The Briar Archive: Books 0-5

By C.J. Bernstein

Five years, boundless stories, endless wonder.

The Briar Archive: Volume 1 is the Briarverse completionist’s dream.

Relive the one-of-a-kind interactive saga with a digital boxed set that includes Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ and every story from the first five years of The Briar Archive:

The Monarch Papers: Flora & Fauna
The Monarch Papers: Cosmos & Time
Ackerly Green’s Secret Society
The Search for Magiq
The Book of Briars

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ackerly Green Publishing
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9780999038765

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The Briar Archive

Volume One

C.J. Bernstein

Copyright © 2021 by Ackerly Green Publishing

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ISBN: Digital - 978-0-999038765

1. Fantasy - Contemporary 2. Fiction - Alternate History 3. Fiction - Epistolary

About C.J. Bernstein

An illustration of C.J. Bernstein

C.J. Bernstein is an author, maker, interactive storyteller, and proprietor of a magimystic publishing house.

He lives in the Pacific Northwest (as all good Ebenguards should) with his husband, kids, and dogs.

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Contents

The Briar Archive: Volume 1

Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ

Foreword

C.J. Bernstein

Before You Begin

Philosomancy

Muffled

Spectre

Removal

Un-nameable

Ponder

Untethered

Alert!

Pursuit

Check!

Erm…

Parched

Beckoning

Jellybeans

Devout

Following

There!

Mmm…

Focus

Circle

Charge!

Imperius

Styles

Alterium

Soup!

Ire

Lead

Aural

Crash

eciton

Curio

Fickle

Piece

Illustration

Sequence

Trappings

Alnustarm

Temptation

Startling

Box

Cake

Gloaming

Portal

Book

Wonder

Elbow

Stool

Smell

Jarring

Horn

Beastly

Lens

Burden

Gingerbread

Elixir

Forecast

Forest

Lace

Sluggish

Below

Roam

Address

Drain

Gall

Weeds

Jaunt

Appearances

Packing

Indeed

Cooking

Longhand

Element

Footprint

You Are Ebenguard

You Are Balimora

You Are Thornmouth

You Are Weatherwatch

You Are Flinterforge

You Are Gossmere

The Guide to Magiq Guild-Bearing Assessment

Into Which Guild Has The Guide To Magiq Seen Fit To Place You?

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch

Weatherwatch

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

Weatherwatch:

You Are Ardeonaut

You Are Navimant

You Are Celestant

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

Gossmere:

You Are Auromorne

You Are Diaphane

You Are Eraverane

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

Flinterforge:

You Are Arcessor

You Are Phantorist

You Are Corrilave

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

Ebenguard:

You Are Shoalwarden

You Are Nautilore

You are Marentide

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

Thornmouth:

You Are Luminast

You Are Umbranor

You Are Lunivox

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

Balimora:

You Are Verdurant

You Are Maelisorn

You Are Anivaeus

About C.J. Bernstein

The Monarch Papers: Flora and Fauna

Foreword

Foreword

I. FLORA

1. 1982

2. The Times

3. City Hall Station

4. Sebastian

5. Bears In The Night

6. The Mountaineers

7. The Guide To Magiq

8. Flinterforge

9. Ascender

10. The Heir To Ackerly Green

11. The Rabbit Hole

12. Lachmann

13. The Last Traveler

14. Into The Forest

15. Devoted

16. The Bridge

17. Calling The Past

II. FAUNA

18. The Fall

19. The Cagliostro

20. Campfire

21. Adept

22. A Study In Green

23. Calling The Corners

24. Elements

25. The Complete Translation

26. Snowfall

An Excerpt from the next book in the series:

Remains

You Can Make A Big Difference

The Monarch Papers: Cosmos & Time

I. COSMOS

1. Cold

2. Remains

3. Kemetic Solutions

4. Artifacts

5. No Constants

6. Misplaced Memory

7. Teatime

8. Whistling

9. The Eye

10. Firefighter

11. Forewarned

12. May 31st

13. The Well

II. TIME

14. A Month like a Year

15. Wake Up

16. Separations

17. Traveling

18. Stories In A Dream

19. Windows and Doors

20. Figuration

21. Housekeeping

22. The Lodge

23. Time for Tea

24. The Lantern of Low Hollow

25. Myth and More

26. The Little Red House

27. Wide Awake

28. The Wishing Well

29. The Day of Change

30. Sacrifice

31. The Mountain’s Will

32. Mirumagiqum

Epilogue

You Can Make A Big Difference

Ackerly Green’s Secret Society

Introduction

1. Publisher’s Letter

2. The Lost Post of Deirdre Green

3. The Ackerly Green Secret Society

4. Wonder

5. The Ackerly Green Book Shop

6. A Quick Check-In

7. The Ackerly Green Update: March 2018

8. I looked across the cold and silver swirling sea.

9. The Ghost of Ackerly Green Publishing

10. Wet Woolie

11. The Fan Club

12. Ackerly Green Changes

13. We’ve Done Something

14. Date Night

15. Cellar Door

16. On the Atlantic

17. Saberlane’s Summer

18. The Brooklyn Public Library

19. Moving Office

20. Buzzed

21. Down to City Hall Station

22. The Dreamer

23. Intertwined

24. Of Two Minds

You Can Make A Big Difference

The Search For Magiq

Preface

1. The 30-Day Spell

2. The Neithercouriers

3. A Wall In The World

4. The Cataclysm

5. Peering Arts

6. Elemental Disruption

7. The Wellspring

You Can Make A Big Difference

The Book of Briars

Part I

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Part II

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Part III

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Part IV

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Part V

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Part VI

The Book

Further Reading

Endri 1

Endri 2

Endri 3

You Can Make A Big Difference

By C.J. Bernstein

The Briar Archive: Volume 1

By C.J. Bernstein

Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ

The Monarch Papers: Flora and Fauna

The Monarch Papers: Cosmos & Time

Ackerly Green’s Secret Society

The Search For Magiq

The Book of Briars

Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ

Magimystic Assessment and Guild Identity Quantification

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Foreword

C.J. Bernstein

In the fall of 2005, the remains of Roosevelt Island’s crumbling insane asylum were demolished to make way for condominiums. In the rubble, a worker found the only known copy of Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ. Originally published in 1956, the book had been all but lost to time. The guide was scanned and photographed by interested parties who were dedicated to its survival. But soon after, the guide mysteriously disappeared from their possession and was lost again. 

