The Huntington Compendium

World of Tyrra · In Game Lore

The Huntington Guide to Formal Magic Components

A Reference for Practitioners

A name alone does not identify a useful component. An ordinary apple and an apple grown by Pippin Fairies may look much alike, while two pieces of the same wood may carry quite different magic. The practitioner must consider the material, its origin, the way it acquired its power, and the work for which it is intended. Age, handling and preparation can matter as much as appearance.

This guide records 140 components in twenty-four material classes. Their properties have been gathered through observation, failed experiments, successful castings and long-kept records. The resulting theories provide a means of recognizing familiar ingredients and testing unfamiliar ones. They do not yet explain every exception. New discoveries may enlarge a class, change a theory, or reveal a component stronger than any presently known. Formal casting has a history and a body of ritual far beyond the scope of this catalogue.

Strength within a stream

The Tyrran Scale of Power, commonly shortened to TSP, measures an ingredient against others of its own Energy Stream. Each stream has a separate range. A rating of four can therefore represent the strongest known Destruction component, while a Spirit component may reach ten. The upper number marks the current limit of the catalogue for that stream.

Energy Stream	Recorded TSP range
Power	1–9
Creation	1–8
Time	1–5
Elemental	1–10
Spirit	1–10
Void	1–5
Destruction	1–4

Energy Stream and material class answer different questions. The stream describes the kind of magic an ingredient contributes; the class identifies what the ingredient is. Feathers belong together as a material class, for example, even though their origins and strengths vary. Knowledge of both allows a caster to eliminate unsuitable ingredients before committing other valuable components to a spell.

Charge availability and independent powers

Positive, neutral and negative describe energy rather than strength. Neutral energy has neither of the other charges and can be influenced. The customary division places Power, Creation, Time, Elemental and Spirit on the positive side, with Void and Destruction on the negative. Individual components require closer attention than that broad division alone can provide.

An unalterable component keeps its nature. An alterable one may acquire greater positive strength or become corrupted into negative energy. The general rule treats negative energy as unalterable. Where an entry supplies a particular limitation, it remains part of the ingredient's description.

Availability has its own terms. Common components are plentiful and comparatively easy to obtain. Rare components are scarce or difficult to acquire. A unique component carries prestige and attracts considerable demand. Special components have an additional use apart from a formal recipe: with the appropriate incantation, they may produce an effect themselves. Such effects are associated with the uncertain body of knowledge called Old Magic.

How an object acquires magic

Scholars have better explanations for the transfer of magic than for the choice of its recipients. Receptive people, creatures and objects can receive, retain and pass on energy; others apparently cannot. The reason for this difference remains unknown. The Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences accepts a number of explanations for transmission. The Society for Arcane Arts and Sciences uses the term endowment for these processes.

Some endowments arise through deliberate work. Intentional Endowment includes carving, forging, burning and imbuing when these acts are directed by magical will. Ancient wizards are especially accomplished at the discipline required. Celestial Endowment comes from an influence above Tyrra, as with a lightning strike, or from material that arrives from above. Such components are exceptionally scarce.

Other endowments depend upon an ongoing relationship. Natural Endowment develops within a magical creature as it grows. A minotaur's horn is one example; the growth needed is relatively short beside the ages demanded by Time components. Emittance Endowment passes from a magical being into its surroundings or possessions. An object repeatedly worn, handled or used can receive this influence. The same process can affect soil beneath a long-established population and then the plants growing there. Goblin Mushrooms demonstrate this passage through the ground. Emittance can also make an essence tangible, producing such substances as Fairy Dust or Hobgoblin Laughter.

Land, age and death account for the remaining forms. Tyrrastial Endowment arises where the energies of the Ancients have accumulated in Tyrra's earth, trees and waters. Things living in, growing from or made out of these places may share the endowment. Time Endowment develops through the repeated accumulation of small amounts of energy. Survival over great ages, slow growth, and the changes brought by time can all produce suitable components. Necro Endowment is associated with death, killing, poison and undeath. It occurs in lethal plants and venoms, the remains of undead creatures, growths nourished by death such as Four Winds Mushrooms, and objects or essences marked by murderous intent or a malignant curse.

The Influence of Dragons

These different processes ultimately depend upon dragons. In the magical understanding of Tyrra, dragons are the enduring source of positive, neutral and negative energies. Their influence passes through the planes and through time; without it, enchantment cannot take place. Every dragon possesses magic, although the ancient dragons sustain a far greater influence than their younger kin.

Dragons are seldom encountered, and a conversation with one is rarer still. A particular dragon may be a patient source of wisdom or an exceedingly dangerous creature. Youth often brings greater violence and less restraint. Their importance to magic offers no protection to an intruder who imposes upon them.

The material classes

The classes below describe both useful habits of identification and the limits of those habits. Some have firm rules; others gather materials whose behavior varies widely. An unknown exception or property should not be treated as proof that none exists.

Materials of earth and craft

Wood

The maker's work can change what a piece of wood contributes. Wands and pendulums may hold stronger magic than the wood from which they were fashioned, and Time or Intentional Endowment can turn an originally positive material neutral or negative. Wood is otherwise considered positive and is said to resist Necro Endowment entirely.

Creation, Elemental, Power and Time all include wooden ingredients. Its recorded endowments include Natural, Emittance, Tyrrastial, Celestial, Intentional and Time. The source and the treatment of a particular piece therefore deserve examination before its appearance is trusted.

Stones Crystals and Sands

Many stones provide a modest ingredient at little difficulty to a collector who knows the right ground. The Barbarian Rune Stone is much stronger than this pattern suggests, as is obsidian. A stone remaining within its natural Elemental stream may become especially potent through the influence of Tyrra or deliberate endowment.

This broad class crosses Power, Time, Elemental and Spirit; its classification also includes Void. Positive and neutral charges are recorded. Crystals are traditionally described as neutral and receptive to surrounding energy. Once a stone has been endowed, it is normally fixed. A stone carrying Tyrrastial or Time Endowment alone can be an exception, but this allowance does not extend to an ingredient already bearing another endowment in combination. Emittance, Celestial and Intentional Endowments also occur in the class.

Tempered Earth

Soils form one of the clearest classes. They are recorded as neutral Elemental ingredients with Tyrrastial Endowment and cannot be corrupted. This resistance is understood as Tyrra's own refusal of negative influence. Among known soils, the white earth of HammerFall provides the greatest strength. No exception to the class rules has been established.

Metals

Keys are particularly valuable examples of a metal's ability to receive and retain magic. Iron, brass, silver and gold all serve this purpose, and high Power grades occur among their crafted forms. Silver keys have the additional reputation of opening voids. Iron alone is credited with giving a weapon or shield resistance to Shatter when the ingredient is spent upon it.

Metal components range from one to nine in strength. Most begin as positive Power ingredients, but shaping or imbuing can increase their potency. Sustained exposure to negative energy, often involving much blood, can corrupt metal over time. Iron can also decay into rust and become a Time component. The recorded streams are Power, Creation and Time, with positive, neutral and negative charges. Intentional working is the customary source of metal components, Meteoric Iron being the stated exception; Emittance, Celestial and Time Endowments also appear in their classification.

Enchanted Glass

A useful glass object can remain in storage until its magic is required, and a spent piece may still be worth selling or bartering as a keepsake. The material is described as retaining its original clarity and resisting negative taint. Sarobar Spheres are the named exception to the usual association with Spirit.

Descriptions of this class place glass in Spirit, Time and Elemental work. Its class record instead lists Power, Spirit and Destruction, allows positive and negative energy, and names Tyrrastial and Intentional Endowments. The individual glass entries remain necessary guides to their particular uses.

Harvested growth and small creatures

Petals Leaves and Herbs

Practitioners often keep gardens for these ingredients. Hanging a harvest above a fireplace to dry can provide supplies throughout the year. Most members of the class are positive Elemental components; poisonous growths instead serve Void magic. Their character cannot be changed by alteration or imbuing. Tyrrastial and Necro Endowments account for the positive and negative examples recorded here.

Fruits and Seeds

Some seeds can remain dormant beyond the usual year's storage and eventually enter another Energy Stream. The acorn is the familiar example: an Elemental ingredient at the beginning of its life can become a Time ingredient after sufficient uninterrupted age. Elven annual harvests make it possible to maintain supplies at both stages.

Fruits and seeds are positive and occur in Power, Time and Elemental. Emittance, Tyrrastial and Time Endowments are recorded. Most are unalterable, with Tyrrastially endowed examples providing the stated exception.

Mushrooms and Spores

Dwarven practitioners have relied upon mushrooms for a very long time. The class reaches every one of the seven streams and contributes both positive and negative energy, giving it an important place in the balance of magic. Grinding, boiling or leaving a specimen raw does not change its magical nature; neither alteration nor imbuing will turn it into another kind of ingredient.

The recorded endowments are Emittance, Time, Tyrrastial and Necro. Accounts of the negative exceptions name Four Winds Mushroom together with Black Mushroom in one description and Hallow's Eve Mushroom in another. Hallow's Eve also has a separate reputation for enabling contact with the dead when properly used.

Moss

Only a few of Tyrra's many mosses are useful components, and a dry specimen is generally preferred. The class occurs in Elemental and Void, with positive, neutral and negative examples. Tyrrastial and Necro Endowments are recorded. A Void moss need not be poisonous merely because it belongs to that stream: poisonous and nonpoisonous forms are both recognized.

Insects and Their Produce

The way an insect affects its handler is a useful distinction within this class. Harmless examples tend to provide positive Creation ingredients with Tyrrastial Endowment. Poisonous ones tend toward negative Void ingredients with Necro Endowment. Some should be used soon after capture, while others demand careful handling regardless of freshness.

Feathers

Ordinary feathers have been collected from forest floors since the earliest practice of magic. Hummingbird, cardinal and Black Swan feathers are named among the common group, with cardinal and swan supplying its stronger examples. Feathers from magical creatures are often remarkable in size, color or both. Collectors commonly add ribbons as a gesture of respect to the source creature.

Creation is the stream assigned to every feather, and positive energy and an unalterable nature are taught as class rules. Natural Endowment is also taught as an absolute, although the customary division distinguishes Tyrrastially endowed common feathers from Naturally endowed magical ones. Most come from birds. The Horse Feather and Red Quill are the two named exceptions to that origin.

Remains of living beings

Blood

The change from a living person to an undead creature can change the character of its blood. Life ordinarily supplies a positive ingredient; Vampire Blood and Black Unicorn Blood are the named negative exceptions. Undead blood is especially associated with destructive and necromantic work.

Blood is considered unalterable. The class discussion places it in Power, Void and Destruction, while the class list gives Power, Destruction and Necro. Natural and Necro Endowments are recorded. Necro remains an endowment elsewhere in this guide rather than an additional numbered Energy Stream.

Pelts and Skins

A pelt's power depends upon the being that grew it, but skin generally resists receiving that being's negative influence. Positive and neutral examples are recorded in Power and Time. Natural and Time Endowments occur, and pelts are considered fixed in nature.

Teeth Tusks and Horns

A creature's use of these parts helps determine the resulting component. An aged tusk or minotaur horn can signify a warrior's maturity and provide Power, while teeth used to bite and tear belong more readily to destructive work. Such remains are difficult trophies to obtain. Wearing a troll tusk or a minotaur horn is believed to lend courage in battle.

Power, Void and Destruction are represented. The class rules describe these components as Naturally endowed and unalterable; the classification also records Necro Endowment and neutral or negative energy.

Claws and Talons

Claws from an enchanted creature generally exceed those of an ordinary beast in strength. Their former use is said to pass positive or negative influence into them. The class record gives neutral and negative charges, Power and Destruction streams, and Natural Endowment. They are unalterable. Those who display them openly may seek courage or wish others to recognize courage already shown.

