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Religion & Magic

?A mage (magician, conjurer, witch doctor) is a human who is a pursuant of prolonged restraint and meditations, has mastered the forbidden power to adjust his biorthythms to the rhythms of the outside world, both animated and non-animated, and changes them by his inner power.?

? Practical instruction of Father Antonius on how to battle the embodied and non-embodied enemy

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Times of the Empire

True magic began to develop back in the days of the pagan empires. Even in those times, spells were primarily divided into schools of elemental magic. The first mages were pagan priests who practiced this knowledge in their rituals.

However, the Priests of the Solitarius cult considered the practice of magic to be something unnatural. The actions of Saint Marcus, who professed a faith in

Solitarius, created a surge in public support for the church?s views. Moreover, many people began to accuse the mages of opening a path for Farrakh into the world. Since that time, magic has been divided into holy (healing, blessing and protection) schools and elemental schools. The practice of any unholy magic became more and more dangerous.

Times of Kingdoms

The creation of the kingdoms led to a time of new conflicts. Some of the clergymen, who considered a new version of the religion brought by the northern invaders to be unacceptable, fled to Ticsus. Their order is still powerful, though theirs is somewhat less than the authority of the Holy Throne. The other priests accepted the new canon, which also included a postulate that there is Godly magic, and there is Demonic magic.

The Inquisition was established. It fought not only for the purity of faith, but also for hunting down and eliminating witches, mages and heathens. The Inquisition is officially a subordinate to the Holy Throne of Verson, but the authority of the Grand Inquisitor is so considerable, that he can even influence the Pope himself.

Hundreds of years of manhunts did not serve magic well. These days, one can even be burnt at the stake for even so much as a simple ritual. Although you can still encounter a witch or a mage away from the capitals, there is only one place to find true magical knowledge: the Magic Academy in Sylent.