The Gifts We Are Given

from the Wisdom of His Greatness, Archrector Terta V, first read on this day of the Feast of Saint Oxcatoris, 399 CE

Brethren, it is with the esteemed providence of the Rose Pantheon in which we celebrate today the Feast of Saint Oxcatoris, first and the only Warlock to be affirmed a Saint of our Holy Church… I bid you great welcome in his honor.   In the beginning, there was the Rose, and from this Rose, came four. The four were called Dwarf, Human, Halfling, and Elf. In their great reconciliation together, Archrector Aligroil IX has taught us in his infinite wisdom, human and elf bonded as one to create the Half-Elves. Five that come from one.
This unity in itself is a gift, directly proceeding that Ultimate Gift, that of the Blue Rose which the Pantheon saw fit to bestow upon our most holy Saint Paten, father to our Church. As we do every day in honoring the Blue Rose, I write to you this treatise on the usage of the arcane and the immaterial.
Just as we venerate our greatest gift, so too must we honor those other gifts which we are given. Magic is a gift bestowed upon those who the Pantheon has deemed it necessary to for their function. COnfuse not the gift of magic upon one as condemning of others. The gifts of the Pantheon are vast and various and are given to those that fit such a category of the Divine Plan. 
That which has been given must never be taken away out of fear, for fear is offensive to the Pantheon, who wants nothing more than our success and harmony with their Divine Plan...

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"Archrector Terta V's publication paved the way for Accland, Shallick, Bolclaw, Carman, Carforge, and Eastport to legalize the usage, practice, and teaching of magics in the land, putting laws in place which regulate the use of magic. As a result, this publication is considered to be one of the most influential and read teachings of the Civil Era" -Sir Roos Malleytee, Royal Historian of the Court of Bolclaw (489 CE)