"Forbidden Arts...?" Melona muttered, picking up the book and looking it over. It looked old, so old that it's pages had yellowed and the text on the cover appeared faded. Curious, Melona flipped to the introduction section.
Many will despise me for writing this text, and I do not blame them. The spells and rituals in this tome have been banned for a reason, many have misused them, and I do not wish to downplay their atrocities. But I strongly feel that all magic is inherently neutral. Listing these practices among the list of "Evil Magics," or seeing any school of magic as evil at all is a fallacy, as all magic can be used for good and for evil.
Woah, this is really old. Melona thought to herself. Centuries ago, schools of magic were separated into Light Magic, Neutral Magic, and Dark Magic. Enchanting and Defensive spells were seen as Light Magic, inherently good magic that those of the clergy would study. Elemental magic, Summoning, and Alchemy was Neutral, seen as not inherently good or bad, and could be taught to anyone, and Attack Magic, Curses, Illusions, Charms, and especially Necromancy were seen as Dark Magic, inherently evil and punishable by law. These standards have changed over the years, especially as people's understanding of magic has evolved, although some schools of magic like Necromancy still have a negative reputation to shake. To reference this as current would mean that the book was hundreds of years old. Melona couldn't imagine the tome had even been properly published and released, the authoritarian clergy would have never allowed it.
Curiosity thoroughly peaked, Melona continued.
That said, as a practitioner of the Cthonic arts, I understand that any day could be my last. But I will not let a lifetime of work and study be in vain. Thus, I am writing down everything I know about Cthonic Magic. Every spell, every recipe, every ritual. I have reached out to fellow practitioners as well. As long as at least one of us remains, our coven will never die.
Melona blinked. With the way the introduction had started, she had assumed this would be a book on necromancy magic. She had never, in all of her studies, heard of "Cthonic Magic." Could it be that, in all of the clergies efforts to erase what they saw as evil schools of magic, they had actually succeeded in eliminating one?
Thinking about it made Melona's heart hurt. Professor Skullus, her Necromancy professor, was the only Professor that was unambiguously kind to her, and yet many students and parents still held on to dated beliefs about the evils of Necromancy. Skullus loved what she did, and had always used it to help others, and yet was always treated like she was beneath the others. And this book showed that all of that discrimination had worked, it had erased an entire practice from common knowledge! Melona got to her feet, dusting off her robes. She couldn't let those people win. With a resolve she hadn't felt in a long time, Melona...
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