Category:Wizards' Guild of Imperia - Revision history

Gigermann: /* Ranks and Forms of Address */

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‎Ranks and Forms of Address

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‎Locations

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‎Locations

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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‎Rumor Has It…

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‎Sorcerers and Free-Wizards

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 = Ranks and Forms of Address =
 *Magical Rank 5: (Archmagister X) The Most Honourable X, Archmagister of the Wizards' Guild; colors: white on grey
 *Magical Rank 4: (Magister X) The Honourable X, Magister (of the Wizards' Guild) and [Officer]; colors: white on black

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 [[File:Fgle-thespire.png|thumb|400px|The Spire, Headquarters of the Wizards' Guild]]
 *The Spire
-*Magisteries - thaumacratic equivalent to monasteries
+*Magisteries - thaumacratic equivalent to monasteries; referred to as [Such-and-such] Tower
 = Ranks and Forms of Address =

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 [[File:Fgle-thespire.png|thumb|400px|The Spire, Headquarters of the Wizards' Guild]]
 *The Spire
-*Magisteries
+*Magisteries - thaumacratic equivalent to monasteries
 = Ranks and Forms of Address =

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 *Free-Wizard = non-Guild wizard
 **A wizard can renounce and leave the Guild at any time, or be expelled for breaking the Code (or whatever). Once departed, they can never return.
-**Training an adept outside the Guild is grounds for immediate, no-questions expulsion.
+**Training an adept outside the Guild is grounds for immediate, no-questions expulsion. The trainee is also barred from membership.
 *While it is not strictly "illegal" to practice magic outside the Guild, the Guild tends to bring down the full weight of its monopoly on anyone found to be doing so (moreso, the more successful they are), to drive them out of business.
 *Crimes committed with the use of magic, and liability for accidents/consequences, are tried in thaumacratic courts run by the Guild; free-wizards and sorcerers are judged far more harshly than Guild-members.

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 *Sorcerer = magic-user with innate powers rather than a traditional spellcaster
 *Free-Wizard = non-Guild wizard
-**A wizard can leave the Guild at any time, or be expelled for breaking the Code (or whatever). Once departed, they can never return.
+**A wizard can renounce and leave the Guild at any time, or be expelled for breaking the Code (or whatever). Once departed, they can never return.
 **Training an adept outside the Guild is grounds for immediate, no-questions expulsion.
 *While it is not strictly "illegal" to practice magic outside the Guild, the Guild tends to bring down the full weight of its monopoly on anyone found to be doing so (moreso, the more successful they are), to drive them out of business.

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 = Foes of the Guild =
 === Sorcerers and Free-Wizards ===
-Basically, "heretics" to the Guild's "religion"
+Basically, heretics or apostates to the Guild's "religion"
 *Sorcerer = magic-user with innate powers rather than a traditional spellcaster
 *Free-Wizard = non-Guild wizard

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 *[[The Overlord]] is rumored to be a former Master-Wizard of the Guild turned to Evil™, but records of such a person are impossible to find
 *It is whispered that a ranking member or two of the Guild secretly serve the Enemy, steering the Guild toward its own doom
-*The Guild has been looking into the possibility of making free-wizardry a "secular" crime in addition to "thaumacratic."
+*The Guild has been looking into the possibility of making free-wizardry a "secular" crime in addition to "thaumacratic." Some say this is an effort to protect their monopoly and waning prestige…
 = Behind the Scenes  =

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 **Training an adept outside the Guild is grounds for immediate, no-questions expulsion.
 **While it is not strictly "illegal" to practice magic outside the Guild, the Guild tends to bring down the full weight of its monopoly on anyone found to be doing so (moreso, the more successful they are), to drive them out of business.
-*Crimes committed with the use of magic, and liability for accidents/consequences for free-wizards, are tried in thaumacratic courts run by the Guild; free-wizards and sorcerers are judged far more harshly than Guild-members.
+*Crimes committed with the use of magic, and liability for accidents/consequences, are tried in thaumacratic courts run by the Guild; free-wizards and sorcerers are judged far more harshly than Guild-members.
 === The Warlocks ===