Chapter 100: Professor Lonin
[A picture of a wizard putting a worm on a fishing hook using magic.]
C is for Caster, a general term, from men who cast magic to those who fish with a worm.
-Sally Rider’s ABCs of Magic
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Chapter 98: Incident
Many people say many things about Tal of Storms. Some can say that he was a great hero, others a monster.
Foreword of Tallen Elmheart A Biography by Rail Dahnchild
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“Congratulations,” Underbrook’s voice said in all the student...
Chapter 99: Mole Chase
In this biography, I will not try to paint him in any light bu the truth, but here in the foreword I will say this:
When that young mage looked at me, and offered to help me, I saw that he genuinely cared about me and my friends. It shocked me then, and to this day still surpr...
Chapter 97: Elementals
When this author was a child, she was invited to join a burgeoning school in the then-nowhere town of Edgewater by a then-unknown mage. I almost declined.
Foreword of Tallen Elmheart A Biography by Rail Dahnchild
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For the first time in what felt ...
Chapter 96: Confession
Few on Kaltis can say their life hasn’t been drastically altered for the better because of the deeds of Mage Tallen Elmheart. Fewer still can they boast that Tallen put them on the path to greatness—or at least out of the path of destitution.
Foreword of Tallen Elmheart A B...
2024-05-24 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 95: More Tutors
[A silhouette of a man laughing]
X is for Xoctule the shadowing figure, is he a god, or something much bigger? His wants are as unknown as his whereabouts, but of one thing there can be no doubts. The onr thing about Xoctule that is known to be true, is if you think you know X...
Chapter 94: Tutors
[A comical picture of a werewolf standing upright after having stepped on a rake, the handle of which swung up to strike its snout.]
W is for werewolves, the lycanthrope cursed. Of Kaltis’ monsters I’d say they’re the worst. But have you no fear, dear child of mine for w...
Chapter 93: Student Affairs
[A picture of a coffin propped up against a wall, opened to reveal a clown.]
V is for vampires but have you no fear, for these creatures are myth, not real, it’s clear. They may sound scary and ready to bite, but they should not cause you to fear the night.
-...
Chapter 92: The Keyhole of Time
[A picture of a man shooting fire from his hands, with the flames forming a whispy dragon.]
S is for sorcerers, magicians by blood, they've been shunned and feared since after the Flood. From dragons, or gods, or fairies or mysteries, sorcerers of all origins have long storied...
Chapter 91: Snake Hyenas
[A picture of a mountaintop with a cutout showing the city of Hollow Peak within. Above the city floats a black orb symbolizing the Primordial of Space that resides there.]
P is for Primordias, the Fonts manifest in the realm. Some exist in harmony while others overwhelm. If p...
Chapter 90: Gear
[A picture of a stereotypical mage wearing a pointed had and colorful robe.]
M is for mage, a title of honor for wizards and mages but it's lost its significance through all of the ages. Once a title for the greatest of all, it is now a name for magicians great and small....
Chapter 89: Amulets
[A painting of the classically styled images of Waas, Torc, Faust, and Aurial kneeling before a glowing white featureless figure depicting Oan]
G is for gods, the children of Oan, he made them before leaving for reaches unknown. They created the Fonts with each other's assista...
Chapter 88: Speculation
[An image of a starry sky filled with multicolored lights between the stars. The lights and stars form the shape of Kaltis.]
F is Fonts, the pillars of the reality, they embody the concepts from thinking to gravity. They started with creation and refined it from there, and the...
Chapter 87: Found
[A picture of two dwarves dancing, with ribbons of stone flowing around them.]
E is for Earth primals, the dwarves call them Stoneweavers. These primals are made of Torc’s most devote believers.
-Sally Rider’s ABCs of Magic
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R...
Chapter 86: Taken
[A gold dragon and a red dragon fighting in the sky.]
D is for dragon, the first children of the gods, but their connection to Faust placed them at odds. The power of the betrayer corrupted their minds, and to preserve all the races they fled to protect the frailer kinds. Once...
