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==The Celestial Compact==
Penned by [[Taramaine]] [[Braun]]

This tome I dedicate to my forefather, [[Jares]].

Chapter One: The Formation and Existence of the Celestial
Compact in Imperial Times<br/>
Chapter Two: The Magics and Foresight Practiced by the
Celestial Compact<br/>

The gift of foresight is the pinnacle of the Moon Mage
Guild. The most time-honored, reliable, and efficient
method of gaining the knowledge with which to touch the
[[Plane of Probability]] is, of course, through the stars. The
stars grant great wisdom to those trained in what to look
for, and that wisdom allows us to know what may be. This
is the story of those who study the stars and the moons:
The [[Celestial Compact]].

===Chapter One: The Formation and Existence of the Celestial Compact in Imperial Times===

Who first stared into the night skies to study the stars,
we know not. Who first touched upon the Plane of
Probability is ancient even to the eternal city of [[Leth Deriel]]. These are things not even the greatest tomes of
history or unearthed ruins will reveal to us, so
antiquated is the knowledge.

But at some point in time, people of the primitive clans
that occupied the continent looked to the stars, and
gained insight. Tribes had their own seers and oracles,
though these ancestors of modern-day Moon Mages were just
as uncultivated as the clans to which they belonged.

In time, those struggling astrologists, if they can be
called such, developed into what we know now as the
Celestial Compact. Even from its earliest beginnings,
these clan seers led their people, if not directly. No,
ancient clans were typically led and commanded by one of
warrior heart; a fighter who could land his people on the
victorious side of battle. But within those clans where
the astrological arts were developed, the leaders learned
quickly to rely upon their seers. In truth, the seers were
the true leaders of those early clans, for those
chieftains that made hasty decisions without consulting
what the future held were just as quickly led to ruin as
success.

These seers were poorly-skilled compared to those of us
living today, though. Their training was laughable -- each
successive seer would train an apprentice to eventually
take over. But think of the wisdom of the heavens as a
jigsaw puzzle. Each scattered and violent clan held a
single piece, which they reverently handed down through
the generations, but none saw the big picture, the
completed masterpiece -- what they could become with their
disparate knowledge and skills combined. Unity.

Well, to be frank, that's what much of the world was like
back then. Elemental mages had the same problem, as did
the Clerics with their magic and knowledge of the gods.
The tales of history were beyond the people of those days,
as were the arts of government, architecture, alchemy. The
entire world was fragmented. Thus was born the [[Empire of the Seven-Pointed Star]], which sought to correct those
failings through force. The world would be united, whether
they liked it or not.

The Empire was founded on the tenets I describe above.
There was to be a strong rule establishing unity and
betterment among a large number of clashing cultures. The
Empire of the Seven-Pointed Star was, in most ways, the
birth of modern civilization. People were no longer
identified by which warring clan they belonged to, not to
so strong a degree as before. Oh, surely, there were still
those staunch traditionalists that clung to the old way
and resented what the lands had become but the rest of
society did see those naysayers for what they truly were.

The continent had changed, and for the better. Knowledge,
learning was preserved. The Imperials constructed numerous
libraries and academies such as [[Gealeranendae]], [[Izma Ru'ef]],
and the famed [[Imperial Academy]]. In addition, the College
of Elemental Mages was established. With Imperial rule,
the process of learning was finally formalized, the pieces
of the puzzle were starting to come together.

In the Imperial capital, [[Throne City]], one young woman had
constructed a certain establishment, the [[Phelim Club]], an
extraordinarily exclusive institution. This young woman, a
Halfling named [[Veila]] Tebaiya, was an interesting sort.

Initially a priestess at the nearby Hill of the Divine
Wind, she carried out the Rites of Phelim. Until, that is,
she grew bored with that lifestyle. She joined with a
passing troupe of traders and explorers and accompanied
them to the Outlands. We don't know how, but she amassed a
fortune. Veila, now nearing her middle ages, grew bored of
this lifestyle as well, and yearned for life in a busy
city.

So she returned from the Outlands and made her way to
Throne City. There, the fascination with the arcane she
had developed in service to Phelim grew when she chanced
upon an ill-fated mystic in the city. This mystic pointed
out to Veila the constellation of the Nightingale, an
arrangement of stars in the sky that his family had
discovered over the course of many years. For you see, at
that time, the numerous constellations and planets were
not universally (if you shall excuse the pun) known for
as I mentioned earlier, knowledge was not shared.

