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FreelanceWizard · **08-03-2013, 01:28 AM**

(08-03-2013, 01:20 AM)Evie Wrote: I was thinking more of like a place for those exceptional students to met and trade ideas and thoughts. Kind of like Aristotle's or Socrate's discussions where ideas are shared to the betterment of all branches.

Also there are branches of science that work together, example Biochemistry. So could there be branches of magic that build on one another. WithÂ this it's more curiosity about how the system works then trying to make something crazy for my character idea (just going to keep that one magic type or another.)

In lore, I'm not personally aware of such a place. The Adventurers' Guilds sort of serve that purpose, but they're not mage-specific.

We do know that the Disciplines of Magic are sufficiently different from each other in method (Thaumaturgy evokes internal Aether, Conjury invokes external Aether from the elements, Arcana uses internal Aether patterned by runes and external Aether drawn from gemstones) and point of view (Thaumaturgy focuses on power, Conjury on unity with and respect for life, and we don't know anything about Arcana yet) that they don't really build on each other; while they can share some spells at somewhat reduced power, greater knowledge in one doesn't translate to superior ability in another mechanically. The Disciplines of Magic share the same power source, more or less, insofar as they rely on shaping Aether into spells, but how they get there is very different.

That said, I expect that a lot of mage players will have their characters poke around at the metaphysics and try to come up with "unified theories of magic," so to speak, that can explain the lore and the game mechanics. My character has one, though of course I don't assert that she's correct OOC.

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