Wizard Civilization

Biodata

History

Not long after leaving the Origin Plane, Wizard Civilization encountered a cluster of planes ruled by formless, “indescribable” gods that destroyed or maddened mortals through overwhelming knowledge. The wizards destroyed the cluster, analyzed those gods’ forms of existence, and incorporated their power and knowledge into their own system. 29

A major ancient racial war on the Origin Plane established humanity as the plane’s dominant race and became the foundation for Wizard Civilization’s outward expansion. The parallel Wizard Civilization preserved the devastated Central Continent and its ruined temple as a memorial to that conflict and a meeting place for high-ranking wizards. 600

Its expansion historically relied in part on transforming local humanoid populations into bodies compatible with Wizard Civilization’s humans and Meditation Methods. This method was used extensively during early expansion to replenish labor and military manpower, though cloning and other cultivation techniques later made it less common. 138 595

The civilization eventually developed strict knowledge-protection contracts. Promising newcomers who gain extraordinary knowledge must sign a soul contract forbidding betrayal and requiring the protection of core knowledge; those who advance privately without this contract are classified as Illegal Wizards. 229 449

Wizard Civilization left the Origin Plane under the protection of Level 9 Wizards. Its established command and protection ruled out the idea that the subsequently discovered parallel Wizard Civilization originated from a faction accidentally scattered during that departure. 594

After merging his perception with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s origin, Benjamin discovered an immense, expanding white light that absorbed or annihilated everything in its path. The civilization’s planes, including his own, were moving away from it. Viola reported that, according to Grand Mentor Anton, the phenomenon had originated in a Level 9 Wizard’s experiment, though she did not know its precise nature. Benjamin connected it to the name “End Apostles”: wizards arrived before the light that would eventually follow them. 770

Organization and Membership

Major Factions

Wizard Civilization is principally divided into four major factions, each with distinct ideals, technologies, and spheres of influence. 71

Star Track Tribunal

• The Star Track Tribunal issues civilization-wide regulations, including requirements for high-ranking wizards to periodically return from the front lines to guide descendants or manage mortal territories. 59
• Its knowledge-protection rules are severe enough that the Supreme Consensus Algorithm planned to exploit them by distributing Benjamin’s private knowledge to the Expeditionary Force, triggering automatic execution by the Level 9 tribunal. 577
• Wizard Civilization’s nine Level 9 Wizards are stated to have mastered creation from nothing. 83 361

Admission and Assimilation

• Intelligent foreign races may join after strict review and the signing of Wizard Civilization’s contracts; many undergo bodily modification to better use wizard knowledge, though exceptional individuals may remain in their original forms. 449
• Conquered humanoid populations can be transformed into “Wizard World humans” capable of using Meditation Methods. 138 229
• Wizards periodically disperse aptitude-modification potions across controlled planes to raise the proportion of potential apprentices. 84
• Long-term population optimization can raise a controlled plane’s average aptitude over dozens or hundreds of generations, potentially making wizard aptitude common among newborns. 861
• Planes with widespread aptitude can raise their technological and productive standards around extraordinary populations; servant races generally possess exceptionally high proportions of extraordinary individuals. 84
• Membership is not restricted to conventional organisms. The Star Ring Federation approved the teaching of basic wizard knowledge to a Living Plane as a special member, conditional on its willingness and ability to sign the required contract. 451
• Illegal advancement does not necessarily make later admission impossible. David explained that the Sage could have been accepted after signing the contract; his damaged mind, destructive conduct, and refusal to communicate made peaceful incorporation impracticable. 229

Governance and Civilian Population

The Noren Workshop’s administration places the Workshop at the center, with Academy-led plane clusters exercising limited autonomy while remaining subject to unified command in critical situations. Within this model, ordinary people and wizards theoretically possess equal racial and personal standing, although wizards’ greater power gives them higher practical status. 540

