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.

The First Flame

Pyronika

Before there were schemata, there were two ways of touching the world. This is the first of them.

The First Cold

Cryonica

The second of the two ways. Where fire asks what may be done, ice asks what there is.

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…

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…

Magic Systems

The Primordials

Pyronika

Cryonica

The Primary Schemata

Klerosia — The Kindred Flame

Numina — The Vessel-Craft

The Derived Schemata

Amyrama — The Defensive Stitching

Harmonalia — The Hallowed Office

Umbrasia — The Devotion

Memordia — The Kept Memory

Syndesia — The Open Weave

Harmonia — The Essence of Harmony

Phosaria — The Radiant Light

Teratria — The Beast-Yoke

Tykoreia — The Binding Word