Iether

Iether (EE-thr) is the magical essence that imbues all forms of matter and energy in the universe of Khimaer.

About
Iether is present in all forms of matter and energy. There is also pure iether, which is unbound to any matter or energy. Iether is everything, and everything is iether. Those who can manipulate pure iether have the power to change reality; only the ascended Catharia are able to do so.

Khimaerian souls are able to produce iether of a certain chroma - a certain color and type. This iether can be wielded to create and manipulate its corresponding type of matter or energy. There are also sources of chromatic iether in nature.

There is an infinite well of iether - the Iethereal Plane. It's inaccessible to humans directly, but natural iether is basically the purest from of energy in this world. It is, quite literally, reality-changing. The Iethereal Plane is where the Catharia reside, as well.

What makes khimaerians able to channel iether is through the polarization of natural iether through their soul. This is called chromatization. The chromatized iether is then given the soul's chroma. The soul is a sort of window, or converter. The "magical strength" of a soul is based on how quickly and how strongly it can chromatize iether.

That chromatized iether then spreads throughout the vessel or body or whatever is holding the soul, where it can then be channeled to perform magic.

Once the chromatized iether is channeled, it returns to natural iether.

The turning point of society was when they figured out how to create technology that chromatizes iether. Since iether can create matter, it can be used to create materials, energy, etc.

There is also destruction-chroma iether that can obliterate waste, as well. Very efficient.

Chroma
Chroma refers to the color and type of iether, particularly be a khimaerian soul. The two are completely independent of one another. Various examples of chroma include white light, silver shadow, teal water, blue explosion, yellow plague, black electricity.

The color can be anything on the spectrum. The type can be any type of matter or energy, complex or not.

As a human's power grows, their eyes become "chromatic," changing to the color of their iether. This usually occurs at an exponential rate, changing more and more rapidly until the color change is complete. The most sudden change may occur over a night or a few days.