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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 5622705" data-attributes="member: 24413">While historically know as ‘Necromancy’ the study of life and death has contemporarily been labeled ‘Vivomancy’ to the learned few who brave the rigors of magical knowledge.  Unlike many other schools of magic, classified by source and medium in terms of nomenclature, Vivomancy has long been divided into sub-schools based on moral dictum.  The sub-structure of Vivomancy is classified into three groups of spells:  The Black, The Grey, and The White.   The Black spells of Vivomancy have long been banned by guilds and governments alike:  been the target of many crusades and almost universally despised.  These spells subvert the will of life and the divine.  Any spell that wrenches the will out of nature and subverts it to individual slavery or drains the force of life from its vessel is considered ‘of The Black’ in Vivomancy.The Grey spells of Vivomancy are the true source of knowledge for the learned.  Spells of The Grey study, dissect, adapt, coerce, and strengthen the forces of life and death.  If negative or positive energy is channeled it is allowed to return back to the universe observed, manipulated, or even abused…but always returned.  The study of life and death is wrought with emotion so it takes a professional detachment to truly study the way of the world through careful calculation and observation.  The spells of The Grey remain within this conviction of thought and deed.The White spells of Vivomancy have long been associated with other schools (mistakenly) and so there is some trouble with the classification.  Historically the study of The White has been celebrated due to the strong emotional attachments people develop in life; but, this also causes a large degree of danger because the White deals with the infusion of life.  While The Black takes the forces of life and subverts them to selfish goals, The White takes the forces of life and artificially prolongs the longevity of living creatures.  While on the surface it may seem righteous it is just as self serving as the subversion of life.Many spells of Vivomancy have been misunderstood, banned, hidden, and even stolen from the hands of mortals to only be doled out by the divine purview of the gods.  But, let it be said that no other school of magic has been so dissected and vilified:  no illusion or enchantment spells have been given moral grading, no transmutation spell has been forbidden by the gods,  no evocation spell has heightened the glimpse of what is truly life, and no divination has succored  the knowledge of what makes life…life.  To this end the study of Vivomancy is the greatest pursuit of the learned, the closest to the spark of creation and the furthest from the flash and pomp of the arcanist.ps  I swear I didn't steal 'vivomancy'...I've been using it for years!</blockquote>

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