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** Left-handed Legacies for the Mages of ''[[Mage: The Awakening|Awakening]]''.
** Left-handed Legacies for the Mages of ''[[Mage: The Awakening|Awakening]]''.
** Refinement of Flux for the [[Promethean: The Created|Prometheans]].
** Refinement of Flux for the [[Promethean: The Created|Prometheans]].
* ''[[Fading Suns]]'' has Humanity alternately [[Balkanize Me|split]] and forcibly united, mostly running with the Church of Pancreator - also fractured to sects - that frowns on lots of high-tech stuff. Trafficking in proscribed goods unlike common smuggling is handled by the ecclesiastical courts. Then again, one sect proscribes ''books'' on its homeworld.


== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** Although other magic schools serve to light people on fire or freeze them alive, hurt or even kill them by tormenting them with visions and so on.
** Although other magic schools serve to light people on fire or freeze them alive, hurt or even kill them by tormenting them with visions and so on.
** According to one codex entry, the Tevinter archons of old were taught [[Blood Magic]] by the Old God Dumat the Dragon of Silence. Since an Old God is basically an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that happens to look like a dragon this makes [[Blood Magic]] even more unsettling.
** According to one codex entry, the Tevinter archons of old were taught [[Blood Magic]] by the Old God Dumat the Dragon of Silence. Since an Old God is basically an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that happens to look like a dragon this makes [[Blood Magic]] even more unsettling.
* ''Emperor of The Fading Suns'' starts with the fractured Empire where remainng powers [[Lost Technology|lost most advanced technologies]] with Church of Pancreator (also fractured to sects) proscribing some of what's left ("The Patriarch has deemed X odious to humanity"), with Inquisition roaming around and making sure that no one studies this. The flavour text shows the common level as rather moronic, but at the start they tend toward sensible caution - most disliked and already proscribed technologies are bioweapons and extreme augmentations (combat drugs and cyborgization), which is kind of understandable, given that they are currently locked in a war with a viral [[Hive Mind]] supposedly created this way. But there are more stuff on the verge of being banned. Amusingly, direct derivatives of proscribed things may not have problems - e.g. development of Archangel fighter requires Cyberpilot, which in turn requires Viral DNA (proscribed), and to build needs Wetware (plant producing which is based on proscribed technology, though you can purchase some from the much-castigated League)... but working on the fighter is squeaky clean and even Cyberpilot is but one notch below that. Either way, politicking and corruption is truly omnipresent, so a noble house with friends in the Church and some... uh... generous donation to the cause can convince them to prohibit something.
* ''Emperor of The Fading Suns'' starts with the fractured Empire where remaining powers [[Lost Technology|lost most advanced technologies]] and Church, true to [[Fading Suns|the setting]], proscribing what's left of that semi-randomly ("The Patriarch has deemed X odious to humanity"), sending Inquisition to making sure no one studies prohibited things (of course, since a ship cannot land immediately after jump, the player has a turn to switch those labs toward innocent pursuits, losing the ongoing research). The flavour text shows the common level as rather moronic (the guy belligerently insist that plagues are caused by demons, etc), but at the start they tend toward sensible caution - most disliked and already proscribed technologies are bioweapons and extreme augmentations <ref>combat drugs and cyborgization - and if we are to believe the quoted testimony, cyberpsychosis brings down the best</ref>, which is at least understandable, given that they are currently locked in a war with viral [[Hive Mind]] supposedly created this way. But there are more things on the verge of being banned. And whatever Pancreator's ideas on this may be, what's certainly omnipresent is [[Corrupt Church|lowly politicking]], so a noble house with friends in high places and some... uh... generous donation to the cause can ask the Church to prohibit something.
** Amusingly, obvious derivatives of proscribed things may be used without problems - e.g. development of Archangel fighter needs Cyberpilot, which in turn requires proscribed technology <ref>Viral DNA - probably bug, but cyberware is proscribed too</ref>, and building it consumes Wetware (plant producing which is directly based on proscribed technology, though you ''could'' purchase some from the League whom Church castigates either way)... yet designing the fighter itself is squeaky clean and even Cyberpilot is but one notch below that.


== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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