Sex Mage Multiverse: Levels of Impact

Sex Magic is a powerful force that can radically alter the course of human civilization in most realities in which it appears. This article looks at the various Impact Levels the Magic has on different timelines, from the source of the power, to the final outcomes of its influence.

ORIGINS OF THE MAGIC

Sex Magic is the creation of Fae Lord Dellissa, a system of magical and psychic abilities that gives women total control over men’s genitals and libido, and variable control over the rest of their bodies and minds as long as there is a sexual aspect involved. To populate and anchor her world, Dellissa steals humans from various timelines of Earth, and brings them to Delwor Island, aka, the Sex Mage Realm, Dellissa’s personal reality within the greater Fae Realm.

Here, human women are blessed with Sex Magic, while human men are made into their playthings. With their memories altered and their bodies kept young and healthy, humans can live for decades, even centuries, within the dream of her erotic reality, reliving the same scenarios or shifting into different ones, without being aware of how long they have actually been there.

Very rarely, however, a kidnapped human is able to return to their world, rescued by others from their reality, or awakening to the nature of their situation and finding a way to escape. This happens at least a few times in most Fae Lord Realms, but is so rare an occurrence as to be of minimal worry.

However, at some point within the Sex Mage Realm’s existence, the Temaelean Impact Event occurs. Nearly all humans present, numbering in the low thousands, are awakened to the false nature of their reality. Dellissa and her Lesser Fae manage to re-subsume the minds of their human playthings, but several hundred are lost during the event, and fall out of the world.

Time and space do not truly exist as we know them within the Fae Realm. For every human lost in the existential chaos of the Realm, countless possibilities of outcomes are cycled through. With nearly all of these possible incidents, the humans in question are eradicated by the destructive chaos of the greater Fae Realm.

There is a small chance, however, that a human will manage to return to the world, and relative time, from which they were taken, as their existential resonance is just strong enough to snap them back to their proper reality.

When they return to their world, they are often dazed and confused, with little memory of their time in Dellissa’s Realm. Like waking from a fever dream, the person is left to stumble back to their previous life, although they may have emerged as many as thousands of miles from their kidnapping point, and anywhere from days to years after, or even before, they originally left.

Men who find their way back to Earth have no further impact on their reality.

Women, however, still retain the power of Sex Magic upon their return, and in most cases, are still able to transfer it to other women. The Carrier is a term for the woman who first brings Sex Magic to the world.

Some Carriers also bring with them a fragment of the power of Temael, infesting their reality with Its terrible Curse.

ALTERATIONS TO THE MAGIC

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 IMPACT LEVELS

The ineffable trip back through the Fae Realm and across the dimensional barrier back to Earth sometimes alters the functions of Sex Magic. This is the reason the Magic is not always consistent in its rules from reality to reality. While the theme of female control over men’s sexuality maintains in nearly all cases, vast fluctuations in strength and mechanics mean there is a wide range of impact the Magic has on human societies.

This phenomenon is divided thusly into Impact Levels.

LEVEL ZERO – Pre-emptive Elimination

A Carrier appears on Earth, but dies before she can spread the power. Alternatively, the power may begin to spread, but is so weak and ineffectual that it cannot sustain itself and fizzles out very early on. Alternatively, other supernatural forces snuff it out before it can take hold. Alternatively, the Carrier retains her powers, but is incapable of spreading it further, leaving her the only Sex Mage in the world, and thusly having miniscule impact.

More often than not, the conditions that prevent Sex Magic from taking hold also prevent Temael’s Curse from setting into that Timeline. This is not always the case, however, and several Timelines are doomed to infestation from Temael’s power, without even Sex Magic to counter it.

LEVEL ONE – Minimal Influence

Sex Magic has been reduced in effectiveness so severely, that the power actually has very little impact on day-to-day life for human society, much less any large-scale effect. This can be because the Magic spreads in a very limited manner, meaning only a handful of women in a given timeline possess the magic. Or the magic itself has such minor effects that the advantages it gives women are miniscule. Most importantly, however, the Magic’s potential for growth is severely stunted or completely cut off, and as such, no Magic-related disasters are experienced. In some cases, the Magic may even fade away slowly over time.

The Chastity Curse, the Intimacy Bond, and most Phallimagery Timelines fall under Level One.

