I spend 4 hours last night talking to Fiorella LaGuadia, and he's been dead for 30 years! Options

[Neraph]

Trolls can be magicians as well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

You're right - Fomori make great Mystic Adepts.

[Megu]

For state religions I was thinking it would be more like nations with a strong ancestor connections- Japan, China and the NAN in particular might have their shamans particularly adapt at conjuring. I mean the priest at the local shrine in Nihama is more likely to be spending his day with that than casting combat spells.

Some real world magical traditions, to boot, have conjuring but not spells. A Hmong shaman is of course all about spirits, but "spells" per se aren't part of the culture; those who claim to know them in traditional Hmong culture usually got them from the Chinese or Thai or Karen.

[CanRay]

The more spiritually and magically connected countries even allow Spirits to be JUDGES in court.

I guess they figure it's harder to bribe a spirit than a (meta)human.