Veila was enticed by what she viewed as a beautiful signal
in the sky, and there set her fortunes to constructing the
Phelim Club in Throne City. She befriended the mystic, up
until his unfortunate death two weeks later. But aside
from that tragedy, the club opened with a grandiose
celebration. It was, as I said, very exclusive. To gain
entry to the wealthy, extravagant club, one must first
have demonstrated a knowledge of the heavens. Inside was a
beautiful establishment where its guests were pampered in
luxury, with fine food and dining. Veila generally charged
her select patrons very little, if anything at all -- she
merely encouraged their gathering.

It was here in the Phelim Club that the Celestial Compact
first came into existence, though it has evolved a good
bit since its earliest time. One place where the skilled
astrologists and seers of the time gathered and
socialized, and they all quickly realized the benefit of
such. They discussed many things in the club; their trade,
the study and observance of the skies and the practice of
foresight. Many of the seers there found that others
possessed tidbits of information not generally known.

The club members, naming themselves [[Phelim's Compact]],
began to spend hours, even days, hunched around tables in
the club devising celestial maps revealing the location of
many constellations, maps with which they formulated the
orbits of the twelve planets and three moons. The Compact
quickly applied all the methods members had been using to
see the future, and developed a singular, more efficient
way.

But astrology, foresight, and magic were not the only
things the people of Phelim's Compact discussed. There was
another topic of great interest to them all: power. You
see, even from their earliest and most primitive, the
seers have realized that it is their place to lead. The
stars give us the path to the Plane of Probability, the
Plane gives us knowledge of the future. It is the destiny
of those who can know what will be, to lead those who do
not to guide them, to protect them, to lead them to
enlightenment. It is the duty and responsibility of those
gifted with foresight to lead the world into a better
future, one we envision with our gifts. That is our
burden.

To achieve that end, the members of Phelim's Compact began
to insinuate themselves into positions of power within
Imperial society. It was important to ascertain the
correct decisions would be made by those in power to
ensure a prosperous and beneficial future on the path to
enlightenment. Many entered the employ of wealthy
nobility, or the influential writers and philosophers of
the time.

By now Phelim's Compact was something more than just the
elite patrons of an exclusive and wealthy club. They had
become a formal (and formidable) organization, that was
slowly beginning to develop its own procedures, protocol,
hierarchy, and motives. Lacking sanction from the Empire,
the club became even more exclusive and restrictive, as
its leaders were forced to meet clandestinely in the
darkest nights (during the day, the building still served
as a social club where a powerful group gathered to smoke
their pipes, read books, and discuss current affairs).
Some justice officials opposed to the Compact encouraged
raids of the club to arrest the, as they called them,
dissidents, but supporters of Phelim's Compact managed to
prevent such raids from taking place.

Attaining strength and power was an important goal of the
Compact, as I've said, but many of its members disagreed
quite strongly on the methods with which to accomplish
that. They each had their own ideas. But they soon enough
became divided into just three separate schools of
thought. A poet and entertainer who had been chartered by
the Phelim Club to perform wrote the following of said
divisions into an Elven satire:

"Fiery-headed and full of flaming passion, the scions of
[[Yavash]] are quick to make decisions, and make them with
little regret for the consequences. They act in the
radiant light of the red moon's glare, and believe they
should rule in the light."

"Skulking in the shadows of the [[Katamba|black moon]], these would
fellows would opt to remain in the shadows of the throne.
They shall safely pull the strings of puppet lords, unseen
by all."

"Coldly logical and at the same time as fluid as the icy
blue waters so resembling their master [[Xibar]], this lot
says moderation is the way to go. Neither of the above is
right, and neither are wrong. Dark is light and light is
dark."

Though not taken with the humor the satirist had hoped,
his remarks about the three moons stuck. The three
divisions within Phelim's Compact's hierarchy became known
as the [[Assembly of Xibar]], the [[Assembly of Yavash]], and by
far the most prominent at that time, the [[Assembly of Katamba]]. At this juncture the organization also changed
its name to the [[Celestial Compact]], in honor of the stars
and moons which gave them their magic and foresight, and
also as a tribute to the three Assemblies.

As time passed, more and more members of the Imperial
elite saw the benefits to having among their retinue one
who could touch the Plane of Probability and see the
future. The Compact had been growing in power and
influence, and became quite respected within many of the
society's circles (it should also be noted that as the
Compact grew in influence, so it grew in wealth, and many
of its leading members made increasingly substantial
donations to the coffers of Veila, the club's proprietor,
for her role in all this -- Veila, though possessing no
arcane foresight of her own, was a shrewd businesswoman
who had devised a brilliant long-term plan at the start).
Others saw them as frauds and charlatans who were
degrading the honorable ways of the Empire's dawn. More
fools who looked down their noses at progress and a better
world.

