Unyielding in belief, the Servants of the Real Fire posed as formidable threat to the Free Peoples of the South as the Army of the Southern Dragon or Jí Indûr the Wraithking of Mûmakan. Still, neither the Guild of Elements nor the independent cultures of the Mûmakan (save the Court of Ardor) understood this insidious and relentless force. The Servants were masters of the Essence who repudiated both the notion that the Valar were guardians of Arda and the ideas attached to the Song of Creation (Q. "Ainulindalë"). Their ritualistic magic contrasted sharply with the fading, naturalistic practices of the Ûsakani Seers and the Kiran, Ganim, and Hathorian priests that composed the clergy indigenous to the Mûmakan area. Practicioners of Mind Magic, the Servants believed that there were two coequa