Mystics

Mystics Humans

TROM 01/3 A group who had left Arcadia in days past, going into the Mountains, built a temple, to better meditate and develop magic ways not based on physical magic, but on psychic activities. As a means of financing themselves, developed Mule Head Mead, which they brought into Arcadia and sold to nobles. They never manifested their powers within the city (Adrien had forbidden them to do so), although an aura of power seemed to flow from them, due to their serenity? Gentle faces, perfect robes. The mystics were good at many things, and hospitality was the greatest of these. Mystics are not accustomed to the martial affairs of the world. Are a people of peace who traffic in the merciful side of justice.”

TROM 01/17 Ezekiel's warning to the Mystics: If you continue to ignore the threat, if you hole yourselves up in the mountain fortress, they will come. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but one day they will come, and it will be your end.”

Common opinion from the lowlands: The mystics were pacifists and more interested in the life of the mind than foreign affairs.

TROM 01/17 Behavior Could take a vow of silence, a practice not altogether uncommon for the mystics as they plumbed the depths of the human mind. The dangers of the art had its own consequences on its users. Traveling the earth through astral projection and stepping into the minds of others wasn’t an easy task, nor a clean one.

At 14, their children had already begun training. The mystics started earlier than the Arcadians, which was one source of their power. Paired with the seclusion of their mountain paradise, the early education made the young ones powerful much sooner than their lowlands counterparts.

Navigating this community took the utmost patience. Monastery life did not value efficiency

One had to be cautious among the mystics. They were good people, but they had never minded burrowing into the heads of those around them. They believed, though, that entering one another’s thoughts is a way to increase intimacy and speed familiarity.”