What Is a Witchborn?

Witchborn is Jericha's collective word for its people, not the name of a single species. As different species settled in Jericha, the Void tainted or blessed them into a shared condition: Witchborn species speak Common and every Witchborn is born with a power that may become accessible only after a triggering experience.

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One word for Jericha's peoples

Species names ancestry and form; Witchborn names a shared Jerichan condition.

People

Human, elf, orc, dragonborn, Forged, and Jericha's other species remain distinct. Witchborn describes the people they became together on Jericha and the Void-shaped traits that cross those species boundaries.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

A shared language

Common speech is part of the Witchborn convergence.

Common

All Witchborn species speak Common. Regional dialects, older languages, professional vocabularies, religious phrases, and family traditions may still differ, but Common is one of the convergent traits of Jericha's peoples.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Tainted or blessed

Every Witchborn carries an inborn power shaped by Jericha's Void condition.

Void

Jericha's Void influence changed the species that settled there. Some call that change a taint and others a blessing. Either way, every Witchborn is born carrying a power that belongs to their life even before they can use it.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Power may arrive during a life

Being born with power does not mean being born able to use it.

Trigger

A Witchborn's power can remain inaccessible until an event or condition in their life triggers it. The emergence can resemble the activation of a superpower: birth provides the potential, while lived experience determines when it becomes available.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Powers live inside Aspects

Power is the ability; an Aspect is the larger structure that contains and teaches Powers.

Aspects

A Power is part of an Aspect, not another name for the entire Aspect. Each Aspect in Jericha's current system contains 42 Powers. As access to magic widened, Witchborn learned to understand their awakened Powers, study other Aspects, and develop jobs and classes around the abilities they could harness.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Relationships

Related Guide

Jericha in One Minute

References

[1] Creator clarification 1↩1 ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
[2] Creator clarification 2↩1 ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
[3] Creator clarification 3↩1 ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
[4] Creator clarification 4↩1 ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5