Things of Note | Spellmonger's Hall

Molopors & Sites of Power

Rifts where the Magosphere bleeds through — the Snowflake, the Boval Vale molopor, and Stormbringer.

A natural aperture in the fabric of Callidore where the Magosphere leaks raw — the opposite of a jevolar. Each known molopor is a pillar of magical power, and each behaves differently.

Boval Vale Molopor

Molopor Dormant

The ancient molopor beneath Boval Castle — uncovered by Sire Koucey's ancestors, used by Minalan to evacuate the Bovali, and then seized by Sheruel as the source of the Umbra's dark power.

Stormbringer

Molopor

The perpetual tempest in the Shattered Sea — a weaponised molopor serving as the Storm King's sea axe, called "the bane of the fleets" and "the Sorrow of the Shattered Sea."

The Snowflake

Molopor

The molopor at the heart of Sevendor mountain — a vast living lattice of snowstone around an active rift, source of the barony's wealth and the Magelaw's strategic reserve of arcane power.

Weapons, Staves & Wands

Mageblades, battlestaves, baculi, and the specialised wand-tools of the Arcane Orders.

Mageblades

Weapon

Enchanted swords carried by warmagi — magically reinforced, often thaumaturgically linked to a witchstone, and in the later books forged of Dradrien steel for weight and temper.

Forge's Fury

Weapon

Master Cormoran's sword of ainakurkas, forged by Master Suhi of the Dradrien — designed specifically to destroy the enneagram of any Nemovort it slays.

Magestaves

Staff

The second signature warmage weapon — long fighting staves with hoxter pockets, sympathy stones, and spell reservoirs built into the wood.

Baculus

Staff

Minalan's personal staff — the green Alka Alon-crafted Magolith orb fixed atop a carved shaft, containing the Handmaiden enneagram and linked to the Snowflake.

The Magolith

Artifact

The detachable green orb at the head of Minalan's baculus — Alka Alon craft around an ancient enneagram, linked to the Snowflake at Sevendor, Minalan's sovereign magical tool and second mind in combat.

Wands

Wand

Shorter, specialised magical implements — each purpose-built, from the Field Wizards' Stumping Wand to the plain weirwood wands the Alka Alon store in their armouries.

Stones of Power

The specialised snowstone shards and Alka-origin stones of Sevendor mountain.

Allaran Stone

Stone

One of several named magical stones Minalan discovers seeded through Sevendor mountain — an Alka Alon-origin artefact with its own dedicated function, part of the wider Snowflake system.

Library Stones

Stone

Snowstone shards that absorb the contents of any book read while holding one — a library in a pebble, first used to cure Alurra's blindness.

Pocket Stones

Stone

Small witchstone shards or snowstone fragments worn on the person — used as personal amplifiers, sympathy links, or emergency spell reservoirs.

Materials & Substances

Irionite, ainakurkas, Yltedene steel, weirwood, yellow knot coral — the exotic matter of the arcane economy.

Irionite

The green crystalline substance that powers every serious mage — also known as witchstone in common speech. Cleansed shards of the great stone of Sheruel, bonded to a living caster.

Ainakurkas

Material

A rare Dradrien alloy that shatters enneagrams — the metal of Forge's Fury and the Magelaw's only reliable Nemovort-killing weapons.

Weirwood

Material

An Alka Alon-grown magical wood used for staves, wands, and songspell instruments — the preferred shaft material for every serious Alka Alon armament.

Yellow Knot Coral

Material

A gift from the Vundel — a living coral that grows on specific reefs, whose properties are key to several of Minalan's late-series constructs.

Yltedene Steel

Material

The Dradrien's superfine production steel — impossibly light hauberks, razor-edged blades, and the Sky Riders' enchanted spurs all come out of the Yltedene forges.

Thaumaturgic Arts

Hoxter pockets, dioramic modeling, elementals — the working techniques of the trade.

Elementals

Construct

Bound spirits of flame, water, earth, and air conjured by trained warmagi — short-lived, violent, and among the classic calling cards of the warmage class.

Hoxter Pockets

Technique

Extra-dimensional storage spaces woven into wands, staves, and rings — a mage's bag of holding, but anything living put inside comes back dead.

Thaumaturgic Modeling

Technique

The high art of constructing a working miniature of a spell or system — most famously in dioramic magic, where a full-size working model replicates the original at a distance.

Ancient & Colonial

Lost constructs, pre-Inundation intelligences, and the echoes of the Magocracy.

Staff of the Archmage

Construct Lost

Not a staff at all — a Level Five Constructed Intelligence from the colonial era, once governor of Leden City, lost to history with the Inundation but still whispered of in wizardly circles.

Coinage & Economy

The minted currencies of the Magelaw and its neighbours.

Coins of the Magelaw

Currency

The full-denomination Magelaw coinage minted by Banamor and the Karshak lapidaries from Vundel bullion — Anvils, Knots, Hammers, Towers, and Dragons, each mage-hardened against wear and counterfeit.