Sea Curse

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Sea Curses, in short, are magic in its true form.

Sea Curses take the form of giant cubes strewn across Earth. Once touched, the Curse will fuse into the person's body, making them one, meaning that there is no longer a difference between the person and Magic. Once a certain type of Sea Curse is absorbed, that particular Curse type will not reappear until the person dies. When a Curse user dies, the curse will fly out of their body at extremely high speeds and land in a random location in the world. However, a Curse user will never die of natural causes, as they stop physically aging from the moment they absorb the Sea Curse.

For every magic and mutation there is, there is a Sea Curse variant of it. However, some curses may not have corresponding magic, most notably Experimental Curses.

More skilled Curse users can phase their body into the respective element of their Curse at will. Typically, the power of the Curse depends on the holder's restraint and will. Many Curse users force themselves to hold back their curse, fearing the stories of other Curse users driven to insanity by their power. On the contrary, many Curse users brandish their power and use it as much as they please, making them very dangerous at the cost of their sanity.

The Curse holder's personality is said to change depending on which magic they wield. For example, the Fire Curse user will have a short temper and the Death Curse user will be distant and cold.

In some semi-rare cases, the children of a Curse user may inherit a fraction of the original Curse's power. Based on the information given in Arcane Odyssey, it is unknown how this power mingles with the magic of a Curse Heir, however it seems to work in tandem with the user's initial magic, granting them positive qualities of their parent's Curse alongside the properties of their magic.

The creation of Sea Curses was a result of Cursebeard threatening Prometheus to give humans more power, as Cursebeard knew Prometheus was hiding magic's true potential from humans. Thus the Sea Curses were made and scattered all across Earth, but Prometheus also created the Grand Fire Curses in secret, hoping someday someone would find them and use them to destroy Cursebeard.

Types of Curse Users[]

Elemental Curse User: The most basic type of Curse, fusing the user with magic such as Fire. In the present year (Y1854), all of these have been taken by humans, or are hidden so well that no one will ever find them. Elemental Curse Users can phase into their respective element, summon forth the element, and manipulate it in any way they choose.

Experimental Curse User: Experimental Curses are certain curses that do not have a corresponding magic. As the name implies, they were the first curses created by the gods to experiment with the true power of creation. The major thing to note about these curses is that they function using spirit energy, not magic energy (unlike Elemental Curses). Even if you have an Experimental curse, you may not be able to channel spirit energy as the curse itself uses spirit energy to function.^[1]

Unbound Curse User: When a person is resurrected using Dead Revival magic, a piece of a Sea Curse can be granted to them by the user. These are known as Unbound Sea Curses, and the only known person who can perform this technique is Durza. Unbound Curse Users have various traits similar to that of a normal Sea Curse user such as the ability to summon their particular element without using Magic Circles, but they seem to be much weaker than the average Sea Curse user and lack the ability to transform into their respective element. The only known wielder of an Unbound Curse is Undead Ramses II. 

Supercurse User: When one person absorbs multiple Sea Curses, or when multiple Sea Curses fuse naturally, it is known as a Supercurse. Natural Supercurses are extremely rare and only exist within the realm of theory since it requires two curses to crash at extremely high velocities to properly fuse. A sighting of a natural Supercurse has never been documented. Creating a Supercurse manually is extremely difficult to do. The user must move the curses next to each other using special tools, and touch them both at the exact same time. If the person is even a millisecond off, the Supercurse will fail, and the user will only absorb one Sea Curse. This has only ever happened one time in history when Cursebeard absorbed his four curses.

Grand Fire Curse User: Soon after creating all of the normal Curses, Prometheus knew that Cursebeard would soon kill him. In his panic, he created the Grand Fire Curses in hopes that a human would absorb them and defeat Cursebeard someday. Prometheus imbued these Curses with his own Grand Fire Magic. These curses give the person special control of an incredibly potent and dangerous type of fire.

Known Curses[]

Elemental Curses[]

Experimental Curses[]

Grand Fire Curses[]

Cursebeard's Supercurse[]

Trivia[]

• Sea Curses seem to be based on the Devil Fruits from One Piece, a popular anime and manga series, as they both have many similar traits, such as granting the user a special ability when touched/eaten and disabling the user's ability to swim.
  • The sea rejects Devil Fruit users in One Piece, disabling their ability to swim. In Arcane Adventures, the reason given is that the magic pollution left over by Durza's attack conflicts with the energy of the Curse itself, and the Curse's energy doesn't know what to do, disabling the Curse user's swimming ability.
  • As of Arcane Reborn's revised lore, Experimental Curse users are able to swim in the seawater with no repercussions. All other curse users are still vulnerable to the aforementioned effects. A Supercurse User will explode if more than half their body is submerged in seawater.
• In the prequel, Online Fighting, players were able to absorb curses. Only 3 curses were implemented at the time of its development; Fire Curse, which was the most developed, Sand Curse, which was significantly less developed, and the Growth Curse, which could not be gotten within normal gameplay.
• The Lazarus Curse could be a possible reference towards the Lazarus of Bethany, the subject of a miracle in which Jesus restores him to life 4 days after his death.
• Most Curse Users cannot be damaged by swords, cannons or any other physical attack, making them only vulnerable against magic.