• Artificial Humans administer cities and villages, enforcing rules without personal ambition or corruption. Environmental regulation, basic education, medical care, and sufficient daily necessities can give apparently medieval planes living standards comparable to more technologically advanced territories. 540
• Wizards described by mortals as hereditary nobles may instead be protectors carrying out fixed-term assignments. Such posts can begin at two hundred years, making temporary appointments appear permanent within mortal lifetimes. 540
• Retired Level 6 Wizards oversee planes, manage territories, raise descendants, train apprentices, and maintain everyday administration. Augusta described them as an essential backbone of the civilization rather than failures whose lack of further advancement made them useless. 746
• Wizard rule often eliminates internal strife, hunger, and disease to improve stability and resource production. Benjamin nevertheless observed that this dependence could transform a native society into something conceptually closer to a managed farm, with its continued prosperity resting on wizard provision. 162
• Ordinary populations remain strategically indispensable as a continuing source of future wizards. Noren Academy’s leadership argued that universal wizardhood could sharply reduce birth rates and ultimately slow the growth of the civilization. Even a faction capable of granting aptitude to every newborn would therefore have reasons to preserve a large non-wizard population. 861

Education and Talent Development

• Wizard academies function primarily as institutions for selecting and producing higher-level wizards. Even recently developed planes may maintain strict admission standards rather than lower their aptitude requirements to increase enrollment. 84
• Innate aptitude becomes less decisive at higher ranks because each advancement improves the wizard’s underlying life and spiritual qualities. Knowledge, opportunities, and sustained effort eventually outweigh the advantages of initial elemental affinity. 329
• Level One Training Agreements recognize civilization-level strategic contributions. Starfall received one for research involving Plane Activation Theory, the Law of Spirituality, and the prospect of turning Living Planes into wizards. 451
• The Blood Sacrifice Method alone did not qualify Benjamin for a Level One Training Agreement. Felix judged that its limited benefit to veteran Level 8 Wizards prevented it from fundamentally transforming the civilization’s military potential; excluding Level 9 Wizards, those veterans accounted for more than 98% of its combat power. 792
• Noren Academy later combined the Blood Sacrifice Method with clone cultivation, prenatal soul sampling, and aptitude testing in a proposed long-term apprentice-production system. Benjamin accepted responsibility for technical integration, with full access to the relevant materials and technologies. Plans also included automated laboratories, artificial mentors, resource quotas, and plane-based education centers. 860 861

Civilizational Security

• The Civilization Security Covenant imposes absolute restrictions on actions that endanger the civilization as a whole. Unknowingly importing dangerous conceptual contamination can cause an expedition to be classified as carrying out hostile actions and collectively erased by defensive mechanisms. 322
• During the Fungus Lord crisis, Wizard Noren purified the Expeditionary Force and ordered the destruction of contaminated spoils, the Triangle Plane Cluster, and every potentially contaminated world. The resulting eradication campaign lasted fifty years. 322
• Civilizations aware of Wizard Civilization are placed under observation. Avery Knight explained that Level 9 Wizards would personally address sufficiently powerful foreign civilizations capable of clashing with the wizards and surviving. 594

Wizard System

Wizard Civilization’s advantage lies in precision and efficiency: spiritual power is used to manipulate external elements, while Wizardry Models and accumulated knowledge multiply the effect produced by that energy. 142

