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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2174706" data-attributes="member: 2067">The Lunarists (patterned after the Muslim world, which means principally Arabs but also mediterranean and asiatic influences) have a highly developed science of calligraphy. Like with real-world Muslims, this developed from the cultural aversion to depicting the human form in art. Instead, verses of holy text were used to adorn and decorate structures, becoming beautiful glyphs of unparalleled nobility. This highly advanced art form, of course, produced certain magical practicioners of the art, particularly involved in crafting items. The Sacred Engraving feat allows Lunarists to enscribe calligraphic art on magical items that then benefit from the sacred verse that is written down.Rumors persist of ancient Solarists (patterned after the Christian world, which means principally Europe but also the Americas and Africa) who had a tradition of magical writing. However, such things have fallen out of favor now that the Solarists identify such works with the corrupting influence of Satan. Still, occultists place a great power in symbols from this pre-Solar world, and it is said that alchemists and thaumatic scientists have adopted some of the ideas for their own use. The Great Solar Church is apprehensive about this, and seeks to quash it.The place that the Solarists get their occult knowledge from, the ancient world-spanning heathen Empire of Romaniyat, still exists, and it trains people with the Ancient Glyph feats, each of which teaches the user the knowledge of the use of one Ancient Glyph. It is said that a noble cabal of mages, Glyphcasters, exist, and they get bonus feats that may be used to learn Ancient Glyphs, in addition to powers regarding the glyphs. A variant form of Glyphcasters are said to exist in the desert kingdoms to the south of Romaniyat, where they worship fiends with the heads of beasts and the bodies of man, and these are said to have a specific necromantic cast, concerned with the setting and rising of the sun, and the resurrection of their deified ancestors, the Pharaohs.</blockquote>

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