I won’t reveal how it arrived in my hands years later (a mystery for another time), but my family and I were taken with the guide, to say the least. We read it (or played it, as our two children often said) several times and shared it with many friends, all of whom were also fascinated by it. But, in time, it was inevitably stuffed into the third kitchen drawer over from the oven and forgotten, as many odd objects, like broken buttons and empty spools of thread, are. Though we cherished the book, it seems it wanted to be forgotten. 

Sometime later, I was contacted by those who first scanned the guide after they’d tracked the original to me (another mystery). They’d opened the original scan files and found them corrupted, unreadable. So they’d spent years trying to get the tattered original back. I opened the kitchen drawer and found the guide had turned to flakes of paper and dust. We poured its remains onto the kitchen counter, hoping to salvage something, but the guide was lost. 

Or so we thought. 

That night at dinner, I told my family about the people who’d come looking for the guide. My son ran out of the room and returned moments later with a plain notebook.

I opened the cover and knew what it was immediately. Years prior, while practicing his writing, he’d decided to recreate the guide for himself. So he copied it, word for word, letter for letter. And he’d kept it under his bed for safekeeping, reading it every night by the light of the streetlamp outside his window. I can’t quite explain the feeling of holding it in my hands again: an old friend come to visit. 

This is a faithful reproduction of my son’s reproduction of an odd, little book that no one can quite explain the existence or purpose of. But I will say this: I’ve known dozens of people who have read this guide and found its content, its counsel, to be life-changing. Akin to newfound faith, or lost love returned. Wonder, to put it frankly. Something that powerful— something so needed in this world— is not meant to live alone in the third kitchen drawer over from the oven. 

All we know is that the guide seems to have been a companion piece to a book series that has all but disappeared from history. A series some call the Lost Collection. The search for that collection and the truth behind its disappearance continues to this day. 

I hope you experience the wonder within these pages that so many before you have. Welcome to the world of magiq. 

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Before You Begin

This is the culmination of years of work and dedication, and here it is: the beginning of everything that is to come. You are moments from knowing what you have begged to know.

You must be mentally and physically prepared for the rigors of the following exam. You must center your mind and left justify your body. You must gird your spirit and steady your physical hands.

The guide will look like a collection of strange questions, many of which you won’t be sure how to answer, and that is the point. It is more than an exam. It is a scope that can look into your very spirit, hint at your possible future, and portend your affinity, guild affiliation, and what source you might draw your magimystical power from, if you are adept at magic at all.

For the assessment to be truly effective, you MUST take your time and answer every question as who you are RIGHT NOW, not who you wish to be someday. The guide will know the difference, and if you don’t answer truthfully… well, as the old saying goes, Woe betide those who cross the MAGIQ Guide.

If you do not agree with the outcome, you may, of course, take the exam again at another time. Magimystical currents are everchanging and fickle, as is the truth. And though the Guide is perfect in its execution, you are allowed to choose your own path.

Now close your eyes. Now open them. How did you know that I asked you to open your eyes if they were closed? Do you have transparent eyelids?

Philosomancy

While attempting philosomancy, you accidentally transform yourself into a book during a botched verbafuge spell. Now someone must read you from beginning to end in order to reverse the enchantment.

Would you prefer to be enjoyed by a lone bookworm in the cozy window seat of a musty library?

(The Choice of The Moons)

Please click here to turn to page 34.

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Or would you rather be read aloud to a captivated audience that responds to you with admiration and rapturous applause?

(The Choice of The Sun)

Please click here to turn to page 9.

Muffled

If you now find yourself able to hear the distant sounds of faerie drub ‘n base, this might be a symptom of Faequiver, which can lead to outbreaks of spontaneous rhythmic arm waving.

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Ask your alchemist about Mufflehorn.

Please click here to turn to page 84.

Spectre

If you now find yourself visited by a spectral ancestor— you looked into the haunted jewel again, didn’t you?

Please click here to turn to page 74.

Removal

Ensure you aren’t wearing enchanted clothing of any kind before proceeding further.

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Are you ready to continue?

Please click here to turn to page 71.

Un-nameable

You and your friends are walking home when you are surprised by a huge and hungry un-nameable beast. As the only magimystic, it is your call to action that will decide the fate of your companions.

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Do you reveal yourself, leading the charge to fight this hideous monstrosity before it has a chance to react?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 13.

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Or do you wait to assess its power and disposition before formulating a stratagem that might protect your group, as well as the secret of your skills?

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 45.

Ponder

Is this

a frog

riding a

bicycle

or a

witch?

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If you choose the former, click here to turn to page 64.

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If you choose the latter, click here to turn to page 73.

Untethered

If you now find yourself in a different room than the one you started this assessment in, you might be studywalking.

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Studytethers can help prevent this happening in future assessments.

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Please click here to turn to page 78.

Alert!

The magic emulgent process can be extremely taxing to the neophyte mind.

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If you are still conscious…

…please click here to turn to page 28.

Pursuit

A hippocrow encounters you in a dark wood.

