Necromancy required a mastery of song, and alchemy a proficiency with movement and dance. A wizard’s power was dependent upon a command of many languages, half of them dead, and hexegy could only be practiced by an accomplished artist. The exceedingly rare practitioners who worked in multiple schools of magic were called pluricians, and their scarcity was usually accompanied by mortal brevity. Pluricians died young as their organs surrendered to the stresses of their powers.