Level One Timelines almost entirely remain free of Temael’s Curse, indicating that whatever weakens and alters Sex Magic in transit also weakens the Curse as well, to the point that it can’t take root. A scant few, however, still become infected.

LEVEL TWO – One Power Out Of Many

Sex Magic is powerful, and may have the potential to grow stronger, but is kept in check by the existence of other powerful supernatural forces. Super powers, various magics, psionics, weird science, alien technologies, infernal or supernal powers, all are capable of easily overcoming Sex Magic if not erasing it from the world outright. In this case, the Magic is simply folded into society as yet another power among many others which have their own impact levels on that reality’s civilization already.

Fabled Lands, Mahou Seibetsu Sekai, and Super Sex Mages are classified as Level Two. The worlds of the Erotic Adventures Universe could also potentially fall under this Level if the Magic ever spread there.

Many worlds infected with Temael’s Curse may fall under this category, as Terror Zones grow and fester in great number across the world, and deadly Cults embrace Its dark power to stage successful conquests. In realities where Sex Magic is the only other supernatural force aside from the Curse, the monstrous power of Temael easily overwhelms it, and thus the Curse has greater impact on the world than the Magic itself. Sex Magic is embraced by society as another weapon against the Curse or a tool of survival.

LEVEL THREE – Sex Mage Worlds

This is the usual level of impact, where Sex Magic is powerful, has the potential to grow stronger, and there are little to no other supernatural forces that exist to restrain it. Human civilization undergoes massive upheaval and realignment in the wake of the Magic’s spread, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst, but ultimately humanity survives and adapts to the changes.

The Sex Mage World is the ur-example of a Level Three world, and most realities fall into this category. Strictly speaking, this is the sort of world Dellissa’s Realm is modeled to be like, but that isn’t considered to count, considering that reality is malleable and under the complete control of Dellissa herself.

Level Three Timelines are almost guaranteed to see a mass-death of human population through a variety of factors. Initial deaths are brought on early after Sex Magic’s appearance, causing wide spread civil unrest in most countries, violent revolutions, violent crimes, wars, and the crippling of the global economy. However, in most cases, this leads to only a small percentage of the population falling before civilization re-stabilizes itself. Barring some prolonged armed conflicts in localized areas, humanity recovers, and society attempts to return to a new normal.

However, at some point within five to twenty years, nearly all Sex Mage Worlds of this level will undergo a Cascade Event, an out of control eruption of the Magic that spreads like a wildfire across continents, and traps the populace in lethal comas. The Cascade Event is usually caused by unchecked experimentation with the Magic, but may rarely be caused by a concentrated chain reaction of the power under other unusual circumstances.

Nearly half of existing Sex Mage Worlds proceed to a Level Four Impact from this event. However, the slight majority of worlds manages to find some way to survive, albeit with the human population drastically reduced. In most cases, the Cascade Event results in the creation of the Megami and the Pandoras.

Surviving civilizations of Cascade Events undergo a radical restructuring of civilization, almost always resulting in the Queendoms emerging has highly separated societies. Very rare, an attempt at a true One World Government system is implemented, to mixed results. Many of these Timelines proceed into a Level Five Impact.

Temael’s Curse has the widest range of impacts among these timelines. In some Timelines, the Curse never takes root. However, even in Timelines where the Terror Zones and Cults emerge, a Level Three Timeline can keep them in check for at least a while. Cults are thoroughly defeated by armed forces and Terror Zones are efficiently dismantled by specialized strike squads; given enough time and dedication, a few of these realities can even succeed in removing the Curse from the world entirely by just making sure it can't take sufficient root before it finally burns itself out.

LEVEL FOUR – Apocalyptic Ends

In these apocalyptic timelines, the power of Sex Magic spirals completely out of control and causes the extinction of the human race, as well as possibly other species.

The Beast World Timeline qualifies for this level, as do numerous Timelines where nothing was able to stop Cascade Events. Alternatively, Pandoras may emerge into a world unable to deal with them, allowing them to spread like locusts, hunting and devouring the human species.

