[quote=@Agunimon]
I see, thanks. I'm not so much worried about being spoiled on the series, as I am with being able to keep up with the RP with somewhat limited knowledge of the series canon. At the moment I'm tentatively interested, so we'll see if I can come up with a character.
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I don't think the RP itself will require any advanced knowledge of the series to follow. We're starting out as low rank recruits, so any magical techniques and their mechanics and whatnot would have to be explained to us by the higher ups as we go along--like the runes Duthguy mentioned, for instance. Even with the advancements over the past 150 years, a lot of those magical techniques are limited more by the fact that you need a high degree of magic power to perform them at all, rather than it being a "just now discovered secret."