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Making love with two people (whom are unaware of your making love with the other) is a queer experience. In the moment, and with only one of them, it is a sublimely simple, euphoric rush. Nothing is linear-but a flowing organic surge that swallows all capacity for reason. Afterwards, and when alone, it is the most complicated, guilt-ridden, heavy affair imaginable. An utter paralysis.


For Rane, there was no foreseeable way out of this situation. He loved both uncontrollably, and choosing one or leaving both were unthinkable. He spent his hours in a state of sickly shock-quite absorbed in the trivial tasks he was given throughout the day.


For Lyron, he preferred to distract himself. Anytime he thought of it, he tried his damnedest to think of something else. It is not at all that he believed the issue would resolve itself, it was simply too much to bear atop the administration of a Kingdom.


For Allendre, a decision had been reached. Lyron must be killed. What was so damnably irritating about it was each attempt seemed to go awry. Poisoned food was whisked away, assassins simply disappeared, and cursed objects seemed to do nothing whatsoever. Most...suspicious.


Valora, oblivious to all of this, sat waiting in a little room in the basement of The Institute. It was the strangest room she had ever been in! It was lit from nowhere, with the walls all out of sight, and nothing whatsoever inside, besides her little chair. There was absolutely no sound, and the door had apparently vanished. She had no concept of how long she had been waiting.


Suddenly, little shapes began dancing in front of her eyes: all egg-shell white. They arranged themselves into letters and words, and this is what they said:

Syllabus

Magician

Axis I: Current Paradigm 

Axis I Magic involves manipulation of attention, framing, and presentation to alter a subject’s understanding of a series of events. This is the most basic form of Magic and requires little inherent ability. 

Journeyman

Axis II: Altered Physical Paradigm

Axis II Magic involves manipulating physical relationships in the world to alter how they behave. This is an intermediate form of Magic which requires some inherent ability.

Master

Axis III: Altered Psychical Paradigm (Individual Level)

Axis III Magic involves manipulating the inner, psychological landscape of a subject to create impressions, beliefs, or perceptions. This is a difficult form of Magic that requires much inherent ability.

Wizard

Axis IV: Altered Psychical Paradigm (Group level)

Axis IV Magic involves manipulating the inner, psychological landscapes of a group of individuals  to create impressions, beliefs, or perceptions. This is an extremely difficult form of magic that requires prodigious inherent ability.

 

The Head of The Institute is to be fluent, and gifted, in all axes