Now, understand, much good came of this growth within the
Compact, but there were negative side effects as well.
Students came to them, seeking to learn their arts. The
Phelim Club, though it had been their home for over fifty
years, was no longer adequate to support their needs. And
so one of the newly-appointed leaders of the Celestial
Compact, one [[Jares]] [[Braun]], opened the doors to a marvelous
chapterhouse, the Phelim Club Orphanage, under the guise
of giving back to society by providing a home a hot meals
to the orphaned children of the Empire, many of whose
parents had died fighting in the Outlands. In truth, these
children were trained in the arts of foresight and
celestial magic, though their training was conducted in
secret. For you see, it was against Imperial law to teach
as a formal institution without Imperial sanctioning (such
sanctioning as was held by the College of Elemental
Magic). As the Compact's strength grew, so grew the number
of its enemies, and it became increasingly clear that in
order to survive, the Compact would need true sanctioning.
And so the [[Grazhir Circle]] set in motion a plan to attain
that sanctioning.

Jares Braun, wholly in support of the beliefs of the
Assembly of Katamba of which he was a member, selected two
more Assemblymen from his order and sent them to a young
noble by the name of [[Ponthilas]] of House [[Lucaid]]. The
Grazhir Circle had determined three years prior through
its scrying that young Ponthilas would become the next
Emperor, the fourth of his name to hold the throne. During
the interim, several skilled mages of the Compact slowly,
and to the notice of none, influenced the mind of
Ponthilas with their magic, making him grow unstable over
the course of those three years. It was then that he was
approached by the emissaries sent by Jares Braun.

Those mages quickly "cured" Ponthilas, as well as offered
him sage advice. They assured him that with their help, he
would rule the Empire. I am certain that this all sounds
foul, but one must consider all the facts. Ponthilas would
take the Imperial throne, whether the Celestial Compact
aided him or not, for the Human delegates had no other
alternatives. The man was paranoid, with extremely violent
tendencies long before the Compact ever approached him.
Had he taken the throne by himself, without the pacifying
influence his Compact advisors would later offer him,
Ponthilas surely would have led the Empire down the path
to destruction, making foolish, suicidal decision after
another. Therefore, it was fully necessary to employ
whatever plan would offer success in order for the Compact
to secure a position high in his counsel -- not only to
ensure the Compact's survival, but the survival of the
Empire as a whole.

The Compact's strategy was successful. When Ponthilas took
the throne, he had surrounded himself with a large retinue
of advisors from the Celestial Compact, and his advisors
guided the young and foolish Emperor in making decisions
that would not end in disaster, but betterment. It was a
grand victory for the Celestial Compact, for not only was
the Empire saved from utter destruction, but the Compact
itself was no longer forced to pretend it did not exist.
Sanctioning as an official College would surely follow,
and the Grazhir Circle submitted its petition.

But the plans of the Grazhir Circle were derailed. The
superstitious Dwarven contingent of that time was appalled
by what they viewed as evil, a corrupting influence on the
entire Empire of the Seven-Pointed Star, a takeover by a
hostile group. One overly zealous Dwarf devised a cunning
plan that would benefit solely himself... a plan created
out of ambition and greed, for he was the likely choice
for the Dwarven contingent in five years. This Dwarf,
[[Saranell II|Saranell]], approached a group of S'Kra Mur and convinced
them that Ponthilas and the Celestial Compact were
planning to suppress the S'Kra Mur and impose reparations
upon them. Duped by the conniver's plan, the S'Kra assassin
forged a q'zhalata.

On occasion, the Compact advisors were unsuccessful in
pacifying Ponthilas, and the young man acted quite rashly.
Unfortunately, the day they foresaw his assassination was
one such instance. Warning him to stay within the palace
for fear of his life, Ponthilas scorned the danger and
wandered outside, where he was easily killed. As expected,
Saranell II took the throne.

The new Emperor quickly rejected the Compact's petition
for sanctioning. He had proven victorious then, and it
appeared Saranell would attempt to seize the Phelim Club
and its orphanage both. Jares Braun quickly thought up a
new plan, a last resort... and the rest, as they say, is
history. The Celestial Compact brought about the Magical
Congress, which resulted in the Lunar Accord being signed.
The Guild of Moon Mages was formed, and it received
official Imperial sanctioning; [[Emperor]] Saranell II was
thwarted.

