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Magic › Magic and Old Knowledge

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A power able to change the world through will, knowledge, and energy.

Magic

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Magic ✨ magic.png The Origin of Elemental Magic Elemental magic changed Ulvenor when …

Magic › The Origin of Elemental Magic

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Elemental magic changed Ulvenor when the Sorcer returned from beyond the Green Sea with knowled…

Magic › Essence and the Principle of Spellcasting

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…s of control, and death are real risks. Magic is weapon, science, craft, cult, medicine, and survival tool, depending on who …

Magic › The Spread of Magic Among the Races

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Humans institutionalized elemental magic through schools, armies, scholars, and state power. Kobolds reshaped it through…

Magic

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…o determines how advanced a character's magical abilities can be. The higher the magic level, the more effective their spells…

Jakob I. The Reformer › Magic as part of the state

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… Jacob's rule was his relationship with magic. After generations of hidden learning and a semi-legal existence, it was during…

Ignatius III Weaver of intrigue › Magic as a prerogative of the realm

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…portant steps was to restrict access to magic schools to only the residents of the kingdom. He officially explained it as ove…

Ferdinand III Retreating › Magical universities and a new layer of the empire

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…t was during his time that the level of magical education began to rise significantly, and it became clear that the older tea…

War of the Empire and the Mystics › Magic as a real battlefield

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…s differed from earlier clashes in that magic did not only appear in the role of infantry support, siege or healing. It becam…

The Age of Reshaping the World › Magic in the hands of other races

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However, elemental magic did not remain a human possession. Kobolds were among the first non-human races…

Sorcer's Teaching › Magic and Old Knowledge

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The system of magical knowledge introduced by Sorcer.

First Mage › Magic and Old Knowledge

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…irst known or symbolic bearer of modern magic.

First Spellcasting King › Magic and Old Knowledge

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A ruler who joined the crown and magic.

Magic Schools › Magic and Old Knowledge

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…titutions for the teaching and study of magic.

Ancient Powers › Magic and Old Knowledge

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Old and not entirely understood magical principles.

Forbidden Knowledge › Magic and Old Knowledge

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Knowledge too dangerous to be spread widely.

Old Knowledge › Magic and Old Knowledge

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Findings from the past that have survived the ages.

Council of the Powerful › Magic and Old Knowledge

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The highest leadership of the Order of the Ancients.

Magical Artifact › Magic and Old Knowledge

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A mighty object suffused with magic.

Philosopher's Stone › Magic and Old Knowledge

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A legendary alchemical artifact of the Fellowship of the Silver Hand.

Runes › Magic and Old Knowledge

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Magical or symbolic signs bearing meaning and power.

Enchantment › Magic and Old Knowledge

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The placing of a magical property into an object.

Magical Focus › Magic and Old Knowledge

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An object that channels magical energy.

Necromancy › Magic and Old Knowledge

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Magic tied to death and the undead.

Magical Anomaly › Magic and Old Knowledge

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An unusual or unstable magical phenomenon.

Introduction to the World › Magic and Its Legacy

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Magic exists, but it is never harmless. Before elemental magic spread across the cont…

Current Era (1470) › Magic, Technology, and the Change of the Old Order

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…present and older ages is the spread of magic and its deeper connection to states, war, and daily life. Elemental magic is no…

Albarit › Magical Landscapes

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On Albarit there are places where magic is not hidden in the hands of sorcerers, but visible in the landscape itself. R…

Unknown Western Continent › Magic That Changed Ulvenor

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Elemental magic brought by the Sorcer changed the balance of power on Ulvenor faster than many …

Sorcerer

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…sidered the first being to fully master magic. His existence changed the entire continent and laid the foundation for all fut…

Zareth-Ka

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…wed up on Nuriak's work and took kobold magic to a whole new level. His innovations made kobolds some of the most dangerous m…

Nuriak

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… archmage and the founder of the kobold magical tradition. As one of the few, he was able not only to understand human elemen…

Magic Resistance

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…e received from spells and other purely magical sources. This enchantment is especially useful against mages and bosses with …

Magic Torch

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The caster creates a stable magical light for exploration. In dark areas it improves orientation and grants +1 Pe…

War of the Empire and the Mystics

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…e of the first major conflicts in which magic ceased to be merely a supporting tool and became one of the main decisive eleme…

James II's Elven Alliance

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…f herbs, healing, and different ways of magic.

Battle Mages › War, Army, and Defensive Systems

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Mages employed directly in war.

Magnur

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Magnur was founded in -912 by joining two nearby estates, Burgind and Haimare, under Magnus I. Through his origin, the i…

Unknown Western Continent

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…ed from with the knowledge of elemental magic. That magic was a new force for Ulvenor, different from older natural, shamanic…

Great Plains

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…d cities arose here, distinct cultures, magic schools, tribal unions, and defended territories. Beginning in the third millen…

Great Plains › Javorica

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…at Plains, known as the heart of kobold magic. It was here that Nuriak founded the first known kobold school of elemental mag…

Summon Pet

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The character forms a magical bond with a companion that supports them in combat and beyond. The pet develo…

Ender

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…rchitect of the institutionalization of magic in the kingdom. His work enabled the creation of organized magical units.

