Lore of the Sex Mage Multiverse

Art by Boris Vallejo

ORIGINS: THE SEX MAGE REALM

The beings known as the Fae rely on the dreams of sapient minds, be they human or otherwise, to give themselves identity and form. Civilizations across the galaxy have had sporadic contact with the Fae Realm, even if they do not realize it.
 
Eventually, certain exceptional Fae discovered a way to maintain their sense of self even when they returned the formless reality that is their home. By transforming a piece of their world into a simulated existence, focused on a specific theme, these Fae Lords can create a sort of "life support" system for themselves, ensuring that they can continue existing in their current form for subjective centuries or millennia.
 
Although other lesser Fae may enter the realm and fill in some of its details, Fae Lords depend on the innate existential stability of beings from our Material Universe to anchor their pocket realities into place. To this end, the Fae have stolen millions of sapient beings from across the universe, and insinuated them into the paradigm of their realities. Such beings have their memories erased or rewritten, and sometimes even their forms altered, to better fit within the world. In some cases, the timeline of these worlds continues linearly, while in others, specific events or sequences may continuously repeat in a time loop. Still others may reboot their reality every few years, still fitting the theme, but readjusting to suit the Lord's changing tastes.
 
Earth is one such world of particular interest to the Fae, being the inspiration for the creation of thousands of separate Fae Lord Realms. Many of the unexplained disappearances throughout human history, from supposed supernatural events to alien abductions, are in fact the Fae Lords stealing humans away.
 
One particular Realm of note is the Sex Mage Realm created by the Fae Lord Dellissa. In this reality, which resembles a large island nation from modern day Earth, women are given the power of Sex Magic. The majority of humans within the Realm are men from Earth, placed in sexual situations which cater their femdom fetishes, albeit to a supernaturally overwhelming degree. Some of the humans are women with similar fetishes, who are given the ultimate power of sexual femdom magic.
 
It is from this Realm that Sex Magic originates. An impact event with a monstrous entity spawned from the Dark God Temael risked a catastrophic collapse of Dellissa’s reality. Hundreds of humans were awakened from the dream of her Realm, and ejected from it, to be scattered across various timelines of Earth.
 
In each world a human woman returned to, Sex Magic manifested, sometimes as it was originally designed, sometimes altered as it crossed the veils between dimensions. Numerous versions of Earth have become completely upended by this incredible sexual power, and the craziest part is that Dellissa isn't even aware of it. She's already repaired her reality from the event, and is still having fun with all the denizens still there. It may be centuries, at least, before she checks on the worlds of the Material Universe again.
 
When she does, how will she react when she discovers that her power has spread? And how much more powerful will she become, when she reconnects to the countless worlds that now operate under, and conceptually anchor, her existential paradigm?
 
 

Art by Boris Groh

TERROR ZONES: THE CURSE OF TEMAEL

An infection has spread across the Sex Mage Multiverse. The same cosmic accident that brought Sex Magic to numerous realities carried with it the seed of a far darker power.
 
Terror Zones are the manifestation of the magic of Temael, a Dark God that covets the worlds of our universe. When Its power manifests in the hidden corners of a world, it begins to warp the area into a twisted nightmare version of itself.
 
The land is cast in supernatural darkness. An unrelenting feeling of absolute dread claws at the minds of all within. The dead walk as living skeletons, bones glowing with radioactivity, or cloaked in lethal chemical clouds. Animals mutate into hideous, bloodthirsty chimera. Plants and fungi become vicious, mobile carnivores. Machines come alive and reshape into deadly mechanical monsters. The land itself sprouts toxic incarnations of elemental creatures. The very shadows themselves seem to claw at the living and attempt to suck out their life force.
 
Sex Magic is nearly useless inside a Terror Zone. Lust Energy is almost completely neutralized, and Sex Mage Spells are reduced to a fraction of their effectiveness even when some energy does manage to be absorbed. The healing and sanity protecting effects of the Magic are completely removed.
 
Terror Zones, for the most part, can be stopped one of three ways: either by finding and destroying the core of the manifestation somewhere in the Zone's center, by eliminating several key creatures of great power roaming within, or by using some means to drain the Dark Magic until the Zone can no longer support itself.
 
