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, Secondary Fonts
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Outside the dungeon, Kole felt as his hearing quickly ret...
2024-01-07 14:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 aspected regions exist. The development of Illusian primals for these Fonts is accelerated when com...
2024-01-06 14:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostSecondary 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. Regardless of their origins, I have made some observations on the Secondary Fonts and their impact on the sp...
2024-01-05 18:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 those histories are to be believed, they once had a tropical utopia on the ice, which was lost when the...
2024-01-04 15:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 spiders breed for silk were the first Space primals to arise, but Illusian Space primals arose shortl...
2024-01-03 18:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 that. The Primordial of Air has been following the Cloud Castle since shortly after it took to the sk...
2024-01-02 18:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 sharing that makes the already massive people fearsome in battle.
Lidian’s Manua...
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 the introduction of giant blood into the gene pool.
Lidian’s Manual to Magical Fauna...
2023-12-31 21:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 Bond primals of the Iron Vein Tribe. As a key figure in the Last Dragon War, Bearskin lead his people ...
2023-12-31 03:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 the Midlian Empire would have inflicted far more cruelty long term if they hadn’t been destroyed b...
2023-12-30 17:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostPack 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 power was long unknown, as is their geographic origin. Pack rats were known to the native pre-Flood orc ...
2023-12-30 17:22:06 +0000 UTC View PostPrimal 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 it is identical in appearance to a mundane animal and exhibits magic that could be ascribed to a si...
2023-12-30 17:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 research and exploration conducted by the Midlian Empire discovered and classified the primal subset of ...
2023-12-30 17:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostPrimal 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 to innately tap into the power of the Font. Once the connection to the Font is made, the creature ca...
2023-12-30 17:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy 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 magical means; and magical creatures, which were created by the gods near the end of the Age of Wonders...
2023-12-30 17:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostMagical 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 wield magic or was created through the use of magic. Through decades of pestering from my contempor...
2023-12-30 17:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostNow, 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 spell constructs. There's nothing wrong with this new art, but it is completely incompatible with t...
2023-12-30 17:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostAt 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 wizards. These sorcerous wizards rebelled against the titles and ranks of the former Tower, and simply ref...
2023-12-30 17:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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.
-Tallen Elmheart, On Mages
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“Four to five in a group!” Underbrook sho...
2023-12-30 17:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostAny 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
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Kole woke, briefly confused to where he was. The room was pitch black, and he sm...
2023-12-30 17:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostTal 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 city of Edgewater to further their knowledge of the arcane arts at the school that would be known acro...
2023-12-28 23:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 of Daulf, Illunia's Chosen.
-Tallen Elmheart, On Mages
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Kole stayed up lat...
2023-12-28 20:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 behind for good.
-Tallen Elmheart, On Mages
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Kole slunk off out of the trainin...
2023-12-28 20:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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 capacity. Bones were carved into wands, staves, rings and more. Each tailored to the Arcane signature of ...
2023-12-28 20:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostBut, 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 that sorcerer's bones animated far easier than any other intelligent creature. When this got out—a...
2023-12-28 20:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 could become wizards in the course of a year of given access to spellforms. The Tower took on the rol...
2023-12-28 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 among their ranks, and swore to keep the dragon's from creating more.
-Tallen Elmheart, On Mages 2023-12-28 04:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 was also at this time that wizards learned that Basin was not a safe place for dragon blooded sorcerer...
2023-12-27 17:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostWizardry 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 the years preceding the Flood. She became obsessed with applying them to wizardry but failed, though ...
2023-12-27 16:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostOver 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 sorcerous abilities, but at the top, the sorcerers crowded the ranks. The title of mage became associat...
2023-12-27 16:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post