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If you are searching for your escaped spirit,

please click here to turn to page 67.

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If you are retrieving a loved one whom you transmogrified into a fungus,

please click here to turn to page 6.

Check!

Does making and then checking off a list of all the things you need for an adventure fill you with joy and pride?

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 26.

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Or do you hope there will be markets and shops along the way, best to not spoil the spontaneity?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 61.

Erm…

If you still are in possession of most of your memory—

Please click here to turn to page 49.

Parched

If you now find yourself immeasurably thirsty, that is simply because the assessment absorbs most of the water from your body.

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Consider drinking a glass of chilled psychoconut water to rehydrate your mind.

Please click here to turn to page 80.

Beckoning

If you now find yourself aware of something beckoning you from just outside your range of vision, do not try to look at it.

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It is an Assessparition, the ghost of a previous assessment attempting to give you an outdated exam.

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Focus only on my words and slowly click here to turn to page 80.

Jellybeans

You have been tasked with guarding a large jar of jellybeans for a scholar under whom you’ve been studying when a hungry child appears from nowhere and asks if you could spare a handful of beans.

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Do you give the child a few, with a wink and a smile, hoping they have no magimystical importance?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 52.

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Or do you tell the kid to clear off, hopefully not angering a were-urchin in the process?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 18.

Devout

Would you consider yourself blindly devoted to your friends and family?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 8.

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Or determined to succeed at your goals, even if it somewhat distances you from your loved ones?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 11.

Following

Generally, is it better to follow the dictate of your silly but sensitive heart?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 59.

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The reasoned but over-cautious ordinance of your mind?

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 7.

There!

There, what’s—

There’s something moving…

No, it’s all right. Ignore me. It’s gone now.

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Wait…

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No, what’s— there! There! Quick— on your shoulder!

What’s that?

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If you turned to your left,

please click here to turn to page 53.

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If you turned to your right,

please click here to turn to page 15.

Mmm…

If you distinctly smell baked goods, please lean back with a tissue to your nose and cry.

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Otherwise…

Please click here to turn to page 46.

Focus

Cross your fingers.

Stare intensely over your left shoulder.

Conjure your preferred insectile icon.

Spit.

Please click here to turn to page 40.

Circle

What is the anticipated outcome of reciting Nerrisen’s Red Circle?

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The caster becomes a red-painted, wooden hoop for a number of hours equivalent to their casting level.

Please click here to turn and turn and turn to page 53.

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The recipient is forever cursed to highlight, in red pen, all spelling and grammatical errors encountered in written documentation.

Please click here to turn to page 15.

Charge!

If you now find yourself confronted by a tiny army of warrior ants, do not panic.

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They have been sent from ant Susan, and they are yours to command. It is a sign that now is the time to raid the sugar bowl!

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Charge, tiny ants, to victory! (After you call your ant. She misses you.)

And then click here to turn to page 76.

Imperius

You have defeated the Imperius of The Carrion Horde in a languimension outside our own. A difficult choice now awaits you.

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Do you disband the Horde and return home to accept gratitude and a small payment of seasonal vegetables, knowing you’ve freed an enslaved people?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 58.

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Or do you take up the fallen crown and rule the Horde as the new Carrion Imperius, considering the Horde might suffer without a firm leader?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 50.

Styles

What suits your style more?

Saving the day on the fly by the merest whisker?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 12.

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Or

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Executing a meticulous plan to perfection?

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 66.

Alterium

If you now find yourself exhibiting symptoms of Werricle’s Alterium as a result of this assessment, repeat this sentence aloud 5 times to settle your alterial gyrus.

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Not that one; this one.

Please click here to turn to page 82.

Soup!

What would you put first into a seeing soup?

Beans of Remembering?

Please click here to turn to page 41.

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Or

Seeds of Supposing?

Please click here to turn to page 32.

Ire

If you now find yourself annoyed, this is because you have been cross-examined by an IreMonger.

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This is standard policy by the Board of Assessments to ensure fair practice.

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The sensation will pass shortly.

When you feel calmer, please click here to turn to page 80.

Lead

Would you prefer to be remembered as a kind but squishily-soft leader?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 52.

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Or

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A hardened but fair leader?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 18.

Aural

As a side effect of the exam you might sense that your aura has cooled slightly.

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You can warm your aura by pointing your index fingers at your forehead and twirling them in a circular motion until you feel the warmth return.

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Please click here to turn to page 5.

Crash

If you now find yourself feeling downhearted, you might be experiencing an emotional sugar crash.

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Can you describe your immediate reaction when you find an old can at the back of the cupboard and you read the torn and faded label that says Dawson’s Creamed Spinach?

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It might bring up hidden feelings and messages from your childhood that will help to rejuvenate emotional insulin levels.

Please click here to turn to page 84.

eciton

As a side effect of the exam, you might notice you can now read backwards 2% faster.

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Curio

Which of these mystical items would you rather possess?

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The Crystal Clear Path, a gem that shows you the third most likely outcome of any decision.

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 68.

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Fortuity’s Knock, a charm that can, on rare occasion, turn luck in your favor, if it isn’t doing the opposite.

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 29.

Fickle

Complete this well-known saying from the Fellsinger Forrest Tomes:

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"When chopping down branches

to remove the Weedfickle,

best choose the axe over…

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… a rusty wheat sickle!"

Please click here to turn to page 55.

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… a shrivelled thorn pickle!"

Please click here to turn to page 57.

Piece

Imagine you are a Piecemeal, a community of magically animated body parts come together to survive.

Is your preference to be ruled…

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By your collection of hearts?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 58.

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Or

Your confluence of heads?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 50.

Illustration

Look deeply into the haunted illustration of this jewel.

