Beliefs

The witches believe in the natural world. So, much so that the concepts created their own races. These races were created for many different reasons. Nature created the race of the fae to protect the natural world and to make sure it ran smoothly. Nature is one of the most important things to witches. It is where they get their food, their water, the seasons come and go, and it is also where they come from, not to mention magic can be drawn from it. Witches believe in this idea of two sides of a coin. Each thing mirrors another and is not whole without its other part. This is seen in the light and dark concept. The dark father from whom Aine the goddess sprung from is just as important as the light from which she sprung. They do not view light and dark as concepts of good and evil just as opposite forces at work in the world around them.

The concept of nature created fairies to protect the natural world. The concept of fate made mermaids to protect the oceans realizing that they needed someone to guard the seas just like the forests. The concept of magic made dragons, she made them as a companion and to test her magic, creating a different kind to represent the different concepts as well as the light and the dark. The concept of imagination made ice phoenixes to be the embodiment of ice—ice itself is creative and Phoenix because like free will it flies free from all things—including death. Wolves were created when life died to protect the forests and to protect life when next it came to the world and death made vampires, something akin to him to keep the balance within.

Witches believe in equality of the sexes. There were three male concepts and three female concepts and it is always so. Aine was a female spirit and the darkness a male spirit. They believe that male and female energies are needed for the world to work. So, both are equal in their eyes. A female can lead, a male can serve, and it doesn’t matter. As such the thing that matters is how strong you are. A man who marries a woman of a lesser clan will take her name, the same as a woman. If they have a desire to keep their name they can do so by added a hyphen, like Vesela-Giese. The name of the most powerful clan will be on the end. There are expectations to this rule, however, we won’t get into that. Those are usually up to the people getting married.

You are only limited by the power that you lead. Witches are structured by class and not by sex. There are many different class and slaves do exist in many clans. Some clans have servants and not slaves—but the idea if the same. The only difference comes in the matter of payment.