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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J. Alexander" data-source="post: 3120289" data-attributes="member: 28453">Cleric/WizardsRhun,Both are always needed in a party of course.....as to clerics they are slightly different....some 2000 years ago a massive war among the gods of good and the gods of evil occuried on the heels of an invasion of strong humaniod armies from the north. As a result of this war, the human lands in what is now the Valley of Light, and those lands to the southeast and southwest of it were overun and the old human kingdoms all but oblierated. This lasted some 200 years (can not recall the precise time line) at which point the surviving clerics of the good gods banded together to form "The Light" and began to combat and eventually overthrow the northern invaders. As a result there is no chief or principal deity to worshop. Clerics, unless you play a cleric of one of the human lands not associated with the Light, worship the "light" in general. The best way to describe it is to think of the formation of the Catholic Church with it's various saints. The older gods who surrendered much of their power to form the light are worhsipped as saints,,,think Saint Athena, Saint Thor, etc. So you can be a cleric of the light yet chose an order dedicated to a patron saint which defines your access to diving magic....Hope this is not to muddled.Magic as it was used by the northern invaders to supress and overrun the human kingdoms is highly frowened upon by the church. Indeed some 500 years ago, magic was declared illegal by the church and the once famous schools of magic were sacked/closed down or destoryed with the magic users themselves being burned at the stake as heretics. To this day, arcane magic is very hard to find and most will not admit to being an arcane spell caster as it will often cost them their life.If you will send me an email address, I will send you a 30 some odd page background on the Four lands which will help you get a better idea of the political,religious climate...hope this has helped...J.</blockquote>

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