Yokol

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Jokol was a gnomish prince who killed King Laurel I during the Battle of the Luna River. His act fundamentally influence…

Ulvenor's first biological weapon

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Ulvenor's first biological weapon was used under Untred IV. against the eastern nomads. The Emperor had the captured nom…

Order of the Ancients

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…s, and passes on the strongest forms of magic only to those who prove exceptional talent, patience, and respect for power.

Magnursie — The First Decline of the Empire

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The First Decline of the Empire marks the long period in which the Magnursar Empire first learned that size alone does n…

Artifact › Recurring Lore Terms

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A precious object of extraordinary significance or power.

Ancient History of Oiy

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The ancient history of Oia is distinguished from the history of Earth mainly by the extraordinary stability of the devel…

Albarit

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…he first realms, and the slow spread of magic, Albarit is a continent where magic has existed since ancient times as a natura…

Albarit › Black Savannas

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The Black Savannas form one of the largest regions of inland Albarit. They are home to great predators, nocturnal herds,…

Heartlands of Magnur

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The Heartlands of Magnur form the immediate core around the capital and represent the oldest territorial foundation of M…

Heartlands of Magnur › Western March

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…hanges of rule, trade roads, vineyards, magic universities, and a friendlier culture than most of the other marches. Although…

William I. Mag › Legalization of magic in Magnur

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…as bold and risky in his time. To allow magic, at least in the capital, was to admit that this power existed, that it could n…

Ignatius II. Unbreakable › Schools of Ruinous Magic and the Legacy of Government

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…schools focused on teaching destructive magic. It is from these centers that the first generation of battle mages will emerge…

Centerik I. Masked › Libraries, magic and noble loyalty

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…pend time in libraries and even learned magic. He was not a warrior emperor, but rather an educated monarch who sought to mai…

Sorcerer › The birth of magic

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…thers. This is when the true history of magic on the continent begins. Sorcer wasn't just the first user—he was proof that ma…

Goblin adoption of human magic

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The goblins' adoption of human magic represents one of the most fundamental turning points in the history of Ulvenor…

Goblin adoption of human magic › Roots of Magic and the Goblin Paradox

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The history of kobold magic begins, paradoxically, long before the kobolds themselves were aware of it. As …

Goblin adoption of human magic › Nuriak and the First Goblin School

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… to be the true beginning of the kobold magical age. Nuriak understood magic not just as an alien human tool, but as a power …

Goblin adoption of human magic › Birth of mystics and kobolds magical difference

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…ting features of the kobold adoption of magic is the fact that it has become not just a school or a narrow scholarly environm…

Goblin adoption of human magic › Knowledge theft and development acceleration

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A kobold's magical rise wouldn't be so fast if it was just patient study. For generations, the K…

Goblin adoption of human magic › Nuriak's discoveries and a breakthrough in magic

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…ontribution was not just that he spread magic among the kobolds, but that he changed the very way in which it could be handle…

Goblin adoption of human magic › War, practice, and the rise of kobold mages

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Goblin magic did not remain locked away in classrooms, temples, or laboratories. Very soon i…

Goblin adoption of human magic › The death of Nuriak and his unrealized legacy

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…d, he could usher in a whole new era of magic and possibly become the most powerful mage in the continent's history. His deat…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia

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…tory, a silent but crucial clash of two magical traditions took place — the human schools of Magnursia and the kobolds of the…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia › Two paths of magic

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Human magic originated as a systematic discipline. The schools in Magnursia were based on o…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia › Javorica as a center of change

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… of Javorica became the heart of goblin magic. Here Nuriak founded the first school, which, however, did not have much influe…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia › The Rise of Zareth-Ka

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…o a reformer. Zareth-Ka understood that magic's greatest weakness was its limited stamina. Following up on Nuriak's experimen…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia › The invisible conflict

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…encounters where the kobolds used their magic proved otherwise. They weren't as strong as the best human mages, but they were…

Clash of the Magic Schools — Javorica vs. Magnursia › A limit that cannot be crossed

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…into a problem it didn't expect. Kobold magic was not organized like human magic, but was dispersed among the entire populati…

The return of the Sorcerer and the birth of a new magic

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… brought to the continent a new form of magic based on the elements and opened the way to the transformation of war, politics…

The return of the Sorcerer and the birth of a new magic › Legalization of magic in the distant future

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…he Sorcer himself had not yet legalized magic within the state, but his arrival made this future change possible. He brought …

The return of the Sorcerer and the birth of a new magic › The first Sorcerer King as a distant consequence

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…'s return, there would be no schools of magic, and there would be no possibility of the monarch himself becoming a practicing…

Assembly of Unicorns › The first official school of magic

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… to create the first official school of magic within the royal environment. In doing so, he elevated magic from a fringe phen…

Ender and the Beginnings of Martial Magic

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During the reign of Ignatius II. magic first began to be systematically associated with war. A key role in this was pl…

Ender and the Beginnings of Martial Magic › Ender

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…e of the first mages to understand that magic could function not only as a personal discipline, but also as an organized inst…

Ender and the Beginnings of Martial Magic › The Shield Wall and the Battle of Jitron

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…ing style, and the Battle of Jitron saw magic used on a decisive scale for the first time. This changed the nature of the war…

Ender and the Beginnings of Martial Magic › The Beginning of Battle Mages

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The first true martial mages grew out of the newly emerging schools and circles. These people were no longer just schola…