Sometimes, a Terror Zone may simply dissipate on its own, as it burns through it's own energy over time, or the world itself exerts enough existential pressure to snuff it out. This is not reliable, however, as there is no telling how long a manifestation can last. Depending on what occurs within, it may find a means to sustain itself indefinitely.
 
Some worlds have an easier time of it, combating the Zones directly with high technology, alternative magics, superhuman powers, or divine intervention. Others are not so lucky, and must treat the Zones as natural disasters to be escaped and avoided until they go away, if they ever do. In some worlds, special teams of powerful Sex Mage soldiers and Radiants, armed to the teeth with mundane weaponry, are sent in to brave the horrors and try to shut down the Zones from within.
 
No one knows how long this struggle will last. Even if Sex Magic were to be eliminated from the Multiverse, the Terror Zones would continue to persist. Ironically, for some worlds, the very Sex Magic that brought this dark curse with it may be the only thing keeping it in check.

Art by Mark Bagley, Ultimate Spider-Man

 

PANDORAS: A LETHAL LEGACY

Pandoras are the result of mankind's attempts to better understand the nature of Sex Magic through scientific research and technological testing, often with disastrous results.
 
In many realities of the Sex Mage Multiverse, the Pandora Research Facility is created to attempt to discover the limits of Sex Magic's potential. Frustratingly, there doesn't appear to be much one can actually do with the power beyond its apparent function as a female dominant sexual control mechanism. There are certainly many beneficial uses for its many side effects, but actually distilling such mechanisms and applying them to other processes seems impossible.
 
About the only thing Sex Magic seems able to do beyond its normal functions is the advancement of human cloning. Unfortunately, clones created with the Magic tend to have strange quirks about them. For one, all female clones awaken with a vicious domination streak, as if acting on some primal instinct instilled by the Magic itself. Whether possessing a general disdain for people or a targeted aggression against
 specific persons, they seem intent on unleashing the Magic on their victims to as devastating a degree as possible. Likewise, all male clones awaken with an automatic submissive streak towards women, but an aggressive disdain for the men they were cloned from, and a general indifference to other men. It takes weeks, if not months, of mental conditioning to make such clones empathize with other humans.
 
For another, females awaken with Sex Mage powers already active, and their power effects can vary wildly, creating strangely powerful Glitches. Many demonstrate Archmage level powers under specific conditions, even if their abilities are otherwise limited. Males, by contrast, are often capable of generating enormous amounts of Lust Energy, on par with a Radiant, and such levels of energy can prove overwhelming for most Sex Mages to be exposed to. These radical power variations make controlling and containing them until they can be conditioned all the more difficult.
 
Then, there are the Abominations, cloning attempts that went completely awry, creating twisted body horror mutants and fantastical demihumans with bestial minds, intent on consuming the Lust Energy of humans at the cost of their victim's lives.
 
In some realities, the creation of these Pandoras lead to terrible disasters. The monsters break free and run rampant over nearby towns and cities, savagely abusing the population, if not outright killing them. Specially trained soldiers and anti-Terror Zone units are sent in to eradicate these outbreaks, and very quickly, the Pandora Facility is shut down, and further experimentation is forbidden.
 
Those realities are the lucky ones. In some versions of the Sex Mage World, the culmination of Pandora Research results in the Created, a single female clone of utterly immense power. Able to survive only by constantly consuming Lust Energy, she triggers what is known as the Cascade Event, a spreading storm of uncontrollable Sex Magic that sends all who are touched by it into a coma of hyper-stimulation that exceeds mortal tolerance. Even in the worlds where she is eventually stopped, the global population is cut down by as much as half. The one upside to the Cascade is that it also creates the Megami, who by and large will protect the surviving populations by forming the Queendoms.
 
Despite this, sometimes Pandoras can still appear out of nowhere. Some theorize that other facilities may have been created, or some escapees formed their own hidden settlements in the wilderness, but subsequent searches turn up nothing. The prevailing theory is that, just as in the legend of Pandora herself, once the box was opened, the danger has become an inherent part of the world. Pandoras may now simply appear as random, feral manifestations of the Sex Magic itself.