Throughout the ages, attempts have been made to divide people into easily identifiable groups (with varying degrees of success). One such divide is the line between the Initiates and the Uninitiates.

Allow me to explain a bit. In this modern world, science and cynicism rule. The whole idea of magic seems ridiculous, and has been dismissed as the superstition of past eras by all but a few loonies, who generally get locked up where they can't hurt others.

Most people who believe in magic past their childhood years are, of course, lunatics. It's just a coincidence that they're also right.

And here is where the divide comes in. The majority of people in this world don't know that magic exists. They might suspect it does, they might even believe in it, but they don't actually know-- and these are Uninitiates. Uninitiates are the people who don’t know that there is such a thing as “Uninitiates” and “Initiates”, let alone magic.

Then, there are those who know very well that magic exists. The people who know that there’s anything to be Initiated to are called Initiates. Some are just normal people who are in on the secret. Others are the elves, the faes, the gods, goddesses and mages who live alongside normal humans, pretending to be a part of that more mundane world.


For the sake of secrecy-- and because “Uninitiate” and “Initiate” are hard words to say all the time-- these terms are colloquially shortened in speech and writing to "Unnish" (Uninitiate) and "Innish" (Initiate). Sometimes people call Uninitiates “unnies” and Initiates “innies”. Some people have even been known to call Uninitiates “outies”.



So, here's the deal:

I would like to see people joining as Uninitiates as well as Initiates. Uninitiates are allowed to have magical powers or magical heritage that they don't know about. This way, you can have lots of fun making them think they're going crazy.

Basically, Uninitiates don't know, conclusively, that magic exists (and that the uninitiate/initiate system exists). Once they do-- once an Initiate has explained things to them-- they become an Initiate. And that's how it works.

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