Sacrarium Corporis

The standard of Sacrarium Corporis, otherwise known as the Sanctuary of Body, has been a practice since the origins of Scholomance as a means of ensuring students are able to concentrate on their studies free of anatomic maladies. To achieve this, the Sacrarium Corporis defines and prohibits a number of medical conditions by establishing a responsibility of the academy staff to eliminate maladies which might impact student performance, and for students to maintain good health. Set in motion by the third edict of the Writ of Procession, and further guided by considerations of the first edict, the standard of Sacrarium Corporis has continuously evolved with the times by expanding the maladies defined for treatment, while also acting as a catalyst for medical research and advancements. Easily among the most controversial of the standards and policies upheld by the academy, the Sacrarium Corporis is a topic of regular debate and discussion and has even lead to the development of unique cultural phenomenon among the unseen such as the namesake profession of the Maladies, who are the doctors responsible for carrying out the practices defined by the standard.

## History

At it's inception, the Sanctuary of Body was an informal ideal that promoted the maintenance of physical and mental health through mundane means. The involvement of arcane means of correcting deformity and disability gained in popularity as advents were made in the practice of Arcane Medicine, with solutions for gender affirmative treatments being among the oldest and most commonly successful practices of employing arcane medicine, followed by assistive weight loss.

Due to the nature of arcane medicine which utilizes forbidden magics such as sanguimancy and osteomancy failure and botched treatments were not unheard of, and were even common place throughout most of the history of the first empires necessitating the formation of the Iatoría Thaûma nearly a millennium before common era as a guild and mystery school overseeing the collection of information and study of arcane medicine. The initial mystery school overseeing arcane medical practice would soon begin to function as a guild, standardizing the practice of arcane medicine within Scholomance.

By the mid-millennium BCE the majority of medical endeavors undertaken in the name of the Sacrarium Corporis were successful, however concern about the safety and even ethicality of the standard perpetuated resulting in a raising sense of hostility towards the doctors responsible for the practice. Further divisions arose as noble mages protested being put under the care of doctors of common lineage or opponent nationalities. In response to the rising tensions, the Iatoría Thaûma unanimously agreed to strip all senses of identity from their practitioners by adopting a uniform obscuring all personal features, and even the voice to an exstent.

The uniform selected was based on the likeness of Gwyndolin, the House Patron of Valcrest due to their own involvement in the order and effectively helped to protect practitioners from negative associations within their personal lives by dissociating them from their grim profession. To overcome the anonymity produced through the uniform and the lack of names behind the mask, many magicians came to refer to the strangely dressed doctors as the Maladies, in reference to their duty to the Sacrarium Corporis.

With the incorporation of a uniform and new codes of decorum for practitioners overseeing the Sacrarium Corporis the formality established enabled courses to be designed dedicated to the training of future Maladies, and was readily added to the curricular offerings of Scholomance effectively delegating the training and development of introductory practical skills away from the Iatoría Thaûma enabling the guild to take on a more administrative role. Additional delegations of responsibility where instituted in shortly after the fall of Rome, tasking the influential alumni association known as The Concordance with scouting future students and reporting any needs for intervention to the practitioners in order to enable them to provide corrective treatment prior to the students arrival in Scholomance as a means of minimizing the visibility of the standard. This duty was then later reassigned to the Ministry of Familial Affairs upon it's inception.

## Maledictions

Under the standard of Sacrarium Corporis anatomic maledictions are categorized into two groups, internal and external. While both are addressed by the same parties the discovery and tracking of maledictions has largely been removed from the preview of the practitioners of arcane medicine. While the Ministry of Familial Affairs is responsible for the tracking and discovery of external maledictions, internal maledictions are generally uncovered during the ceremony of The Choosing.

* Internal Maledictions
* External Maledictions

## Discussion

Proponents of the Sacrarium Corporis often suggest that it is in large part responsible for the phenomenon of increased longevity among magicians, who to a greater degree then most other classifications of arcanists, often even maintain more youthful appearances into advanced age.