While not included as a factor in Sex Magic Impact Levels, it is worth noting here that 40% of timelines infected with Temael’s Curse result in human extinction, either through the literal genocide of humanity, or the transformation of humanity into a monstrous new species of living horrors.*

LEVEL FIVE – Goddess Evolution

Sex Magic may rarely begin in this state, but more usually will start at the Level Three stage, and continuously grow through a series of generational Surges. In either case, the power of Sex Magic becomes stronger and stronger over time, but in a controlled manner that still ensures humanity’s survival.

The usual progression of power leads to women becoming more blatantly magical, with even low-powered women able to casually use reality-bending super powers beyond just manipulation of men’s bodies. All women reach Archmage and eventually Megami levels of power. This continues until they become so powerful, they are able to tap into greater forms of magic, usually by means of tapping directly into the energies of the Fae Realm itself. At that point, women’s magic may no longer even need sex to function, although the sexual vector has become so entrenched, that eroticism is all but permanently burned into the essence of the magical culture.

By this point, men are little more than bugs at the feet of their Goddess women, and many women now find themselves chafing at the close proximity of such powerful neighbors. Women thin their numbers by lethal combat, by merging themselves together to form even stronger gestalt entities, by colonizing other planets or transforming themselves into living habits adrift in space, and/or simply not giving birth to any more girls. Men, meanwhile, they will continue to create in large numbers, and manage as toys, pets, and energy generators. The human race becomes more analogous to a sapient angler fish style society than anything we recognize today.

The Super Megami World is ranked as a Level Five Timeline.

LEVEL SIX – Omnymphotence

The final evolution of Sex Magic occurs in a rare few timelines where the powers of the Goddess-like Sex Mages grows so strong, that the magic itself overcomes them, and the whole of humanity becomes linked in a perpetual, unstoppable circuit of magic that unifies the entire species on the mental, physical, and mystical level. The human race transforms into a singular gestalt entity. Men and women alike are sacrificed into this new being, though the female attributes mold the form and the power, while the male ones simply feed their energy into it. The being likewise draws a great amount of power from the Fae Realm itself to facilitate this transformation into a truly cosmic being.

The resulting entity is an Omnymphotent, a female human with vast reality-warping powers and an insatiable libido. Sex is no longer a requirement for her powers to function, as her will is sufficient to bend the universe to her whim, but the Sex Magic origins of her ascension have greatly influenced her innate desires and instincts.

Despite her immense cosmic powers, an Omny still yearns for human contact and sexual experiences. Omnymphotents are capable of casually crossing dimensions and creating their own pocket universes, they will immediately seek out other Timelines in order to reconnect with humanity. Omnymphotents prefer realities where Sex Magic has not appeared, and they have an effectively endless number to choose from.

An Omny will usually stick to one Timeline for a prolonged period, rather than shift around, preferring to settle into a comfortable universe. At the same time, they will create pocket realities of their own to bring favored humans to. While the temperament and nature of an Omny can vary, all have a vested interest in the continued survival of the human race as a whole. The Impact Level an Omny has on these alternate Timelines is can vary drastically, and should be considered a separate scale.

Only a tiny percentage of Sex Mage realities have resulted in the creation of an Omnymphotent. While an Omny is capable of traveling to different Timelines, they are unable or unwilling to travel to worlds where Sex Magic already exists. The reason is twofold: their presence would automatically react to the Magic and interfere with its development. The only real way to guarantee the formation of a new Omnymphotent is to simply let the Timeline play out and let things evolve on their own.

The second reason is that at one point, all extant Omnymphotents staged a combined assault on Temael in an attempt to save the Cursed Timelines. This attack failed utterly, leaving only a handful of Omnymphotents remaining, and rendering them unable to enter any Timeline where the Curse took hold.

Since this event, the surviving Omnymphotents have left the Sex Mage Multiverse behind, to forge new realities of their own.

*Continuity Update: Due to an arrangement made between the Dark God and the Omnymphotent Cyl, most Sex Mage Worlds have now been spared Temael's Curse, re-writing their doomed futures. The Dark God has withdrawn Its errant power from most Timelines in exchange for taking one Earth for Its collection. This did not retroactively remove the Curse's impact prior to the arrangement being made, and thus many worlds still suffered under Terror Zones for several years. Some worlds were still lost as humanity was wiped out before the Curse was removed. But as of now, estimates place less than 1% of worlds to have fallen to the Curse before it was lifted.