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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightbreeze" data-source="post: 3984461" data-attributes="member: 46755">The answeris difficult. There are "some" demons summoned by "some" wizards. Generally the Church regards arcane magic with a certain suspicioun, but they usually have to admit that wizards are extremely organized in certain aspects. Living for almost 2000 years in a world where the faith can gather 90% of the population against you is bound to make you realize that you have to control yourself and your buddies. If a lone wizard or a little tower of wizards somehow create havok, this may lead to wide revenge in the entire world, and the remaining wizards wouln't be overjoyed. Thus there are firm rules about what a wizard can do with demons, where, why and how. These are not common knowledge, of course. Suffice to say that when there are signs of demonic activities, wizards are almost never to blame. Actually, they are among the first to mobilitate and give full support to the Church in finding the culprits.On a side note, demonic activity is different from those common in the usual fantasy settings: there have never been demonic invasions, or even a single demon fooling around in the open. That is perhaps due to the powerful Church. Due to that, demonic activity is usually of the subtle, corrupting kind. That promts the church to warn and educate the population to recognize the signs of demonic corruption, and demon themselves. So, someone with red flaming eyes, thick scales and horns and razors coming out from his body would certainly be recognized on sight as someone uncommon and very probably dangerous.TrueYeah, but I'd say it's just your racial and unlimited greed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Yeah, I can see that it's quite true <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />However, a priest generally accepts arcane magic, because he has a certain amount of trust in wizards. Other kind of magic, if identified as different, may baffle him and raise his suspicion. He could at least insist to take you for an examination by a expert priest, or a wizard he trusts. This is not uncommon: it often happens that sorcerers and other unusual casters are given a formal acceptance by the wizard's tower, even if they go on with their life thereafter. They are strongly encouraged not to go on the battlefields, not to raise deads and not to play with people's mind. The spells known by a wizard can be controlled: if he wants necromantic spells, he has to live in a particular tower where they teach them, and he has to abide their rules. But who can control the spells known by a sorcerer? That is why they are less trusted.</blockquote>

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