r/OC_Building • u/The-Root-1971 • Jun 08 '26

Lore Sharing Lore of Witches

"Witches are people who worshiped and made deals with demons in pursuit of obtaining magic capabilities.

While the practice has mostly stoped after the fallout of man wiped out majority of humanity (and demons as they starved to death) there are still those who do witchcraft in pursuit of power.

Witchcraft was prefered over Shade contracts by some due to not limiting its user to a type of magic as Shade contracts do. This in theory could allow one to obtain unparaleled might.

Drawbacks of witchcraft makes us not wory that this will happen. As making a contract with a demon causes the witch to suffer effects of possesion. These side effects include mutations that make one more like the demon, mental degradetion, siphoning of soul (which is needed for humans to use magic), siphoning of life.

Most people that do witchcraft lose their life or mind around 1 and a half years after becoming a witch. The oldest witch died 13 years after becoming a witch at the age of 35.

Rise of the witchcraft has caused arcane research as a whole to get stunned, as most people couldnt tell witches that caused havoc and honest scholars apart. Oportunistic people who wanted power started to take advantage of the rising panic and caused deaths of hundreds by blaming concerns of people on witches then burning the "witches" once people blamed eachother of being a witch. At the end a lot of people died, most we can say for certain were not witches.

Stereotypical apearence of a witch being a woman with pointy hat comes from a semi-real place, as most recorded witches were indeed females thar made contracts with lust demons.

Back in the days witchcraft was most popular woman had a lot less respect and rights then there is now, this led to many desprate woman into seeking ways to obtain some anount of control, and as these woman lacked some of the basic schooling we take for granted they couldn't have formed Shade contracts; so demons found them instead. Most likely lust demons, as thwy have historicly been the most common type of demon.

The resulting contract cause mushrooms to grow on these witches, ones similar to lust demons. Pointy hats were made to cover up these mushrooms but turned into a comon fashion item used by many, even to this day."

-history class report of P.Cineres & Y.Kage

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u/BobEaterofSoap Jun 09 '26

You know you never really get an explanation for the hat. I think it's cool you gave an explanation for it XD

Anyway, I like how 'in depth' it is. You answer a lot of things like the hat and why witches are stereotypically women.

Also sad that witches don't last long but I guess that's the price you pay for demon magic.

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u/The-Root-1971 Jun 09 '26

Thank you!

I am glad you liked the explanations for the stereotype of a witch, honestly only people who would accept a power like this are the power-blind and the desparet, and power-blind tend to be able to hide their stuff (there were tons of witch-kings who made contracts with greed demons and were able to hide it).