Bones

Only the bones of magical creatures and beings qualify for this class. They keep well and can be used whole, ground or boiled down, but their dangerous origins make them costly. Pirates may possess Sea Troll Knuckles; rangers may offer Death Knight Bones. Neither source is likely to provide them cheaply.

Bones ordinarily supply Power unless they carry negative energy. The class record lists Power and Void, neutral and negative charges, and Natural or Necro Endowment. Their energy cannot be altered.

Collected and prepared ingredients

Sacred Waters

Age can make a water component considerably stronger. The ice of an ancient glacier or a frost giant's cave illustrates the upper end of this process. Sacred waters are described as pleasant and intoxicating to drink. Their class rules identify them as positive Spirit components, endowed only by Tyrra and incapable of corruption or alteration.

Pearls and Shells

The edible animal can be a welcome addition to a collector's discovery, but only a few shellfish provide useful magic. Their shells offer mild Spirit ingredients. The class account places magical pearls near the middle of the Time range, while its classification assigns the class to Spirit, positive energy and Tyrrastial Endowment. It also describes the class as alterable.

Essence

An essence is easier to keep when it has a physical anchor. Fairy Dust attached to an ash spool becomes the Fairy Throne; an essence held only in air can be lost as soon as its container opens. Bottled Moon Beams are lighter than air and should remain corked until the moment of use.

The source being strongly influences an essence. Fairy Dust and Hobgoblin Laughter are scarce, powerful examples from magical creatures. The class discussion names Power, Spirit and Void; its classification gives Power, Spirit and Creation, positive energy, and an unalterable nature. Emittance, Celestial and Intentional Endowments are recorded.

Oils and Incense

Fragrance can support a sustained meditative state, and some oils or incenses are used to keep negative influences away. These Creation materials are found throughout Tyrra, but they do not keep indefinitely. Even a tightly corked vial stored in darkness preserves them for no more than a year.

The class rules describe them as positive and Tyrrastially endowed. Time also appears in the class record, both as a stream and as an endowment. Tyrran Blood is the named exception to the usual Creation association.

Inks

Two inks are singled out for scroll work. Word Write Ink is associated here with Earth Formal Magic Scrolls and described as Creation; Kraken Ink is used for Celestial Formal Magic Scrolls. The class record lists Spirit, Elemental and Void, with positive or negative energy and Tyrrastial, Natural or Necro Endowment. The catalogue gives each named ink's own classification.

Relics

Relics can come from many peoples and take almost any form. The useful examples are usually no more than four inches high. One explanation holds that centuries of accumulated energy can saturate a small object sufficiently to make it a component, although age and size do not explain every case.

The class has no stated exception to its principal rules: a relic is a neutral Time component with Time Endowment and an unalterable nature.

Ashes

Ash can be prepared before a ritual or made as part of it, provided any stored supply stays dry. Magical scrolls yield stronger ash than special matches. Allowing a match to burn completely gives the greatest available quantity.

The class account identifies WhiteMane Birch as the wood for both scroll paper and matchsticks, with special inks added to the scrolls. Ancient wizards and their apprentices make these objects by hand and commonly barter them in nearby town squares. Ashes are classified as negative Destruction ingredients with Intentional Endowment.

Candles

Lighting activates a Wizard Candle. Although it usually stands no more than six inches high, it can burn for hours and gives off a pleasant scent. Talented apprentices prepare these positive Creation ingredients under an ancient wizard's instruction. Houppelande beeswax, an outer covering of special herbs and sometimes a little Fairy Dust contribute to the finished candle. Its endowment is Intentional.

Power

What supplies Power

Every formal spell requires a Power component. This stream draws upon powerful substances and the influence of enchanted beings. Stones, woods and metals form much of it; iron also links the stream to blood and bone. Eleven classes are named in the general account: Stones, Crystals and Sands; Wood; Blood; Mushrooms; Metals; Fruits and Seeds; Pelts and Skins; Claws and Talons; Essence; Teeth, Tusks and Horns; and Bones.

Emittance, Natural and Intentional Endowments are the processes named in the Power theories. Positive or neutral energy is expected, and the ingredient is considered unalterable. The Athame is the explicit exception to both expectations, remaining responsive to its user's will and taking its charge from the intended spell. Iron, silver and brass receive particular attention among suitable metals and substances containing them.

Settlements creatures and their influence

Elven settlements can change the land around them. The influence requires a long residence and a continuing presence, but it does not require an elf to direct magic into the soil. Nor does it drain the inhabitants. Elves are strengthened by this relationship, and the woods and ground they inhabit are regarded as helping to protect them. Dwarven communities have a similarly striking association with certain mushrooms. These appear around the entrances to mountain kingdoms of ancient lineage without deliberate cultivation, and do not appear elsewhere in the same fashion.

Sarrs also share a strong relationship with Tyrra. These catlike people inhabit Myrr, where the tribes possess their own territories and differ considerably in appearance. They are notably fond of peppermint. Stones receive their emittance particularly well.

Fairies are mischievous relatives of the Elves. They can enchant fruit and produce essences that take physical form, including Fairy Dust. Different fairy peoples affect different harvests. Pippin Fairies tend extensive orchards of small, sweet green apples grown in enchanted soil. Water Fairies inhabit lakes and large ponds and live chiefly upon fish. They are not gardeners, but their presence endows the red juniper berries that grow nearby. These inedible berries provide a fourth-grade Power ingredient.

Like their fairy relatives, pixies enjoy mischief. They favor very old oak forests, whose trees withstand storms and endure for long ages. Their woods can leave visitors intoxicated and confused. A pixie's amusement may depend upon misleading an already lost traveler, and the mushrooms in such a forest deserve particular suspicion.

Tree Ents can remain in one place for ages. They keep watch within thick forests, rarely address a traveler and speak among themselves without audible words. When they choose to move, their form is that of a great walking tree, but few witnesses see this. Branches used for Tree Ent Dust are those that have broken away; collectors do not sever a living limb.

Dragons possess the accumulated strength of exceptionally long lives. Their bodies can supply positive and negative components of great potency. A dragon may offer an enduring friendship and wise counsel, but it is an enemy few practitioners should willingly make. Ancient wizards sometimes keep company with them, carrying news from distant places. These reclusive casters preserve lost spells, magical traditions and secrets. Their knowledge could reward many students, yet apprenticeship remains unusual.

Royal lineage can also receive and transmit Power. In an ancient ruling family, a king's inherited relationship with a long-held home permits Emittance Endowment. The ability remains dormant until the king wears the crown. Human blood, by contrast, bears Natural Endowment as a living force. One form is seldom used, while the rarer kind requires a harvest that puts a life at risk.

Warriors and dangerous neighbors

A minotaur combines the forms of man and bull and takes pride in combat. Its axe is handled with considerable speed and determination. Victory in an honorable contest may win its nose ring, after which the defeated owner can fashion another. Trolls provide a different sort of opponent. They inhabit mountain caves and dark places under bridges, wield immense clubs, and have fought Dwarves over possession of mountains.

Sea Trolls are less well understood. Sailors place them near maelstroms, but whether they cause these waters remains uncertain. Accounts describe a fishtail beneath a body with four arms, each hand ending in two clawed fingers. A crested head, pale gray skin, fiery red eyes, a scarcely visible nose and a projecting mouth of sharp teeth complete the descriptions.

Goblins rarely raid alone. A band of fifty or sixty is common, and an established nest can reach thousands. They occupy swamp caves beneath hanging foliage and can overrun mountain tunnels, becoming a persistent danger to Dwarven holds. Their smaller relationship to Ogres does not make them harmless: they forge weapons and take townspeople for food. Descriptions emphasize a bony face, humanlike eyes and a broad mouth crowded with teeth. A captured thief will often grovel or invent a story, but a rooted nest is difficult to remove.

Hobgoblins generally leave others alone until disturbed. They are intelligent magical tricksters, less immediately fearsome than Goblins but capable of prolonged torment. A victim may be made to laugh without control for an hour or repeatedly fall asleep. An enchanted bottle offers a possible response. If uncorked while the hobgoblin laughs, it can catch Hobgoblin Laughter; discovery brings the creature's amusement to an end and sends it away.

Kobolds are red-skinned goblinoids with large ears shaped like bat wings. Their groups are smaller than Goblin nests, which is attributed to seasonal breeding. Mating in autumn produces litters of up to three in midwinter; the young are grown by spring. Night raids take livestock, small tools, provisions and children. A load that one or two raiders cannot carry is usually abandoned, and bags below seventy pounds are particularly vulnerable. Villagers therefore secure barns and children's windows and bring portable farm equipment indoors when spring hunting parties appear. Lambs, kids and chicks are all at risk. Much kobold speech is a mumble, although a few can imitate words cleverly enough to appear more intelligent. They are regarded as only a little cleverer than Goblins.

A werewolf begins as someone who survives another werewolf's bite. Even a brief sight of the full moon brings the change into a creature sharing human and wolf traits. Its nose can follow prey or another werewolf across miles. Newly afflicted people may remember nothing of a hunt; those who have lived with the curse for a long time may become attached to its power and refuse rescue.

The unidentified source of the Skull Chalice

The animal whose bones became the Skull Chalice has never been identified, and some scholars doubt that it ever will be. One theory places its death during the unnatural cold and snows of year 384, when monsters and lesser elementals emerged in great numbers. A solitary creature may have fallen to those hordes without leaving another record. The resulting bones demonstrate that the creature possessed substantial enchantment; its appearance and identity remain unknown.

The Nimeshab Stone

Record	Value
Catalogue	P1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Stone
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

A Tiger Gorbe can take an expended Nimeshab home to Darqai and bury it for renewed enchantment. Entrusting that return to them expresses respect. The Sarrs' long habitation of the land gives its stones their dependable use in Formal Magic, and buying directly from a Sarr provides assurance of authenticity.

Also called Tiger-Eye, Nimeshab appears in gold, brown, blue and sometimes green, crossed by black strands. Polishing brings out a pearly luster. Each stone is distinctive. The Tiger Gorbe themselves have individually distinctive stripes and particularly favor these stones, which they carry for protection. They believe ancestral spirits dwell within them.

Bel Tradisin Cedar

Record	Value
Catalogue	P1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

For a casting that requires cedar, the wood's origin matters. Only cedar from Bel Tradisin is suitable; another source will leave the spell unsuccessful and the other ingredients wasted. The Cascara Empire includes the kingdom Lumaria, within which Bel Tradisin holds the status of a principality.

Its cedars grow in Amanest, an Elven forest of abundant foliage, waterfalls and rich black soil. The Elves impart their Emittance Endowment to the trees. No age has been established for the forest. It appears on the region's earliest maps, but remained little explored before the Elves settled and prospered there. Historical records identify them as Amanest's first inhabitants.

Human Blood

Record	Value
Catalogue	P1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Blood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Naturally Endowed

A dose of Human Blood must come entirely from one person. Combining several donors' contributions taints it, unlike many other kinds of blood, and does not provide a usable dose. A practitioner can supply their own, but may not survive long enough to perform the intended casting.

Ancient practitioners used this component widely. A few formulas still demand it exclusively; where substitution is possible, modern wizards generally choose stone or wood instead. The quantity is important. Some spells need one dose, others several, and a large requirement may leave a donor dizzy, cause a death followed by resurrection, or consume every drop with fatal results. Saving the donor with a Life spell causes the gathered blood either to evaporate or to lose its magical qualities.

Large supplies sometimes pass through unscrupulous black-market merchants. Their availability does not remove the dangers attached to obtaining and using the component.

The SnowCap Mushroom

Record	Value
Catalogue	P2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Mushroom
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Dwarves are a useful first source for SnowCap Mushrooms. They harvest them in the mountains, and Dwarven practitioners were the first to use them in a magical tradition that now extends back centuries. Many Dwarves also enjoy mushrooms as food, although the SnowCap has a separate place among mild Power ingredients.

Its name comes from BrimRose's SnowCap Mountains. To an inexperienced gatherer it resembles an ordinary mushroom beneath brush, but its usual habitat includes some of Tyrra's highest and steepest peaks. Reaching it can be dangerous. Its potency is believed to come from the Dwarven soil in which it grows.

