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Arch Mage Bell's Response to the reports of Cataris' trial
TehLulu
Cataris was put on trial for breaking our laws and my direct orders. He did NOT uphold the "balance" by attacking the undead. He put all of the Mage's Guild at risk by doing so. Everyone who participated in the attack, which he claimed to me personally he did not "lead," (thoug h I have read differently in the Aegis Times newspaper) was nearly killed by the Prophet, including the Wizard. He has gained us an enemy. The undead want revenge on the Guild now. They will come after me first, as one of the Arch Mages. I will likely be tortured more, as they have been doing recently, whenever I dare to venture up nort h to guard it. I may even be killed. Magic has not yet returned to us; the Veil which exists between this world and the one which magic seeps through from is not yet weak enough. The Veil is the reason why undead magic is so strong and Ascended magic seemingly less potent. I will write more on the subject, but to put it bluntly, the undead are closest to Iblees. He is imp risoned on the other side of the Veil, where the powers of magic wait. He has given his servants, the undead, a more direct connection to the other side of the Veil than A scended or the rest of the world. That is why the Mage's Guild does not yet have magic yet...but we can feel it coming. :: Cataris, in attacking the undead base, broke our rules and my direct orders as Arch Mage. He betrayed my trust in doing so, but he was given simply a warning and sent on his way. But other evidence has appeared which shows our problems inside the Guild are not yet done. We will be working quietly to fix these. And we will be attempting not to make the undead irritated at us by attacking them for a very good r eason... Should the guild fall before magic returns, we will not be as well equipped. Magic will not be as us eful to all of us as a whole, and our tomes upon tomes of knowledge will be destroyed, or used again st us. That is why we put Cataris on trial for his actions. I sincerely hope you understand and do not give in to all the propaganda circulating at the moment. The Guild stands for the long-term defense of Aegis. If we fall even before magic returns, we will b e of no use. But we will continue defending and working on collecting knowledge to better prepare Ae gis for the return of magic.