Magic Incarnate. Goddess of Magic, Color, Emotions, and Ghosts. Personification of the Plane of Magic. Aeon.
Qati of the Ein Sof is the Goddess of Magic and the embodiment of the Plane of Magic. Qati was born when the war between the Aboleths and the Couatl ripped open holes in each of the planes. It was the energy from the Ethereal Plane, the Plane of Thought, mixing with the energy from Adzilud, the Plane of Soul, that gave life to Qati. Qati is the name given to the consciousness of the Plane of Magic, therefore, while priests, artists, and scholars attempt to given the Goddess a more Humanoid image, Qati’s true image is infinite, abstract, and intangible.
Qati is also the Goddess of Ghosts and Emotion. Most ghosts are born of great emotional distress at the time of one’s death. Death is a powerful thing, and is incredibly hard to deal with, especially when you’re the one on the receiving end. Sometimes a person’s death brings with it a great deal of emotion, usually negative, which ties it to that place. A ghost represents a soul unable to move onto an afterlife, blinded by a single emotion, unable to think of anything else.
Most common amongst these emotions are rage, regret, sadness, heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness, and fear. Each of these emotions bring with it different ghosts. For instance, a ghost born of rage will lash out at any who come near, seeking violence is all they know; while a ghost born of loneliness seeks companionship and, while seemingly innocent at first, will often escalate to paranoid and bothersome, latching itself to another being as some attempt at gaining what it could not in life.
The strength of this emotion at time of death determines how powerful the ghost is, and the influence this ghost can exert on the Material Plane. The ghost seeks out and feeds off this emotion, growing stronger the more it is around those emotions. Sometimes these emotions are mild and a ghost can do little more than interact with simple objects like books, doors, and lights. Sometimes this emotion is strong, enough to overpower and even possess a living being. Additionally, this emotion can grow and their influence with it as it develops a bond with the material plane, help out especially if it bonds with living beings. Ghosts are projections of emotions, and as such are fleeting. As they exert more effort in a short period of time, their soul begins to grow weak, yet they continue to blindly stumble towards their singular goal.
Qati is most commonly associated with crossroads, and emotions are along with her. The neutral state of a being is typically associated with walking down a straight pathway. With no emotion to change the course of one’s path, and thus, life, they simply wander down the straight path, but when an impetus for reaction is presented to the person, the person could react in many different ways, with different emotions, choosing to head down a different path than the one they were following. Drastic shifts in this path are associated with drastic emotional responses, while smaller deviations with slighter responses. Understanding one’s emotions can lead to less drastic changes in life, and a more controllable outcome of any crossroad they may be presented.
Qati is also the Goddess of Color, and created The Sfirot as a sort of filter that would focus. Her light is unruly and too powerful in its raw state, so these filters bring it down to a level that can be used and understood by mages and scholars. Though it still requires some level of learning, these filters separate out the light into the schools of magic we understand, which make it much easier to master one form of magic or another and not be overwhelmed by the unfocused light. Each color is associated with a school as well as a color, to master the school of magic is to master control over the associated emotion.