Prohibited Incantations

Prohibited Incantations, a.k.a. P.I.s describe magical use that has been banned in some way by the magical government due to danger, creation of inconvenience, lobbying, or because the P.I.s have been determined to be in some way to be antithetical to civilized Gifted life.

Schedule 4 (Hazardous)
Schedule 4 describes P.I.s that are harmful to individual and group health. They include food poisoning curses, sickness curses, etc. Inconvenience or causing major annoyance or anger is at the core for determining schedule 4 magic use.

Schedule 3 (Harmful)
Schedule 3 describes P.I.s that can permanently harm the individual. This includes laceration curses as well as addiction and suggestion curses. Debilitation is the key legal term for determination of schedule 3 magic use.

Schedule 2 (Deadly)
Schedule 2 describes P.I.s that could cause the death of an individual. These include explosive, evisceration, and petrification incantations. All spells that can result in death are at least in schedule 2 category. However, as opposed to Schedule 1, Schedule 2 are deemed morally acceptable in just war, law enforcement, and self-defense on account of lacking the more torturous and evil aspects of Anathema.

Schedule 1 (Anathema)
Schedule 1, Anathema, includes the most evil magic created by Gifted. Anathema can cause death to entire groups, i.e. genocidal spells, or target individuals for extreme torture or death. Anathema are always banned with the most rare of exceptions due to the fact that they are unthinkably evil, a variation from Schedule 2 explosive or disabling incantations, which are still in wide use by military and certain policing divisions. It is rumored that the Bureau of Arcane Arts and Lore (BAAL) makes use of Anathema in certain covert action, but this is not confirmed.

Key Anathema include:
 * Direct life-ending or sapping magic
 * Any and all torture
 * Blanking (erasing memory)
 * Puppeteering (controlling others' minds and/or bodies using magic)
 * Unspeakables (demon-summoning, soul theft, and the blackest of black magicks)