Beinost and the College Arcana

[Hallow]

Thank you, Caden.

To hear that from you is a boon, truly it is.

I hope to develop my own style of wizard, but there's bound to be elements of you, and of course, Mr Pratchett himself (I just re-read The Colour of Magic, so it's to be expected).

I'd love for more wizards to appear, we could start a club . The Near Psychosis is done and submitted, so time to crack knuckles and start spreading agony aunt love over the elven kingdoms!

[Lord Anglekos]

Thank you, Caden.

To hear that from you is a boon, truly it is.

I hope to develop my own style of wizard, but there's bound to be elements of you, and of course, Mr Pratchett himself (I just re-read The Colour of Magic, so it's to be expected).

I'd love for more wizards to appear, we could start a club . The Near Psychosis is done and submitted, so time to crack knuckles and start spreading agony aunt love over the elven kingdoms!

I'm thinking about making a Wizard myself. God knows I read Dresden enough to be inspired by his exploits, and reading through some of Caden's solo exploits are the explosive cherries on top of that cake. I highly recommend them to anyone who hasn't read through his stuff; almost every single one of his solo works are Judge's Choice quality, and I don't see that quality degrading as I continue to read. In fact, if anything, I see it more refined.
Thanks for putting this information up, Caden. Now, to work on my Wizard.

[Hallow]

God, we'll be a gang bang short of an Unseen University before too long.

[Amen]

Well, I always did feel that for a world that features magic, Althanas was woefully short of magic-users.

[The International]

Why make a new character for this? I'm just going to earn all this crazy stuff for Vespasian... Although the wizard's hat isn't very fashionable. I'm gonna use a black fedora. Also instead of a big ass book of spells, I'm gonna use a little black book (with them digits!). That cool with you guys? lol

In all seriousness this is a very good thing for Althanas Caden. I'm glad you did it. I don't want to jinx it, but we're working on an Alchemy concept for Alerar behind the scenes here. It might work very well with College Arcana since some of the Faculty uses it a bit.

[Rayse Valentino]

Well, I always did feel that for a world that features magic, Althanas was woefully short of magic-users.

Well, there are tons of magic users, but there is usually very little rhyme or reason to it. They're either born with it, or it's unique to them in some way, and there's very little structure around it. This College Arcana thing promotes the idea that magic has structure, rules, that it is earned through a process and has a backstory. It allows people to come together instead of become isolated with their own little version of superpowers that nobody can relate to.

[Caden Law]

Well, there are tons of magic users, but there is usually very little rhyme or reason to it. They're either born with it, or it's unique to them in some way, and there's very little structure around it. This College Arcana thing promotes the idea that magic has structure, rules, that it is earned through a process and has a backstory. It allows people to come together instead of become isolated with their own little version of superpowers that nobody can relate to.

Don't forget that there are plenty of other systems of magic in Althanas. Even in my own writings, Wizardry's hardly unique. IIRC, the Bladesingers and their bardic spellcraft are still out and about, even if the whole system of magic is undergoing a shift because so few of them are left and they've all had so much crosstraining. I remember hearing that Alerar has some kind of magic tradition but it's even more of a scientific process than what goes on here, more akin to Old School D&D (Reagents for everything) with a side of FMA Alchemy or something like that.

I've been tempted to do write-ups for other systems, but the only ones of any substance in my own writings tend to be Warlocks. I had one Shaman pop up. Plus the Wanderers, their system is...Lovecraftian conjuration, basically.

[Lord Anglekos]

Don't forget that there are plenty of other systems of magic in Althanas. Even in my own writings, Wizardry's hardly unique. IIRC, the Bladesingers and their bardic spellcraft are still out and about, even if the whole system of magic is undergoing a shift because so few of them are left and they've all had so much crosstraining. I remember hearing that Alerar has some kind of magic tradition but it's even more of a scientific process than what goes on here, more akin to Old School D&D (Reagents for everything) with a side of FMA Alchemy or something like that.

I've been tempted to do write-ups for other systems, but the only ones of any substance in my own writings tend to be Warlocks. I had one Shaman pop up. Plus the Wanderers, their system is...Lovecraftian conjuration, basically.

Speaking of which, I've tried to find your write-up on the Wanderers but failed. It sounds like something I'd love to get Margaret involved with though. If you could link me to it I'd really, really appreciate it Caden.

[Elrundir]

Don't forget that there are plenty of other systems of magic in Althanas. Even in my own writings, Wizardry's hardly unique. IIRC, the Bladesingers and their bardic spellcraft are still out and about, even if the whole system of magic is undergoing a shift because so few of them are left and they've all had so much crosstraining. I remember hearing that Alerar has some kind of magic tradition but it's even more of a scientific process than what goes on here, more akin to Old School D&D (Reagents for everything) with a side of FMA Alchemy or something like that.

I've been tempted to do write-ups for other systems, but the only ones of any substance in my own writings tend to be Warlocks. I had one Shaman pop up. Plus the Wanderers, their system is...Lovecraftian conjuration, basically.

Some of what you've mentioned here is forthcoming (either that, or... about to come again? And hopefully in a more digestible form?). I don't think there's any kind of timeline on it yet, but it is out there! And those who happen to be immediately interested in Raiaeran song magic or Aleraran alchemy are always welcome to ask, and we'll answer as best we can.

[Amen]

I've been tempted to do write-ups for other systems, but the only ones of any substance in my own writings tend to be Warlocks.

Yes plz