Following the Cataclysm much knowledge was not only lost, but destroyed. Mankind blamed scholars for delving too deep into forbidden mysteries. A major reason for the proliferation of scholastic orders across the mountain was to escape the pogroms against scholars.
The Order of Illustration, for example, left for the uncharted wilderness across the High Divide in order to safeguard their growing collection of pre-cataclysm and post-cataclysm books and writings.
While hatred and fear of scholarship has died down somewhat, there is still a deep distrust among the common folk toward those who search for knowledge. The remote town of Biblyon, which embraced its pejorative common name, is an exception much-visited by scholars.
The image of the devil in Highland is familiar to us: cloven-hooved, horned, with a forked tail. Highland’s devil also has a body covered in nonsense Latin.
