Cebrail 28, 1790 — Orgone overload is emerging as one of the most dangerous crises within mage society, turning cherished bonds into collateral damage. In Shalmali, Maharajahnate of Lemuria [1], testimonies reveal how excess negativity-fueled magic unleashes uncontrollable spells, threatening both practitioners and the very people they hold most dear.
Context
Alienist Anu Kahna of Shalmali issued the routinary warning to magic and civic authorities: unchecked harvesting of Orgone carries devastating consequences not only for the practitioners but also for families, communities, and the fabric of Lemurian society itself.
Orgone, produced when hayyoth suffer negative emotions or perish in death’s release of Aponia, has long served as the bedrock of magical practice. Yet the same fuel that empowers mages can twist their craft into a weapon of grief. With each overload, the cycle deepens — a vicious loop of despair, paranoia, and escalating harm.
Development of the Facts: The Surge of Overload Cases
Reports from Shalmali’s Alienist clinics describe a sharp increase in mages presenting with symptoms of overload: insomnia, paranoia, intrusive visions, and sudden magical ruptures. These ruptures are rarely random; instead, spells lash outward at what the mage values most deeply.
One account describes a mother, herself a seasoned adept, whose overloaded surge manifested as firestorms within her family home, nearly consuming the children she had sworn to protect. Another mage, devoted to a lifelong companion, found his wards shattering and reconstituting with violent force around his partner, injuring her gravely.
A mother’s love, twisted into a destructive firestorm by the grip of Orgone overload. Credit: Kenomitian
Wards meant to protect shatter and turn on a lifelong companion, in a tragic display of a corrupted True Will. Credit: Kenomitian.
“Orgone does not merely discharge power,” explained Anu Kahna. “It distorts the True Will — bending subconscious affection into a curse. The deeper the love, the sharper the wound.”
The Psychological Trap of Negative Power
The consequences reach far beyond physical harm. Alienists now describe overload as an inherently corrupting cycle. Drawing power from negativity deepens a mage’s dependence on it. Fear of loss, grief, and self-loathing become catalysts for stronger spells, yet each channeling of such energies worsens the practitioner’s instability.
The parallels with mortal psychology are stark. Survivors of trauma often find themselves trapped in recursive cycles — fearing vulnerability, sabotaging their relationships, and generating the very stressors that prolong their suffering. In the same way, mages who lean on Orgone create fresh cascades of grief, fueling the very overload they dread.
Kahna warns: “The mage becomes a generator of their own torment. By fearing pain, they summon more of it. By hiding their wounds, they sharpen them. Orgone only amplifies what festers.”
Families at the Epicenter
For every mage in crisis, there are families caught in the blast. The personal repercussions of overload ripple outward in widening circles of trauma. Children inherit scars both psychic and physical, while partners become unwilling test subjects in a cycle of magical self-destruction.
In Shalmali’s lower districts, an entire tenement collapsed under the destructive reverberations of one artisan-mage’s uncontrolled spellwork. Survivors recount not a moment of anger, but rather a sudden eruption triggered while he embraced his daughter after weeks of estrangement. The love itself became the vector for collapse.
In Shalmali’s lower districts, love itself became the vector for a tragic collapse. Credit: Kenomitian
Exploitation and Heretical Temptations
While Alienists sound the alarm, heretical sects continue to whisper promises of mastery through Aponia-fueled sacrifice. The death-throes of hayyoth radiate Orgone in its most concentrated form, making ritual killing a potent but forbidden shortcut. Yet such methods virtually guarantee overload, magnifying both the scale of devastation and the corruption of the practitioner’s psyche.
While Alienists sound the alarm, heretical sects whisper promises of deadly power through forbidden sacrifice. Credit: Kenomitian
Alienist records suggest that mages seduced by sacrificial practices enter overload more swiftly and with deadlier consequences. “Their True Will is not merely distorted,” Kahna noted grimly. “It is inverted — every vow of love, friendship, or duty becomes a mark upon which destruction is unleashed.”
The Theran Cost. Alienists Confront a Growing Crisis
The role of Alienists — healers who blend magical insight with psychological care — has never been more crucial. Yet resources are scarce. Clinics report an influx of desperate families seeking intervention, but few Alienists possess the stamina to absorb the steady tide of despair.
“We are not fighting spells; we are fighting cycles,” Kahna emphasized. “To heal overload, one must disentangle grief from power — and that is no easy task in a society where pain itself fuels the economy of magic.”
Alienists work tirelessly to disentangle grief from power, fighting a tide of despair in a society where pain fuels magic. Credit: Kenomitian
The Burden on Civic Order
Authorities in Shalmali find themselves torn between disciplinary measures and therapeutic ones. Some advocate for harsher restrictions on Orgone harvesting, particularly in urban centers already strained by psychological malaise. Others, tied to corporate patrons, resist such measures, fearing economic disruption.
The Maharajahnate itself has yet to issue binding edicts, though civic patrols have been instructed to report incidents of overload as “civil hazards,” placing them in the same category as structural collapses or natural disasters.
Consequences of Overload
What began as isolated accidents now threatens to erode public trust altogether. Families once proud of their gifted kin now whisper of curses. Communities mark overloaded mages as pariahs, compounding their isolation and hastening collapse.
Kahna’s research highlights the cruelest irony: overload most often destroys the very bonds that might otherwise heal a suffering mage. Loved ones become targets, sanctuaries become battlefields, and hope itself becomes ammunition.
“The tragedy of overload,” said Kahna, “is not that magic falters — it is that love itself is weaponized. Until we recognize that every act of harnessing negativity carries this seed of reversal, we will continue to sacrifice our most sacred affections to the fire.”
Toward an Uncertain Future
Unless significant reforms emerge, Shalmali faces a rising tide of grief-powered catastrophes. The Alienist community calls for strict monitoring of Orgone use, public education campaigns, and the establishment of sanctuaries where mages can safely release excess buildup before it corrodes their True Will.
Yet in a society still enthralled by the promise of power, such calls may prove difficult to enforce. As long as negative emotion remains the cornerstone of mana, the seeds of overload remain planted in every mage’s heart.
For now, Shalmali lives with the tension of reverence and fear — gazing upon its spellcasters as both guardians and harbingers, healers and destroyers, the beloved and the damned.
Loved ones become targets, sanctuaries become battlefields, and mages become both the beloved and the damned. Credit: Kenomitian
Notes extracted from the Kenomitian Compendium
[1] The Maharajahnate of Lemuria is a crystal‑spires, neo‑feudal absolute monarchy grounded in Indian‑Ocean cultures; capital Shalmali (New Delhi). Society follows a gene‑engineered caste ladder—Mahachohan to Nada—with Kahata (Hindi) as lingua franca and Moryan scripts. It runs off‑world and extra‑dimensional colonies and grants megacorporate extraterritoriality (Nuit Macroengineering, Ra‑Hoor‑Khuit, etc.). Biopolitics govern status: Peshat/Remez/Derash are citizens; Sod & Partzufim are engineered for elite/covert roles (Drakes/Archangels); Cambions are executed; slavery abolished. Law ties automata/AI, uplifted tlavati, necromancy, and psychic autonomy to creator‑caste and consent; cold war with Avichaem, aiding Cyranides vs. Ouroboros; Economic-Military Ranking: 11; flag scarlet‑wheel triband; anthem “Song of the Dharma.”
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