The Lunar Delineate

=== History ===
The Lunar Delineate was established shortly before the end of the Runic Wars in the Shattered Lands, and its establishment directly resulted in the war's eventual end. While the Angel Koiphew Mei is credited with the begining of the end of the wars with the invention of alchemy, the institutionalization of easily accessible magic which he set into motion was trigger for nation wide armistice. After Koiphew discovered Alchemy, the theoretical groundwork was laid for the study of parallels as more than physical objects. The Lunar Delineate, as they were called, were astrologers and scholars who pioneered the art of using Devidica's easily observed moons as parallels for modern magic. The association set up observatories and schools in the city-states of the shattered lands, which acted as the first wave of magic collages.
The groundwork set by the Delineate allowed for the use of Devidica's moons by the first easily accesses parallels, and their work has been felt for all generations since. After Lunar Collages were established, Runic Collages were established or opened to the public. Lunar collages flourished compared to Runic collages, due to the relitive ease and shorter time needed to master magic that wouldn't inflict self harm. Another boon to Lunar collages was that they required much less space and infrastructure to function in teaching students the nuiances of magic.
However, this ease of access and lack of foundation became the eventual downfall of the Lunar Delineate. Through study, students came to learn of parallels beyond the moons. The focus on Lunar Delineation of the old schools hampered their ability to grow, while runic collages could teach their students to access these newly discovered parallels through adapted and augmented techniques for crafting runes. Their previous benefit of having little need for infrastructure prooved to be a hinderance in the long run. Poor maintenece of buildings compared to the Rune Gardens of their competion made lunar schools easy to abandon and forget in lieu of the more advanced and adaptable collages that would endure to become the Shattered Lands' modern collages.
Many Delineate observatories became the sites of schools and academies dedicated to the study of magic, while the rest faded into obsurcity as other parallels were discovered beyond Devidica's moons. Sections of these schools which still teach lunar delineation generally do so from a historical standpoint. They describe the discovery of Devidica's moons as Parallels and how that has lead to sorcerers finding other parallels, both common and unique to them.