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Bindings

Wizardries the purpose of which is specifically to keep a creature or object from doing something. In the case of non-sentients, this normally means preventing the object from doing something it was designed to do: in the case of sentients, it means preventing the being from doing something he, she or it wants to do, or would do in the normal course of events.

Binding Oath, the

One of the most powerful strictures in the Speech, the Binding Oath is the basis for almost all promissory statements and wizardly vows; even the Wizard's Oath is derived from it.