Category: My World

I know I’ve touched on how Venatori live before – very socialist in human terms.

We are provided everything we could possibly ever need.  There were times when the Venatori couldn’t afford much, but with bankers and financial guru’s like Asher Eriksen, the Venatori have not been poor for a very long time.

Every Venatori is given a home.  I’d say most choose to live in the housing provided by the Venatori in places like the Apex Unlimited building, but that really only covers the large city areas.

While I’m sent out across the Rockies these past ten years, I’ve been housed in my mother’s place, which after she died I gave to the Venatori bought and paid for.  It was mine, but since I am a hunter first and foremost it’s used as a way point for other Venatori who are in the Area.

People like Jace live in suburbs or others around the Rockies have their own homes.  There are certain things that the Venatori will buy for you as part of your stipend.  Living off campus doesn’t afford you anything extra a lot of times it comes with more hardships like less excess money to spend.  Living on campus a lots you will three cooked meals a day, cleaning services among other things you have to pay for out in the human world.

I prefer living on campus and do so whenever I get the chance.  Cleaning up after myself isn’t a problem, but I have issues with disorganzation.

 

Venatori don’t have a religion so to speak.  We believe in a creator.  But we do not worship gods of any sort.  Some Venatori take upon themselves to worship human gods and human ways.  But as a whole there is no Venatori god or religion.

Every race, religion and every anything has a creation myth.  A creator.  The current Christian religion says God created the world in 7 days.  Humans being the only race he created.

The world may have been created in 7 days.  It may be created by the all seeing God in the sky.  But the Clandestine Providence declares there where five major races created – Humans, Vampires, Dragons, Angels and Demons.  Each race have their own unique history.  Humans have a history that is what the world things is history.  Every other history is kept silent by the Clandestine Providence.

Vampires were turned into the first Were creatures for turning humans to embraced vampires.  These vampires were killed but they were created again and the vampires were unable to irradiate them.

Dragons don’t share their history often but they are the reason that there are Magnus in the Venatori.  Half Dragon, half humans mated with Venatori and we got magic in our veins.

Angels and Demons aren’t actually of this world, they need to take human hosts.  Kinda like possession.  But they differ.

None of our races really have gods or religion, that is for the humans to explain the ways of the world away – they can’t possibly believe in magic.

AJ has the best best-friend ever – her idea.  I won’t tell the other suggestion offered cause that’ll start a WHOLE other off topic discussion.

Endothermic – a word used in chemistry and I groan at the use of it.  I hated school.  I hated it with a passion so strong that if it were not for Dae’lin’s rules I would have failed every class.  But I love my ability – it’s who I am.  So in order to learn from her how to use and control my ability I had to get straight A’s. So nose meet book!

But chemistry and physics and math they came easy to me  – why? patterns.  And it’s the fundamental basics for all living things and objects around us.  Those annoying classes have taught me a lot about how my ability works.

Endothermic reactions are those that have absorbed or been caused by heat.  So when you add fire to a pattern you are causing heat in a sense.  Fire and ice = water.  Everyone knows this.  So how do you make a cloud?  Fire, water and earth.  Earth for the water to bind to, and fire to heat the water to a mist.  And walla a cloud forms.

In chemistry you learn a lot about about molecular structures too, and that is the basics of everything I do.  Every object is composed of atoms and those atoms are elements or composed of elements.  It’s hard to imagine science and magic working together, but they do.  I don’t believe one exists without the other.

Venatori have enhanced speed, strength, agility, senses and healing.  Which is all well and good for them, but a half human Venatori like myself – also called Minorem – meaning lesser we don’t always get those abilities.  Or any abilities.  While it’s not happened in many generations, there have been cases of a completely human Minorem.  Poor guy set out into the human world and no one heard from him since.

While I am lucky enough to get the super healing and senses  with the mental ability of a Venatori however strange mine is compared to others I wasn’t lucky enough to be full Venatori in powers – even with my being a Magnus.

However, even my normal abilities aren’t so normal – at least not my sense of smell which is where the title comes in – scents.  A great deal of my anxiety and comforts come from scent.  The things I remember most from my childhood are typically embroiled deeply with given scents.

My Nanny was a dragon – she smelled like a campfire.  From what I understand that’s a typical dragon smell and one way you can identify a dragon in human form versus a regular human.  That scent is often comforting to me, an upside, I have been told it’s what I smell like – so that leaves a whole lot of questions as to why.  But it’s probably a lot to do with what a Magnus really is… a half Dragon Venatori cross breed.  At least that was the origin of the Magnus ability in the Venatori.  So it’s logical in it’s own right. Though not many Magnus I know – and I know quite a few since I trained with them and under them – they don’t smell like a campfire.  Jace says it’s cause I’m a fire-starter and a strong one.  I can’t say for sure.

I’ve mentioned my mother’s apple pie before the sweet scent of cinnamon and vanilla mixed with the cooking apples.  It’s a comforting scent – a reassuring smell that makes me feel safe in a time I was safe.

But it’s not the smell I associate with my mother.  My mother always smelled of cigarette smoke and dirt.  Which as I grew up I learned the dirt smell was Patchouli – a hippy thing to do to cover up odors you didn’t want your parents to smell on your clothes.  So the smell of dirt is much better.  Really?

I remember burying my face in the height of my terror before getting on an airplane and smelling those two things.  My anxiety spikes when I walk past a person smoking a cigarette.  I’ve never been able to sleep with a smoker’s place, we almost always ended up in a public space – in some dark back room, a bathroom or in their car which usually isn’t much better than their place.

We all associate smells with our life, it sucks though when scents can cause a major destabilization in your life.