The Celestial Compact sect quickly took the lead in the
day-to-day running and advancement of the Guild, when the
other sects mostly showed indifference at the daunting
task. Jares created a Council modeled mostly after the
hierarchy of the Compact, a structure which had proven to
be secure and stable. Supporting the Guild not only with
leadership and chapterhouses, the Compact also provided
innumerous funds. Jares knew that the ruling Emperor
despised the Guild, and would take any opportunity he was
given to see its downfall. And so the Grandmaster
dispatched Assemblymen to the racial contingents in Throne
City, to country nobles, and to more influential city
nobles, to the governors and military commanders across
the Empire; Assemblymen who would serve as advisors to
their charges, as well as aiding them with powerful
utility magic. The Grandmaster hoped to gain enough
widespread political support to overcome any attempts the
Emperor made to dissolve the fledgling Guild. And, after
all, Saranell had only a few more years remaining before a
new Emperor took the throne. The Guild of Moon Mages, of
course, survived.

A few tumultuous years later, the Dwarves ceded the
Imperial throne. Several Emperors came and went, and the
Guild prospered. Next in the rotation after the Empress
[[Piatek]] was a Halfling who, like many others put forth by
the Halfling contingent, had been chosen for his lack of
strong viewpoints and the certainty that he'd make no
major decisions and do all in his power not to... rock the
boat, as the saying goes. Politically, this was a
dangerous decision for that point in time, when a strong
ruler was needed, but the significance of [[Emperor]] [[Timbleton]] came from an even more disastrous action carried
out by the young Moon Mage Guild.

This section of my work I pen with some remorse, as the
infamous [[Timbleton Incident]], and the resulting inquiry,
was one of the darkest periods of time for the Moon Mage
Guild. As the Guild, and the Compact, grew stronger and
stronger, so grew support for the Assembly of Yavash. One
member of the Assembly wrote:

"The Assembly of Katamba is occupied by weak old men and
women, who fear to take public action, who fear to take
the Guild to the heights it belongs. Their methods of
standing behind the rulers of the world and whispering
advice, which may or may not be followed, may have proven
a sound practice in the years where the Compact was forced
to hide, but not now when we are an officially recognized
Guild. Their hesitance to take true action is furthered by
the even weaker Assembly of Xibar, moderates who are as
loathe to take action and take sides as the inept Emperor
Timbleton. Now is the time when action must be employed
when mere words are insufficient in securing the Guild a
place in this world."
[Throne City Archives, 84:352:9]

Such words were the widely held view of many Guildsmen, as
calls for action appealed to the youths and students. Such
commentary gained frightening support, until the Assembly
of Yavash outnumbered both of the other Assemblies, and
until the Council was convinced by its students to act
upon those words of action.

The Timbleton Incident was the result, in which widespread
rebellion and insurrection broke out throughout the
Empire, and it seemed the Emperor himself would be
overthrown. The insurrection was unsuccessful, however,
and a formal inquiry was immediately called. The Guild was
nearly destroyed when all eleven [[Moon Mage Council|Council Members]] save [[Ona]]
[[Crowther]] were convicted of treason and sponsoring
rebellion and were sentenced to imprisonment.

Following this disaster, severe penalties were enacted
upon the Assembly of Yavash for its role in the affair.
Those penalties limit the power the Assembly can gain, and
remain in place today.

===Chapter Two: The Magics and Foresight Practiced by the Celestial Compact===

In the matter of types of magic, the Celestial Compact
with its close connection to the moons and stars above,
has always possessed an affinity for magics involving
light manipulation. For example, spells such as Burn,
Dazzle, Refractive Field, and Focus Moonbeam were all
devised by the Celestial Compact, as were numerous
advanced spells, as well as some spells not taught to
students, like Cage of Light.

The Celestial Compact has always believed strongly in the
ideal of unity, and this is reflected in that the greatest
magics and enchantments of the Compact rely upon several
mages working together in unison to accomplish a single
goal. Our magic and enchantments are strengthened
considerably when in groups (take, for example, the circle
of mages that battled the sorcerer [[Kalestraum]]), and we
have found that many things are possible when done in a
group that an individual would be incapable of carrying
out.

With its belief in the importance of unity, it is no
surprise that the Celestial Compact should wish to apply
such theories to foresight as well. We learn our knowledge
of the future, as all know by tapping into the Plane of
Probability, and opening a small gateway from which a
driblet of insight slips through to the Plane of Abiding,
into the mind of the seer. The naturally resulting theory
of course, was that, "If one seer opening a small gateway
receives a small bit of knowledge, then could not a group
of seers opening a large gateway receive a large amount of
knowledge?"

The theory was disproved, though, through several
experiments. All attempts at group predictions ending in
gateways large enough to allow beasts from the Plane of
Probability to escape into our own. We seal this line of
study. For now.

For the Guild eternally and by my hand,
Taramaine Braun
Guildmaster Prime of the Moon Mage Guild
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