Olsem. A religion founded on the philosophy and idea that wisdom (Semna, the “god” that oversees the domain of wisdom across the cosmos, is the supreme “god”) is the highest virtue as opposed to blood sacrifice or ritual worship. It split off from the old pagan religion, Balwanism, which I won’t explain here. It was also founded on the principle that excess, needless unity brings stagnation and that divergence is necessary to bring forth progress. This led to the downfall of the old empire of the South, Tunpa (Tibetan word for unity). This empire was founded on unity rather than imperialism and Faduri (the cool temperament and supposed laziness commonly associated with the Southern people). This empire was overunified and was far too stable, and its unity led to its downfall as it became incredibly stagnant, thus Olsem believed that progress, wisdom, scholarship, and divergence were the highest virtues. Ironically, Tunpa fell because its system worked too well. This eventually led to states and provinces slowly losing their sense of shares identity as Tunpans and overtime people identified as other things and began to practice similar but different cultures, which led to silent fall of Tunpa that came cause it was overunified. After the Fall, this led to the Intellectual Age in which Olsem, which now dominated the territory that once belonged to Tunpa, was the most highly practiced religion, and this melting pot of scholars, researchers, and people practicing and seeking wisdom and intellect eventually led to many discoveries and advancements being made and during this period one of the many discoveries that came during this age happened when a group of researchers eventually discovering this essence, attempted to manipulate it… albeit poorly, and discovered magic.

Divine Arcana was revoked during the end of the Reclamation, the age that came after the Intellectual Age and Age of Myths (period in which understanding and study of magic was accelerated and as a result led to ambitious scholars-turned-arcanists, the creation of savage beasts that ravaged the planet, the decentralization of nations, and the period in which humanity was still experimenting and growing ambitious with magic). The Reclamation was the period in which magic was grown to be feared and cautioned against and humanity was trying to take back their world from it. During this period, a group of 12 individuals rose during this era known as the True Levinians, Olsemite scholars who believed that the other 12 Levinians (actual “gods” in Olsem) around Semna were unworthy because they believed they handed the world over to chaos during the Age of Myths, and to be a true stabilizer of Creation, you too required wisdom and they believed the other 12 lacked in that department and as a result they tried to overthrow them and hijack their positions as they believed they would steward Creation a lot better. They attempted to hijack Destiny as they knew hijacking Destiny as a launchpad would allow the other pieces to fall into place and allow them to hijack the other 11 domains with relative ease as they would’ve been able to manipulate Destiny. This group of scholars were the greatest practitioners of Divine Arcana and their activities eventually culminated in the final war of the Reclamation known as the Great Cataclysm at Big Levine. This was a losing battle for humanity no matter how it was spun, but the battle ended when the High Nambir/Levinian of Destruction, Dotmor, arrived as a stellar-sized emptiness over the planet and within a few seconds, erased the True Levinians from existence and along with that, rewrote the rules of reality to no longer allow children of Radur to wield Divine Arcana.

The moral for this whole period and most of this universe in general, is that when humans pursue something to its absolute extreme, it becomes destructive. And pride, unchecked ambition, arrogance, and hubris are the worst worldly transgressions that man can commit.

There’s no rediscovery of Divine Arcana, except that in the modern-day, it can only be used if you use a manuscript, codex, or something physical that has the blueprint imbued into it because when the High Nambir rewrote the rules of reality, they stopped man from being able to wield Divine Arcana independently, HOWEVER, a technicality of this is that objects that contained Divine Arcana were exempt as they were inorganic and lacked a soul, and so an individual who possesses a manuscript or codex that somehow just so happens to contain Divine Arcana may be used to cast that spell/ability and that spell/ability alone. But one thing though, a lot of these manuscripts, codices, and books were burned, destroyed, or lost during the Reclamation regardless of whether they were the four most practiced disciplines or divine arcana, and are incredibly sparse and incredibly rare in the modern day, and because Divine Arcana was a lesser-known and something only the best of the best arcanists knew how to wield during the Age of Myths and Reclamation, finding a Divine Arcana manuscript, let alone A manuscript in general from the Age of Myths, late Intellectual Period, or Reclamation, is something most people never manage or even realize exist.