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• Aethericsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAetherics
  
  Aetherics is one of the three major thaumaturgical disciplines, related to the manipulation of energy by elementals, notably light, heat, and electromagnetism.
  
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• Alimentplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAliment
  
  Aliment is a somewhat archaic term for the natural magnetic force in the unusually strong magnetosphere of Helevos, which is the natural source of sustenance for elementals. Aliment is consumed and stored in the ethereal bodies of elementals, and can be used to power
• Apotropy & Wardcraftplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigApotropy & Wardcraft
  
  Apotropy and Wardcraft are the thaumaturgical disciplines of defence against magical and physical assault.
  
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  Apotropy is the discipline of protection from magical attack between primes and other elementals. Thaumaturgical duelling involves three methods of attack: attempting to break or override the opponent's
• Binding (disambiguation)plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBinding (disambiguation)
  
  In thaumaturgy, binding can refer either to:
  
  * Vinculum, the bond of authority between an elemental and a thaumaturge which makes the elemental carry out instructions, or * Ligation the thaumaturgical discipline of physically binding an elemental to a solid object, in order create a magical device or
• Cantripplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCantrip
  
  In the Chantry Style of magic, a cantrip or tript is a word or short phrase used to trigger an elemental to perform a sequent, a pre-learned set of instructions. Cantrips consist of the name of the command, and any additional instructions that relate to it.
  
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• Deital (God)plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDeital (God)
  
  A deital [DAY-it-ul], also called a deivat or god-spirit or god, is an elemental which has achieved a great power and a degree of consciousness from being the focus of human worship.
  
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  “Deital” is a magicAnásthiasmagic
• Ergothaumicsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigErgothaumics
  
  Ergothaumics is the discipline of using thaumic energy to directly power mechanisms and devices, without needing an elemental. Ergothaumics was developed of the indjineers of Rasia.
  
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  Ergothaumics has many advantages over thaumaturgy, since it doesn't require the complexities of magic
• Eridaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigErida
  
  Erida, literally meaning “Words” in the extinct ancient language Ahngrit, is the instinctual core language of the Eridai, or elementals, Eridai meaning “of the words”. The art of thaumaturgy can therefore be described as the structural use of Erida to perform physical outputs.
  
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• Eridaiplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEridai
  
  Eridai is the ancient name for the ethereal beings known as elementals, spirits and gods. The name means “of the words”, Erida being the rudimentary language they use to communicate.
  
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  According to Aralsic legend, the Eridai were once simple creatures living in an ethereal realm beyond the stars. They were taught the Erida language
• Expurgationplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigExpurgation
  
  Expurgation was the ultimate punishment meted out by the Rasian Academy for the crime of malefaction: the use of thaumaturgy for evil and harmful ends.
  
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  Expurgation involves four steps. Firstly, the criminal's familiar (or 'prime source'), the elemental which is the source of his power, is cut away and destroyed.
• Farsightplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFarsight
  
  Farsight is a thaumaturgical discipline enabling magical practitioners to see and sometimes hear people and places distant from their present location.
  
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  Farsight requires the mastery of many other disciplines, since it requires controlling at least two
• Folk magicplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFolk magic
  
  Folk magic is the traditional practice of usually rural peoples, involving herblore for healing, as well as various minor rituals supposed to bring good luck, wealth or fertility.
  
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• Godmenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGodmen
  
  The Godmen were the mythical inhabitants of a landmass contiguous with the modern Natorn Archipelago, said to be the ancestors of all the Thalsic peoples of the northern Civilised World. In the Emerald Epoch they created the first great civilisation, referred to as the Realm of the Godmen. The Godmen are said to be mytho-historic, memories of an ancestor race shrouded by millennia of HartheraAnrelAnrelherherAnrelAnrel
• Godsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGods
  
  Gods are ethereal beings who are worshipped by human communities and populations, and will often intercede to provide help to adherents or punishment to enemies. Many gods of Helevos are in fact deitals, elemental spirits who have received the focus of human attention and grown powerful from it.
• Haulmplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHaulm
  
  A haulm or holm is a thaumaturgical indjinn or lamenary, capable of interacting directly with the human brain using neuromancy.
  
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  The word is a portmanteau of thaumic helm. Since they must be in direct contact with the skull, they are produced in the form of a metal crown or helmet, often elaborately decorated with symbols indicating their function and ownership. They were perfected by the
• Imprintingplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigImprinting
  
  Imprinting is the thaumaturgical discipline of capturing the attention of an elemental, and giving it set of formal instructions. Magicians with the ability to summon and imprint an elemental are magisters.
  
