current leadership, then they are expected to find themselves a new leader. In theory the leadership of a Striding or Steading is totally fluid - in practice

lore for the benefit of the Empire. Instead of building their academy of magic around an existing spire, they created an entirely new one and called it

Bourse seat is a bone of contention for some Miekarovans. This College of Magic focused on the study of the summer realm was built in Volchitrava shortly

while the magic did not affect the vitality of the weirwood trees directly, inexorable magic marked the trees with a permanent touch of Winter magic. The trees

to prove his theory. Given that he was never seen again, it seems likely that it was his mind that had broken new ground and not his theories. Of course

their magic towards the service of the military, and there is a great emphasis on practical application over theory. Those who master ritual magic - often

even sovereigns and have made an extensive study of esoteric magics such as hearth magic, peculiar regio, astronomantic tulpas and even more obscure occult

some scholars of magic claim that it is possible for something to be doomed, a controversial idea of a terrible confluence of hearth magic and fate that has

is not possible to use just any item in this manner however; the detect magic spell will explicitly indicate if an item can be used as a focus for Whispers

called gravesnatchers. Some scholars claim that the intense burst of Spring magic delivered through the use of these robes has a greater chance of causing

from the crystals of the mana site, and imbued with vital essence from the magic that gathers there. The warriors form a powerful military unit under the

who travelled them. As our stridings migrate along the trods, so the wild magic at the heart of the vallorn is leached away. The longer the trod and the

caravan moved slowly west until it reached the city of Sarvos. Ruled in theory by the Highborn Saravos family, but in practice governed by a council of

precisely this ritual does... what it does. Align the Celestial Net should in theory only transform a Night regio, or only allow a regio to be aligned to Night

Although the senators are chosen by followers of a single tradition, in theory it is possible for any of the Winterfolk to stand as a candidate for any

dolmens round t'area but it'd run t'risk o'bein' lack a dam, y'see? Wit Winter magic bein' lack watter. But if'n we could build t'dolmen over t'actual regio,

and where formal magic is predictable and reliable, hearth magic is none of these things. While the principles that underlie hearth magic are common throughout

In the end, he included numerous references to the false Asavean god of magic, which incensed a number of faithful League pilgrims. Following the Spring

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the castle of Orchard's Watch. At the same time, Spring plague and Winter magic accounted for perhaps a sixth of the remaining population, and half the people