Why aren magickers called clerics or druids?
Because there are no religions on Zalanthas: the sorcerer kings are swift to stamp out any attempt at such. This has evolved over the course of the game, with the sole remnant being the reference to elementalist “temples” in Allanak. This should be viewed as academies or centers of magickal learning – not religious institutions. Nessalin said at one point: A long, long time ago, when I first start moving around in the game’s code, one of the first things I did was remove every reference to ‘cleric’ or ‘druid’ that I could find and replace it with ‘elementalist’. The reason was people kept seeing the other two words and immediately attaching a LOT of meaning to it that we don’t have anywhere in the code. If they latched on to cleric, then suddenly elementalists were these holy representatives of their element on zalanthas. kind, caring souls going about the world doing good deeds. With Druid, they would go on and on about their powerful attachment to the world of nature, and how they we
