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 A very skilled or very powerful magician could alleviate these problems, but this is not an easy challenge to overcome. It is very possible to find magicians that can heal; although this skill is far too difficult for the common wizards that constitute the vast majority of magicians.
+==== Magic Items ====
+Many fantasy worlds have powerful physical items imbued with magical energy. Such things are found only very rarely in Miranda and they are always regarded with suspicion and fear. The reason for this is that magic is naturally a chaotic force that is only marginally kept in check by a powerful or trained spirit. An item, possessing no spirit of its own, cannot contain nor control magic.
+Magicians can get around this for a short time by binding a small measure of their own spirit to an item or physical device and then using that spirit to control the magic. This means the item cannot separate from the magician for long or the spirit bound within will seek to return.
+They may also fully bind another's spirit to an item. This is typically done with a spirit that does not possess a true body, thus the spirit has not sense of a physical being. This can be dangerous because a spirit very rarely consents to such a binding and thus will always seek to escape from its binding - releasing the magic that it was supposed to contain.
+The longest surviving magical items are those forged by the belief of many - ofttimes an entire culture or people. Each person that truly believes such a thing gives part of their spirit to that item simply from their faith. With many people giving just the tiniest part of their spirit magic far greater can be controlled. This magic will arise and be controlled by the faith of the sapient beings that believe in such a thing.
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