Athame

Record	Value
Catalogue	P2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

The shape of an Athame concentrates the power already present in raw iron. Wizards forge this knife with magical purpose, commonly assigning the work to apprentices. A pointed blade directs the metal's energy, although the knives themselves vary in size and design.

Iron demands care. Rust spoils the blade's appearance without immediately removing its enchantment, and a wound from a rusted Athame can expose the injured person to the negative energy the rust gives off. In time, rusting iron becomes a Time component. Handling and storage therefore matter even while the knife continues to hold its earlier magic.

Kingsilver

Record	Value
Catalogue	P2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Eight adornments distinguish Kingsilver regardless of the individual king's design. Gems often serve this purpose, and the number signifies infinity. It is sometimes taken as an expression of hope for a lengthy and prosperous reign.

The metal is pure silver drawn from a royal mine once each year specifically for tokens of the king's appreciation. Each king chooses the form and may use personal ornamentation to distinguish the gifts. Small daggers with a fleur-de-lis on the handle are a common choice.

The pieces require royal approval before blessing. Choosing who will receive them is then a lengthy undertaking: recipients have usually distinguished themselves through remarkable acts or sustained loyalty in the kingdom's service. These gifts carry considerable standing as honors, apart from any magical application.

Iron Arrowhead

Record	Value
Catalogue	P3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

An Iron Arrowhead worn as an amulet offers a defensive use quite apart from its place in a formula. Tormented haunting spirits, particularly the Banshees associated with ponds, lakes and rivers, commonly withdraw when they see it. The more powerful may risk approaching anyway.

Its protective boundary is estimated at three feet around the wearer. A Banshee that moves inside that boundary is set ablaze. The movement must come from the Banshee: advancing upon one while wearing the arrowhead does not turn it into an offensive weapon. That discharge exhausts the arrowhead's energies and leaves it unsuitable as a magical ingredient, although it can be enchanted again.

Steel and bone serve for many ordinary arrowheads. Iron provides this additional protection, making it especially worth retaining as an amulet for someone living near water rather than immediately spending it in a casting.

Apple from a Pippin Fairy Tree

Record	Value
Catalogue	P3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Fruits and Seeds
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

A pair of small Pippin Fairy Trees is a rare sight, traditionally welcomed as a favorable sign in love. These trees always grow in pairs and bear polished green apples.

They flower twice each year. The delicate blossoms are red, and a developing apple can be found at the center of each. A little more than three weeks brings the fruit to maturity, changing the appearance of the trees from red blossom to green fruit.

Pixie Oak Wood

Record	Value
Catalogue	P3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Three fingers' worth of Pixie Oak Wood is sufficient for its use as a component. Suitable wood comes from ancient forests where Pixie realms have endured for generations. Oak is exceptionally strong and is also a favorite of the Pixies.

Travelers do not always recognize those realms. Pixies borrow their cousins' practice of arranging Fairy Circles beneath oaks, often in the form of a conspicuous ring of mushrooms. Curiosity draws people toward the circles, while the shade offers weary travelers a tempting place to rest.

The tales tell of captives reduced to Pixie size and put to washing dishes in the kitchens of the Pixie King's Great Halls. Feast days are reputed to be especially hazardous, when the kitchens need more hands. These remain stories about Pixie traps rather than a certainty about every traveler who rests beneath an oak.

Kobold Skin

Record	Value
Catalogue	P4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Pelts and Skins
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Odor is the practical test of a stored Kobold Skin. An odorless piece is the best purchase, and a sound skin generally keeps for about a year. As it ages, the smell grows stronger. Once it is too offensive to keep indoors, the skin is rotting and its magical strength has gone.

The surface is smooth like cattle leather, but considerably less durable. Its source is a goblin-like raider with red skin, small protruding horns, batlike ears and a short nose. Kobolds may reach six feet in height and tend to act more by instinct than intelligence. They raid in groups, with children among their favored prey, and carry captives back to their nests.

Juniper Berries

Record	Value
Catalogue	P4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Fruits & Seeds
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Magical Juniper Berries grow only beside Tyrangel's ponds and lakes inhabited by water Fairies. The Fairies are thought to account for their enchantment. The berries are roughly marble-sized, woody in texture, and red or sometimes purple. Their attractive appearance gives no indication of their disagreeable taste; they are inedible.

Harvesters must contend with the native Juniper Hopper. This bird nests nearby, favors the berries as food and uses them in attracting a mate. A single bird might present little difficulty, but Hoppers gather in territorial flocks. A berry gatherer is treated as an enemy by the whole group and quickly driven away.

Blood from the Heart of a Coward

Record	Value
Catalogue	P4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Blood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Naturally Endowed

Only a small quantity of this yellow blood is needed for considerable potency. It is taken directly from a heart that is still beating, and the donor dies in most cases. The component is not considered illegal, but its manner of acquisition makes possession highly suspicious.

Consent is the center of the argument. A truly fearful person seems unlikely to volunteer for such pain and danger. Against this stands the high price commanded by a rare ingredient, which might persuade even a coward to submit. The amount demanded is also regarded as a measure of potency: a higher price is believed to indicate stronger blood, while easy agreement for little payment casts doubt upon the donor's cowardice.

The blood is available only through the black market. Its suppliers do not provide an open account of either the donor or the collection.

Tree Ent Dust

Record	Value
Catalogue	P4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Naturally Endowed

A purchaser seeking magically fit Tree Ent Dust needs Quentari provenance. No other grade is considered suitable. Quentari holds the largest population of Tree Ents and manufactures and exports most of this grade-four Power ingredient. A different claimed origin raises doubts about quality and the possibility of counterfeiting.

Collection depends upon trust. Elven families with relationships extending across generations gather the rare fallen limbs from the forest floor. They honor the Ents with Eringol Acorns, which the Ents greatly desire. Such permission is not freely available to strangers; the Ents deal with those they know.

Dryness is the essential condition of storage. Kept dry, the dust keeps indefinitely.

Pixie Shrooms

Record	Value
Catalogue	P4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Mushroom
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance and intentional Endowments

The deliberately striking appearance of Pixie Shrooms serves a purpose. A dimpled cap of deep pink or purple contrasts with the stem, attracting attention and tempting the curious. They are said to be grown as lures for intruders in Pixie woods.

Eating them within a Pixie Oak Wood can cause hallucinations. Those affected describe misty journeys through Fairy realms or visits from Pixies entertained by their bewilderment. Whether every such experience is illusion remains uncertain. Eating the mushrooms beyond the Pixies' attention is instead reputed to bring playfulness, happiness and an attractive charm that draws friends. These latter effects belong to legend.

Their recognizable appearance and usefulness as Power components do not depend upon accepting those stories.

Lycanthrope Pelt

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Pelts and skins
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowments

Washing does not remove the scent from a Lycanthrope Pelt, nor do years in storage. That lingering scent attracts Werewolves. A garment or pouch made from the fur may therefore become an unwelcome possession during a full moon.

Werewolf hunters sometimes seek that very effect. They wear the fur to display their success and, during the full moon, to draw Werewolves toward them. Those with no wish to attract a hunt are advised to bury their pelts during that time.

Troll Leather

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Pelts and Skins
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowments

The availability of Troll Leather changed with Dakona Torogoth, the Troll Wars. During the First Cycle's year 533, Dwarves expelled Trolls from the deep caverns and opened the conflict. Their skin, formerly difficult to obtain even for Dwarves because its owners lived so far underground, afterward became familiar stock among casters.

The leather is thin and gray. Its surface may be smooth or dimpled, with a darker shade indicating an older Troll. Its unusual qualities had already earned it a place in magic before the change in supply.

Minotaur Horn

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Teeth, Tusks and Horns
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowment

There is no easy gathering of discarded Minotaur Horns. They neither chip nor break, and obtaining one involves considerable peril. Among Minotaurs, the horn reflects age, survival and male virility. The longest often belong to battle-scarred elders, who deserve particular caution.

A Minotaur combines human and bull characteristics and has a reputation Rangers readily confirm. These raiders attack human settlements for spoils and favor the long axe, wielding a large weapon with force and skill. Their fierce, berserk swings make an encounter dangerous regardless of the value of the intended component.

The Horns of the Kobold

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Teeth, Tusks, and Horns
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

The short horns of a Kobold provide a Power component. The creature has two of them, accompanied by red skin, projecting fangs and large batlike ears. Warm southern regions were its usual home, but large packs have moved north and settled there during recent decades.

Kobolds eat almost anything they can catch and particularly favor children. During raids they repeatedly demand the settlement's children. Their usual weapons are crude enough to break against steel, although some carry steel swords and daggers taken from those they have killed.

A Throne for a Fairy

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Essence
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowments

A genuine Fairy's Throne is an old, used wooden spool obtained by barter. Fairy folk have sat upon it, and their presence is thought to explain the considerable strength it lends to a spell.

Its reputed discovery is told as a child's encounter with Fairies discarding their belongings. The girl exchanged her basket of gathered berries for the spools and arranged them in her dollhouse. For a time, the dolls moved as living things. Whether a little girl truly made that discovery is unknown. The age, previous use and bartered acquisition of the magical spools are more dependable particulars than the identity of their discoverer.

Dragon Claws

Record	Value
Catalogue	P5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Power
Class	claws and Talons
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowments

Smoky mountains offer collectors a place to seek naturally shed Dragon Claws. Dragons lose them frequently, and gathering the fallen claws accounts for most of the supply. The Dragons themselves are reclusive and resent unfamiliar visitors.

Ancient wizards who move freely among Dragons are another frequent source. The tips of all these claws are lacquered, giving them their black finish.

Troll Tusks

Record	Value
Catalogue	P6
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Teeth, Tusks and Horns
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowment

An intact Troll Tusk works regardless of its size; the largest can reach ten inches. These rare tusks lend substantial Power to Formal Magic, but appear infrequently at market. Hunters and Rangers undertake most of the dangerous procurement, and an available supply is worth stocking.

Their owners inhabit bridges and the depths of mountains. Huge and difficult almost beyond killing, Trolls are creatures many people never encounter during a lifetime. That difficulty helps account for the scarcity of the tusks.

A Lightning Struck Oak Wand

Record	Value
Catalogue	P6
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Intentional Endowment & Celestial Endowment

An eighteen-inch wand, stained and sealed, is prepared from the limb of an oak struck by lightning. Its grade is moderate within Power, but the rarity of such material makes the finished wand coveted and expensive. Witnessing the strike itself is an exceptional occurrence.

When a formula calls for this wand, another component cannot take its place. Its particular origin remains essential despite the existence of other enchanted wands.

The Rusty Key

Record	Value
Catalogue	P6
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Rotaria's Barren Coast lies where the Bone Mountains descend to the sea. Sparse trees, stony ground unfit for farming and a few fishing villages describe the coast found in books. Even pirates are said to avoid settling there. Another explanation survives in the stories of a curse.

That legend places buried treasure chests along the rocky shore. Each chest and its matching key were enchanted so that neither physical effort nor other magic could open it. Its own key must be used with an incantation that has since been lost. The keys were scattered far from their chests.

Their connection to those cursed objects gives the Rusty Keys their strength as components.

Blood from a Dragon

Record	Value
Catalogue	P6
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Blood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

News from distant lands and a good story may have more place in a Dragon's friendships than gold. Very old wizards who have spent their lives among Dragons exchange such things, and sometimes spells or rare ingredients as well. These relationships provide most Dragon's Blood, always given voluntarily.

The blood is green and holds substantial magical strength. Suitable formulas can draw powerful healing from it. Wizards part with their supply reluctantly; an offer of ordinary gold is insufficient. A successful trade generally requires something the particular wizard values.

