Note location: All throughout Trench, though most are in Gaze, Prufrock, and Lumenwood; inexplicably, one in the Jungle has been pinned to the Hunter's back Number available: Lots Conditions to receive from Iskierka: None
There are two primary magics on Nephele: The magic of devotion and the magic of effort.
A mage is the product of the second. She immerses herself so completely in her art that--with a decade of practice--her expertise transcends nature. An effort-mage may grow so strong she crushes boulders to powder with her fists, or so sturdy her skin can't be cut by blades, or so skilled a rider her steeds run on water.
It is rare, but possible, to make a mage in much less time. All the avenues are bitter, though some less than others. Children who devote themselves obsessively to study happen in every generation. Children whose parents or minders or leaders devote them obsessively to something are more common. Children whose very survival depends on desperate daily practice of some skill may be mages before their majority, and permanently maimed for it.
We did wonder, at the beginning of the war, how Eyes could field so many mages. Even when he slaughtered Clarent and the Shroudwood, he didn't kill as many as were in his ranks.
The solution to that problem comes clear, if you give it a little thought: We dead need never take time off from practice, and it is a matter of our survival that we obey the necromancer who raised us.
MAGIC | Effort-gifts - 1A
Number available: Lots
Conditions to receive from Iskierka: None
There are two primary magics on Nephele: The magic of devotion and the magic of effort.
A mage is the product of the second. She immerses herself so completely in her art that--with a decade of practice--her expertise transcends nature. An effort-mage may grow so strong she crushes boulders to powder with her fists, or so sturdy her skin can't be cut by blades, or so skilled a rider her steeds run on water.
It is rare, but possible, to make a mage in much less time. All the avenues are bitter, though some less than others. Children who devote themselves obsessively to study happen in every generation. Children whose parents or minders or leaders devote them obsessively to something are more common. Children whose very survival depends on desperate daily practice of some skill may be mages before their majority, and permanently maimed for it.
We did wonder, at the beginning of the war, how Eyes could field so many mages. Even when he slaughtered Clarent and the Shroudwood, he didn't kill as many as were in his ranks.
The solution to that problem comes clear, if you give it a little thought: We dead need never take time off from practice, and it is a matter of our survival that we obey the necromancer who raised us.