>>43263201So the home-brew I was doing yesterday, it was based on an esoteric philosophy/psuedo science as it's base. Where the common folk called those who practices it "practitioners". In this system someone is empowered as a practitioner by secrets, how much the knowledge the secret it and how unknown it is. This forms the basis of magic, the keeping and hoarding of knowledge.
There are also specializations of practitioners.
An example would be the anatomists, who would do someone like gather the exact measurements of someone's skull, and with that information would be able to apply that secret (hoping that individual's exact skull measurements would not be widely known), and crush their skull magically.
And that's how power goes, a strictly knowledge is power based system of do you know things about things (basic information for an anatomist would be anatomical knowledge about humans, then specifics based on examining indivudals).
There would be alchemists would have chemistry knowledge, psychiatrists who would delve into people's emotional states, archeologists who employee a weird form of necromancy.
