Magelord

The first great post-war assembly of the High Magi and warmagi, called by Minalan in the spring after Timberwatch and hosted by Sire Forandal at Robinwing Castle. The Conclave founded the Arcane Orders -- Hesian, Horkan, Thaumaturgical, Medical, Scholarly -- and the institutional shape of magic in the new Kingdom of Castalshar. The orders of Hesia and Horka were named for the warmagi who had fallen at Timberwatch.

The first private war fought against a Magelord in the new Kingdom -- launched by Sire Gimbal the Warbird with Censorate funding and command oversight, intended as a bloody example to discourage future magelord baronies. It ended within a week as a Sevendori counter-conquest: Minalan, with Baron Arathanial of Sendaria and Sire Sigalan of Trestendor, marched through West Fleria, took Gimbal's seven domains in five days, plucked the Warbird off his throne entirely, and stripped the Censorate of its presence in the Riverlands.

Minalan's open contest at the Sevendor Magical Fair to award a witchstone to whichever mage could traverse Matten's Helm and break the banewarding on the summit. Two hundred magi competed. The thirteen-year-old falconer Dara of Westwood used her hawk Frightful to bypass every challenge but the final, while the warmage Jendaran the Trusty actually broke the banewarding -- raising the awkward question of who had won. Minalan settled it by awarding stones to both.

The first dragon killed by mortal hands on Callidore in living memory. The dragon attacked Castle Cambrian on the Cotton Road in Gilmora, where Terleman was holed up with the Magical Corps. Minalan led the relief charge with Sarakeem's Alka bow, his snowstone snowflake threaded onto an arrow as a resistance-breaker. Pentandra hooked the dragon with lightning relayed through a Brunaron weather-hedgemage. The killing blow was joint -- Dara's Thoughtful Knife from inside, Sir Cei's lance from outside, snowstone packed along the dragon's upper lip by Sarakeem's arrows. The victory was celebrated afterward in Barrowbell. Sir Cei was crowned the Dragonslayer, Dara the Hawkmaiden.

The Yule-night thaumaturgic event, triggered during Lord Minalyan's difficult birth, that transmuted every rock and clod of soil within a two-mile radius of Sevendor Castle into snowstone. A permanent geological alteration of the entire mountain that lowered local magical resistance to near nothing, quickened latent Talent in residents who had never tested as magi, and made Sevendor the wealthiest magical polity in the Five Duchies overnight.