If you are visited by a spectral ancestor,

please click here to turn to page 51.

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If not, never look at this jewel again

and click here to turn to page 72.

Sequence

Complete this sequence;

gathering bowl

sequester

breezesigh

festers’ wort

ankleswords

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vermillion graw

Please click here to turn to page 14.

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gratitude

Please click here to turn to page 27.

Trappings

When choosing a piece of furniture to secure your otherworldly collections, would you prefer…

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An impertinent chest of drawers?

Please click here to turn to page 17.

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Or

---

A wardrobe who can’t keep a secret?

Please click here to turn to page 20.

Alnustarm

Verrsigo tarxacia hyvilt beminicul?

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Gufysarn!

Please click here to turn to page 33.

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Matisnecht!

Please click here to turn to page 22.

Temptation

As a side effect of the exam, you might become desirable to other assessments who will try to court your attention.

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Be warned.

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They might look tempting but they will not match the profile they project.

Our advice is to swiftly click here to turn to page 39.

Startling

Do you…

Embrace the unexpected?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 21.

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Or

Expect the unexpected?

(The Choice of Consideration)

Please click here to turn to page 43.

Box

You’re trapped in a minder’s box, a psychic trap easy to escape with a bit of mind magics.

Do you imagine yourself outside the box?

(The Choice of Believing)

Please click here to turn to page 42.

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Or

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Build a psychic ladder to climb out?

(The Choice of Knowing)

Please click here to turn to page 25.

Cake

What is the recommended baking time for a Festive Swekulvine cake ?

Twenty minutes per pound,

plus fifteen minutes resting time.

Please click here to turn to page 55.

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Until the Swekulvine has cracked

and the juices run clear.

Please click here to turn to page 57.

Gloaming

A gloaming storm cloud threatens to destroy your well-tended herbarium.

Do you summon a primal wind from the nether to blow the storm into the afterworld, thereby changing weather patterns the world over?

Please click here to turn to page 37.

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Or

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Do you cover your garden with a sturdy cloth?

Please click here to turn to page 44.

Portal

If you now find yourself giggling for no apparent reason, you might have inadvertently opened a chortle portal on the page.

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To close it, glare at the word apparent in the above sentence and hold the glare for a count of three.

Please click here to turn to page 82.

Book

The Creeping Tome of Allmaster Terradade yearns to be returned to the Library of Living Pages.

Have you finished your reading yet?!

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Yes!

Please click here to turn to page 33.

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No…

Please click here to turn to page 22.

Wonder

If you now find yourself wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into, this is quite normal.

Wonder is the first step in realizing your true potential in magic.

Embrace wonder.

Please click here to turn to page 74.

Elbow

As a side effect of the exam, you might discover that a small patch of skin on your elbow is glowing.

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Elbow-glow is bestowed on favored students from the Buckledown Muses to facilitate reading under the bedcovers at night.

Please click here to turn to page 31.

Stool

How long is it polite to ponder on the pondering stool?

1 to 2 hours, depending on the time of day.

Please click here to turn to page 14.

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Or

Until the proclamation of knee cramp.

Please click here to turn to page 27.

Smell

As a side effect of the exam, you might now notice your sense of smell is 3% better in low light environments.

Please click here to turn to page 54.

Jarring

As a side effect of the exam, you might find that doors are slightly more ajar than they used to be.

Please click here to turn to page 23.

Horn

Please check your head for antlers,

then click here to turn to page 56.

Beastly

Imagine your ideal beastly familiar.

If it can bite,

please click here to turn to page 19.

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If it can sting,

please click here to turn to page 69.

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If it’s a living, transparent bag of jelly,

please close the guide and wait for further instructions.

Lens

If you still have the full use of your eyes (not counting corrective or destructive lenses),

please click here to turn to page 38.

Burden

You have amassed many items and find yourself struggling to carry the weight. It is time to clear out your explorer’s case.

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You find a dull, unenchanted dagger at the bottom of the case, a gift from your favorite childhood Daggermaster. A sweet but useless keepsake.

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Do you decide to keep the dagger in the bag, for old times’ sake, despite the weight?

(The Choice of Feeling)

Please click here to turn to page 8.

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Or leave it at home, making room for new spoils you’ll likely find on your excursions?

(The Choice of Thinking)

Please click here to turn to page 11.

Gingerbread

You are midway through your search in the woods for the Once-A-Moon Mushroom, when your friend tells you she’s found a gingerbread cottage nearby and wants you to investigate it with her.

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Do you jump at the chance to go exploring, knowing the rare mushrooms might be gone when you return?

(The Choice of Perception)

Please click here to turn to page 63.

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Or

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Do you decide that the expedition comes first and you’ll come back to explore the cottage later, if it hasn’t already been eaten?

(The Choice of Consideration)

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Elixir

You are a servant-golem to a liquimancer. She wishes to reward you for your service to her. She offers you an experimental elixir that might grant you an opportunity to feel true emotions. Consider her offer carefully.

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Would you drink the elixir and risk having your memory erased, should the elixir fail?

(The Choice of Feeling)

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Or would you return the elixir to protect what you’ve learned, knowing the liquimancer might someday refine the formula. (Though, being absentminded, she might also move on to something else altogether and forget.)

(The Choice of Thinking)

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Forecast

As a side effect of the exam, you might now be able to predict inclement weather conditions whilst napping.

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Forest

Imagine a forest where the trees resemble dark, twisted glass and are full of illusory reflections. It would be wise to walk with care along its winding paths, as many of them might lead you into harm’s way.

As you enter a clearing, you see a baby deer about to be attacked by a wolf.

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Do you instinctively leap in to protect the helpless fawn?

