While outlawed by the morality of the Aluminat church, sorcery remains a powerful force. High born sorcerers study at the Guild, learning the secrets that will bend the universe to their will. Only such licensed practitioners are considered 'proper' magicians and the church keeps a watchful eye on them. However, sorcery is not only for the gentry. The rookeries are full of low class 'petty magicians' who are the heirs to the rural traditions of hedge magic, now twisted with the grime of the city.

Some people need no training to manifest the magical arts. These 'mediums' have a variety of strange powers to reach into the lands of the dead and command the forces of entropy. The church finds it difficult to differentiate between such people and some of their own faithful who are capable of incredible miracles, so they leave well alone.

In the darker places the magic that the church truly fears still remains. Necromancers seek power over life and death and Demonists foolishly make pacts with the forces of entropy. The church tries to convince itself these terrors were destroyed in the wars of faith, but in the shadows the necromancers and demonists remain, awaiting the great alignment of the planes and the final war against heaven.