In the Western Continent, Magic extended into many types, excluding miscellaneous branches such as Astrology, Prophecy, Magic Rune Construction, and Spiritual Arrays.
The mainstream divisions for immediate combat were categorized into three types, and the remaining complex and special methods were too numerous to describe.
The first type was arcane, where the casters truly relied on their own intelligence and, based on the experience laid down by countless Pioneers, explored a whole set of specific ways of thinking and combinations of spell-casting materials to magically produce effects through rituals.
Most arcane users were atheists who advocated the objective laws of things and were the bastions against religious powers.