(The Choice of Feeling)

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Or do you suspect a trap and back away?

(The Choice of Thinking)

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Lace

Please check that faeries have not tied your bootlaces together

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Sluggish

If you now find yourself mentally exhausted, this is simply due to the fact that mind snails have temporarily taken up residence in your brain while you take this assessment.

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Do not fear. They will move on to another brain in a matter of weeks.

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Below

Above is a binding Sivilous trap.

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Inside, do you see a Snapping Sivilous?

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Or has the trap not yet caught the Sivilous who’s sleeping under your bed?

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Roam

If you now find yourself yearning to roam the dunes of childhoods past, you might have experienced a slight shifting of memory sands during this assessment.

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The sands will settle, in time.

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Address

You have been asked to address the secret Celestial Majesterium for their divine guidance on preventing strife between two guilds.

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Would you rather make copious notes the week before and hone the perfectly worded speech?

(The Choice of Consideration)

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Or

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Do you intend to make a spontaneous, impassioned plea for order?

(The Choice of Perception)

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Drain

If you now find yourself unable to fantasize, that is simply because the assessment temporarily steals your dreams for energy.

Try to picture a pig in a wizard hat.

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Gall

What common mispronunciation galls you more thoroughly:

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Supposably

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Translongitudinal Animastic Substantiation?

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Imagine your response, then toss it into the ever-burning fire of your mind.

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Weeds

Disregard any plant life that might have sprouted from this page.

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Raise your hand, and an instructor will be by momentarily to reap them.

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Jaunt

If you now find yourself walking with a much jauntier step than usual, you have received a Minor Blessing of The Bounce during this assessment.

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All praise The Bounce.

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Appearances

You find a caged baby fennucan on your doorstep. It seems harmless enough, but how do you divine with certainty that it is a true fennucan and not simply a termitian gnole hoping to gain entrance to your home?

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Do you secretly slip curling creeper dust into a bowl of milk for it to drink?

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Or

Do you ask it at least four irreversible questions in hopes of disenchanting its false form?

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Packing

If you now find yourself able to pack a suitcase with more speed and precision, this is because the assessment has re-aligned your vacational spatial awareness essence.

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You will also find you are able to work buffet tongs with more dexterity.

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Indeed

Liquid Fralm.

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Naturally.

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Cooking

You find a recipe for All-Seeing Soup, but the ingredient list is incomplete.

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Do you give it a go anyway, hoping that your beginning alchemical skills will guide you towards a successful concoction? What are the chances a magimystical soup could go wrong?

(The Choice of Believing)

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Do you attempt to determine the missing ingredients with reference tomes and an alchemical process of elimination, rather than risk disaster? After all, only so many things pair well with horrid bridal toe caps.

(The Choice of Knowing)

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Longhand

As a side effect of the exam, you might find your handwriting has marginally improved when drafting thank-you notes.

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Element

You pass by a hungry beggar while you are without an explorer’s ever-ending banquet. From what elemental source do you conjure a meal for her?

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The first breath of becoming.

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Or

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The final gasping ember.

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Footprint

Imagine a gem-eating palenose pixie in your pixie pocket.

Produce the pixie and place its feet in the provided footprint below:

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The palenose will direct you to your next question. (It might also whisper a hint as to the location of that thing that you lost.)

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If you did not bring a pixie pocket to your assessment,

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You Are Ebenguard

Burdened and blessed, you are the shore between land and sea, the horizon between night and day. Others may wander blindly through their lives, adrift on the seas of fate. But part of you has always known your path, always believed there is reason and purpose and a secret order infusing your existence. All existence. You are right.

You have been gifted a higher calling. You are a defender of The Golden Balance, the true hidden harmony of the world. The line that crosses through us all, segments the great forces, and brings order to the chaos of existence. The law of all life. That is what governs us, protects us, guides us.

You’ve probably always felt an innate sense of right and wrong, known your life was guided by a truer current. But you’ve also wondered what to do with that sense of what is true and right in a world of gray that separates who you are from what you do. The truth is you may be a civic-minded advocate, gathering people to a noble cause. Or an artist, inspired and inspiring wonder in others. You might hone your body using martial magic, or sharpen your mind against the whetstone of knowledge.

Truly, you may have several potentials, for you are the light of Ebenguard, and that means you are capable of a great many good things. But do not think of yourself as elite. Know that who you are is not as important as what you do with the life you are given. Take on any endeavor, explore your power and potential, but whatever you do must be in service of the world around you, and to the law of The Golden Balance.

You are a figure for good, for right. You might have been born to be an advocate for justice or a champion for the subjugated, a mediator for forces at war or a storyteller illuminating those in shadow. No matter who you choose to be, when the scales tip to the side of disorder and darkness, you are called to right it, a warrior for peace and truth and harmony. For harmony and true peace are only possible through the dedication and diligence of those willing to swear their life’s work to it.

We stand brave, united on the shores of day and night. We are Ebenguard.

Magimystic Affinity:

Grim’s Convergance

Makepeace

Truth and Calling

Combat Magic

Sand and Stone Scrying

Evolutionary Magimystics

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You Are Balimora

A voice calls to you in the rustle of leaves. The echo in a darkened hollow. Your name is on the breath of the world. Hear it now. While others talk ceaselessly, you listen. Not to the chatter of society, or the empty rules and procedures of civilization. You have always been drawn to the wild, the untamed. The trappings of culture hold no interest for you, nor the false borders and boundaries it provides. Perhaps you hear another call: the words of the land itself. It speaks of desecration and decay, of birth and rebirth. It asks for help, and, in turn, offers it. It calls for a protector and longs to protect under its great canopy.

There are no laws. Natural rule is a lie. The world heeds a higher law. Whether you know it or not, you have been called to tend that deeper balance, The Great Chaos of the verdant world.

