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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6332510" data-attributes="member: 50895">RW historic Japan had a branch of the imperial government called the Ministry of Onmyodo whose purpose was the academically training of arcane spellcasters. It had an annual budget. Among its duties were to create an annual calendar of official events based on comparisons to astrology. In a cycle of good and bad days, no one wanted to hold an important event that lay on the same day as a presumed bad karma day.Comparitively in medieval Europe the buying and selling of church relics was an active part of the ecclesiastic economy.It doesn't matter that magic is not real. Historic peoples and institutions believed it was real and money was exchanged for services and goods that relate to the magic industry - and is still true today, though much more incremental than the past. To state that a magic economy only exists in fantasy and not the real world since magic isn't real is pretty meaningless statement to make. Belief drives motivations and economic decisions whether those beliefs are true or not.</blockquote>