Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150216095040/@comment-32663439-20150217044924

Rivent looked to Rythian, and then started speaking as if he knew in depth about the subject. "Genetic or hereditary magics are a semi-rare form of magic transformation. Maybe you had an ancestor who was a skilled shadow magus. The magic worked itself into his or her bloodline, resurfacing eventually in you, not at it's full power, but the baseline.

"You also could have been exposed to a certain type of object that has a direct tie to dark magics. For example, the rare Gloamwraiths of Argonia are supported by magical Nails. These nails protrude from their necks, and are a source of great power. If you contacted one through a glove or caliper or something of the sort, you could have recieved your current powers. If you had touched the nail with your skin, you'd be a gloamwraith right now, mindless and hungry for the souls of the living."

"Regardless of how you received it, you were given the magics while unprepared for them. It's like teaching a novice mage a master level destruction spell. The might of your powers can't be controlled by you, since you don't know how. You accidentally summoned these powers in a time when you were mentally loose. You were angry somehow, or sad, or otherwise feeling negative at the time. They got out of hand, and then you did what you did unintentionally, unable to stop the flowing and eager power. It's like a child opening the door to a sabre cat's cage, and then trying to stop the sabre cat as it rampaged and slaughtered. The trick is to either learn how to control that sabre cat, or never release it at all."