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===The Silver Mirror School===

The Silver Mirror School is a philosophical society devoted to discovering the true nature of the world.  They have decided, based on ideas from western analytic philosophy and Buddhism, that the world we live in is nothing but an illusion.  Most of them are skeptics about the external world, but some of them have very clear and very strange ideas about what the true nature of the universe really is.  The school has no moral teachings, yet remains idealistic and values kindness highly.  There are almost no specifically Silver Mirror symbols or rituals, due to a suspicion than symbolism obscures reality.  They do however, develop individual magical styles as a necessary tool for interacting with the world.

Cost: 21 points.

Skills:  Artist (Calligraphy), Autohypnosis, Biology, Breath Control, Mathematics, Meditation, Philosophy (Western Analytic), Physics, Psychology, Symbol Drawing (Silver Mirror), Theology (Buddhism).

Spells:

Illusion and Creation:  Complex Illusion, Control Illusion, Dispel Illusion, Know Illusion, Perfect Illusion, Simple Illusion.

Mind Control:  Keen Hearing.

Sound:  Silence, Sound, Sound Vision.


House Stances

Magic:  That’s a highly debatable subject, but an important one.

Themselves:  We are not a school of thought.  We are broader than that.  We are a group of humans committed to finding truth by any thought necessary.

The Council:  They are clever and disciplined, but their assumptions and traditions weigh them down.  The young houses live in the real world more than the older houses do.  Rat Sniffing has too much sense to put up with it all for much longer.  Maybe we can help them become independent of the Council.

The Circle:  They have a lot to say that is interesting.  I wish they could say it more clearly.

The Cooperative:  I don’t know.  They could be the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity.  The Human Society certainly has some interesting plans for the future.