The Skull Chalice

Record	Value
Catalogue	P7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Bone
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowment, Intentional Endowment

A shrunken skull rests in the palms of its own hands, with an arm bone forming the stem beneath it. This construction distinguishes the Skull Chalice, although the identity of the small creature supplying those bones remains unknown.

The events of 384 mark the Great Turtle cycle's decline, beginning with Dakona Yeniathon, translated as warrior of the great cycle. Lesser elementals and monsters appeared in enormous numbers amid the unnatural snow and cold. The unidentified creature supplying these bones belonged to that time. The bones possess potent positive energy, and one theory makes it a victim of the dark creatures overrunning the land.

The completed chalices lay buried for centuries. An expedition in year 593 unearthed hundreds and sent them to the Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences. Scholars could not agree upon their origin. Their strength is considerable, but the supply is finite and their maker's nature remains unresolved.

The Brass Key

Record	Value
Catalogue	P7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Keep six or more Silver Keys apart, or provide Brass Keys alongside them to counter their ability. Bringing such a collection together without that precaution risks the boundaries between worlds.

The Brass Key serves the purpose of closing the tears that Silver Keys can open. After the dangerous Silver Keys were scattered, the Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences sought a means to close those openings. Brass, fashioned deliberately into a key, supplied the answering instrument.

As a spell component it ranks below silver, yet its capacity to close an interplanar opening matches the Silver Key's capacity to make one. Collections of either require careful keeping.

The Nose Ring of a Minotaur

Record	Value
Catalogue	P7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance and Intentional Endowments

The ring marking a male Minotaur's maturity is brass, despite its frequent mistaken identification as gold. A split in the simple hoop allows it to grip the interior of the large snout. A recovered hoop is sealed into a complete circle to retain the component's potency.

The ring is an acquisition that must be earned, rather than purchased or obtained by barter. Victory in a contest against its Minotaur owner offers one dangerous route. A freely given ring instead conveys a considerable honor. Those seeking a supply nevertheless turn to Rangers during war with Minotaurs and to the black market during peace.

The White Wand

Record	Value
Catalogue	P7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance and Intentional Endowments

Participation in the celebrations of the white woods permits a person paying homage there to take one fallen branch. White Mane Birch gathered in this manner is worked into the highly potent White Wand.

Fairies live in these enchanted woods. Wizards walk among the trees and speak to them in search of foresight, while other visitors come throughout the year to meditate and cleanse away ill luck and negative energies. Winter adds to the forest's unusual appearance: white trunks and the surrounding snow can seem to merge during blustery weather.

The Silver Key

Record	Value
Catalogue	P8
Tyrran Scale of Power	Eight
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Metal
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Six Silver Keys brought together are enough to produce rifts without anyone commanding them. Keeping them apart or pairing them with Brass Keys restrains that power. Their scattering in ancient times was an attempt to reduce the danger of holding them together.

The keys were forged to open passages between planes, not ordinary doors. They fit no lock. As their combined power grew beyond control, openings tore through the planes of their own accord. Destroying them requires a return to their place of origin.

The Goblin Mushrooms

Record	Value
Catalogue	P8
Tyrran Scale of Power	Eight
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Mushroom
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Goblin Mushrooms can be found only at night. By their green light, a gatherer also learns that Goblins inhabit the soil beneath them. Goblin energy passes through the earth, which filters away the negative influence and changes the energy taken up by the mushrooms into positive Power.

The Goblins have no use for the mushrooms as components, but an intruder's harvest soon betrays a breach of their territory. Powerful ingredients tempt visitors to fill their sacks. The same glow that reveals the crop then makes those sacks difficult to conceal while the thieves flee through darkness. Hungry Goblins readily seize that opportunity.

Acquisition is dangerous despite the mushrooms' considerable value to a caster. Buying an available supply in quantity is a less uncertain way to keep them at hand.

Knuckles from a Sea Troll

Record	Value
Catalogue	P8
Tyrran Scale of Power	Eight
Energy Stream	Power
Class	bone
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural Endowments

The preparation of Sea Troll Knuckles begins with fingers severed during an encounter at sea. The recovered pieces are boiled until only bone remains, then dried until the bones become white. Few such ingredients reach a practitioner.

Sea Trolls inhabit deep, dark and turbulent waters and ordinarily avoid ships. Their attacks are thought to occur when a lost vessel drifts into their territory. Survivors describe dreadful fighting and the loss of shipmates. A defending sword may leave severed fingers behind, but even someone who escapes the creature must be fortunate enough to recover them.

Dram of Fairy Dust

Record	Value
Catalogue	P9
Tyrran Scale of Power	Nine
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Essence
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Several Fairy clans supply Fairy Dust to the BrimRose Trading Company. How they collect it is unknown outside their own dealings, but its authenticity and potency are established. Casters prize it among their finest ingredients, both for its strength and for the display it adds to a spell.

HobGoblin Laughter

Record	Value
Catalogue	P9
Tyrran Scale of Power	Nine
Energy Stream	Power
Class	Essence
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

Helevorn, the Quentari Institute of Learning and Magic, figures in the rumored discovery of HobGoblin Laughter. After her encounter with a Hobgoblin, a scholar submitted its laughter in a specially enchanted bottle. The possibility of collecting such a thing was itself a surprise.

The component remains seldom obtained. Its scarcity is matched by its standing among the strongest ingredients in current magical practice.

Creation

Magic received through the senses

A Creation ingredient must make a powerful impression upon at least one of the five senses. Strong fragrance, striking color, the light of a candle and the movement of enchanted insects all offer different ways of doing so. The resulting beauty can also help a practitioner become calm and attentive during a ritual.

The general theories describe Creation as positive, with Natural and Tyrrastial Endowments. Six classes are named: Oils and Incense, Insects and Their Produce, Feathers, Essence, Mushrooms and Wood. Ancient wizards also demonstrate Intentional working within this stream. They preserve Old Magic and can imbue objects, though their customary companions are more often dragons and phoenixes than other people.

Feathered beings and the smaller harvests

A phoenix renews its life by burning and rising again from the ashes. Its brilliant orange plumage is rarely seen in the wild. An ancient wizard may prepare a golden perch in hope of such a companion, but the bird decides whether to accept the wizard. Useful feathers are shed as a newly reborn phoenix grows into an adult, an event that does not provide a frequent harvest.

Griffins combine a lion's body with an eagle's head and wings. Their association with the sovereign beast and bird gives them a reputation for unusual majesty. They are considered benevolent, yet possess enough strength to overcome a bear. The white Winged Horse is even more often dismissed as legend. A sighting is considered fortunate, and its magical feathers are found upon mountain cliffs.

Harpies can be mistaken for women in cloaks, especially in dim light beneath a waning moon. During mating season, a green-cloaked figure whistling along a dark road may be a harpy seeking to lead a drunken man away. Their birdlike form is less apparent from a distance than a traveler might expect.

A young Snowy Owl remains with its parents through the year or more needed to reach adulthood. The parents form a lifelong pair in Icewood Forest, northwest of Volta. The nest defines the limit of the thick white feathers' magical power. Cardinals are smaller birds, about six inches high, with fine blood-red plumage. Only the birds of Loretold Mountain in Therendry supply magical cardinal feathers; collectors search the forest floor and abandoned nests there.

Ravenholt farmers sometimes lose a harvest to the sudden arrival of dozens of Giant Ravens, only to see no birds at all the following day. The flocks gather rapidly and leave just as quickly. They do not migrate, however, and remain through winter. These uncommon birds are revered locally: farmers set aside extra corn and sunflower acreage for them, while feathers are decorated with ribbons in their honor. Peacocks are also rare. A high carriage of the head and a three-foot, iridescent tail with conspicuous eye markings distinguish them. Most feathers reach practitioners through specialist procurers.

Houppelande Bees are described as fuzzy, thumb-sized insects marked in yellow and black. Hoblings of Houppelande commonly keep them for their exceptionally sweet honey. Honey production continues from spring through autumn. Winter brings their period of hibernation.

Flutter-bys belong to the place called the Forest and occur nowhere else. Their tubular bodies, long antennae and broad round wings distinguish them from butterflies; both size and color vary. Glow Bugs have their own restricted home, the Forest of Creation. They resemble larger lightning bugs, illuminating the woods at night and bringing a Tyrrastially endowed display to formal rituals. Pink Moths are scarce, plump and fuzzy, measuring about half a thumb in length. Special handlers who raise and tend them provide most available specimens.

Sandalwood Oil

Record	Value
Catalogue	C1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Oils and herbs
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Town markets commonly stock Sandalwood Oil for perfume as well as magic. Its tranquil, earthy scent becomes entrancing in a ritual, affecting those attending as well as the practitioner. It is also among the potent oils chosen for anointing Wizard Candles.

Ash Forest supplies the finest magical sandalwood oil from its groves. It belongs to the Duchy of Ashbury and contains some of Avalon's greatest stands of cedar, ash and sandalwood. The tree itself yields the oil.

Snowy Owl Nesting Feathers

Record	Value
Catalogue	C1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Waiting until the young have left a nest is the usual way to gather Snowy Owl Nesting Feathers. The white plumes of hatchlings provide a mild Creation ingredient, and an abandoned nest can yield several handfuls. Attempting collection while the parents still guard their young is considerably more difficult.

These Owls inhabit Icewood Forest, far northwest of Volta. Long winters coat the forest in ice, while its evergreen pines give the nonmigrating birds shelter throughout the year. Icewood nearly matches the size of Nishapur Forest, southwest of Lake Quentari, and also houses Goblins and their kin. The Owls are elusive, highly proficient night hunters whose white plumage and high perches make them difficult to see.

Goose feathers are sometimes offered in their place. A buyer without the knowledge to distinguish them should obtain this component from a reputable supplier.

Houppelande Honey

Record	Value
Catalogue	C1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	insects and Produce
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Only Houppelande Honey is suitable for magical formulas. The honey of this Hobling homeland is golden, silky and unusually sweet, with qualities surpassing those of ordinary honey. Its bees may also help explain the exceptional produce for which Houppelande Shire is known.

In this locality, the bees are smaller than common honeybees. They establish hives beside anything from a small garden to a large crop and pollinate the flowers without requiring a farmer's care. Their activity is seasonal: winter brings hibernation, followed by their return when the first flowers open.

Fengate Red Velvet

Record	Value
Catalogue	C1
Tyrran Scale of Power	one
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Insects an d their produce
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Fengate alone exports the magical velvet made from the Red Silky. This caterpillar moth lives only in the surrounding woods, giving the settlement its monopoly upon the material.

The creature produces a blood-red thread. Collectors gather the prized silk and work it into swatches intended specifically for magic, producing the smooth velvet used by practitioners.

Hummingbird Feathers

Record	Value
Catalogue	C1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feathers
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Biata merchants are a promising source of Hummingbird Feathers, as they are of many other plumes. The tiny feathers have an unmistakable iridescence.

Their owner is among Tyrra's smallest birds, roughly the size of a thumb and easily mistaken at first for a large insect. It can hover and move backward in flight, a capacity no other bird shares. Its speed can make it appear to disappear between blinks. The swift, purposeful changes in its flight help distinguish it from an insect when a closer look is possible.

Forest Flutter Bys

Record	Value
Catalogue	C2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Insects and their Produce
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Terrestrial Endowment

Releasing Forest Flutter-Bys often marks the completion of a casting. Practitioners frequently keep them until the last component is needed, then let them fly free to signal the ceremony's end.

They come from the area in Southland known simply as the Forest. Much of that woodland remains unexplored and supports an abundance of living wonders. Flutter-Bys occur in several colors, with beauty common to all of them.

The Glow Bug

Record	Value
Catalogue	C2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Insects
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

A jar is a poor place to keep a Glow Bug alive. It is best collected shortly before a casting; if a longer wait is necessary, a properly cared-for cricket cage offers another way to house it until use.

These luminous insects originate in the Creation forest, where their lights transform the woods at night. They are gathered as carefully as Forest Flutter-Bys and released at the end of a ceremony rather than injured. Many practitioners choose gardens for such rituals so that the released insects enter familiar surroundings. Their illumination is especially striking during a nighttime casting.

