Lost City Skye

Jules isn't from Skye so he finds all the local witch history fascinating, especially the Lost City.

Modern day Skye is built on what witch historians believe to be where the ancient city once stood. There are artifacts of the lost city clustered in this area more than anywhere else. According to legend, the original Skye was an underground magic city with a large stone of pure magic powering the city and making the inhabitants very powerful witches with the energy it leaked out. Once a citizen became of age, they had the choice of wandering out into the world and bringing their magic to witches outside of their city, along with bringing new magic back to their own when they returned. Some chose to continue to live their lives in the outside world. Skye was first created as a safe haven for witches, only beings with magic could open the gates.

One day the gates sealed and moved location without explanation, trapping all the skylians who traveled out of their city for knowledge and trapping everyone else within. This is where the more powerful founding witch families of modern Skye originate from. Because nobody can find any concrete evidence, many believe the lost city of Skye to be a fairy tale. These people believe the modern Skye was the only one, not some magical underground city.

Skylian is a dead language lost to time but with the dedication of many anthropologist witches over the centuries, they've begun to put together the alphabet and grammar rules. A rumor of a vampire who was an ancient skylian has been floating around for centuries but nobody's been able to figure out who it could be. Researchers are hoping to find more clues in ancient skylian writings as they begin to understand more. They're also still trying to figure out how to use many skylian magic artifacts, especially the traveler's stones each skylian who left the city had. They don't know how they function but the stones hold strong magic.

Witches

In the city of Skye, the witches celebrate the founding families. These are the powerful witches who came together and created the coven that still stands strong today. It is rumored these families all come from the lost city of Skye, for those who believe in it. They have heightened magical abilities passed down through the family lines compared to other witches.

There are eight founding families, all of which stem from a powerful bloodline of pure witches. Pure witches are significantly more powerful than any modern witch but fortunately they're long gone in the past so nobody has to deal with that. Over the years, the bloodlines have become a bit watered down but these families still hold more power than other witch families. In order from most powerful: Everly, Lancaster, Oakes, Hayes, Dryden, Carlyle, Ceran, Dryden. The Everly line is the only line that can be easily identified by a vaguely bird-shaped birthmark on the left inner arm. They also have a significant downside for all their power: for generations the first born children never survive. A curse from the gods caused them to be born with too much magical energy for their bodies to handle and usually ended up burning out and dying at a very young age. The myth begins with a goddess named Everly being cast down from the celestial realm and cursed to live a mortal life. Not many know the full tale but everyone knows that unless a god steps in, the firstborn will die. Gods haven't meddled with humanity for thousands of years so firstborns dying is just an accepted part of life for this family.

Famous witches

Bastion Everly is by far the most famous witch in the history of Skye, and possibly further across the world. He created an insane amount of spells, most of which are common practice in modern days, and nobody knows why. Nobody even knows what happened to him, he disappeared as a young adult without a trace. His grimoire is also a mystery, the witches have it on display but nobody has been able to open it. It has a sealing spell on it and researchers are still trying to figure out the conditions of the spell. Creating so many spells in such a short time, was it desperation or just being a genius? The fact he's left such an imprint after around two thousand years and the sheer amount of spells they have without ever opening his grimoire is impressive.

Alexander Oakes appears in the 18th century with a very unique look on magic. He was considered a prodigy and his skill drastically increased in his young adult years. He also lead a very secretive life in his mansion, especially in his later years before he died of old age. Suddenly he went from gracious host to refusing to let people inside his home, instead meeting people anywhere else. His grimoire was entrusted to a mystery person at his death, along with all of his belongings. Currently, a vampire lives in his mansion. Many supernatural historians speculate this vampire manipulated him but nothing is proven, nobody wants to mess with this vampire for a multitude of reasons. (This vampire is Bastion. Jules knows Alex was the only other person Bastion was really close to before he came around. They stuck together til Alex died of old age, kinda sad but also sweet.)

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