Given the Republic's domination of Scéâdüwëan politics and law, and its enthusiastic acceptance of wizardry, the church of Archum has redirected its zeal for hunting down all unchained wizards towards sorcerers. This coincides nicely with the cultural and legal opprobrium directed towards sorcerers by Nelmachh.
The church of Archum's reasoning is that the lack of rigorous study of the mysteries of the art of magic by sorcerers demonstrates an unholy congress by sorcerers with dark powers which grant them their magic in exchange for their mortal soul.
This rationale has been furthered by the Dark Hand's discoveries of links between sorcery and the Cults of the Dragon, especially, and of the Dog. (The Dark Hand is an adventuring group based out of Hopeful.)
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