Chronology / 05 of 18

Age of Rivalry

Andrasio teaches Wizardry after the Potencies manifest, and their rivalries scar every plane.

Threshold: Wizardry
Defining discovery: Wizardry ↗
Duration: Shorter than the preceding age

01 / The threshold

What opens
this age?

Wizardry is the fundamental magic of the Potencies. Sixty schools exist—one for each Potency—and each develops a language capable of addressing one of the intrinsic properties of being.

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02 / The living record

What is known
inside the age.

Discovery

Andrasio, the First Potency and Potency of Chaos, taught the foundations of the Potencies' languages after manifesting on Markazevren. Without that instruction, Wizardry may never have been independently discovered.

Language

Wizardry can be spoken, written, signed, danced or enacted through formal movement. Its language resembles mathematics: logical, systematic and generative once the foundations are known.

Power source

Wizardry draws from a Potency already present in the surrounding world. Beyond ordinary physical and mental stamina, it does not intrinsically consume emotion, life force or elemental balance.

Precision and vulnerability

Powerful workings take longer. A complex sequence may require hours or days and can be broken by silence, restraint, distraction, exhaustion, intoxication, damaged inscriptions or interrupted movement.

Functional implements

Instruments, wands, staffs, masks, robes and hats are often functional rather than decorative: they create exact sounds, shapes, shadows, movements and silhouettes required by a working.

Collective casting

Multiple wizards can maintain one continuous sequence, rotating through its chants, movements and inscriptions. This allows workings far longer and more powerful than any individual could sustain.

The schools

Wizardry requires years or decades of study. Its schools are prestigious, politically important and intensely secretive, guarding their proofs, archives and linguistic discoveries.

03 / World coordinates

One discovery.
Many consequences.

Magic: Wizardry ↗
Great Power: Potencies
First root: Urmatoth
Classification: Fundamental

04 / Connected archive

Follow the magical
relationships.

Magic dossierEnchantmentAll Sources↗Its ageAge of Convergence→

Magic dossierIllusionismCelestial Domain + Penumbrae↗Its ageAge of Vision→

Magic dossierMagecraftQuasars↗Its ageAge of Magi→

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