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CovensCovens act as member groups and name colors, but go much deeper than that in this world. You are given your coven at the age of 16 after an assessment to determine what your innate magic looks like. Being sorted into your coven is probably the most important part of a magic user's life, as it will follow them for the rest of their lives.
The covens are four main branches that break off into smaller sub classes, typically a magic user will be able to comfortably cast spells from any class within their coven, but some will come to specialize in a single branch. Using magic outside of your coven while not impossible is often dangerous and prone to magical backfiring, leading the school to ban the use of magic outside of one's own branch on school grounds.
Covens outside of school will assist a magic user in finding jobs and filling their niche in the world related to their branch, and covenless magic users are often seen as dangerous and unpredictable.
Covens & Sub-classesCovens are divided into four distinct groups, but each group has a handful of possible classes associated with it, they are as follows: ElementalIce, Plant, Earth, Fire, etc.Masters of the elements, many will have one specific branch of elemental magic that they are especially good at casting, but all elementalists can cast any spells on some level. MindOracle, Illusion, Hypnosis, Dreamwalking, etc.Magic users in this coven are masters of the mind, using their magic to see into the future, create sophisticated illusions, even walk in people's dreams. These mages tend to be more heavily watched than others because of the ways their magic can be abused. DominionBeast Keeping, Abomination, Necromancy, Summoning, etc.Mages that command constructs of their own conjuring or living beings are sorted into this coven. Their magic can control the dead, communicate with animals, even summon lesser demons and feinds to do their bidding. The only thing no Control mage can do is take control of another person. EnchantingBard, Healing, Potion, Sigil, etc.The mages in this coven don't perform magic by traditional means, they require some form of reagent or impliment to make their magic work properly. For the bards it's their instruments, for the potion makers it's the natural ingredients. Whatever the case they cannot cast spells without something to cast them with. Covenless magesThe last type of magic user is considered the most unpredictable and dangerous, covenless mages never take the assessment to determine where they fit in, this means they are able to use just about any kind of magic provided they know how. The trade off to this is that their spells tend to be unpredictable and backfire easily. Covenless magic is known as Wild Magic, and mages who practice it are often looked at with distrust and fear.
Those who shun the coven ritual likely never attend Apricus University and instead keep to themselves, though recently some have started organizing, which many suspicious types believe is the calm before the storm. As always thank you for reading all this, everything will be explained better in the guidebook, but this is a more digestible overview of what to expect! I'm always happy to answer questions if you have them!
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