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<blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 229484" data-attributes="member: 546"><p>They don't &quot;regenerate&quot;--the only way to get more is to gain levels. So its never &quot;safe&quot; to learn or cast magic, which is the province of gods and demons. Some of these &quot;secrets of the universe&quot; were leaked to (or discovered by) mortals in the past... then it was decided that such knowledge was beyond the ken of mortals and should be restricted. The mortals who knew magic hoarded it, keeping the power jealously for themselves. So the only way to learn magic is to devote yourself to the mysteries of the church (which provides a handful of minor, safe magics to its clergy while restricting the higher invocations to its top heirarchy) or appentrice yourself to the Shek-Pvar, who teach non-deity specific &quot;arcane&quot; spells. One last way remains... to call forth an unallied demon and bargain with it to teach you some spells in exchange for something dear, such as your soul, or a human sacrifice, or your first born, or some such unpleasant task. Finding old tomes (either holy works or pvaric spellbooks) is another way to learn spells, but the devotees of the deity the work is dedicated to--or the shek-pvar--are always looking for such items and reports of &quot;unauthorized&quot; spellcasters (&quot;witches&quot;) will eventually come to their notice and then the hunt to obtain the ittem and kill the owner is on! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Kaptain_Kantrip, post: 229484, member: 546"] They don't "regenerate"--the only way to get more is to gain levels. So its never "safe" to learn or cast magic, which is the province of gods and demons. Some of these "secrets of the universe" were leaked to (or discovered by) mortals in the past... then it was decided that such knowledge was beyond the ken of mortals and should be restricted. The mortals who knew magic hoarded it, keeping the power jealously for themselves. So the only way to learn magic is to devote yourself to the mysteries of the church (which provides a handful of minor, safe magics to its clergy while restricting the higher invocations to its top heirarchy) or appentrice yourself to the Shek-Pvar, who teach non-deity specific "arcane" spells. One last way remains... to call forth an unallied demon and bargain with it to teach you some spells in exchange for something dear, such as your soul, or a human sacrifice, or your first born, or some such unpleasant task. Finding old tomes (either holy works or pvaric spellbooks) is another way to learn spells, but the devotees of the deity the work is dedicated to--or the shek-pvar--are always looking for such items and reports of "unauthorized" spellcasters ("witches") will eventually come to their notice and then the hunt to obtain the ittem and kill the owner is on! :) [/QUOTE]

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