This world is strange. Very strange. In the creation of this universe, a being known as Cosmos sacrificed itself to it, making some… weird things to happen, thus causing this confusing world filled with creatures of all kinds to exist. Skipping a few footnotes, and fast forwarding to modern times, there’s three things that are important to note:
Magical mercenaries, often shortened to MagiMercs or Mercenaries, are those who make a living out of using magic. You can be a hunter hired by the government, a freelance artist who uses magic for their works, or a food chain worker who telepathically flips their burgers. Whatever you may be, as long as you use magic, you’re a mercenary. Mercenaries are usually always hunting jobs down, and always bumping into each other. Magic is always attempting to stitch itself together, and that leads to most mercenaries accidentally meeting other mercenaries by sheer fate.
Mercenaries, much like normal people, can be a variety of things, be it a basic human, a giant orc, a tricky shapeshifter, a lost undead, anything, as long as they follow the “Rules of the Cosmos”. While nobody agrees on what these rules really are, everyone can tell when something doesn’t.
Anomalies are what happens when too much magic collides with itself, at the same time, within the same location, causing a sort of living creature to appear, separate from rules of physics or biology. While these beings are not inherently evil, these creatures still trouble the balance of magic, and can cause weird things, so most mercenaries end up hunting those who do cause harm. Some of them are inoffensive, just cause magic to stop working around them, or maybe cause things to disappear for a few minutes, and then reappear somewhere strange. Others, however, are more… destructive. Impossible weather patterns, missing people, things that can go from distressing the life of a small town to causing imbalance to the universe itself. Anomalies are not evil, but they always cause trouble.
However, as many things, there is something inherently connecting mercenaries and anomalies. An energy so powerful, it’s used to charge electricity, or make impossible things possible, an energy that many of this world consider sacred, even in its destructiveness. That is, of course…
Magic has many names. It can be referred to as the arcane, or energy, or psychic abilities, whatever may be more accurate, but magic is a bit more complicated to describe fully. It is, in simple terms, what brings life to the universe.
An energy every living being, plants, animals, monsters, everything, inherently has inside them, and it can be used very easily. The tricky part is using it effectively. Magic is capable of a lot of things, be it altering the physical strength of something, or controlling natural elements, or connecting two minds together, but all of that depends on your knowledge and training with it.
Magic is what connects most things in this world, especially anomalies and mercenaries. One is made of magic, and one heavily uses it, so the two tend to find each other frequently throughout their lives.