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Magestone: TROLLS pt.3
III Science and Magic
In the Age of the Sword, it was believed that only evil spellcasters could turn into trolls. Some were even claimed to turn back into humans at will like werewolves. In some parts of the world all practitioners of magic were persecuted out of fear that they might become trolls. In Ancient Danarkim even a respected magus could be put to death if they developed a suspicious mole or a wart.
After the rise of the Halandirite Magocracy the founders of sarcomancy sought to understand this vexing problem in the hopes that no more gifted mages would be lost to trollhood. Their findings came close to being wiped out by the War of Ruin, but ultimately spread to become common knowledge in the Old World.
Early sarcomancers discovered that visible mutations would appear in many common animals if they were subjected to high levels of raw magic energy. While cells were usually able to repair damage from intense magic exposure, a set of changes cropped up. These usually had
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What people mean by success
is to launch yourself in the air
from high up on the clifftop
to plunge down
towards the jagged rocks
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if you are a bird
and learning at last
that you have wings.
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