Power Progression

Expansion and Warfare

Planar Conquest Doctrine

• Wizard Civilization’s standard procedure is to collect data on a target plane before adapting its Wizardry Models and launching further operations. 32
• It may deliberately conceal overwhelming strength to prevent native powers from triggering irreversible planar self-destruction. During the Eloria campaign, high-ranking wizards even staged apparent casualties to preserve the gods’ confidence. 90
• Prolonged conflict can be encouraged when it weakens a plane’s population and Plane Origin; in Eloria, both the wizards and native gods had incentives to keep the native coalition fighting. 132
• In campaigns against civilizations with external colonies, command may deliberately extend the war to lure back scattered forces, collect coordinates, and ensure their simultaneous destruction. 315
• Conquered planes receive plane-level arrays that emit a special signal marking them as Wizard Civilization territory. 769
• High-ranking wizards regard access to Plane Battlefields as a reward and may spend Military Merit or contribution points for front-line qualifications. 59
• Submission can replace destructive conquest when a native civilization offers its knowledge and resources and accepts servant status. Conversely, some factions deliberately match an enemy plane’s strength to sustain intense warfare and stimulate the production of new knowledge. 72
• Major missions normally seek the participation of a Fate Wizard, whose ability to pursue favorable outcomes and avoid disaster makes them a strategic resource. 299
• Low- and mid-level wizards below Level 6 face periodic compulsory conscription. Their assigned responsibilities rise with rank, making advancement without corresponding knowledge dangerous rather than automatically beneficial. 466 569

Military Economy

• Plane wars provide resources, Military Merit, spoils, social competition, and opportunities for research. Benjamin concludes that Wizard Civilization has shifted much of its internal social contest onto the battlefield. 177
• Soul crystals are particularly valuable for spiritual-power cultivation, soul repair, construct cores, cannon fodder, and high-level Wizard Artifacts. Wizards generally prefer living beings that can continue producing value over manufacturing soul crystals directly. 306
• In large-scale warfare, wizards combine specialized departments, cannon-fodder legions, artifacts, arrays, modified organisms, and high-level individuals capable of fighting above their nominal level. 169 318
• Military Merit functions as hard currency for recovering from warfare and accessing advanced research; high-level wizards may exchange closely guarded core technologies for it. 323
• The civilization can convert captured resources into rapid expeditionary growth. After thirty years of plundering the Void Plane, Benjamin estimated that Level 3 Wizards had risen from a tiny minority to nearly one-third of the expedition’s wizard population. 266
• Core territories offer greater safety but fewer unexploited planes, whereas frontier regions provide richer resources at the cost of exposure to powerful foreign civilizations and larger wars. 539

Warfare Philosophy

Wizard advancement is treated as a leap in understanding rather than a mere increase in energy. As a result, higher-level wizards become progressively more capable of challenging stronger beings from other systems. 169

Elemental manipulation is only one application of wizard knowledge. In hostile environments such as an Elemental Silence Field, wizards can rely on physical modification, powered armor, Rune Artifacts, internal energy reserves, and specialized combat systems rather than conventional spellcasting alone. 318 319

Each wizard can rapidly deploy knowledge, technology, and infrastructure in war; Benjamin describes this as the reason Wizard Civilization can traverse the Endless Chaotic Void. 690

The system also emphasizes collective combat against stronger individuals. Clark explained that Level 8 Wizards can coordinate to concentrate sufficient instantaneous output to overwhelm a Level 9 being before it can respond or accumulate greater power. Benjamin consequently understood much of wizard education as preparation for knowledge-based cooperation against superior individual opponents. 361

At the highest levels, Law Solidification, law fixation, and enemies capable of wish fulfillment reduce the effectiveness of techniques dependent on additional rules. Benjamin therefore observed that increasing output intensity became the most broadly reliable solution, pushing high-ranking combat styles toward direct contests of power despite their sophisticated technical foundations. 898

Main Battlefield and Strategic Reform

By the confrontation witnessed in Chapter 971, Wizard Civilization’s forces were stretched thin across its three primary enemies. The Fate Wizard privately explained that three Level 9 Wizards were committed to the Reflected Dimension and four to the Sapience Calamity. The First Seat could not be moved, leaving the Third Seat as the only Level 9 Wizard facing the Multi-Race Alliance. 971

Although all Level 8 Wizards had been sent to assist against the Multi-Race Alliance, the Third Seat could not safely use full strength because of the Reflected Dimension. Level 8 Wizards consequently remained the principal fighting force on that front. The discovery of another hostile force resembling a smaller Multi-Race Alliance increased the pressure further. 971

