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===Numerology===
Numerology is not like other magics, it is debase, vile, tampering with the very fundamentals of the universe. Math is used to equate EVERYTHING, and numerology disturbs this practice, creating vile, broken rules. Only a Numerologist can make it so that 2+2=5, and while this might seem like it could be a great thing, it destroys the natural order, and slowly, ever so slowly, the very world begins to die just to satisfy the whims of the numerologist's blasphemous magic.

In most civilized parts of the world, to be discovered to be a numerologist is to be executed on the spot. Woe onto the accountant who does not make it clear he works no magics what so ever with is abacus and counting stones.

Some say that Numerology was invented by the Demons... for who else could so well understand the mechanics of the vast machine that is existence except for those who lived outside and looked in upon it.

* In the empire, all mathematics must be done on black paper with white ink, and their tools such as counting stones and abacuses are made to be as obvious as possible. No one wants to risk a Numerologist using such things for demon summoning.
*: It is a sad state of affairs, that hinders true engineering in most parts of the Empire, since true Numerologists usually become so good at mathematical numerology that they no longer require such base tools.