Chapter 85: Gnolls
[A picture of lightning striking the tip of an island mountain in a storm.]
B is for Bond primals from the Iron Vein isle so remote, they share their home with a breed of Bond primal goat. The tribe is a strong noble warrior folk, and to them, honor and courage are no joke.
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Chapter 84: Caravan
[A picture of two children holding hands and flying in a bright blue sky]
A is for Air primals who soar through the skies, they hail from Revan the castle that flies
-Sally Rider’s ABCs of Magic
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After everyone had gotten throug...
Chapter 83: Abrupt Chaos
With great care and an equalization of pressure, it is possible to pierce the membrane of a bubble to gain access to its contents. Likewise, pocket realms—and the Material Realm itself—can be accessed from beings beyond our Realms. The membrane of the Material Realm is strong, the great d...
2024-04-08 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 82: Naming
When Faust’s influence originally began to corrupt the dragons, shortly after their births, the dragons fled to the far reaches of the world to protect the Illusian races from their newfound covetous desires. Many dragons returned to the world of men after mastering their urges, but many mo...
2024-04-05 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 81: Inattentive
If the Material Realm were a bubble, pocket realms could be thought to be smaller bubbles clinging to its side. Their contents are separate from the larger bubble, but made of the same air. As they are separated from the environment beyond, they are also separated from the air within the larg...
2024-04-01 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79: Busy
The Dahn, or Tower in Torcish, was the first proof we had that extra-dimensional spaces. The ensouled artifact was created by the silver dragon Tomvian as a place to facilitate education and the pursuit of knowledge. Tomvian was a white dragon, turned silver after accepting the Pact of Bild. ...
2024-03-29 11:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78: Looking Up
Prior to the first dragon war, extra dimensional spaces were objects of theory. Even the Spacial master of the Hollow Peak, formerly know as Altian, could only compress space, never create it. Their crowning achievement, the hollowed out mountain cave in which they’d crammed a city, had onl...
2024-03-22 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 80: Not a Sadist
The Dahn surfaced in the early days of the Last Dragon War after being discovered and Bonded by Daulf Dragon Slayer, Chosen of Illunia. Since then, largely theorized to be due to the events of the war itself, pocket realms of more varieties have made themselves known.
-Pocket ...
Chapter 77: Doohicky
It was long theorized that extradimensional spaces, also known as pocket realms, could be created using the power of the Fonts. The Fonts, after all, where used by the gods to create the Realm as we know it and the Illusian races had full access to these tools of arcane might. The primary dif...
2024-03-18 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76: Pocket Realms
[The king disembarks a carriage in the drive of the country estate and bursts through the front doors. On seeing the interior of the renovated country estate, he falls to his knees and weeps.]
Handmaiden: Is it not to your liking? The queen went to great lengths to recreate th...
Chapter 74: The Lost Prince
The King: Send my wife away, to the country. How can she die in her room if she is not there?
The Seer: Distance is a flimsy shield against the power of fate.
The King: Then we shall burn down the royal suites. As soon as she is gone from the city, burn the pal...
Chapter 73: Private Incident
The King: Then we shall send her away. No
tragedy can occur in the royal suites if the queen is not in them.
Court Seer: Majesty, I have told you before, but I must remind you again. Once seen, the future must come to pass. It is inevitable and cannot be ...
Chapter 72: Entangled
[The king’s private chambers]
The Court Seer burst into the room while the king reads at his desk.
Court Seer: Your majesty! The future has been revealed to my eyes and in it I have seen a tragedy.
The King: What have you seen?
<...
Chapter 71: Duldrums
Here lies a king, broken of heart and of spirit.
With power over all, he presumed his dominion expanded over time itself.
When mortal trifle with what even gods avoid, only tragedy can follow.
To glimpse the future is to look upon a mountain thr...
Chapter 70: Emerald
Bilieth and Erebog, while tolerated, were not loved. Not approached to make a race of their own, they performed experiments in secret to uncover the missing piece of creation. They created many horrors in their pursuit before realizing their goal was beyond their abilities. From these experim...
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