Carnomancy

Carnomancy is a form of magic that uses arcane energy to twist and modify flesh. While there are no known carnomancers today, its practice was once widespread in ancient Thadria.

Though carnomancy could be used to harm others, it was much more commonly employed as a method of healing. Through warping living material carnomancers were able to heal not only the most grievous wounds but also bring people back from what was, for all purposes, death. Multiple stories have been recorded telling of carnomancers who resurrected slain warriors when all they had was an arm or hand, provided that limb had been preserved in such a way that it still contained living blood. This was in no way necromancy, but rather involved coaxing the limb to regrow the rest of the person.

Carnomancy was once common amongst the human and orcish tribes of ancient Thadria. There is evidence, though nothing conclusive, that they originally learned of this magic from the cyclops who once inhabited the same land - it could just as easily have been the cyclops who learned of it from the tribes of smaller folk, however. After experiencing a long decline for reasons that today are poorly understood, carnomancy had been largely abandoned by the time the nascent Viridia began its conquests east across Thadria. Repelled by the magic, the legions and administrators alike of the Dominion stamped out the practice completely, rendering it extinct by Y7800. Despite many mages trying over the centuries since, none have been able to re-discover the secrets of carnomancy. Some believe it to have an ancestral component, and that there are no living descendants of the few carnomancers who remained at the time of the Viridian conquest, which if true would render the magic permanently lost.