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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Count Arioch the 28t" data-source="post: 1573206" data-attributes="member: 16676">It's considered magic.And I wasn't aware that they couldn't manifest healing powers.  (See Body Adjustment, empathic transfer, et al.)  Or are you asking if I house ruled it away?  (I didn't. if that's what you were asking.)The way I treat the three-fold magic system:Arcane magic is simply my world's science.  Things happen for a reason, and although they don't know entirely why magic works, what is know can be easily classified and studied.  Although their methods of learning might vary wildly, a bard could converse witha  wizard meaningfully about magic, or a sorceror with a wu jen, as they are similiar in their approach to learning magic.  (Think Harry Potter.  I think that there's a mix of wizards and sorcerors in Hogwarts, judging from the books.  Also in my world, sorcerors still have magic from birth, but they still need to be educated on how to properly focus the energies, that's why some people don't become actual sorcerors until later in life, because they simply never received education.)Divine magic is power that you draw from another more powerful source outside yourself.  Clerics draw magic from Gods, Druids draw power from Nature, Shugenja draw magic from the elemental planes, etc.Psionic magic is power you draw from within.  As for the three getting along, psionic and arcane practicioners see each other as friendly rivals, but tend to be respectful.  Arcane magic users tend to get along with the divine ones, but the Psionic users tend to view divine casters as weaklings that rely on some supernbatural "big brother" to carry them.Oh, and I'm tolerant of the intolerant.  Yes, there are bigotted jerkholes in America.  And the first amendment protects them too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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