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In my current fantasy world, Mist is sort of the elemental substance of Godly magic (the magic of creation and manipulation, as opposed to destruction, which is an entirely separate discussion). In the past most such magic was bundled up in the gods and the servants they chose to bless with it, but at a certain point mankind gained access to Null Magic (destruction), and used it to cast down the gods, ripping them apart.

Basically, in the areas where larger numbers of gods were killed, their essences remain and Mist pours from the spiritual plane into the corporeal. The main notable areas are the great Sea of Mist in the west, and a number of craters left over from massive explosions from the Rebellion war. Humans have learned how to harness the raw energy within the mist and wield it, but at certain cost. Most people capable of wielding mist have insufficient skill to fullly "harmonize" with it, which means that the moment they first utilize it in a major way, it can latch onto their vocal patterns, and any speech will basically give the mist enough order and structure that a proto-god, or demon, will form and kill the mage. In other words, when not in a protected zone, most Mist mages must abide by strict vows of silence.

A select few, the most powerful, and also those from certain bloodlines (most notably two bloodlines that basically have been fusing Mistmagic into their souls for hundreds of years, are able to harmonize, either naturally or through experience. Those who work to it, as well as those of the bloodlines with similar levels of power, are called Cantors, and are fearsome.

Also, races such as the Builders ( similar to the Diminor) and the Servants (the most powerful magical servants of the gods) are immune to the evils of misharmonization.

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Anyway, there's a highland plateau + mountain range that separates most of the lands of humanity from the huge boiling Mist Sea. The inhabitants, known as the Dragorics, have built, along with the aid of the Builders, a huge infrastructure of magical artifacts that gather and manipulate mist. They make huge profits by condensing the mist into various forms, (Pure condensate, an incredibly potent magic-filled water; and working mist, a dense mist with low magic levels that cannot be misharmonized with, are two of the most common) and then distributing it through the empire via a system of huge aqueducts.

In their own lands they use it via infrastructure to completely control weather, allowing them to build terrace farms at basically any altitude, and to act as support system for certain types of enchanted stone that can float on it, notably they have vast raised causeway/canals along which the nobility can travel on mage powered rafts.