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  The most basic method of imprinting is verbal, reciting sequents aloud to a bound elemental in the human equivalent of the languagelanguage
• Lake Ondrereplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLake Ondrere
  
  Lake Ondrere [on-DRAIR] in Tresard is the largest freshwater lake in the Natorn Archipelago, 170km long and 47km across at its widest point. tresard
  
  The lake valley was formed by a glacier, which melted and retreated, leaving the waters dammed at the western end by a natural dyke, formed from rubble pushed ahead by the glacier. The
• Lamenaryplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLamenary
  
  A lamenary is a thaumaturgical device, designed to perform a specific function, in response to a trigger action. Lamenaries are often created to perform simple or repetitive tasks, such as thaumaturgical lamps or shields for personal protection.
  
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• Ligationplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLigation
  
  Ligation, often simply called binding, is the thaumaturgical discipline of physically binding an elemental to a solid object, so that solid matter becomes a part of the elemental's physical matrix.
  
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  Elementals in nature will attach themselves to a physical object, particularly when it is near a regular and natural source of
• Luminateplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLuminate
  
  Luminates are individuals with the rare ability to form a mental connection with an elemental. This can happen unconsciously and without training, making such connections potentially dangerous if the elemental carries out the violent subconscious desires of a child, rather than the conscious will of a trained
• Magisterplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMagister
  
  Magister is a term in the Anrel Isles for a thaumaturges, or full practitioners of magic. More specifically, magisters are thaumaturges of the Rasian Academy with the ability to summon, bind and instruct elementals on their own, with no assistance from others. Sorcerors are practitioners with the skill and knowledge to instruct elementals, but without the ability to summon and bind them.magic
• Oughtismplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOughtism
  
  Oughtism is a moral and philosophical system, claiming an ancient inheritance from the moral codes of the Godmen. It continues to be influential throughout the Anrel Isles, and it's guiding principles have been the foundation of legal and religious codes throughout the
• Primusplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPrimus
  
  A primus or prime source, vulgarly called a familiar or shadow, is an elemental is imprinted to a magister, being permanently bound with vinculum. The primus is the focal instrument and agent of his magical power. Primus is the official term used by magicians of the Rasian school of magic, though many other terms are used.
• Printingplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPrinting
  
  Printing technology has been known for thousands of years, but until the modern era was restricted to the elites of the more advanced historic civlisations.
  
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  In the ancient civilisation of Traithe, important texts were recorded on brass discs, using the flowing continuous OrorrHarthera
• Sequentplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSequent
  
  In thaumaturgy, a sequent is a set of instructions in the Erida language, which when given to an elemental will cause them to perform specific actions or produce a defined outcome. Sequents are magical tools, the building blocks of Rasian thaumaturgy.
  
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• Shamanismplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigShamanism
  
  Shamanism is an uncodified form of magic, whereby a practitioner is able to summon and instruct an elemental spirit using their natural human sympathies, rather than through thaumaturgical learning.
  
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  Shamans use various methods to put themselves in a heightened mental state that enables them to summon and control elements. In
• Silfplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSilf
  
  A variety of magical elemental.
• Sorcererplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSorcerer
  
  A Sorcerer is a thaumaturge, or magical practitioner, who lacks the ability to summon an elemental themself. Sorcerers may be skilled in Erida, the magical language of the elementals, but relies either on using elementals who have been assigned to them by a magister, or by using lamenaries, magickal objects which have an elemental physically bound to them.
• Thaumplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigThaum
  
  The thaum is a unit of measurement of thaumaturgical capacity; essentially a measure of magical energy.
  
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  One thaum is the standard energy potential contained in a single shell of an elemental. In energy terms this varies between elementals and even between shells, since outer shells tend to be weaker than inner shells. One thaum is colloquially said to be
• Thaumaturgyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigThaumaturgy
  
  Thaumaturgy Is a style of magic, codified and practiced by the Rasian Academy. Thaumaturgy and magic are terms often used interchangeably.
  
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  Thaumaturgy means “work using thaumic energy”, also called Elemental Mastery, Elementalismmagicmagicmagiclanguagemagicmagicmagicmagicmagicmagicmagicmagic
• Theurgyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigTheurgy
  
  Theurgy, also called Theosophy, Theosophical magic or holy magic, is a style of magic that instead of using the power of an ordinary elemental, invokes the power of a deital or god-spirit. Theurgy requires no understanding or even awareness of thaumaturgy or other styles of formal magic. Instead, practitioners follow a specific ritual format depending on the action required, usually involving ritual prayer, sacrifice and other activities which induce a heightened level of consciousness.…
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• Magicplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMagic
  
  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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