Metamagicians
The Metamagicians were one of principle schools of thought at the Rasian Academy, during the age of the Great Schools.
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The Rasian Academy is the common name for the Grand Academy of Rasia, the greatest institution of magic and learning in the Anrel Isles.
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Magic, also called thaumaturgy is the art and science of harnessing elementals, and instructing them to carry out simple or complex tasks.
Invoking more powerful spirits or gods is a related but much more dangerous art, called theurgy.
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The Rasian Schools of Thought were various different approaches to academic philosophy and thaumaturgical practice which flourished during the golden age of the Grand Academy of Rasia. Of these various schools, only Magistry survives today, so that
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topics sidebar cult1 of behaviour, metamagicians explain the whole universe in terms of numbers, in the language of axioms, heuristics and logic. Metamagicians consider their field to be the highest art, of which all other disciplines are either physical expressions or practical applications. High metamagicians in fact claim that behind the grammar, the Word of creation, is the far greater and more elegant world of numbers which is their world.
Metamagic is an endlessly complex and elegant field, whose patterns can describe everything from the form of a leaf to a thunder storm, from the movement of the heavens to the pattern of a snowflake. The school is insular to a certain degree, but the metamagical arts are vital to many practical fields, including the programmarians as well as the lesser arts of the architects, smiths and bursars.