THE ESOTERIC COSMOGONY
On The Wizard
While a bard weaves words into stories above, below a wizard works to create the magic that makes such a thing possible.
On Navigation
As the wizard is not used to visiters, one entering his lair may find themselves lost. Here is your guide to finding your way.
On Neighboring Mages
Any good wizard knows more than a few magic-makers. As such, here are a list of wizard, witches, sorcerers, warlocks, and other mages that the wizard has encountered.
On Making Magic
Despite popular belief, magic does not make itself. It must be created by someone who has studied the art of magic. Mordecai is the wizard behind the bard Mortaki. But he is not only one. You can be one too.
Forbidden Knowledge
Below you will find all sorts of volatile experiments. They are raw magic, not yet tempered enough to be put in the hands of the bard. Sometimes they are well-thought out diagrams; other times they are merely untested concepts that may fall apart in practicality. Peruse at your leisure, if you dare.
Experiment #1 - codename: witchcraft
> A worldbuilding project based on a modern setting where supernaturals hide amongst humans. In this world, magic is both a science and an artform and witches are known as master wielders of it. However, the covens of the world are secretive and no one outside of them quite know where witches come from or how they control their power.
> In this world, two stories take place: one about a group of young people finding refuge in each other and learning to form their own coven; and another about a veteran witch who finds love outside her coven and what that means for everyone.
> Other ideas for stories already exist and are being considered for the experiment.
Experiment #2 - codename: mordecai
> A story based on our very own wizard where he lives as the only magic practitioner in the world. Or so he believes.
> Soon, others like him begin showing up, ineplicably able to pin down his exact location through sense alone, and none of them have any answers as to why.
Experiment #3 - codename: mortaki
> Mortaki saved the world once, though she doesn't remember it. Now, she wanders, looking for fragments she has forgotten in a world that's forgotten her. A story that asks, "what happens to our heroes after they've won?"
Experiment #4 - codename: the middle of everywhere
> A story that combines the worlds of Red Handed and the Shora Mythology.
> In it, a man runs away from all the things that haunt him by becoming a teacher in another country. There, he finds family, community, and a historian he can't help but fall in love with.
Recent Breakthroughs in the Grimoire
Changes To The Lair
sept 2025
- new bardic work: "why I'm not afraid of ai as an artist"; an essay
- new bardic work: "love's lament"; a poem
- new bardic work: "disrepectful"; a poem
- added new buttons to Mages of Inspiration in the Neighboring Mages annotation
- new grimoire entry about the making of the questbook
- did some work on the Shora lorebook (nowhere near finished lol)
- added pdf versions of redhanded chapters
- added some noodles to the experiments tab: mortaki and the middle of everything
- new library arrival: Shadow of the Hegemon by Orsin Scott Card (read this years ago lol)
- library book updates: reviews and summaries added for Red Rising and How to Lose the Time War
- libary manga updates: reviews and summaries added for Honey Lemon Soda, Sasaki to Miyano, and Spy x Family
aug 2025
- made brand new index page
- made brand new wizard page
- made in browser reader for redhanded
- set up guidebook for the both conlangs (not filled out)
- set up lorebooks for shora and redhanded (also not filled out)
- updated redhanded chapters one, two, and three
- set up the grimoire (for documenting my learning process and essays)
- brand new library set up; you can now see covers for books and manga and each fandom has its own shelf for fanfiction (some shelves still need to be made)
- new bardic work: The Ruse; it now has its own page
- "noodles" have been moved to the experiments tab (still a wip)
Experiments To Be Conducted
- witchcraft lorebook
- more shelves for the library
- more recs for the library
- witchy html/css template
- game logs for minecraft and vintage story (cubic wisdom)
- homebrew campaigns for D&D (planar orbs)
- how do automatic rss feeds???
- a digital closet maybe? some sort of fashion page
- add more mushrooms to index page
- grimoire entry about learning languages?
- writer's webring
- red handed ch 4
Arcane Tools
What I use personally to make my site.
- Milanote for inspo boards and establishing theming
- VSCodium for my code editor (used to use Notepadd++, which is also good)
- Neocities for hosting main site
- Bear Blog for hosting the grimoire
- Libresprite for making my button
The Web-onomicon
What I used to learn what I know now.
- MDN Web Documentation for learning the basics of HTML/CSS (apparently people find this hard to decipher as a beginner; if that's the case for you, try W3Schools)
- HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet for learning iframes specifically
- Sadgrl's guides for random HTML/CSS tidbits I couldn't find elsewhere
- a lot of browsing personal sites and using Inspect Element and View Page Source if I'm being honest lol
- currently using this for learning javascript but it's not working too good; not because it's a bad resource, because I don't get along with javascript on a personal level :)
Bardic Devices
What I use to write and plan the bard's stories.
- Writemonkey 3 for editing pieces I wrote on paper
- LibreOffice for writing directly on my computer and formatting things edited on Writemonkey
- Obsidian for compiling worldbuilding notes and lore
- a commonplace book for brainstorming and writing down random notes/plans/ideas
- a notebook specifically for longform writing
- Ruff, a notetaking app I use when my commonplace book is unavailable for whatever reason
- a rich text to html converter that I use to make my stories readable in browser
- Google Docs when I'm collborating with another writer or have someone proofreading my work.
