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Mage guilds, established in every kingdom, ostensibly exist to serve the ruler by training up a new generation of magical adepts. In reality, most wizards are extremely reluctant to share their power, and their guilds are often used to retard the spread of their craft. Aspirants face circular regulations, years of drudgery, and a fanatical hoarding of any useful texts. The best of the arcane masters worry about the corrupting influence the power might exert upon an unready mind and soul. Most, however, jealously guard their power for more selfish reasons. A desire to retain the prestige that their secrets grant them for some; others suspect that the power they share is a resource like any other and fear its gradual diminishment. Many are simply absorbed in their studies, and abhor the thou

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rdfs:comment	Mage guilds, established in every kingdom, ostensibly exist to serve the ruler by training up a new generation of magical adepts. In reality, most wizards are extremely reluctant to share their power, and their guilds are often used to retard the spread of their craft. Aspirants face circular regulations, years of drudgery, and a fanatical hoarding of any useful texts. The best of the arcane masters worry about the corrupting influence the power might exert upon an unready mind and soul. Most, however, jealously guard their power for more selfish reasons. A desire to retain the prestige that their secrets grant them for some; others suspect that the power they share is a resource like any other and fear its gradual diminishment. Many are simply absorbed in their studies, and abhor the thou
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abstract	Mage guilds, established in every kingdom, ostensibly exist to serve the ruler by training up a new generation of magical adepts. In reality, most wizards are extremely reluctant to share their power, and their guilds are often used to retard the spread of their craft. Aspirants face circular regulations, years of drudgery, and a fanatical hoarding of any useful texts. The best of the arcane masters worry about the corrupting influence the power might exert upon an unready mind and soul. Most, however, jealously guard their power for more selfish reasons. A desire to retain the prestige that their secrets grant them for some; others suspect that the power they share is a resource like any other and fear its gradual diminishment. Many are simply absorbed in their studies, and abhor the thought of taking time away from their own growth to supervise a bumbling apprentice. Not so Govannon. He is a spiritual as well as a physical descendant of Kyorlin, believing that creation will only be complete when human society is at every level imbued with every power the gods used in creating it. He teaches beggar children how to turn rocks to bread, young men how to push their bodies beyond physical limits, and young maidens how to inspire their champions with a crystalline image beyond the etchings of mundane memory. This selfless patience in his utopian pursuit rankles the magical Amurite aristocracy to no end, but his power rivals the strongest of them, and the Queen has realized the potential in an army trained by Govannon. Govannon's old weathered lips merely smile when reminded of the consternation that he causes. "It is proof," he says, "that it is not the arcane power that corrupts, for how could the power of creation cause harm to the created? It is the secrecy, and more, the false esteem in which these so called wise-men are held that warps their minds."

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