[Comartemis]

Got a new concept here that I'd like the resident Belkan nuts to look at, Kha in particular. This is my take on a light/darkness struggle inherent in the Saint Church's backstory.

Spoiler for "Light":

Light
"Light" is a simple term used to refer to the Ancient Belkan concept of Heiliges Licht ("Sacred Light"), a force which followers of the Saint Church believe is responsible for the creation and reincarnation of souls and spirits, and which was at one point embodied in the form of the Sankt Kaiser, Vivian, and her offspring.

Light is thought to be an omnipresent force which permeates the multiverse in various forms, most of them intangible even to those with extraordinarily high magical senses. As with most religious "forces", Light is very poorly understood (indeed, often scoffed at) from a scientific standpoint, and a concrete understanding of the nature of Light and its' connection to the soul continues to elude scientists and mages to this day.

According to Belkan scriptures, the source of Light is an indescribably huge mass of spiritual energy ((Author's Note: picture the end result of instrumentality in End of Evangelion, but on a much more massive scale)), which exists.... somewhere. The scripts are rather vague on this point, calling the source "the heart of all worlds", which most believe to be the heart of the multiverse, which being infinitely huge also makes the odds of finding the source infinitely unlikely.

One of the largest sources of faith in the existence of Light (and, hence, reincarnation) stems from records of the deeds of the Kaisers. During her lifetime, Vivian was known to regularly perform feats of magical strength that were, frankly, beyond the capabilities of the human body. Though this may be explained as some unique Rare Skill attributed to Vivian, Church historians believe that Vivian, the only SSS-rank mage in the history of the multiverse, was able to tap into the power of her own spirit, performing what is known as a Spirit Release, using her own soul as a form of magical power (and as the soul's power is infinite, so too was Vivian's so long as she used this power).

Theoretically, Spirit Releases may be possible for other mages to perform as well, though the prerequisites to learning this skill and the power any given mage may be able to harness is as yet unknown. At present time, only two mages besides Vivian have ever performed a Spirit Release, and neither were able to achieve the same level of power as the Sankt Kaiser. Those two mages are Arturia Pendragon, the last Kaiser of Belka, and Malcon Fiss, a traitorous priest whose actions led to the destruction of Belka and the Empire as a whole.

Got a Darkness entry coming up too, just not quite yet.