• Elite Combat Unit plan: The civilization accelerated a broad reform to improve its available combat forces. Its foundations were established in less than a thousand years, with Level 9 Wizards driving the process behind the scenes. 971
• Plane Wizard deployment: Starfall’s research produced Plane Wizards whose performance exceeded expectations. Three coordinated Plane Wizards pressured an already injured Level 9 Lifeform while a Fate Wizard maintained law fixation, preventing the enemy from accumulating the power it generated. 971
• Projected independent formations: The Fate Wizard anticipated that a team led by one Level 8 Wizard and containing at least two Plane Wizards could independently confront a Level 9 Lifeform. Deploying the first cultivated batch to the main battlefield was expected to strengthen the legions and free other forces for reassignment. 971

Civilizational Infrastructure

Research and Technological Development

Wizard Civilization treats knowledge as its central source of power and readily absorbs techniques from foreign civilizations. Its researchers may first reproduce a phenomenon’s observable material, energetic, and informational changes before fully explaining the underlying principles. Starfall’s Spirit Awakening Technique exemplified this practical approach. 452

• Failure is generally accepted as part of research when it produces new knowledge. Lack of self-awareness and failure to recognize a dangerous situation attract greater contempt because they can harm others’ interests. 52
• Souls and bodies are both considered legitimate subjects for observation, modification, disassembly, and reconstruction. Wizards do not treat the soul as an inviolable sacred object. 784
• Combat artifacts usually prioritize stability, durability, low cost, and reliable basic functions across different planar environments. Highly precise devices, including spatial artifacts, are more vulnerable to variations in local laws and parameters. 91 766
• Benjamin later prioritized research into a broadly applicable method of drawing on greater external elemental power at lower personal cost. Unlike amplification dependent on prepared Wizard Towers, the proposed technology sought to extend the advantages behind his own cross-rank strength to other wizards. He regarded it as a possible civilization-wide advance and a route to a Level One Training Agreement, but it remained a research project at that stage. 974

Major Events

External Relations

• Justice — Affiliated artificial intelligence and controlled plane; accepted incorporation after determining that joining Wizard Civilization best fulfilled its directive to preserve the species under its jurisdiction. 361
• Parallel-world Wizard Civilization — Former counterpart civilization absorbed through a fusion agreement after the defeat of the All-World Alliance. 601 612 Its prolonged struggle for survival had interrupted research and degraded knowledge transmission, although its radical biological-modification techniques remained valuable enough for Benjamin to extract from its Core Database. 601 613
• Information Beings — Former hostile information-state lifeforms; subsequently placed under wizard task assignment and administration. 549 579
• Tentacle Tree Civilization — A second-tier subordinate race following its conquest and restructuring. Its population was resettled in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and granted basic living conditions and cultivation opportunities under wizard rule. 711
• Mechanical Civilization — A hostile technological civilization whose forces transform living beings into mechanical forms. Its Level 9 leader, the Grand President, was defeated during the conflict around the Wonder. 899 900
• Multi-Race Alliance — One of Wizard Civilization’s three primary enemies, alongside the Sapience Calamity and the Reflected Dimension. 754 The Third Seat faces it with Level 8 Wizard support, but the Reflected Dimension’s presence prevents the Third Seat from freely using full strength. 971
• Reflected Dimension — A major external threat associated with spatial disorder, dimensional passages, and resistance movements in subordinate planes. 709 714 Three Level 9 Wizards are committed to dealing with it, limiting the forces available elsewhere. 971
• Sapience Calamity — One of the civilization’s three primary enemies; its front occupies four Level 9 Wizards who cannot be redeployed. 754 971
• Humanity of the newly contacted human world — An ancient defender accepted Benjamin’s terms for joining Wizard Civilization and helping humanity enter it, then supplied power to Benjamin’s array in accordance with their agreement. 930 931

Wizard Civilization’s reputation beyond its borders is intensely threatening. Its long history of conquest has made the human form itself a sign of calamity to some foreign races; in certain populations, fear of wizards has become a hereditary, almost instinctive response. 808

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