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Most civilized human powers have grown and maintained their might through the use of sorcery in warfare - a dangerous form of spellcraft that rapidly converts specialized azurion glyphs into raw, destructive energy and devastating, entropic curses - destroying the glyph, and the azurion, in the process.

In the Hundred Kingdoms, however, sorcery and other such abuse of azurion is highly taboo, often punishable by death. This is due to the ancient, far-reaching influence of the rangers, a sect of peerless hunter-shamans and beast masters whose wisdom has guided Rhe for untold centuries - since well before the founding of the First Kingdom itself, when the tribes of Rhe and all the world were mired in the savagery of the Long Dark. If fact, among the commonfolk, rangers are just as revered as any priestly class, if not even more so. It was Rangers who taught their ancestors how to work with the land instead of against it, ensuring their survival and eventual rise to power, long before there were any sorcerers or kings.

While a growing number of Warrior-Kings begin to question the wisdom of shunning sorcery while their enemies use it to advance, the potential wrath of the commonfolk, including the bulk of their own armies, keeps their ambitions in check. As for the rest of the royal families and nobles, they shun sorcery for a very practical reason: azurion is not only a finite resource, but the essence of existence itself. The material demands of rampant sorcery would have stripped the land of azurion centuries ago, along with its very vitality, and the foundation of their strength would have dissolved into desperate conquest, creeping ruin, or both.

Instead, the Rheans have achieved peerless mastery of defensive glyphcraft, as well as uniquely potent traditions of bestial husbandry, breeding sacred, almost supernaturally intelligent war beasts on a steady diet of leyline-infused grassland. Though enemies may wield raw destruction against them, their own homelands suffer greatly for it - while Rhean glyphs endure the destruction, and their lands and peoples prosper. Such is the wisdom of the rangers, and all who walk their Path.

Description
Most civilized human powers have grown and maintained their might through the use of sorcery in warfare - a dangerous form of spellcraft that rapidly converts specialized azurion glyphs into raw, destructive energy and devastating, entropic curses - destroying the glyph, and the azurion, in the process.

In the Hundred Kingdoms, however, sorcery and other such abuse of azurion is highly taboo, often punishable by death. This is due to the ancient, far-reaching influence of the rangers, a sect of peerless hunter-shamans and beast masters whose wisdom has guided Rhe for untold centuries - since well before the founding of the First Kingdom itself, when the tribes of Rhe and all the world were mired in the savagery of the Long Dark. If fact, among the commonfolk, rangers are just as revered as any priestly class, if not even more so. It was Rangers who taught their ancestors how to work with the land instead of against it, ensuring their survival and eventual rise to power, long before there were any sorcerers or kings.

While a growing number of Warrior-Kings begin to question the wisdom of shunning sorcery while their enemies use it to advance, the potential wrath of the commonfolk, including the bulk of their own armies, keeps their ambitions in check. As for the rest of the royal families and nobles, they shun sorcery for a very practical reason: azurion is not only a finite resource, but the essence of existence itself. The material demands of rampant sorcery would have stripped the land of azurion centuries ago, along with its very vitality, and the foundation of their strength would have dissolved into desperate conquest, creeping ruin, or both.

Instead, the Rheans have achieved peerless mastery of defensive glyphcraft, as well as uniquely potent traditions of bestial husbandry, breeding sacred, almost supernaturally intelligent war beasts on a steady diet of leyline-infused grassland. Though enemies may wield raw destruction against them, their own homelands suffer greatly for it - while Rhean glyphs endure the destruction, and their lands and peoples prosper. Such is the wisdom of the rangers, and all who walk their Path.