Chapter 39: Recover
The Fonts were the first permanent creations of the gods. Built as tools to facilitate their future wonders, the Fonts are the building blocks of our realm.
-Tallen Elmheart, Sec...
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Chapter 38: Escape
The Secondary Fonts produce less destructive Primordials than the originals. These Primordials are always located in or near places of Illusian habitation—even when significantly more densely...
2024-01-06 14:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: Rescue
Secondary Fonts, such as Illusions, Understanding*, and Wind, are all recent developments with uncertain origins. As a naturalist, it is outside of my purview to speculate on their origin. Regardle...
2024-01-05 18:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36: Round Two
The origins of the Ice primals of the arctic circle is unknown. The tribes that developed the magic had lived there prior to the Flood, and had only oral histories for much of that time. If tho...
2024-01-04 15:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: Doug
The Space primals originate from the Hollow Peak, the city once known as Atlian. The creation of a hyper compressed spacial pocket within a cavern attracted the Primordial of Space. The giant s...
2024-01-03 18:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: Alive
The Air primals hail from the floating castle. While the Primordials tend to appear in the highest concentration of their domain on the Realm, the presence of people seems to have a factor in t...
2024-01-02 18:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: Rune Library
The Bond primals can draw upon their Font to create Bonds, both physical and metaphysical, and have utilized their magic alongside a communal ensouled artifact to create a system of energy shar...
2024-01-01 20:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: Sticky Runes
The people of the Iron Vein are a race of human origin, but have grown to have an average height of 7 to 8 feet. The abnormal height predates the access to the Primordial and is likely due to t...
2023-12-31 21:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Theral
The last hundred years have given rise to the discovery of Illusian races with Primal abilities, none—as far as this researcher knows of—of Midlian origin. The most famous among them are the Bo...
2023-12-31 03:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Chase
The Midlian Empire, while cruel and evil in countless ways, were on to something with their experiments to develop primals of the Illusian races. While the Flood devastated the world, it is likely ...
2023-12-30 17:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Monday
Pack rats were long suspected to be primals, but it wasn’t until the Last Dragon War that it was discovered they were in fact primals of the Font of Time. The Font from which they draw their powe...
2023-12-30 17:22:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Weekend
Primal creatures typically exhibit one to three distinct manifestations of the Font’s power. The key identifying feature distinguishing a primal creature from a formed or magical creature is that...
2023-12-30 17:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Study Group
The first primal creatures encountered by men on Kaltis were discovered during the Age of Wonders. At the time, they were not classified as anything other than magical creatures. The extensive rese...
2023-12-30 17:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Hardball
Primal creatures are often found in proximity to Primordial manifestations of the Fonts in our realm. Prolonged generational proximity to these manifestations of power grants creatures the ability ...
2023-12-30 17:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Griffin's Roost
My revised classifications are primal creatures, which gained access to a Font through prolonged generational proximity to a Primordial; formed creatures, which were created by sapients through mag...
2023-12-30 17:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: Blasting Rod
Magical creatures come in many forms and arose on Kaltis through a variety of means. A magical creature—for the purposes of this manual—is any living creature that innately draws upon a Font to...
2023-12-30 17:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Goblins
Now, it's rare to find any mage with much power in sorcery. The art of arcane pathfinding from a natural bridge has been nearly forgotten, and all magical research has gone into the optimization of...
2023-12-30 17:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: The Dungeon
At the Dahn, all were welcome to learn wizardry, and even sorcery if they had the stomach for it. The sorcerers quickly showed what the Tower had sought to hide, that sorcerers make the best wizard...
2023-12-30 17:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Teammates
The final Binding of the Avatar's corruption freed sorcerers, demonkin, fallen orcs and even some forsaken from the whispers of Faust. They could finally walk the Basin without threat of insanity.<...
2023-12-30 17:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: Commencement
Any sorcerers of draconic bloodlines slowly went mad after passing the mountains, corrupted by the captured Avatar's power. This was the beginning of the schism.
-Tallen Elmheart, On Mages 2023-12-30 17:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 20: Prevent
Tal was pivotal in the war, and gave many sorcerers the courage to come out of hiding and use their abilities to battle Faust's followers. In the aftermath, the survivors traveled to the growing ci...
2023-12-28 23:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: The Room
In the lead up to the Last Dragon War, a Journeyman Stormcaller named Tal Binder, raised on Basin but trained in their ways by his mother, traveled openly as a dragon blooded sorcerer at the side o...
2023-12-28 20:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Friends
The Tower had fallen long before the building itself was swept away in a flood. Chosen Daulf of Illunia saw to that, and took what little good remained in the place with him before leaving it behin...
2023-12-28 20:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Goblin-Rats
If you have a spellform from the Tower's library, odds are better than not that the ink was made using the bones of a sorcerer. Potion were made out of the bones that gradually increased Will capac...
2023-12-28 20:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Advanced First Tier Combat Wizardry
But, even the Tower lost its way. The politics of that are outside the subject of this paper, but the source of it all was sorcerers. Some foul necromancy working in hiding in the Tower discovered ...
2023-12-28 20:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Martial Combat 101
The restriction on spellforms was meant to level the playing field against the dragons that remained. Any dragon could enter a village and leave with an army of sorcerers. An army that c...
2023-12-28 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: Introduction to Alchemy
The Dragon War was the end of the sorcerers' hold on the title of mage. The best of them went mad, and the wizards had to scramble to take them down. They succeeded in defeating the Arch Mages amon...
2023-12-28 04:47:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: The Library
The knowledge of spellforms was spread, but was quickly followed by the Avatar's arrival and the Flood. After the settlement of Basin, the art spread wildly through the wizarding communities. It wa...
2023-12-27 17:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11: Bursor
Wizardry continued to grow all the way until the Flood. Spellforms were discovered a few decades before the Flood when a wizard Isla Hancock from the Midlian empire learned of the art of runes in t...
2023-12-27 16:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10: Grand Master
Over time, many without the innate connection to the Font learned the art of wizardry and alternative methods of discovering affinities were devised. Eventually half of all practitioners had no sor...
2023-12-27 16:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post