Magic Systems

Discover the forces of ice and fire, the magic they give rise to, and the ancient powers that shape Kworgale.

The Primordials

The two ways of acting upon the world. Everything else descends from one of them.

Pyronika — The First Flame

Before there were schemata, there were two ways of touching the world. This is the first of them. Pyronika is not a tradition, a lineage or an order.…

Cryonica — The First Cold

The second of the two ways. Where fire asks what may be done, ice asks what there is. Cryonica is the grammar of ice as the Great Spirit of Ice holds…

The Primary Schemata

One from each Elder god — the inheritance the peoples of Kworgale were left at the Great Renewal.

Klerosia — The Kindred Flame

The Ruby's gift to her children was not power, but belonging. An officer of the Klerokon fire-corps looses the gathered flame of his bloodline.…

Numina — The Vessel-Craft

The Ruby gave power to blood. The Hammer gave it to steel. A dwarven master pours finished magic into a starsteel numinar. Numina is the schema of…

Harmonalia — The Hallowed Office

A king dies. The crown does not. Whoever lawfully lifts the Auroral Staff wields the gathered faith of a people. Harmonalia is the magic of…

Umbrasia — The Devotion

Some power is taken. This power is given — and once given, never wholly taken back. A devotee of the Legion of Ash pours their own fire upward — into…

Memordia — The Kept Memory

Among the elves, death is not the end of counsel. It is the beginning of it. A keeper of the Glacial Dominion wakes the wisdom sleeping in the…

Syndesia — The Open Weave

Every other power flows one way — up to a master, into a relic, down a bloodline. This one flows between equals. A scholar weaves her thread into the…

The Derived Schemata

What has been built, found or forged since. This list is not complete, and the scholars who keep it know it.

Amyrama — The Defensive Stitching

The armour is not the achievement. The needlework is. Between the Shallow Veil and the Deep stands the Kavacha — a barrier whose name means armour,…

Harmonia — The Essence of Harmony

Everyone assumes it is fire and frost mixed together. It is not a mixture. It is a third thing that neither of them could have become alone. Harmonia…

Phosaria — The Radiant Light

Light is not merely bright. Light is the only thing in the world that carries a message and does work at the same time. Phosaria is Radiance: the…

Teratria — The Beast-Yoke

It works on the wolf. It has never once worked on anyone who could be reasoned with, and the people who kept trying are the reason we know. Teratria…

Tykoreia — The Binding Word

An oath is not a promise. A promise is a thing you said. An oath is a thing that now exists. Tykoreia is the schema of contracts, oaths and…