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The king's legacy: 'He brought those seeking knowledge below up to meet those who sense what lies at the deep back, and he joined them together in the Order of Magicians.'
A magician talks about this way of work: 'Magicians are agents of change. We seek to alter events at will, often under the auspices of powers greater than ourselves. We use symbols and metaphors because the forces we channel exist beyond normal forms. Sometimes we are secretive - as much to preserve power as to hide our techniques. We have to be disciplined and fearless, and aware of the awesome powers that we manipulate. Control is essential to us.'
Orders of magicians come and go, working at that liminal place where the crack between the worlds opens up. The world sometimes courts magicians, sometimes rejects them, and sometimes does not even recognise them in their new guises.
Those we might call magicians include:
Magicians is one of the twelve orders. In the octahedron, its neighbours are:
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