The language is Adamic, which is a code based on Latin. The idea is this would be the language spoken by Adam of the creation, as the first language would be the one that has ties to magic.

The incantations force the mind to feel emotions, and those emotions direct the magical powder. In the world of Jessica, the mind is used to feeling some coinciding emotions at once, so some spells can be used readily without practice. As the spells get more complicated, they require more emotions, thus increasing the likelihood of experiencing conflicting or unrelated emotions. The mind rejects the forcing of many emotions at first, more so when it sees them as unrelated. The result is an all-encompassing feeling of the forced emotions. As the mind becomes more used to the forcing of emotions, the effects lessen, and the magic powder usage becomes more efficient. The powder is made of transient matter, which can draw power from other dimensions. When charged by emotions, it reacts and draws fourth the necessary energy to employ it as directed, and is used up in the process. The pronunciation is important for the emotions to work, and the user’s past emotions felt through life experiences can affect the level and ease of use of different magics.

Alfred is a complicator made by the grand creator. The grand creator is completely omnipotent, and completely morally just. This led to the creation of many perfect, yet uninteresting worlds. Like a book with no conflict, they left the creator bored. To remedy this, the grand creator chose to act through intermediaries to limit the omnipotent nature, and then introduced complicators with the purpose of keeping the world interesting. Alfred’s power comes from his divine nature. In the world of Jessica, divine means that the individual’s body has transient matter flowing through their veins, allowing them to draw and utilize energy from another realm.

In the world of Jessica, the Mayan civilization advanced to the point of utopia, and was considered one of the few human cultures to be pure. The fates informed Gabriel of the coming invasion by conquistadors, and he sought to preserve the Mayan people. He had Alfred teleport all of the righteous to Eden, leaving behind only those few who had engaged in immortality magic and were barred from a favorable afterlife. Those left behind became the Cimi, and their goal was continued existence to avoid their cursed fate upon death. Alfred then distorted the archeological evidence in the area to obscure what would otherwise have been a blueprint for a pure civilization.

In the world of Jessica, transient matter has a similar property to quantum particles in that it reacts differently when everything is known about it. In Alfred’s case, he has selected bits of knowledge relating to transient matter usage and purged them to ensure he isn’t changing the usage. This lack of measurement is known as faith. The way the mind of a mortal connects to the soul is a similar process, and more fragile. If a person learns too much about the nature of their connection, too many of the connections could end up responding the wrong way and destroy the individual’s connection to their soul.