The First Glimmerings of Magic

The First Contracts
Lord Terrinovious, William Guast, and Liam Cordyr are know as the three founders of Magic as it came to be known during the Age of Kings. They all worked at the Academy of Performing Magics. The three founding fathers did much of their groundwork on the contracts in the Illusions department of the old Acadamy. So when the school was shut down they took thier research, and applied it to revenge, and the overthow of the King Edorik the First. They signed the first contract, with the Demon Azitial, and this is one of the situations in which history has much to say.

"The Canderian Institute of History" working in conjunction with the "2nd Terrinovian School of Magic" (under Lord Muerto) have captured many memory logs of early historical events. Regardless of history's views on the ethics of memory magic, and some skeptics thoughts on the authenticity of the memories, it seems that thanks to Muerto and his interest historians are much closer to finding the truth.

Historians have at their disposal something approximate to the memory of Terrinovious on the night of the contract signing. (The Contract of Terrinovious(Memory Log 1)

The Memory Log describes the scene of the demon summoning and cements the idea that the overthrow of King Edorik was something that founders agreed on. but it also points out some striking difference between each of the founders and better explains why shortly after the War of Kings there was a power divide.

Knowledge of contracts, after the founders, largely spread by word of mouth to a larger and larger group of people until after the rise of Lord Azitial. At which point it became clear to Terrinovious that rules must be set down, and from this came the famous  "Ligatur autem dæmonia,"