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

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

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
• Only nine elite Level 9 Wizards are stated to have mastered creation from nothing. 83

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
• 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

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

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
• 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

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

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

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

Civilizational Infrastructure

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
• Information Beings — Former hostile information-state lifeforms; subsequently placed under wizard task assignment and administration. 549 579
• Multi-Race Alliance — One of Wizard Civilization’s three primary enemies, alongside the Sapience Calamity and the Reflected Dimension. 754
• Reflected Dimension — A major external threat associated with spatial disorder, dimensional passages, and resistance movements in subordinate planes. 709 714