Not going to be much help with the birthdays question, I'm afraid. I'm lucky I can remember mine, I've lost track of my exact age long since.
As for magic, in Eos it's largely linked to the bloodlines of two major royal families - my line, the Lucis Caela, and the Nox Fleurets of Tenebrae. They have a healing/purifying ability and the ability to communicate with the gods, hence their role of Oracle, and only one of them inherits that magic at a time? I'm not entirely sure of the details on their side; unfortunately none of them are here for questioning, so you'll have to bear with my best guesses.
As for us, we have a number of hereditary magical traits that are renewed by the covenant with the Crystal when each ruler takes the throne - the ability to use magic fades out only a few generations away, so none of the branch families have it. The primary ability is the Armiger, which allows for the storage of weapons and any number of other things, as well as the ability to warp (short-range teleportation via thrown object). We also have an ability called elemancy which lets us store and utilize elemental energy for explosive results, and a minor ability to create magical restoratives from regular drinks. Finally, a few members of the line have some ability with illusions - full-perception, not simply visual. I've only minor abilities in that regard, but that's more than most, the ability faded out somewhere around the fifth century?
We can also share a good number of those abilities with others, usually the family's sworn retainers. Each Armiger is only a single space linked to the original user, however, anyone else using it is pulling things in and out of the possession of whoever of the family they're sworn to.
Outside of that, magic is very rare on Eos and the average person will not encounter it. The other overt manifestations are the gods themselves - there's six of them, they're very real but usually best avoided by mortals - and the Starscourge, which is a strain of evil magic malaria that turns the people it kills into darkness-related monsters called daemons.
There were once other forms of magic, but most of them were dying out even before I was born. We also have magitek, which uses the same sort of elemental energy that my family uses for elemancy to power all sorts of machinery.
If you want to know anything in more detail, feel free to ask. Though I can't guarantee having answers for anything save Armiger questions.
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As for magic, in Eos it's largely linked to the bloodlines of two major royal families - my line, the Lucis Caela, and the Nox Fleurets of Tenebrae. They have a healing/purifying ability and the ability to communicate with the gods, hence their role of Oracle, and only one of them inherits that magic at a time? I'm not entirely sure of the details on their side; unfortunately none of them are here for questioning, so you'll have to bear with my best guesses.
As for us, we have a number of hereditary magical traits that are renewed by the covenant with the Crystal when each ruler takes the throne - the ability to use magic fades out only a few generations away, so none of the branch families have it. The primary ability is the Armiger, which allows for the storage of weapons and any number of other things, as well as the ability to warp (short-range teleportation via thrown object). We also have an ability called elemancy which lets us store and utilize elemental energy for explosive results, and a minor ability to create magical restoratives from regular drinks. Finally, a few members of the line have some ability with illusions - full-perception, not simply visual. I've only minor abilities in that regard, but that's more than most, the ability faded out somewhere around the fifth century?
We can also share a good number of those abilities with others, usually the family's sworn retainers. Each Armiger is only a single space linked to the original user, however, anyone else using it is pulling things in and out of the possession of whoever of the family they're sworn to.
Outside of that, magic is very rare on Eos and the average person will not encounter it. The other overt manifestations are the gods themselves - there's six of them, they're very real but usually best avoided by mortals - and the Starscourge, which is a strain of evil magic malaria that turns the people it kills into darkness-related monsters called daemons.
There were once other forms of magic, but most of them were dying out even before I was born. We also have magitek, which uses the same sort of elemental energy that my family uses for elemancy to power all sorts of machinery.
If you want to know anything in more detail, feel free to ask. Though I can't guarantee having answers for anything save Armiger questions.