Qabal

The Qabal were scholars who usually worked at the Sultan and Caliph courts.

Stroghold
The Qabal stronghold was located in Medinaat al-Salaam. Its doors were opened to all who wish to learn. Even the Ashalan sometimes visited the Stronghold to share their esoteric knowledge. some qabal prefered to study independent, refining their art in solitude.

Qabal Magic
The hierarchy of the Qabal was that of an academic institution. At the lower level were the students, who ranged in age from children as young as ten to adults as old as 30. These members of the Qabal had lives filled with work and little else, as the discipline needed to learn the Qabal's style of magic was formidable indeed. Qabal instruction styles were rigid and very unforgiving of failure, and almost a third of the Qabal's students left in their first year, unable to stand the seemingly nonsensical lessons in how to draw a perfect circle freehand or how to sign their name 70 times without variation. As their instruction continued, students were astonished to learn that they had been learning spells the entire time – they were simply not told how to assemble and perform the components properly.

The most known Qabal practitioner was the Qabal Summoner.

Conflict
The only conflict was a generational one. Many of the younger generation of sahirs in the Qabal never knew what it was like to practice magic with the threat of the Khadi's axes hovering over their wrists, and in the eyes of their elders they seemed to take many of their freedoms for granted. The older generation, on the other hand, was seen by the younger graduates of the Stronghold as needlessly paranoid and hidebound. While this conflict was a long time from coming to real blows, tension was rising faster than the older generation was retiring, and the conflict was almost certain to come to a head unless something happened to unite the Qabal once more.


 * The Qabal