Ausoun Oil

Record	Value
Catalogue	C2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	oils & Incense
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Obtaining Ausoun Oil takes considerable work even though the flowers are common. Each tiny jasmine blossom yields only a minute drop, making refinement a slow occupation. The finished oil has a strong, sweet fragrance and is also known as Jasmine oil.

The white flowers grow among interlaced vines beside the Ausoun River, which marks Therendry's western border. Bloom begins in early spring, and the riverside remains fragrant into late summer. The oil can be worn as perfume, applied to Wizard Candles, or used without such preparation as a mild Creation component.

The White Wizard Candle

Record	Value
Catalogue	C2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Candles
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Intentional endowment

Engraved magical symbols distinguish White Wizard Candles from ordinary candles. Apprentices serving very powerful ancient wizards make them expressly for magical use, imparting Intentional Endowment during their work.

The wizards who imbue and barter these candles commonly bring them to markets and town squares. Cold, dry storage keeps them in good condition.

The Pink Moth

Record	Value
Catalogue	C3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Insects and Produce
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

A Pink Moth must be kept unharmed and cared for until its ceremonial release. Letting it go during the casting is what releases its magic. The creature is gentle, furry and vivid pink, usually measuring no more than an inch.

It spins a deep-purple silk that, once woven, is stronger magically than the moth itself. Finding a wild specimen is exceptionally unlikely; a dealer in rare components is a much more dependable source and can help a practitioner establish a supply for later use. Its rarity does not excuse neglect while it waits for a ritual.

Patchouli

Record	Value
Catalogue	C3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Oils and Incense
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Seasonal availability makes storage particularly useful for Patchouli. A supply can last through the year if kept dry and dark at a slightly warm temperature. Neither hot nor cold conditions are suitable, and buying enough when it reaches market helps avoid a later shortage.

The oil comes from the petals of the Patchouli flower. Its heavy, earthy fragrance relaxes a practitioner and allows magical abilities to work freely. As a personal scent it can be seductive, lingering for hours after the wearer has ceased to notice it.

Peacock Feather

Record	Value
Catalogue	C3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

An iridescent eye at the end of the feather identifies a Peacock plume. Teal and blue are its usual colors. Instead of a tight arrangement of fine hairs, its length is made up of loose, slender strands with a ropelike appearance.

These feathers are exceptionally tall and large, exceeding those of every other bird in length. Their distinctive coloring and form make them readily recognizable.

Shimmerglen Oil

Record	Value
Catalogue	C3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	oils & incense
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The bright, zesty scent of Shimmerglen Oil is valued for lifting a low mood. Known also as Ylang Ylang Oil, it contributes its own positive energy directly to a practitioner's magical manifestations.

Its name follows its place of origin, Shimmerglen Forest. The woodland meets Avendale's border as well as that of Evendarr's Duchy of Elysia.

Loretold Mountain Cardinal Feathers

Record	Value
Catalogue	C4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feathers

A formula calling for a mild measure of power generally needs only a small handful of these feathers. They must come from the Cardinals of Loretold Mountain in Therendry; ordinary Cardinals do not all provide potent feathers. The mountain birds' plumes are fine and blood-red.

The birds are never injured for collection. Molted feathers can be gathered beneath their roosts, or recovered from nests after the birds have abandoned them.

The Wizard Quill

Record	Value
Catalogue	C4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feathers
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Pressing the Wizard Quill to paper produces a red writing fluid. Despite its appearance, the fluid is not blood: it is the pigment-bearing liquid responsible for the feather's own bright color.

Wizards usually keep this large red plume for work upon their spellbooks, although they may also spend it in a formal casting. A number of magical feathers are harder to obtain. Few, however, receive greater admiration for their appearance.

Black Swan Feathers

Record	Value
Catalogue	C4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feathers
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Scholars at Helevorn in Quentari recognized the feathers' magic after receiving a sample from a frightened maskmaker. The craftsperson had fastened the plumes onto a mask and experienced tingling skin, weightlessness and the exhilaration of apparent flight upon wearing it. The mask was taken off in alarm before the feathers were forwarded for examination. Their recognition at Helevorn led to a place on the Tyrran Scale of Power.

Their owners are far less understood. Fewer than four sightings have been recorded during the last three centuries, leading many practitioners to regard the magical component as mythical. Every reported bird has been solitary and fully grown. No one has observed a birth. One theory holds that Black Swans are born to white parents and begin with their broodmates' appearance, changing color only as they mature. Their early life remains uncertain.

Giant Raven Feather

Record	Value
Catalogue	C4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Ravenholt's farmers have found a use for the feathers left by their persistent visitors. When attempts to defend crops failed, they began planting an additional acre for the Giant Ravens and selling the fallen feathers in compensation. Flocks numbering in the hundreds visit corn, and feathers also turn up among the sunflowers where the birds feed.

Giant Ravens remain in Ravenholt rather than migrating and have roosted there since written history began. Their intelligence exceeds that of other known birds, even the falcon. They are social as well as clever.

A feather has the familiar raven shape and black color, but on a much larger scale. Respect for the bird shapes its handling: gathered plumes receive careful treatment and decorative ribbons as an expression of appreciation.

Harpys Green Feather

Record	Value
Catalogue	C5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feathers
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Biata have a special arrangement in the Harpy-feather trade. Most other merchants selling the valuable plumes have acquired them from a Biata merchant, making that trade a useful route for practitioners able to pay their considerable price in gold.

Attempting collection independently brings the Harpies themselves into the matter. They defend their groves fiercely and pursue trespassers until they have left. Rangers who meet them generally know to keep their distance. The strength of the Creation component explains its desirability without making its acquisition less dangerous.

Incense Matches

Record	Value
Catalogue	C5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Oils & Incense
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Striking the first Incense Match spends the component's magic. The remaining matches provide fragrance and enjoyment, but no further magical strength.

The choice of materials—Ash Sandalwood, Ausoun oil and/or Shimmerglen Oil—does not change the strength of the finished component. A practitioner's preference among those scents therefore concerns the fragrance rather than the amount of magic obtained.

Blu Moon Mushroom

Record	Value
Catalogue	C7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Mushroom
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Daylight leaves Blu Moon Mushrooms looking like ordinary bluish growths. They absorb the sun's rays, then shine after dark with a light resembling the moon. Only at night can a gatherer identify the magical mushrooms along the cliffs bordering the Fellmist Sea.

The Isles De Hoenig rise from the western part of that sea. Its waters are warmer than the surrounding ocean, and cool nights bring a fog that can be both unsettling and dangerous. Ships have often wrecked in it. Local belief regards each glowing mushroom as a warning to sailors of rocks concealed beneath the waves.

The Horse Feather

Record	Value
Catalogue	C7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowments

A white feather between seven and nine inches long may be one of the few signs of a flying steed. These creatures survived by withdrawing into remote, uninhabited regions, although many people regard them as extinct or mythical.

No one has seen a living steed for many years. Molted feathers and an occasional hoofprint provide the remaining evidence in those distant places. The component is therefore prized for its rarity as well as its considerable potency.

Phoenix Molting Feathers

Record	Value
Catalogue	C8
Tyrran Scale of Power	Eight
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

A Phoenix's rapid growth supplies these soft red and orange feathers. They form the newborn's undercoat and are shed as the hatchling quickly becomes an adult.

Rebirth produces many of them, but its fiery occurrence cannot be predicted. Supplies may consequently be difficult to find, and stumbling upon the feathers by chance remains unusual.

Griffin Vardik Feather

Record	Value
Catalogue	C8
Tyrran Scale of Power	Eight
Energy Stream	Creation
Class	Feather
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Some Griffin Vardik Feathers are recovered after battle; others are found upon the forest floor below a roost. Neither route makes collection a safe occupation. Griffins are benevolent creatures, yet also formidable predators that are difficult to drive off, and entering their woods carries its own danger.

Their feathers are rare, potent and worth substantial gold. Those willing to accept the risks maintain a supply that practitioners would otherwise have considerable difficulty obtaining.

Time

The work of age

Time components require more than an old appearance. Some must ripen for years before they become useful; others come from exceptionally long-lived creatures or from materials that time has transformed. Ancient relics are generally more than two hundred years old and may survive from any former civilization.

Time Endowment alone is named in the stream's general rules, and positive, neutral and negative charges are all allowed. Crystals are identified as its only alterable components. The six classes listed in the theories are Stones, Crystals and Sands; Metals; Fruits and Seeds; Mushrooms; Oils and Incense; and Pelts and Skins. Individual records also describe relics and other particular qualifications.

Rust

Record	Value
Catalogue	T1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Metal
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Time Endowments

Measured portions of rust are commonly sold in little white envelopes. A supply should remain dry, and the collector should avoid touching it directly. The ingredient is the fine red residue left when iron deteriorates over decades. Reducing so strong a metal to a useful dust requires considerably more time than its ordinary appearance suggests.

An Ancient Relic

Record	Value
Catalogue	T1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Ancient Relic
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Time Endowment

Documentation or an expert's examination is essential when buying a relic for magic. Genuine antiquity is required, but even a truly ancient object may have no power. Neither its culture of origin nor its appearance provides a dependable test.

Useful examples are generally at most four inches high. A disputed explanation attributes their mild enchantment to centuries of energy accumulating within so small an object. Why one relic becomes receptive and another does not remains unanswered. Among the particularly scarce examples are Dakona Tarogoth Warrior busts, cast from HammerFall Dirt to commemorate warriors killed in the Troll wars.

One Hundred Year Old Pine Cone

Record	Value
Catalogue	T1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Fruits and Seeds

Silver at the tips distinguishes a mature cone from one still awaiting its century of storage. Quentari collectors keep an annual cycle of harvesting, storing and bringing the oldest cones to market, much as they do with Eringol Acorns. The unusual response of Quentari's pines to time has not been explained. After one hundred years, their cones become magical.

Smokey Quartz Crystal

Record	Value
Catalogue	T1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Time Endowment

Breaking this crystal ends its magic. While intact, it preserves something of the thoughts of everyone who handles it. An attuned holder may receive stray impressions that belong to a previous owner, glimpsed indistinctly within the smoky interior. The sensation of one's own thoughts entering the stone is familiar to those who work with it.

Quartz requires millennia to form. Smokey Quartz has not acquired the purity needed to grant clear sight, although its dark, shifting appearance can hold a practitioner's attention.

Spores of a Winter Mushroom

Record	Value
Catalogue	T2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

A useful spore has a completely flat stem and black or speckled coloring. Once it has rooted, it is no longer a magical ingredient. Young spores begin beige, then become black and marbled as they mature. They resemble minute button mushrooms, with oval caps and flat undersides.

The parent takes decades to mature on snowy mountain slopes. Look near the edge of the thaw, especially beside rocks that offer shelter from storms and avalanches. A thick stem raises the mushroom about nine inches above the ground. Its cap commonly reaches six and a half inches, though specimens of eight inches have been measured.

Spores develop upside down beneath that cap and drop during winter when ready to take root. After shedding them, the old mushroom withers over the new growth, providing food and protection. Collection must precede the spores' rooting.

Tyrran Blood

Record	Value
Catalogue	T2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Oil and Incense
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowments

Collectors draw this odorless, thick black substance from the bottoms of very deep caves. Its name has not settled whether it is truly blood. It is assumed to be as ancient as Tyrra. Unless used at once, it should be put away in darkness.

Rose Quartz Crystal

Record	Value
Catalogue	T2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sand
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

Rose Quartz is worn, in either its rough or polished form, for its reputed ability to ease heartbreak. Its milky rose color also conceals the faint impressions it holds of previous handlers. An attuned practitioner may experience another person's thoughts, but these remain fragmentary and difficult to distinguish.

Like Smokey Quartz, it lacks the purity required for clear sight. Handling can leave the impression that the stone is recording the holder's thoughts. Its magic depends upon an intact crystal; a break destroys that property.

