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 ====== Notes ======
+==== Arcane Colleges ====
+**Abjuration**---The art of shielding and negating, turning aside spells, forces, and unwanted intrusions.\\
+//"Nothing touches me but by my leave."//
+**Conjuration**---The calling of creatures and the creation of objects from nothing or elsewhere.\\
+//"From emptiness, abundance; from elsewhere, allies."//
+**Dissolution**---The unmaking of form and order, eroding matter, magic, and structure into nothingness.\\
+//"All things fall apart, and I hasten their end."//
+**Divination**---The uncovering of hidden truths, from distant sights to secret knowledge.\\
+//"No veil can hide the truth from my sight."//
+**Force**---The shaping of raw arcane pressure into walls, weapons, or kinetic power.\\
+//"Will given weight is the hand that shapes the world."//
+**Gates**---The mastery of thresholds, opening paths across distance, time, and worlds.
+//"Every barrier is but a door awaiting my key."//
+**Transformation**---The alteration of bodies and substances, reshaping them into new forms.\\
+//"What is, can be otherwise---I make it so."//
+**Wards**---The anchoring of standing spells, barriers, and bindings to guard and contain.\\
+//"I bind, I bar, I endure."//
+==== Occult Studies ====
+**Bloodcraft**--Manipulation of life’s essence through ritual, sacrifice, and the cipher of blood; healing, binding, and lethal exchange.\\
+//"In each drop, a world entire."//
+**Charms**---Subtle enchantments that nudge emotion and will, from friendly persuasions to compulsions that stop just short of mind-control.\\
+//"I move the soul with but a whisper."//
+**Covenants**---Calling, bargaining with, binding, and dismissing spirits, familiars, and other unseen agents.\\
+//"Every bargain is a chain, for master and servant alike."//
+**Glamerie**---The crafting of illusions and glamours that reshape perception, memory, and sensory truth.\\
+//"What the eye believes, the heart accepts."//
+**Jinxes**---Hexes and manipulations of luck and circumstance that sour fortunes and invite mishap.\\
+//"A stumble at the wrong moment is death enough."//
+**Knowledge**---The pursuit and application of hidden lore, forbidden facts, and occult insight that change how the world is read.\\
+//"The world is a book that bleeds when read."//
+**Necromancy**---Communion with and command of the dead: shades, memories, revenants, and the politics of undeath.\\
+//"The living forget; the dead remember."//
+**Umbra**---Mastery of shadow and light as forces of concealment and revelation—veiling, revealing, blinding, and stepping through gloom.\\
+//"In shadow, truth hides; in light, truth blinds."//
+==== Primal Paths ====
+**Air**---Mastery over wind, currents, and the breath of the world; shaping the invisible flows that sweep the land.\\
+//"The wind whispers and I answer."//
+**Animal**---Communion with, command of, and understanding of beasts and their instincts; empathy and kinship with all creatures.\\
+//"In fur, feather, and claw, I see the world."//
+**Earth**---Control over stone, soil, and mineral life; shaping the land and drawing strength from its stability.\\
+//"What is rooted may endure forever."//
+**Fire**---Harnessing flame and heat, from the spark of life to the consuming blaze; creation and destruction in equal measure.\\
+//"From spark to inferno, power burns through me."//
+**Plant**---The growth, movement, and subtle intelligence of vegetation; life, shelter, and slow persistence of nature.\\
+//"In every leaf, a story takes root."//
+**Spirits**---Interaction with the unseen life forces of the world; guidance, blessing, and the power of ancestral or natural spirits.\\
+//"The unseen walks beside me."//
+**Storms**---The fury and rhythm of weather, lightning, and tempests; commanding chaos and sudden change.\\
+//"Thunder speaks, and I heed its voice."//
+**Water**---Mastery over rivers, seas, and the currents of life; fluidity, reflection, and the shaping of the world through motion.\\
+//"I flow where the world allows, carving paths unseen."//
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