This land is as beautiful as it is wild and dangerous, powerful. But still, it needs caretakers, seers, sentinel— those who will take up the mantle, to cut away the blight and nurture the fragile seeds of beauty. Regardless of the ramifications to the unnatural world. You will bring shade where brightest, and light where darkest, for now you know this land has endured longer than memory and deeper than rational thought. And it will continue to endure under your care. For that is your calling. Your love for nature and awareness of a deeper, more verdant truth in the world will lead you to ancient paths of knowledge, and skills to defend it. Lay your hands in the soil and borrow powerful magic, magic that calls on the chaotic source of all magic. You will be granted gifts to destroy and to repair. Under your judgment. Free of law. Only The Great Chaos matters now.

As an agent of the land, your obligation is to seek out the patterns of decay and life reaching for the sky, feel where change is required, and take action.

The land endures. The land, and you, are Balimora.

Magimystic Affinity:

Weathermancy

Uproot

Faulton Fray’s Decay

Charm and Deception

Mend

Bestiary Arts

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You Are Thornmouth

It tears at you, doesn’t it? The void you cannot fill. The itch in your mind that you can’t scratch. Have you ever felt a single night stretch endlessly on and on, as you lost yourself within the pages of a fascinating book? Did you realize at the time that you were performing magic, a rare, innate incantation called The Endless Night of Learning? You were born with a gift, a light that burns inside you, a fire that feeds on knowledge. The more you learn and seek the truth of this world and worlds beyond, study the ancient deeds and lost accounts, or the great forgotten histories, the more brilliant the Mindflame grows."

You are a lantern in a diminished world, lifting your light high, pushing back the shadows with the brilliant fire of knowledge. 

You are a beacon for the world, to help remember the past, understand the present, and shape what is to come. Perhaps you will be an historian, a scientist, astronomer, scholar, teacher. You might long to unravel The Great Historical Unknown, or perhaps explore the connections and systems that underlie this world and what lies above, below… Beyond. All who carry the flame are welcome to share in our solitude of learning, those who carry within them the burning wish to know all are beckoned forth. Hold aloft the light of the Mindflame.

In time you might learn the magimystics to decipher forgotten languages, unravel ciphered texts, piece together the shattered shards of secret ages. You may incite a book to speak its words to you as you coax another to reveal its subliminal subtexts. You will study great magic and learn more than a common mind could ever hope to hold. Knowledge is the ultimate prize in this existence, your life’s reward to find the truth in everything, and to shine all you know down upon the world.

Explorers of then and to come, the reaches beyond, and the source within. We are Thornmouth.

Magimystic Affinity:

Time Shifting

Philosomancy

Second Mind

Astral Thinking

Tome Kindling

Peering Arts

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You Are Weatherwatch

Listen well, my brothers and sisters. Fortune calls to us from the horizon! You’ve been searching for something all your life. But you’ve been told that longing for anything more than what’s around you is fruitless, searching for anything beyond your life a waste. But your heart longs to challenge the words of your parents, teachers, and elders. You are pulled by the string of fate to make your own discoveries, to explore the world for yourself. You ache to forge your own beliefs, blaze unwalked trails. You may be headstrong, but also smart and resourceful. You may be gregarious, having made many friends along your life’s path (and maybe an enemy or two.)

You are undoubtedly spontaneous. Your sharp tongue might land you in a scrape, but you’ll never fear plunging back into the fray. After all, there’s an opportunity to be had, and who knows if it’ll come around again?

Know there’s a reason for your longing, a purpose to your pangs. The thing you seek but cannot name is what Weatherwatchers call The Further Fire. And you will spend your every spare thought, your life’s every moment, hunting it, seeking it, called by it. So heed the call and follow, for the truth you have always wanted to hear is that nothing here is more exhilarating than the wind in your face as you race towards adventure. Nothing is more comforting than the luck of the sea and the blessing of the sky, and no challenge can’t be overcome with a flash of your smile or a slash of your blade! With a little charm, a resourceful plan, and the determination to beat the odds, you will meet the call out there in the unknown and return home to a rousing crowd of those who once doubted you to share the spoils of your victory! 

So come, let us tarry no longer! Let’s head out across the wilder waters. Who knows the dangers we might find there, what wrongs we may right, the endless treasures that await us? What fires we may light and be kindled by in turn!

Onward, to The Further Fire. We are Weatherwatch!

Magimystic Affinity:

Navimancy

The Swift Tongues of Kalivar

Unanchored

Fall Watch

Languidimensional Touch

Torchminder

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You Are Flinterforge

A day spent without soiled hands is a day wasted. You’ve never been one to shy away from big ideas or the hard work required to make those ideas manifest. You are a big thinker, an imaginer of machines to make life better, of curious treatments to make life longer: ways to grow stronger crops, methods to forge stronger tools. You don’t wait for problems to solve themselves. You get your hands dirty and solve them yourself. You’ve probably taught yourself a thousand skills to solve a thousand problems and are still open to learn from others. After all, what good is the sharpest of minds, the keenest of ideas, without the know-how to bring those thoughts into fruition?

The botanist and the farmer. The architect and the carpenter.

Perhaps you took apart your favorite toy as a child just to see how it worked. And upon putting it back together, you might’ve realized it worked better than it did before. Perhaps you are the one with the strange ideas, unique ideas to make the old ways work better. Somewhere inside you is the potential to be an engineer, a tinkerer, a maker. An alchemist. An artificer. Whoever you are, never doubt for a moment that above all, you are a creator. You seek not only to see new light, but to create it. To do what has never been done. And to do what has been done, even better.

