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==The Quietia (The Exchange)==

The sorcerers of the College of Quietus are fixers, loansharks, and civic leaders who establish intricate networks of debt and obligation, exploiting these relationships to divert sorcery’s wrath. Whether they are fixing a problem, lending coin, or greasing the right palms, the recipients of their good fortune are left in their debt. Sometimes a Quietan will call in a favor to even the score, but just as often they will let the debt hang, seemingly on their generous nature, so that sorcery has someone else to punish.

A wise Quietan uses magic carefully, because if too much misfortune falls upon the circles they associate with, suspicion may drive them out of a city, or worse. But if a shopkeeper borrows coin from a Quietan and many months later his business is ruined by a twist of fate, who suspects the moneylender who is still out his loan? This attitude may seem ruthless, and some Quietans certainly see those who are obliged to them as little more than pawns, but not all are so calculating. Some genuinely see themselves as community benefactors; occasionally someone must suffer for the mage’s use of sorcery, but is that not a small price to pay for all of the good the mage does?

The College of Quietus was founded in the late Classic Age in the central ward of the city of Pacheodon. As the dragon kings withdrew from the world and corrupt institutions took their place, the Quietan magi thrived, filling a civic void. Today they have spread far and wide and may be found in most cities and even among trade caravans.