Magitech is the umbrella term for any applied integration of magic with material engineering. It is not a fifth school. It is what mortals do when they build with the existing four. The same way an electrical engineer isn't doing fresh physics, a Magitech engineer isn't doing fresh magic. They are working out how to manufacture with an established magical principle at scale.

Each of the four schools has its own Magitech sub-tradition. They differ wildly in commonness, by an order of magnitude or more between adjacent rungs.

When someone says "Magitech" without qualifying, they mean Arcanotech. The same way "phone" defaults to "smartphone" in the modern reader's mouth. Modern Magitech is recovered Elden-tech evolved: the foundational reverse-engineering happened across the Lost Era, when surviving Talanese kingdoms began the systematic archaeology of pre-Rain Elden ruins. The Golden Empire inherited that work and was very good at it; formula-driven enchantment and early airship engines belong to that period. The Order of Steam in Sumendar grew up later, at the end of the Dark Era, around its own concentrated Elden-tech excavation in the volcanic belt. The Order did not invent Arcanotech but it is the largest current producer of it on the continent; the Magitrain is an Order invention and the continental rail network is its work end-to-end.

Talan's four transport tiers are all Magitech in the modern era. Magitrains carry the land (Arcanotech, continental rail network); Magitech ships are the wealth upgrade on the seas alongside wood-and-sail; every airship is Magitech (flight is a Magitech property, integrated into the hull from the first plank): Arcanotech for the standard rune-array lift, Occultech with a bound air elemental for chaos-region work; cloudships are always dual-school (typically Arcanotech + Occultech), which is the structural reason they are so rare. They are the only craft that can cross the Cloud Sea, and therefore the only practical way Talan reaches other continents.

Magic is not rare in Talan. It is infrastructure. It is as ordinary as a mill or a road, as expected as a blacksmith. The question is never whether magic exists, but how much of it is available here, and who controls it.

Magic on Talan is access to the Wellspring; behind that substrate sits belief as one of the Wellspring's mechanisms (the same engine the Occult school inherits its power from), and behind belief sits the question of how mortals may rise from belief into something more than mortal. That whole apparatus (the Wellspring-and-belief substrate, the four-rung Mortal Ascent Ladder, the integration procedure choke point) lives on its own page now, alongside the binding the thirteen swore at the close of the Week of Crimson Rain.

See The Gods' Law · The Compact of the Bound Thirteen for the full thirteen Articles, the Sanctioned Exchanges (Clergy Bond, Knight's Oath, Common Blessing, Lifetime Covenant), and the GM-tier Mortal Ascent Ladder.

Religion on Talan is not a matter of belief. It is a matter of relationship. The gods exist. Everyone knows they exist. You can travel to their city and, with sufficient cause and patience, request an audience. Faith is not about whether the gods are real; it is about how you relate to them.

Each Pathfinder cleric domain on Talan has an in-world granter: a Bound god, a non-bound god, a Vice Demon, a Virtue Devil, a General of Corruption, or the Corrupted God himself. The complete domain-by-domain mapping is consolidated on the PF2e Registrar page (mechanical reference). The Thirteen's own portfolios are on grand-gods.html; the primordials and Layer-3 gods are gathered at gods.html; the Vice Demons and Virtue Devils themselves live on bolverk.html; the Generals on the-binding.html.