fan jamming. They do keep the computer clear of bad data and can help with the prevention of serious system crashes.

[writingunicornuk]

Good for Huwel! It's not his fault that this time a cacodemon, or in this case a RUIN of cacodemon, came out onto the pitch during the game. He had to get rid of them as quickly as possible, otherwise, there would have been more injuries than usual. Nothing big: I didn't hear that there were any higher demons about, but you never know. And now they want to catch him? I mean he does a phenomenal job, bringing luck to the Stadium, clearing out both physical and spiritual infestations and occasionally repairing the plumbing when he has time. He used to run his own business, but even with his 'owner' present, people were suspicious about a plumber bringing his cat to work in a strangers house, so now he just receives a small stipend from the local magical rotary club to look after the stadium. They'll never catch him of course. Unless they employ a warlock.

[writingunicornuk]

STEREPLEC DIAPORONT A semi-permanent fusion after inexperienced phasing. Passing through objects, particularly solid objects (almost anyone can phase through a gas), is extremely dangerous. As a moments lapse in concentration can leave you stuck in a wall or even a wrist of stone. The training regime for people learning to phase is extremely rigorous to make sure nothing is left to chance, including the possibility that when you make yourself insubstantial that you don't drop through the floor uncontrollably and wind up in the centre of the earth. Courses in phasing also include invisible navigation (because who wants to get lost halfway passing through a mountain), Emergency reconstitution (returning a person to solid after over phasing themselves) and legal instruction (so many peeping tom cases)

[writingunicornuk]

ERINACEUS CALCUTEDIA The scientific name of The Roasting Hedgehog This subspecies of the hedgehog is known to live in bonfires and is perfectly capable of surviving the heat of a standard wood or coal fire unlike its more normal relatives, from whom they are almost indistinguishable, and specimens have been known to chase the regular hedgehogs out of the bonfire if they think the fire is about to be lit. They are one of the few species the predate true salamanders, apparently able to cope with the heat inside and out. Old Roasted Hedgehogs sometimes decide to forgo their fire immunity, and if you rake through the coals at the end of a bonfire you can sometimes find their remains, which look very similar to that of a baked potato. It is currently believed that that the magic in this hedgehog derives from the time that the Hedgehog advised against the marriage of the sun and moon, and the sun, seeing the wisdom, gave the hedgehog a kiss as thanks, and some of her power transferred. This is the legend, but the records show that it is not far from the truth. It was the right advice from the hedgehog: the union it would have created a magical superpower in the Balkans area, and probably cause the dragons to reawaken.

[writingunicornuk]

MYZMYSAC AGNOSIA Vacuum Cleaner Blindness This condition can affect many modern witches, who try to fly off on their broomsticks, only to realise that because they no longer clean the house with a broom, they had mounted their Hoover or Dyson, and occasionally suffer from a fatal attack of embarrassment. Sometimes they even managed to get a few hundred yards before they realise that the cable is trailing below them and they have knocked out several roaming skeletons or children, sometimes the same person, with the plug socket. It's even worse if it gets caught on an overhead electricity line, as the hover spontaneously turns itself on while the witch flies around in a circle, creating a localised tornado and widespread cursing. Contrary to popular belief the problem with flying a vacuum cleaner is not to do with how far the cord will reach, as the flight power in a conventional broom is not from the current power supply, but the result of storing up the motion generated by sweeping, a bit like winding up a clock, and then releasing it all at once, so as long as the correct talismans are in place it will still store motion.