Petrified Wood

Record	Value
Catalogue	T3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Stone, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Time Endowment

Weight matters more than a merchant's shaping of this ingredient. A usable piece must weigh more than one ounce, whatever decorative form has been made for sale. It needs no particular storage treatment and remains an attractive curiosity after its magic is spent.

The transformation from wood to stone is uncommon. When it occurs, the source is most often an ancient oak forest or Pixie Woods. Time has changed a material that began its existence in another form into a stone component.

The Velveteen Snake Skin

Record	Value
Catalogue	T3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Pelts
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

A cast skin becomes available only after a Velveteen Snake's first shedding, at maturity some one hundred and twenty years into its life. Thereafter it sheds at three-year intervals. The green and black skin has both the appearance and feel of velvet.

These secluded snakes live near BrimRose, although villagers seldom see them. They are thought to be small relatives of the Basilisk, sharing its general form. Most of their lives are spent in hibernation, interrupted to seek a mate. No lifespan has been reliably recorded; accounts credit them with centuries, whereas captivity kills them within a few days.

Clear Quartz Crystal

Record	Value
Catalogue	T4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Stones, Crystals, and Sands
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

Learning communication through a clear sphere can occupy most of a skilled apprentice's life, with time set aside each day for practice. Ancient wizards devote decades to mastering it, gaining insight and, when properly attuned, a means of communicating with other wizards through their crystals. It is quartz in its purest state.

A sphere retains the thoughts of its handlers and impressions of what it has witnessed. Those memories remain even after the crystal has been used as a formal component, locked within it throughout its long existence. A holder may feel that current thoughts are being preserved as well. Breaking the stone destroys its magic. The respectful response is to return the damaged crystal to Tyrra for healing.

Sands of Time

Record	Value
Catalogue	T4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

The brass capsule, with an hourglass set into its center, is easier to recognize than the place from which its contents came. Collectors have concealed the source for centuries. Goods pass between merchants meeting on the plains and along caravan routes until the trail back to the original shore is lost.

That shore lies in uninhabited lands across the Sea of Akopel. Arilar, the Jardari Lands, Galerus and Killgriv border this enclosed sea, whose unusual creatures predate recorded history. Somewhere along the distant miles of beach, the Sands of Time are gathered and bottled.

The Relic Mushroom

Record	Value
Catalogue	T5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

Solid gray shows that a Relic Mushroom is ready for magical use. It begins black and grows beside large stones and rock formations, reaching no more than two inches in height. Its endurance differs from that of most mushrooms, but no one has established how long it lives.

Dreggs of One Thousand Year Old Elven Wine

Record	Value
Catalogue	T5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Time
Class	fruits and seeds
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Time Endowment

Eledhel grapes provide the powerful starting material for this wine; more than a thousand years of aging produce the ingredient used in Time magic. The sweet, dry wine is reserved for celebrations, festivities and other special occasions. Its dreggs rank among the strongest known Time components.

One Hundred Year Old Eringol Acorn

Record	Value
Catalogue	T5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Time
Class	Fruits and Seeds
Energy	Positive

Wood Elves of southern Eringol maintain stores far older than the people who will eventually sell them. They began harvesting the local acorns when their Elemental properties were recognized after settlement. A century later, the oldest supplies revealed a second use, and annual collection continued.

The useful stages are sharply separated. During its first month, an acorn supplies an Elemental ingredient of strength one. After that month it has no magical use until it has passed one hundred years, when it becomes a Time ingredient of exceptional strength. A golden underside and a cap that has darkened to deep brown identify the aged form.

Elemental

The Influence of Tyrra

Elemental ingredients receive their magic from Tyrra: they may be soil, material within the soil, or growth nourished by it. Positive, neutral and negative charges are possible. The general rules assign Tyrrastial Endowment to every Elemental and permit alteration only in wooden components.

Seven material groups are named: Wood; Fruits and Seeds; Herbs, Petals and Leaves; Stones, Crystals and Sands; Inks; Mushrooms; and Soils. The catalogue records the particular histories and endowments of each ingredient alongside these broad rules.

Oak Wood

Record	Value
Catalogue	E1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Collection traditionally begins with a knock upon the tree and a request for permission. Three fingers' worth of wood is enough for a formal spell. Oak is exceptionally strong, surpassed by Ash, and an old grove can possess magic even when no pixies inhabit it.

Oak's association with dependable strength gives it a protective reputation. Pixies and forest spirits are said to spare travelers who carry it because they revere the tree. Wood stolen from the very forest being crossed has the opposite effect: its possession is an offense for which the inhabitants take particular pleasure in revenge. Ancient oaks are favored homes for pixies and their mischief.

The Acorn

Record	Value
Catalogue	E1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Herbs and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

An authenticity stamp marks the Eringol harvest. An acorn of another origin does not qualify for the young Elemental form, which must be spent while fresh. Few ingredients make the subsequent change of stream: after a century the former Elemental becomes a strong Time component. Between those useful stages, the aging acorn has neither application, as described in its century-old form.

RoseMary

Record	Value
Catalogue	E1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Herbs and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Burning is unnecessary to release RoseMary's power during formal work; its pungent scent is already sufficient. The herb serves as a kitchen spice in some gardens, but practitioners find much wider uses for it. It is especially favored by women of the craft and planted around homes to discourage unwanted essences. The person remembered by the name RoseMary is unknown, although the name suggests someone regarded as worth remembering.

Rue

Record	Value
Catalogue	E1
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Herbs and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Monthly harvesters take only the outer leaves from the long-established Rue groves of Nebulonde. For the rest of the month the groves are deliberately left alone. Rue is difficult to cultivate, and the growers fear that interference would interrupt the flourishing of plants that have survived for centuries. In addition to its formal use, the herb is burned to repel negative energy.

Mugwort

Record	Value
Catalogue	E2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Herbs and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

A small coal is used to burn Mugwort and activate it during formal conjuring. This is among the oldest ingredients in the practice. Outside a formal recipe it may be burned, or taken as tea, to encourage visions in sleep.

Black Ash

Record	Value
Catalogue	E2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The Black Ash of Nebulonde is a Tyrrastially endowed wood suitable for spells and the making of scrolls. Ash already has a valued place in ordinary craft: its strength and versatility make it a customary choice for the finest bows and arrows. The particular trees grown in Nebulonde carry the additional magical quality.

Dirt from a Crossroads

Record	Value
Catalogue	E2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	soil
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Trust in the collector matters when buying crossroads dirt. Nomadic Gypsy merchants gather it on their journeys between towns and offer it for sale or barter. A reliable merchant can distinguish a useful site from an ordinary crossing.

Only crossroads where energies converge provide the ingredient. Persistent wind can indicate such a meeting of influences, but the existence of intersecting roads alone does not make their soil magical.

Sage

Record	Value
Catalogue	E2
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Herbs and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

At the start of a conjuring, Sage clears negative influence and charges the work that follows. Its fragrance is strong enough for a single leaf to scent a room. Burning it also serves the wider custom of discouraging ill fortune and inviting good.

Royal Herb is another name for Sage. It was burned in 458's year of Mourning following the assassination of the royal family.

Word Write Ink

Record	Value
Catalogue	E3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Ink
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Gnomes may accept formal-magic mushrooms in barter for the berries needed to make this ink. They will not ordinarily sell Cheery Berries, and picking them before ripeness seems a poor use to people who would rather turn the harvest into wine. Cheery Wine itself is also difficult to obtain from them.

The maker begins with unripe berries reduced to pulp. Gentle boiling comes next, followed by straining and thinning. The resulting dark violet ink serves formal scroll making. A practitioner able to acquire the berries can undertake the preparation personally.

Kyn and Kyth Stones

Record	Value
Catalogue	E3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Use two stones together when a formal recipe calls for Kyn & Kyth. The pair clings together with an attraction resembling magnetism, and the pair is required to activate the spell ingredient. A different use calls for the reverse practice: a stone carried to improve intuition should be kept without a mate.

The black, mirrorlike stones occur in clusters. Deposits can be large once found, although finding them is uncommon. Their name also appears as Kin & Kith. In year 66, Blackstone presented Evendarr with two large examples to mark the union of their kingdoms and Blackstone's loyalty to it.

Red Cap Moss

Record	Value
Catalogue	E3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Mushrooms, spores and moss
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

BrimRose Commons supplies this orange-red moss from the banks of a little river. Its color remains constant between spring growth and the customary autumn harvest.

That persistent color drew Elsabeth Huntington's attention during the settlement of the Commons in 615. Lady Huntington, a scholar of the Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences with experience in magic, tested the growth and found magical properties. Samples sent to the Academy were confirmed and entered into the catalogue. It is the most recently documented component in this account.

The Saxon Ash Wand

Record	Value
Catalogue	E3
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Wood
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Natural and Intentional Endowment

A wizard generally values a Saxon wand more highly than an ordinary practitioner and may bargain persistently for one. An owner who advertises the wand among unfamiliar company should expect interest. It is uncommon, expensive and regarded as a privileged possession.

For centuries, the Saxon Clan has passed down the craft and supplied the finest Ash from its own trees. Ash is harder to carve than even oak, and a proper wand is said to require months of work. The family's care in growing, harvesting and shaping the wood is part of the inherited trade.

WhiteMane Birch Wood

Record	Value
Catalogue	E4
Tyrran Scale of Power	four
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Wood
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

In the frosty season, the sacred WhiteMane groves host a week of celebration called the Nights of Light. Tents fill the woods. Candles in tall hurricane lanterns are placed along the trees, while gifts of food and spirits, songs and stories express goodwill among the visitors.

No other known tree shares WhiteMane's white bark, which gives it a royal standing in the regard of those closest to Tyrra. Fairies revere the wood and commonly make their homes there. Whether the birches draw the fairies or the fairies encourage the birches remains unsettled; their appearances are so closely matched that either explanation is offered.

Nonfairy peoples rarely settle within the groves, but visitors come steadily to meditate or seek understanding in their quiet surroundings. Some report visions when low mist hangs over the ground.

Kitheria Button Mushrooms

Record	Value
Catalogue	E4
Tyrran Scale of Power	four
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

These mushrooms entered trade with Quentari in year 36, at the beginning of the trading relationship between Dwarves and Elves. Their Elemental strength is four despite an appearance easily mistaken for ordinary growth. A Kitheria Button Mushroom is light brown, stands no higher than three inches and has a cap shaped like an upturned bowl.

Ambush Alley Black Dirt

Record	Value
Catalogue	E4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Soil
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The necessary harvest is taken at the crossroads of Ambush Alley in Avendale during a Blu Moon. The calendar described here contains thirteen full moons each year; when two fall within one month, the second is the Blu Moon.

Under that influence, the black earth receives a celestial blessing that makes it the strongest crossroads soil presently known. Ambush Alley Black Earth is another name for the same soil.

Bearded Cave Petals

Record	Value
Catalogue	E4
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Leaves and Petals
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The harvest dates to 576, when Dwarves settled the Tower Hills at the daughterhold identified as their first. The flowers thrive at the shaded entrances of the Bearded Caves and serve as useful, relatively mild Elemental ingredients.

The flower resembles a tulip, with purple petals carried on a tall, slender but strong stem. Thin leaves droop from it. Particularly prized specimens are purple throughout, including the stem and leaves.

Raishuban Petals

Record	Value
Catalogue	E5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Leaves and Petals
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

An authentic purchased supply should have come from Ellentari. Dark Elves gather the rare black flowers among the red Raishuban bushes in Elfstone, the forest above their home. The sought-after petals are velvety and black; the common red flowers growing beside them are not the ingredient described here.

HammerFall Dirt

Record	Value
Catalogue	E5
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Soil
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Experiments with the silky white soil of HammerFall established its usefulness as an Elemental ingredient. Discovery accompanied the Dwarves' founding of the settlement in 106. HammerFall lies within the Grey Hills. That settlement is identified as their third daughterhold.

