Editing Mal at Riess (section)

==='''Reputation effects caused by holding a Mal at Riess sigil'''===

There is wide-spread prejudice against Mal at Riess sorcerers.  

The perception among high order sorcerers is that Riess sorcerers are somehow not legitimate sorcerers on the high order stage.  This is mostly due to the political history of wielders and is not a function of the sigils themselves. Because Riess practitioners use full sorcery spells at a greatly lower power level they  are perceived as somehow cheating by sorcerers of high order initiations. 

Among non-sorcerers Mal at Riess sorcerers are often considered unsavory or disreputable.  Not necessarily violent or crazy, but unreliable.  This has more to do with the disdain of sorcerers for them, which non-sorcerers misunderstand, then a actual unreliability.  it also has to do that in many worlds with little or no history of magic there have been travelers and practitioners of Mal at Riess that have become embroiled in local politics and conflicts.  "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king."  In a land with no magic, even low powered high order sorcery is a mighty weapon.
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