Magic

Magic is scantly used in Clamund, the practice of such a thing would be viewed with disgust and thoughts of heresy among the common folk of the realm. Many sorcerers who openly use their magic in public would usually be chased out of town by angry peasants and soldiers and sometimes hunted and killed by wary folk depending on which region you would find yourself in. Despite this, there are no laws that outright ban the usage outside of the Holy Empire of Visimar who refer to the users of magic as bringers of heresy and would usually hunt them down with the abundance of Holy Inquisitors the Empire has at its disposal.
With the lack of laws that would combat the usage of magic, many sorcerers and wizards who have a desire to learn and actively practice the use of magic hide themselves away in "Colleges" which act as both a place of learning and a settlement for people who wish to practice the arts of magic without having the need to rejoin society. These colleges would usually be far away from any sort of settlement and heavily guarded by sellswords who keep an oath of silence to protect the location of such places. As of 1290, there are around 5 active colleges around Clamund that are actively studied and accept any students who possess any sort of magical ability. 
Magic users are usually people of elven descent. These such people are descendants of the long-dead wizard kings of the Age of Magic who themselves are rarely humans. This means that most magic users are elven or at least half-elf with the exception of a very few who were true human or dwarven born.
The darker folk who are keen on magic to raise the dead such as necromancers and the such are usually bad folk. anyone who comes with contact with a necromancer would find sometimes hundred-year-olds in their ancient towers commanding dozens of zombies and skeletons to pillage the countryside and capture more subjects of experiments conducted by the necromancer. These necromancers usually get their arts from long-forgotten books hidden deep underground or are just ancient enough to have been around when the arts of necromancy was common-practice during the Age of Magic, with there ancient practices prolonging their lives through the sacrifices of commonfolk.
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