[@Thinslayer]
Ah yeah, ok. My version is [i]sort of[/i] similar but also very different at the same time. Don't worry about changing it too much though, I think the religious part is pretty cool, and works better for this world than how mine would.

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Anyway, I'm going to try to keep this shortish because trying to type it up in real big detail was starting to disintegrate my brain. Essentially, all of existence runs on something called 'the code', which is basically like computer code, but for every inanimate object, living thing, and even metaphysical concepts of things like death. The three schools are the current known ways to utilise the code, but in reality it's only the tiny collection of information people have managed to put together in a coherent way, as the true nature of the code is so vast and incomprehensible that it's entirely possible it might just start to contradict itself one day, and no one would understand why. This is most clear in the fact that the code may actually be alive itself, but nobody knows how they would even [i]begin[/i] to test that.

The first of the three schools is Thaumaturgy, which involves using runes to tweak and alter the code of whatever they're written on directly, but have to be done absolutely perfectly or else bad times for everyone. 

The second is Shamanism, which involves seeking aid from spirits. Spirits are actually parts of the code that have 'awakened' though strange, often unknown circumstances and become real souls like those of other sapient entities.

Finally, the third is sorcery, which involves using your soul to perform various effects. To do this, a mage has to learn their True Name, which is basically the code of their soul in it's written form. It's a complicated, dangerous form of magic, and making a bad enough mistake can cause irreaprable damage to your soul. However, it's still easier to do safely than the more complicated Thaumaturgy, if not a little less versatile due to having to meditate on certain concepts and attune your soul to them to cast spells of their type effectively.

Anyway, those are the basics of it. It does actually does go a lot deeper than that, but I guess I never actually wrote it down before now, so it's all just a tangled up mess in my brain, and when I tried to sort it out and write it fully before, said brain decided to try and melt itself. So, instead of sticking to that one, I moved it to a google doc to sort out some other time I'm feeling a little [i]too[/i] relaxed, and instead tried to summarise it all as simply as possible with this new version. It went... [i]ok...[/i]
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