The second signature warmage weapon — long fighting staves with hoxter pockets, sympathy stones, and spell reservoirs built into the wood.
Magestaves (also called battlestaves or warstaff) are the other classic warmage weapon — tall hardwood staves, usually shod in metal, built up over years by their owners into a portable arsenal of enchantments. A well-made magestaff carries hoxter pockets for spare weapons and supplies, sympathy stones for mirror-communication, a reservoir of prepared spells, and often a hardened spearhead or hammer-head at the tip. Unlike a mageblade, a staff is a mage's house: everything they need short of the clothes on their back can live inside the wood.
The terms magestaff, battlestaff, and warstaff are used interchangeably in the books; they refer to the same class of weapon. The distinction between a personal journeyman's staff and a dedicated war-instrument is one of enchantment depth and reinforcement rather than any formal category.
Minalan's original battlestaff is his core weapon through the early books; Dranus of Moros packs his entire laboratory into hoxter pockets in a new warstaff when he departs for Moros in Enchanter. In Arcanist, Master Cormoran fights at Forgemont — his own castle — leaning on his heavy battlestaff, described as hoarse from countless hours in the smoke of his forge.
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