Sanctuary Magic

Magicians and magic are treated with much respect and even greater fear in Sanctuary. This is part because of the generally superstitious nature of the locals and is amply reinforced by the fact that some of strangest and most dangerous magicians recorded are citizens in this troubled town, and frequently stage sinister conflicts with its walls. Even the relatively normal Mages Guild bestows the rank of Hazard Class Mage on its graduating members, as if in warning. For reasons the mages in Sanctuary do not talk of, some of them are able to learn magics from other areas of knowledge. This ability does not seem to be available to visitors to Sanctuary, nor to most mages trained in Sanctuary.

One of the variant magics is a modern commercial flavour of the Rune college, known as Scriptomancy. Rune counterspells work on this sub-college. It is said that some of the scribes and merchants in Sanctuary use this magic for immoral purposes.