You’ve always been drawn to the wonder of breaking and remaking things, both objects and ideas. To understand them, recreate them, improve them. That is The Day’s Work, the purpose of every dawning morning and every glowing dusk. To do all you can with the skills you have, in the short time you are given. All to better our world. Come, explore the possibilities of your ideas, the potential of your discoveries. Push the boundaries of their purpose, and yours. 

Create something no one else could’ve imagined and use it to change everything. You are an ideasmith, and here is where you mine what is possible. We are Flinterforge.

Magimystic Affinity:

Artificer’s Whim

Alchemical Tranfigurations

Undo, Multimystics

Assembling Runes

Many Hands

Breath of Creation

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You Are Gossmere

Can you feel it, the heartbeat of life around us, the call of The Common Drum? A hand brushes against your own, a stranger’s hand. But it’s not unwelcome. Breathe deep, look around, and listen. Take a moment to witness the beauty of the sky, the colors of the trees. Hear the music of the land. Embrace what is around you right here and now. Now take the hand of the one next to you and see that all the colors become more vivid. The light becomes softer, warmer, the sky bigger, more beautiful. The world is not meant to be experienced alone. It is more beautiful when we look upon it together and help those we stand beside to see it more clearly.

You live in this moment, the dance of life. Offering your hand to another for support, encouragement, for solace and hope. Your heartbeats echo together in your grasp. That is The Common Drum. You are the many and the one, a member in a loose, ever-changing assembly of tribes that come together to share in the experience of life, a community that embraces all. Welcoming all who are in need. Respect life, and you are always welcome.

Perhaps you will be a healer, tending to the wounds of the body with curative songs. Or a great champion, fighting to free the enslaved with the shared spirits of brave warriors in your heart. Or perhaps a teacher, expanding and sharing your innate understanding of the world and others with empathy magic. Your magic alone is but a flicker in the face of the bonfire that burns when we are joined. You are here to inspire, entertain, and enkindle. To welcome those eager to learn from what you share, and share in turn in what they are here to offer the world. Breathe deep, see those around you, and listen. Take a moment. See the beauty in their lives, the vivid colors of their world. Hear what they are saying. If they ask for help, do what you can. Listen to their hearts if they are willing to let you. Share in The Common Drum. That is magic.

Life binds us all as one. We all are Gossmere.

Magimystic Affinity:

Communion Magics

Shapeshifting Arts

Therapeutics

Trusted Confidant

Call To Hearth

Choreomancy

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The Guide to Magiq Guild-Bearing Assessment

Into Which Guild Has The Guide To Magiq Seen Fit To Place You?

WEATHERWATCH

GOSSMERE

FLINTERFORGE

EBENGUARD

THORNMOUTH

BALIMORA

Weatherwatch:

Question 1

The trail divulges ahead of you, each path appearing equally worn. Do you:

Follow the sound of low birdsong and choose the uphill trail leading into the dense and shaded forest underbrush?

Follow the sound of running water and choose the exposed downhill trail leading to the river’s end?

Weatherwatch:

Question 2

You are called upon to divine the fortune of your current expedition from the stars, but the constellations are conflicting. Do you:

Read caution from the angle of Haverforn’s shield?

Read strength from the brilliance of Cassitor’s eye?

Weatherwatch:

Question 3

In your scouting, you come upon a grove of Polivar trees with markings on their trunks. A closer look suggests you have stumbled upon an ancient altar of the Searchers Who Came Before. Do you:

Call for another to assist you in cautious, reverent inspection of the site, so as to ensure the rightful documentation and preservation of this noble history?

Take a moment to appreciate the ancient customs, then turn and leave the grove in peace as you found it, striking it from your map so it can’t be sought out again?

Weatherwatch:

Question 3

In your scouting, you come upon a grove of Polivar trees with markings on their trunks. A closer look suggests you have stumbled upon an ancient altar of the Searchers Who Came Before. Do you:

Call for another to assist you in cautious, reverent inspection of the site, so as to ensure the rightful documentation and preservation of this noble history?

Take a moment to appreciate the ancient customs, then turn and leave the grove in peace as you found it, striking it from your map so it can’t be sought out again?

Weatherwatch:

Question 4

When assembling the order of preparatory tasks to be undertaken before an expedition, do you choose to first:

Scrutinize the available literature for mention of fabled magimystical landmarks to search for within the particular ranges of terrain you will be covering?

Research the language and customs of the people you may encounter, to ensure civility and respect on both sides of any potential exchange?

Weatherwatch

Question 4

When assembling the order of preparatory tasks to be undertaken before an expedition, do you choose to first:

Scrutinize the available literature for mention of fabled magimystical landmarks to search for within the particular ranges of terrain you will be covering?

Research the language and customs of the people you may encounter, to ensure civility and respect on both sides of any potential exchange?

Weatherwatch

Question 4

When assembling the order of preparatory tasks to be undertaken before an expedition, do you choose to first:

Scrutinize the available literature for mention of fabled magimystical landmarks to search for within the particular ranges of terrain you will be covering?

Research the language and customs of the people you may encounter, to ensure civility and respect on both sides of any potential exchange?

Weatherwatch:

Question 5

When the Further Fire incenses you to the point of restlessness during the interval between expeditions, how do you quench it?

By absorbing yourself in the written accounts of travelers who have gone before you, using their words to explore and discover by proxy?

By taking a walk through your familiar surroundings and attempting to discover something new in the mundane details that get overlooked on a typical day?

Weatherwatch:

Question 5

When the Further Fire incenses you to the point of restlessness during the interval between expeditions, how do you quench it?

By absorbing yourself in the written accounts of travelers who have gone before you, using their words to explore and discover by proxy?

By taking a walk through your familiar surroundings and attempting to discover something new in the mundane details that get overlooked on a typical day?