Quentari Leaves

Record	Value
Catalogue	E7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Petals, Leaves and Herbs
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The Harvest Full Moon determines the annual gathering of these large maple and oak leaves. Autumn gives them their strongest magic as well as vivid red, orange and yellow coloring. Once collected, they can remain fully potent for as much as a year in a dark, dry cupboard, even after drying out.

Leaves were among the goods exchanged when Quentari and the Dwarves established trade in year 36.

Summer Cheeries

Record	Value
Catalogue	E7
Tyrran Scale of Power	Seven
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	fruits and seeds
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Whole Summer Cheeries or an inky preparation of them can be added to a magical mixture to work alongside its other ingredients. Gnomes more commonly ferment the abundant annual harvest into a sweet liquor for summer festivals. Some of that liquor reaches the markets during the season.

Wood fairies favor the fruit, and woodland pixies regard it as a delicacy. Its place in festivities extends well beyond its value to Elemental casting.

Eledhel Grapes

Record	Value
Catalogue	E7
Tyrran Scale of Power	seven
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Fruit and Seeds
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Quentari soil provides the surest test of the concentrated magical strain: it will take root nowhere else. Color does not distinguish it from the original fruit. The grapes may be matte purple, ruby red or bright green, and some bunches mix glossy black and red.

The Surface Elves found the little wild grape after returning above ground. Its pleasant taste and euphoric effect led to the continuing use of the original line for mead. Caretakers later developed a more concentrated strain specifically suited to strong Elemental magic.

Barbarian Rune Stone

Record	Value
Catalogue	E10
Tyrran Scale of Power	Ten
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrran Endowment, intentional endowment

Neither the number of these stones nor their makers and original purpose is known. They became known to this account through Barbarian hordes encountered in the Northern Wastes in 599. The name Northern Waste Stone records that encounter rather than a confirmed quarry: comparable stones have never been found in the region.

Legend attributes their engraved forms and extraordinary power to a celestial blessing under the thirteenth full moon. They stand at the highest recorded Elemental grade.

Obsidian Stones

Record	Value
Catalogue	E10
Tyrran Scale of Power	Ten
Energy Stream	Elemental
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Blackstone's trade includes smooth, tumbled obsidian commonly worn about the neck for protection. The abundance of black stone is widely offered as the reason for the place's name. The material is lustrous black with a soft, silky appearance.

Its darkness also supports a belief that it can assist invisibility. Quite apart from that reputation, obsidian provides a convenient and durable Elemental ingredient at the highest recorded grade. It is readily used in formal work and stores well.

Spirit

Water and what it carries

Spirit includes water, frozen water, life sustained by snow and materials that come from water. Pearls, Kraken Ink and shore sand belong to this understanding; glass and mirrors made from such sand can share it. Celestial essences, whether visible or unseen, extend the stream beyond tangible waters.

The general theories describe Spirit as positive and unalterable, with Tyrrastial or Celestial Endowment. Six classes are named: Water; Pearls and Shells; Inks; Essence; Stones, Crystals and Sands; and Enchanted Glass.

Makers and inhabitants

Gnomish hospitality often centers upon Summer Cheery, a remarkably sweet and potent liquor. Cupboards are well supplied with the little river-stone glass mugs made to hold it, most no higher than three inches. Offering another drink in such a mug is considered unlucky.

Frost Giants are among Tyrra's most ancient inhabitants. They live in small tribal groups within ice caverns of comparable age; some believe the giants originally hollowed them out. They are unaccustomed to strangers. Conflict between tribes can send blizzards and deep snow into the valleys beneath their homes.

Not every kraken is a ship-destroying monster. Some are docile creatures no longer than eighteen inches. The ink required for magic comes from the Mighty Kraken, which lives in the ocean depths and sometimes attacks merchant shipping. Once wrapped around a vessel, it cannot be dislodged. Survivors who kill one seldom neglect the rare and costly ink, though the battle offers little prospect of an easy harvest.

Water from the Lake of Sighs

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Collect the magical water from the small pool fed directly by the underground caverns, before it overflows into the lake. The undiluted supply is the ingredient; the great lake beyond it is sustained by caverns that remain unexplored and stays unusually cold throughout the year.

The Lake of Sighs is large enough to resemble a small inland sea. Corador, Crossroads Keep, Dragonreach, Hadran, Remlick and Valoria share the trade across its waters with the countries of the Pendullum and the Nations of both the Dark Alliance and the Light Alliance. Its name is attributed to the first explorers camping beside it, who heard strange whispers and sighs amid the bitter wind on stormy nights.

Loca Barnuss Shells

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Pearls and Shells
Energy	Positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Thirteen is a fortunate catch to the fishers of Lake Quentari. It recalls the year's thirteen moons and the relationship between moon and tide that they revere. Spiral Loca Barnus shells sometimes wash ashore, while traps take the living shellfish alongside crabs and lobsters.

The catch is sold locally with the day's fish. More than a dozen can furnish the delicacy traditionally prepared in sauces or fish stews; catches below a dozen are customarily returned to the water.

The Perfect Shell

Record	Value
Classification	Not supplied

A flawless shell is required: a nick, chip or discoloration destroys its suitability. The fragile shells are often a little off-white, making a genuinely perfect specimen harder to obtain than the name might suggest. Clammers may discard them while keeping the pearl and the meat, itself a local delicacy.

Both the shell and its pearl take their names from Perfect in Blackstone. Scholars seek the shell for its reputed assistance in retaining knowledge before a mentor's examination. Drinking SweetWater from it while studying scrolls combines their effects. Steeping it in Mugwort Tea is another use, intended to encourage prophetic dreams. Owners who prize these continuing abilities often decline to spend the shell on a formal casting.

The Living Heart of the Moon

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Stones, Crystals and Sands
Energy	positive
Endowments	Celestial Endowment

Collection takes place on new-moon nights, forty feet beneath the surface of a lake otherwise described as moonlit. In complete darkness the stones glow strongly enough to illuminate much of the deep water. Their character is unlike that of other Tyrran stones.

Sweet Water

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Spirit

Scholars and practitioners favor this sweet, faintly blue water when concentration is required. It relaxes the body, clears the mind for meditation and makes sustained thought easier. During magic, it helps the caster set aside distractions.

Its Spirit properties were discovered in year 29, when the Dwarves founded their second daughterhold at Kitheria, also called Sweet Water. It has served Spirit work since that discovery.

The Perfect Pearl

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Shells and Pearls
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Ten pearls together provide the strength-two ingredient. Each is transparent and smaller than a child's marble, so the quantity matters more than the size of any single pearl.

The lagoon just off Perfect in Blackstone supplies them. A flourishing local clamming trade makes these pearls plentiful there, despite the refinement and clarity implied by their name.

Maelstrom Water

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The collector must approach an ocean whirlpool closely enough to take water without being drawn under. These currents vary from small disturbances to very broad, deadly waters. Most are associated with Sea Trolls, though it remains unclear whether the creatures create the maelstrom or come to it for its force. A purchased bottle commonly carries its seller's account of surviving the collection.

Ice from the Crystal Glacier

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Crystal Glacier ice keeps its cold and its solid form instead of melting. The glacier itself is exceedingly rare. The lasting ice is the unusual property for which this ingredient is known.

Pure Water from a Blood Glacier

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Gathering requires a descent into the frigid water around the glacier, where prolonged exposure can kill. The source ice lies underwater at the glacier's base and predates recorded history. Water taken from it has a deep red color.

First Dew of Spring

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Roughly seven drops suffice for a spell requiring this ingredient. The annual collection follows a set sequence: put cleansed jars outside at about ten in the evening on March 20, retrieve them at sunrise on March 21, then seal them and leave them for a while in the rising sunlight. March 21 is the first-dew date used in this practice.

Hot Ice

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Water releases the power of Hot Ice for magical use. Bare hands should not be used to handle it, as this otherwise unique ice burns skin on contact.

The Gnome Mug

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Enchanted Glass
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Old mugs may be bartered from Gnomish tavern keepers for yeast, hops or sometimes mead, especially during festivals. Receiving a mug directly is a considerable honor. Though common, these treasured heirlooms may remain with a family for generations. Their small size approximates a shot glass.

The original owner does not account for the magic. Stones from sacred rivers are ground, melted clear and shaped into the small glass vessels intended for Cheery Wine. Holding liquor allows the glass to absorb its spirit qualities. Negative influence can taint the mug and destroy its magical usefulness, so its treatment remains important even after purchase.

Shugar Glass

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Enchanted Glass
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

A metal ring and handle often make Shugar Glass easier to use, but the clear lens itself is the alchemist's achievement. It enlarges objects seen through it and can start a fire by concentrating sunlight.

Ancient wizard-alchemists make it from the white, sugar-like sand of Shugar Beach on the Green Coast. The beach takes its name from that appearance and extends only five hundred feet.

Snow from the Cave of a Frost Giant

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Water
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Old ice is the desired harvest within the caverns near frozen mountain summits. These chambers are as ancient as the mountains and make natural homes for Frost Giants. A collector may therefore meet a tall, heavily built inhabitant with little tolerance for an intruder. The remoteness of the source does not make its collection private or safe.

Blue Snow Cap Mushrooms

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Six
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	positive

Permanent snow and ice on the SnowCap Mountains sustain this large mushroom. Blue color continues from the stem into the pointed cap, accompanied by tiny white speckles. Its conspicuous appearance does not make it common. The enduring, undisturbed snow is believed to provide its magical qualities.

Smaller, more common brown SnowCap Mushrooms grow on the same mountains. Their magical properties differ; this blue form belongs to Spirit.

Bottled Moon Beams

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Ten
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Essence
Energy	positive
Endowments	Celestial Endowment

The full moon provides the strongest opportunity to draw beams into tiny enchanted bottles. Once captured, their continuing glow does not use up their power. The bottle must remain closed until needed: this essence is lighter than air and escapes when released.

Kraken Ink

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Ten
Energy Stream	Spirit
Class	Ink
Energy	positive
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Celestial Formal Magic Scrolls can be inscribed with this exceptionally strong Spirit ingredient. Its source is the Mighty Kraken of the deep ocean, associated with the destruction of merchant ships. Obtaining it means surviving an encounter regarded as almost certainly fatal. It consequently remains rare, expensive and among the most powerful inks available for formal scroll work.

Void

Death and the absence of life

Void draws upon things that kill and things whose former life has ended. The general theories assign negative energy, Necro Endowment and an unalterable nature to the entire stream. Their short list names only Poisons, Moss, Bones and Blood, although individual ingredients in the catalogue occupy additional classes.

Poison is a frequent property, but the stream includes more than toxic substances. Some components reach ordinary markets only rarely. Hemlock Extract, and possibly the Assassin's Dagger, are more likely to be offered through concealed trade.

The creatures behind the components

Necromancers turn fallen warriors into Death Knights, binding them as obedient soldiers. Dark magic increases their strength while a berserk, euphoric state drives attacks upon anyone close enough. One can readily fight half a dozen men.

Reports of undead belong with the town magistrate without delay, since the sighting may reveal a necromancer working nearby. Necromancers summon these creatures and turn them loose against settlements. A solitary zombie approaching someone occupied with daily work can present as much danger as a visible horde. The disruption has led to spells designed specifically for their dissipation.

Waspari hunt as a hive. These enormous, carnivorous bees bear yellow and black stripes and red claws. They often forage after rain, paralyzing prey and carrying it back to be cocooned for later consumption. The sound of an approaching swarm is usually audible well before the attackers arrive.

The Basilisk is a stealthy and patient ambush predator, capable of swallowing a person whole. An oversized boar is favored prey, and even a slight fang wound can paralyze it. Reports credit its gaze with killing power. Merely seeing the creature is not said to be fatal; attracting its notice is the greater danger.

