The Mayena Collective

What is often referred to on Amriak as the Mayena Collective (or Bodily Triumvirate, Mayena Triumvirate, etc.) is the grouping of three different Elements- Mayena (blood), Ose (bone), and Visir (flesh)- to form the colloquial single Element of Mayena.

In most cases a bloodmage is host to a single Element within them that holds all three Aspects. However, there are cases where one Element is present, and the mage may only be able to access Ose or Visir.

The Mayena Collective plays a large role in post-Unification healing practices, after the Academy of Mages organised magicians across the continent. Large cities have hospitals with resident healers, now including those Elemental physicians who possess part or all of the Bodily Triumvirate.

In pre-Unification times these gifts were used only locally, villagers or townsmen going to the healer on the outskirts of settlements. Social pariahs, these solitary mages formed the very basis of Naidiri “witch” beliefs, borrowed from the Provincial wurtch, whose meaning seems intrinsic with sorcery, but originates from a root meaning “wild”.

Mayena and it's cousin Elements are used for healing and forensics. The offensive power of this magic relies on altering an enemy's own body, whether that be breaking his bones, boiling his blood, or bursting vessels like the heart.

Fleshcrafting is an obscure and forbidden art using this practice, whereby the mage binds body parts together to create abominations. At least one Korseki cult explored this discipline alongside the manipulation of Zorath, the so-called Element of Soul, marking the first known instances of necromancy on Amriak. This art is as mysterious and rare as it is prohibited.