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-Though the magic of the [[chosen:|Chosen]] is perhaps the best-known of the types of supernatural ability to be found upon [[Avishraa:]] - not counting [[concept:enchantment|enchanting]], which is though of more as a branch of learning - it is not by far the only one. The Chosen have a dark mirror of themselves in those that are called the **Doomtouched**, and it might be wondered whether the latter may have contributed to the poor reputation of the former.+Though the magic of the [[chosen:|Chosen]] is perhaps the best-known of the types of supernatural ability to be found upon [[universe:mikurmiya:Avishraa]] - not counting [[concept:enchantment|enchanting]], which is though of more as a branch of learning - it is not by far the only one. The Chosen have a dark mirror of themselves in those that are called the **Doomtouched**, and it might be wondered whether the latter may have contributed to the poor reputation of the former.
    
 Unlike the Chosen, whose powers are of many kinds and uses, the Doomtouched have only one power: to destroy and annihilate, gifted to them by a terrible patron. Unlike the Chosen, whose powers are of many kinds and uses, the Doomtouched have only one power: to destroy and annihilate, gifted to them by a terrible patron.
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 While some history of the Chosen can be reconstructed with reasonable certainty, no such thing can be done for the Doomtouched, who are rarer than the Chosen and far less likely to cooperate with each other or with non-Doomtouched. Unlike the Chosen, there is no reason to think that the Doomtouched began to appear at any particular time or place, and they may well have existed since the dawn of sapience. While some history of the Chosen can be reconstructed with reasonable certainty, no such thing can be done for the Doomtouched, who are rarer than the Chosen and far less likely to cooperate with each other or with non-Doomtouched. Unlike the Chosen, there is no reason to think that the Doomtouched began to appear at any particular time or place, and they may well have existed since the dawn of sapience.
    
-What history there is of the Doomtouched can be traced mainly through the atrocities of their more prominent or persistent representatives. Among the greatest of these was [[person:Lidraf the Empty]], the Tyrant of the [[avishraa:geography:ocean:Dawn Sea]], whose [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thanatocracy|thanatocratic]] rule virtually depopulated the far southeast of [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:start|the continent]].+What history there is of the Doomtouched can be traced mainly through the atrocities of their more prominent or persistent representatives. Among the greatest of these was [[person:Lidraf the Empty]], the Tyrant of the [[geography:ocean:Dawn Sea]], whose [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thanatocracy|thanatocratic]] rule virtually depopulated the far southeast of [[geography:sekhaa:start|the continent]].
  
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