Old Species Classification Decree
The Decree on the Classification of Species is an old discriminatory legal framework that ranked peoples into Scholars, Gifted, Brutes, Critters, Monsters, and Forbidden. It is useful not as modern law, but as historical evidence for how registration, species prejudice, academy access, and civic rights were once weaponized.[1]
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Overview
The Decree on the Classification of Species is an old discriminatory legal framework that ranked peoples into Scholars, Gifted, Brutes, Critters, Monsters, and Forbidden. It is useful not as modern law, but as historical evidence for how registration, species prejudice, academy access, and civic rights were once weaponized.[1]
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Use this page when older records discuss species classes, forbidden peoples, academy bans, Nullborn stigma, or why modern Witchborn law still carries old ink under newer language.[2]
Ranked Peoples
Description
The decree sorted peoples into legal classes: Scholars received full arcane and civic access; Gifted were allowed limited study by sponsorship; Brutes were pushed toward labor; Critters were treated as property; Monsters were bounty targets; and Forbidden peoples were subject to report, purge, exile, or worse.[3]
Mixed-Class Children
Description
The decree prohibited unions between Scholar-class peoples and lower classifications. Children of such unions were labeled Nullborn and denied spell licensing, educational admission, institutional trust, and civic record recognition.[4]
Instructional Exclusion
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Academy access was restricted by classification. Scholar-class individuals could attend and govern; Gifted required approval; Brutes, Critters, Monsters, and Forbidden peoples were barred from institutional grounds under threat of arcane punishment.[5]
Suppressed Commentary
Description
Greta Wunsch's later commentary calls the decree a structure for deciding who counts, not a neutral guide to magic. Her reading is the clearest lens: the document matters because its assumptions still echo inside registries, licensing, and fear of unfamiliar peoples.[6]
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- [1] Old Species Classification Decree↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference species-classification-decree; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Old Species Classification Decree↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference species-classification-decree; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Old Species Classification Decree · Ranked Peoples↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference species-classification-decree#classes-ranked-peoples; source entry 1 - [4] Old Species Classification Decree · Mixed-Class Children↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference species-classification-decree#nullborn-mixed-class-children; source entry 2 - [5] Old Species Classification Decree · Instructional Exclusion↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference species-classification-decree#academies-instructional-exclusion; source entry 3 - [6] Old Species Classification Decree · Suppressed Commentary↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference species-classification-decree#greta-suppressed-commentary; source entry 4