Long before magic had been reawakened there existed a group of people who used the
arcane methods of tapping into the magical energies. They wove long convoluted formulas needing precise and accurate words and gestures. Gigantic books with complex and ancient wordings line their shelves. The inner circle were those who knew magic in some form and sought it out everywhere. Sharum Nahar was a member of the inner circle, Daimyo Fen Chong, Marilla Del Mar, Gaston Marcellus the third, and various others.
Today the inner circle comprises of much the same sorts of people but mostly all human. Well skilled in magic, but through alternative means than ritualization. The inner circle is full of people in power within the human world who have access to arcane ways of magical manipulation; they deal with demons, and Maingthian celestials.