Heresy Judgment Court

The Heresy Judgment Court is one of the eight major international magic organizations along with the Parthenon, Hunter's Association, Shoreline Alliance and Magic Association but equally boasts the highest magic authority in the world along with the Holy Judgment Court. They are an existence similar to a country's enforcement union, responsible for managing evil magicians amongst others. Their purpose: To protect the world's peace.

They are an association parallel to the Holy Judgment Court. They both share proceedings, members and structure between them, they are also both in charge of the Sacred City where the Holy Judgment Court is located. Mainly they are in charge of observing, capturing or executing suspected heretics. They don't oblige themselves to inform a country's magic association of their presence or undertaking in their country. While the Holy Judgment Court would stick to the rules and some form of decorum the Heresy Judgment Court pays no heed to anything.

The main difference in the two courts is the Holy Court investigates mages who practices "Evil Arts" while the Heresy Court judges those who practice "Disastrous Arts". They were known to be cruel and merciless in carrying out their duties, they also had the right to execute anyone who insulted them on the spot according to the supreme law of the Magic Association.

## Disastrous Arts

The scope of responsibility of the Heresy Judgment Court was more mysterious than any other organization. Not found in any public material, all that would be known was they exclusively arrest and purge those who practice Disastrous Arts.

The Disastrous Arts were categorized as Magic spells above Forbidden and Evil Arts. Disastrous Arts are not included in the Magic Compendium as they are so powerful that they might threaten the peace of society and result in great casualties. People that practice Disastrous Arts are seen as devils blending into the crowd and when revealed will ensure a bloodbath occurs. The frenzy liquid made by Salan's Evil Herbalist can be considered Disastrous Arts for example.

## Watch list

When the Heresy Judgment Court tracks a heretic or a person suspected to be a heretic they place a powerful seal on the individual that serves as a criminal record and a tracker, allowing nearby judicators to be aware of the persons presence. once placed it is supposedly unavoidable and even not noticeable by non-Judicators.

## Structure/Hierarchy

* Jury Members - Representatives of the 10 Great factions in the world that take on the role of magistrates. They are responsible for handing out sentences of alleged criminals. They are all Super Mages and above.
* Judicators - serve as the disciplinary force of the Heresy Court. Judicators are tasked with apprehending and restraining perpetrators until a judgment can be rendered. While apprehension is said to be their main role they do not hesitate to kill heretics if given the chance. Judicators are typically experts amongst Super Mages since it is their responsibility to apprehend dangerous criminals.

## Judgments/Decrees

### Forbidden Curses

Due to the after-effects of Forbidden curses in making the space distorted and barren the HCJ drew up a convention limiting the use of Forbidden Curses. They are not allowed to disclose their identities to the public. Those who go public will be placed under strict surveillance, as will their close relatives and friends. They must report where they are at all times and are not allowed to use Forbidden Curses unless their lives are in danger.

As such there’s a hidden rule in the Magic Associations that every Forbidden Mage must protect the secret of Forbidden Curses. Every Forbidden Mage whose identity is exposed is under the surveillance of the Holy Court Mages and the Magic Associations of the Five Continents. In other words, they have lost their freedom.

### Banishment of Qin Yu'er

Qin Yu'er was born with an Innate Soul-grade Seed of the Ice Element which upon her awakening as a mage gave her magic comparable to an Advanced Mage at the age of 10. She couldn't control the ice magic in her body and would bring about a snowstorm. Due to her outstanding capabilities a false Heresy plot was enacted and she was restrained and sealed away in the Tianshan Mountain.

### Mo Fan Demon Element

They deferred judgment on the demon element as it needed to be studied before declaring it a disastrous art or not. It clearly did not come from a proper source and was originally a forbidden art that happened to merge well with Mo Fan's innate talent and thus became a magic element.

They could only threaten him against using it until it was properly judged. In reality they initially postponed it due to the fact that Mo Fan had killed the ace executioner Hayla.