Preceptor

The Briga's Day assault on Mycin Amana's Darkfaller, mounted while Korbal was personally present to inspect her. Minalan and Ruderal teleported into the throne-room parley atop the central keep, Minalan dropped Sheruel's sphere out of Korbal's staff with Avalanche, then detonated a necromantic-overload spell that briefly collapsed both Korbal and Mycin Amana (Isily's face visible for an instant under Mycin Amana's). The four-pronged Magelaw assault, the Paranchek lifted into the air and skewered by the Thoughtful Knife and the Unrelenting Needle, the thermite destruction of the central keep, and the gurvani revolt that recovered Sheruel followed in sequence. Mycin Amana escaped through the Ways; Sheruel woke up.

The deliberate reproduction of the snowstone spell during Vanamin's birth at Spellmonger's Hall in Vanador. The first time Minalan ever made snowstone on purpose. Three goddesses attended -- Briga, Trygg, and Falassa -- and the spell transformed silica within roughly thirty-five hundred feet, quickened Talent in nine thousand residents (humans and four Alon races alike), produced a permanent green outer band of unknown thaumaturgical character, transformed the entire Tal Alon community into a literate self-respecting people, and woke the Magolith into sentience.

The first time a humani openly threatened the Vundel. Auditor Antherose and Dryspeaker Nuayas of the Sau'libik pod arrived at Sevendor to confront Minalan over what their predecessor Moudrost had concealed. Minalan revealed that he had reproduced the snowstone spell, that he knew where the Lost Egg was, and that the Vundel pod could either leave him alone or face his "wrath of a ferocious and very short-lived race." The audit ended without violence; the Vundel withdrew to consult their masters.