Weatherwatch:

Question 5

When the Further Fire incenses you to the point of restlessness during the interval between expeditions, how do you quench it?

By absorbing yourself in the written accounts of travelers who have gone before you, using their words to explore and discover by proxy?

By taking a walk through your familiar surroundings and attempting to discover something new in the mundane details that get overlooked on a typical day?

Weatherwatch:

Question 5

When the Further Fire incenses you to the point of restlessness during the interval between expeditions, how do you quench it?

By absorbing yourself in the written accounts of travelers who have gone before you, using their words to explore and discover by proxy?

By taking a walk through your familiar surroundings and attempting to discover something new in the mundane details that get overlooked on a typical day?

Weatherwatch:

Question 6

Consider this your first and only warning. If you continue past this point, it is with the knowledge that everything you know could be changed irrevocably by the time you return, if you return at all. How will you proceed?

With an open mind, ready to embrace the novelty of adventure and the excitement of discovery without hesitation or reservation.

With a tender heart, in which there will be equal space for the preservation of cherished memories and for new experiences and relationships to take root.

Weatherwatch:

Question 6

Consider this your first and only warning. If you continue past this point, it is with the knowledge that everything you know could be changed irrevocably by the time you return, if you return at all. How will you proceed?

With an open mind, ready to embrace the novelty of adventure and the excitement of discovery without hesitation or reservation.

With a tender heart, in which there will be equal space for the preservation of cherished memories and for new experiences and relationships to take root.

Weatherwatch:

Question 6

Consider this your first and only warning. If you continue past this point, it is with the knowledge that everything you know could be changed irrevocably by the time you return, if you return at all. How will you proceed?

With an open mind, ready to embrace the novelty of adventure and the excitement of discovery without hesitation or reservation.

With a tender heart, in which there will be equal space for the preservation of cherished memories and for new experiences and relationships to take root.

Weatherwatch:

Question 6

Consider this your first and only warning. If you continue past this point, it is with the knowledge that everything you know could be changed irrevocably by the time you return, if you return at all. How will you proceed?

With an open mind, ready to embrace the novelty of adventure and the excitement of discovery without hesitation or reservation.

With a tender heart, in which there will be equal space for the preservation of cherished memories and for new experiences and relationships to take root.

Weatherwatch:

Question 6

Consider this your first and only warning. If you continue past this point, it is with the knowledge that everything you know could be changed irrevocably by the time you return, if you return at all. How will you proceed?

With an open mind, ready to embrace the novelty of adventure and the excitement of discovery without hesitation or reservation.

With a tender heart, in which there will be equal space for the preservation of cherished memories and for new experiences and relationships to take root.

You Are Ardeonaut

Affinity: Halcyor’s Unwinding

There were those who said your aims were foolish, but if it’s foolish to venture into uncertainty, then it is even more foolish to stay where you are. You do not fear the unknown, no more than you fear closing your eyes at the end of each day. If anything, you fear its antithesis: comfort and routine, settling for the mundane. Placidity is not in your blood; you could never be satisfied so long as there are seas to sail and secrets to discover.

You long to see your bow cut through towering white waves, en route to unknown horizons. The thought of an undiscovered speck of land flickering in the lens of your telescope makes your heart pound in hopes of what treasure, mystery, or danger might await you. The favored child of the sun, it casts on you a brilliant fire to light your path and brings others closer to your warmth and brilliance. A light that calls you to your place behind the ship’s wheel.

Whether on land or at sea, you are always at the helm. Your particular leadership skills come so naturally that it often seems as though you were born to command and assign roles, to encourage and entrust, to make difficult decisions when needed. And maybe this is true. At the end of the day, you are the captain your compatriots need you to be in order to seek out the Further Fires of your collective hearts. You understand what they need to see and hear from you to feel their strongest and their bravest, for you know each of them not merely by their faces but by the complexities of their souls: their skills and doubts, the desires and dreams that make them who they are. With you, they feel seen. Following you, they find their purpose. From the precipice upon which you stand, the salt of the sea mingles with the crisp air of first dawn, and it feels as though with each breath, you are inhaling all possibility.

If you were to look over your shoulder, you would find a motley team of dreamers and reachers, wanderers and explorers, all with many, varied talents to offer and skills to share. But they have one thing in common: their belief in you to lead them, walking together towards the next wondrous unknown.

You are Ardeonaut-bearing Weatherwatch, born to lead others ever closer to the sun under which you were born. Look, now, how the sun is born anew; it shines its fire on your next wondrous discovery.

You Are Navimant

Affinity: Phantasmal Accord

Although you are grateful for the small community whose voices still linger in the air as you break away from the pack, you recognize the relief when the untouched woods you come upon eventually fade to silence as you delve deeper into the unknown dark.

You prefer the company of your shadow to the boisterous energy of your crew, savoring the focus that solitude provides as you combine your magiq, experience, and well-honed skills to explore the land and set the pace of those who will walk behind you someday. While others seek trails, you create them. Though the thought of discovering a lost city or ancient ruin is as exciting to you as to the rest of your guild kin, you relish the thrill of being the first and only to step foot on seemingly untouched shores. To see where the path of your unknown adventure might twist and turn as it divulges its secrets to you alone.

Your spontaneity and comfort in the umbrage of deep woods and murky glens have proven invaluable on your lookout for new opportunities, allowing you to peer through the darkness to find useful resources in places where others would feel lost. In the quiet, even through the thickest fog, you can instinctively sense the uncharted way forward. As a result, you often forge ahead alone, seeking and surveying for the best route while the rest of your crew keeps pace steadily behind, allowing you to lead, with complete faith in your abilities to guide them true.

Not