Vampires differ from mindless undead. Many have spent centuries acquiring education, wealth and the refinement needed to pass unnoticed in society. Their powers include command of winds, unnatural strength and the ability to enthrall through a glance. They usually act at night, although some tolerate daylight while remaining in shade. Draining a human takes less than three minutes. Survival of a lesser bite may instead lead the victim into vampirism.

Wolfs Bane

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Petals, Leaves and Herbs
Energy	negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Forest households hang Wolfsbane at windows and awnings to discourage werewolves. Its otherwise subtle odor is intensely disagreeable to their extraordinary sense of smell. The deterrent cannot stop an attack already made; once the creature has found its quarry, a silvered sword and considerable fortune may be required.

Hunters also use the poison against man-eating wolves, and it is effective against their cursed counterparts. Werewolves can follow a scent across miles. The ingredient warrants careful handling in magical practice.

NightShade

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Petals, Leaves and Herbs
Energy	negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

For formal casting, less than a palmful of leaves is sufficient, and their presence supplies the required magic. No pulping is necessary for that use. The leaves are poisonous, however; assassins crush them to expose the poison and coat arrowheads for killing shots. Handling should reflect that danger.

Red Wasp Venom

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	void
Class	Insects and their product
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

A local keeper can provide an authentic, correctly measured vial while sparing the practitioner most of the handling. The thick, sticky red venom required for a ritual commonly represents the yield of at least twenty bees. One vial supplies a spell.

The creature called a Red Wasp is described as an aggressive bee. Approaching its hive provokes attacks, and its sting produces considerable pain and skin irritation. Death is uncommon but possible. Access to a keeper's expertise is therefore valuable as well as convenient.

Scorpion Venom

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Insects and their Produce
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Ask a traveling supplier which farm provided the venom if a continuing supply is needed. Most poison specialists remain local rather than carrying their trade from town to town, though a traveling merchant may occasionally have it. Black-market dealings are also common because possession can invite questions from a constable.

The ingredient is a dark, sticky fluid, poisonous when swallowed; a tiny vial is sufficient. The scorpion's tail ends in a stinger that can deliver a swift, lethal strike. Buying from someone experienced in poisons avoids the need to attempt that harvest personally.

Mummy Moss

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Moss
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Wait until the moss has withered, dried and died before collecting it. The required formal use is simply to place it with the other ingredients. Steeping can make it highly toxic, and handling calls for care.

Ancient burial grounds provide its habitat. Growth starts late in autumn as other plants die back or become dormant, continues through cold weather with little sun, and ends when spring warmth returns.

Death Knight Bones

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	void
Class	Bones
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

A direct purchase from a ranger can cost far less than the same bones after a merchant has acquired them. Traders buy these rare remains whenever possible and commonly resell at twice their cost or more. Rangers patrol threats to the people and stability of the land and prefer to travel lightly; the first fair offer may relieve them of a burden. An exploitative offer can end any prospect of later business.

A small pouch of charcoal-colored fragments is enough. Fingertips, toes, broken ribs and pieces of larger bones are usual. Their distinctive appearance makes a convincing counterfeit difficult. Their origin in the necromancer's enslaved warriors accounts for both scarcity and danger of acquisition.

Finger of the Undead

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	void
Class	bones
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Do not break the finger until its power can be contained. A break releases the energy whether or not a spell is underway, and other strong ingredients are needed to keep that energy under control. A finger retaining two knuckles is preferred for effective use.

The component is pale and stiff, usually consisting of old, dry bone beneath a powdery, leathery covering. It is consequently fragile. Traveling warriors who have fought the undead supply most examples, and the fingers remain prized for their contribution to magic.

The Black Spot

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Ink
Energy	Positive: Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

In the Bay of Pecare, a dispute among pirates or fugitives can end with a cursed mark rather than an open fight. The busy port draws both those seeking fortune and those avoiding discovery. Pirates reserve the Black Spot especially for traitors, dishonorable thieves and cowards. A final handshake can transfer it to the intended victim.

The thin ink begins as an exotic poisonous flower from the bay, dried, reduced to powder and mixed with water. Its unusual property is activation after prolonged exposure to air. Applied straight from a sealed jar to a palm, it leaves an unexposed layer against the hand while the surface becomes poisonous. Gloves conceal the preparation and prevent its spread. After the transfer, seawater is used to remove the remaining ink promptly.

The victim retains a black mark upon the hand. According to the curse's reputation, whispering shadows follow the marked person until the offense has been confessed and the wrong repaired.

Mummy Essence

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Essence
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Emittance Endowment

An apprentice may be sent to collect this ingredient from a mausoleum unopened for centuries. The collection method belongs to the wizards' private knowledge. A town with a nearby wizard can therefore offer a reasonably accessible supply without revealing how it was obtained.

The explanation offered for the essence concerns the departure of a soul. Death is thought capable of leaving a Void; within a sealed crypt, that energy remains and accumulates into Mummy Essence.

Waspari Venom

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	void
Class	Insects and their Produce
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

The loud buzz offers a prospective victim an opportunity to flee before these agile fliers strike. A group may contain a dozen or more, and a solitary hunter is unusual. Waspari keep remote hives but may cover hundreds of miles in a day, scavenging or taking prey whenever an opportunity appears.

Each is roughly the size of a person, with yellow and black markings. Its venom is poisonous, extremely painful and potentially fatal. That venom provides the Void ingredient.

Hemlock Extract

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	void
Class	Petals, Leaves and Herbs
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Swallowing the thick black extract is fatal; its poisonous action is described as requiring ingestion. It has consequently been used in both assassination attempts and suicide since its discovery. In formal work it is among the stronger poisonous ingredients and supplies a high-grade Void component. Its handling requires corresponding care.

The Fang of a Basilisk

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	void
Class	Teeth, Tusks and Horns
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Venom from these fangs is compared in strength with hemlock. Winning it requires confronting an ancient reptile with a body some thirty feet long, a spiked back and a horned head resembling a dragon's.

The creature moves quickly and attacks suddenly. Its gaze can stop a person in place through a stunning effect, adding to the danger of its strike. Its standing as the king of snakes is well earned among those who seek the fang.

The Dagger of an Assassin

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Metal
Energy	Positive: Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Use of this expensive component is commonly advised soon after acquisition. Necro-endowed objects sometimes attract misfortune, making a prolonged stay among stored ingredients undesirable.

Ordinary pointed, forged metal does not readily receive surrounding energy. The killing of innocents, or repeated slaughter of living victims, can give an iron dagger the negative influence of Necro Endowment. Such blades pass on when their former killers lose, sell or are defeated for them. The people offering them may be as ruthless and unpredictable as those former owners.

Black Horn Poison

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	Void
Class	Teeth, Tusks and Horns
Energy	Positive: Negative
Endowments	Natural and Necro Endowment

A small vial supplies the full magical requirement. The clear, sticky fluid occasionally seeps from the tip of a Black Unicorn's horn and can act through a mere scratch. Some victims fall into a prolonged deep sleep; others die immediately.

The source animal is comparable in size to a Clydesdale. When threatened, it may rear, kick or trample an attacker, or fight with the poisoned horn as a swordsman uses a blade.

Vampire Blood

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	void
Class	Bloods
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

An airtight black jar is required for storage. More than three minutes of sunlight in a single exposure destroys the ingredient's usefulness. Supplies are difficult to obtain.

Vampirism permanently changes human blood from its positive living state to negative energy. The change is described as a transformation rather than a passing illness. Its resulting ingredient is called Void here, while the same account also associates the corrupted blood with Destruction.

Four Winds Mushroom

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Five
Energy Stream	void
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Necro Endowment

Collect only after a specimen has dried out and is certainly dead. These uncommon little black mushrooms grow nowhere but graveyards, hidden among brush. Early spring is the season to look, often near Mummy Moss. That neighboring growth is a useful clue for only two or three weeks at the start of spring, when the two life cycles overlap.

Destruction

Components of destructive work

Fire and destructive force characterize this stream. Its general rules describe negative, unalterable energy and allow Natural Endowment. Seven classes are named: Wood; Teeth, Tusks and Horns; Ashes; Enchanted Glass; Blood; Claws and Talons; and Mushrooms. The prepared ingredients in the catalogue also record their particular methods of endowment.

Raiding peoples and forest creatures

Pointed ears, sharp teeth and a green cast to the skin mark the Goblins described here. They establish themselves in mountain tunnels or swamp country. Once a mountain is overrun, its dark, winding passages make any attempt to drive them out difficult, and the people sent in may become lost. Raids upon towns and villages are conducted in hordes.

Orcs make their own thick, crude and heavy weapons and wield them with great force. Thousands can gather for war. A camp may remain their home for years before the group moves again, but movement can be as overwhelming as an attack. Such sightings should be reported to the proper officials. Rangers, rather than ordinary hunters, are the appropriate people to confront these warlike creatures.

The Dark Lord of the Woods is associated with the corruption of Black Unicorns. Their appearance is regarded as evidence that he is nearby. The black coat and single horn retain a unicorn's beauty, but the red eyes and poisonous horn mark a profound change from the white unicorn, whose horn is associated with purification and healing. Snorting and pawing the ground may precede a charge.

Harpies occupy little-traveled groves in groups. A tall woman apparently wearing a feathered cloak may be one seeking a male for mating. Their children are always female harpies, whether or not the father is human, and are born alive. Once provoked, the creatures are deadly; their talons can open armor with ease.

Ogres stand between Orcs and Trolls in the general descriptions of their size. They have disproportionately large heads, much hair, unusually colored skin and powerful bodies beneath ragged, foul-smelling clothing. Their appetite includes whatever they can kill, including Humans, Elves and Dwarves. Swamp caves far from settlements are preferred homes, although Ogres have been fought close to villages and towns.

A griffin's forepart belongs to the eagle and its rear to the lion, including the lion's tail and hind legs. Eagles and lions are each regarded as sovereigns of their kind; their combination gives the griffin its reputation for exceptional majesty and even kingship over creatures generally. Griffins are also known as guardians of treasure and other possessions of great value.

Three Magic Matches

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Ashes
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Strike all three matches at the same moment, then extinguish them with water to release their magic. The burning represents fire, air and earth; water supplies the fourth element. Each wooden match carries an ancient, potent sulfur preparation at its tip.

Wolf Fangs

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Not supplied
Energy	Positive: Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Trappers and huntsmen provide the fangs needed for this Destruction ingredient. Tall and lean, the wolf has a long muzzle and a curving tail covered in dense, shaggy hair. It is a swift and particularly deadly forest hunter, believed to be the ancestor of every dog species.

Wolves follow scent and hear across miles. Large family packs hunt under an alpha male's direction, communicating by yips and howls. Their calling is especially frequent beneath a full moon.

Bear Claws

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Claws and Talons
Energy	Positive: Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

High scratches on tree trunks can reveal a bear's territory and help a hunter estimate its size. Claws as long as eight inches can split even strong timber. A bear itself may rise above ten feet in height.

These carnivorous animals defend territory and young aggressively, treating another presence as a threat. The deep growl alone can leave a person frozen with fear. Their formidable claws provide the ingredient used in Destruction work.

Ash of a Celestial Formal Magic Scroll

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	One
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Ashes
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

Burning completes the preparation and releases the destructive energy. The writing on the required Celestial Formal Magic Scroll uses Kraken Ink; its paper is made of Bel Tradisin Cedar. These two component materials acquire their destructive application through the burning.

Goblin Teeth

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Teeth, Tusks & Horns
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Rangers encountered on patrol or at a local tavern may supply these teeth. They know the trade value of Goblin teeth and ears and can make a considerable profit from both.

The Goblins described with this ingredient have dark skin and jagged teeth and rarely exceed six feet in height. They stalk and attack in vicious predatory hordes. Obtaining their remains through the trade avoids the need to seek such a group personally.

Ash of a Formal Magic Earth Scroll

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Ashes
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Intentional Endowment

The preparation given for this ash uses Bel Tradisin paper inscribed with Juniper Berries. Burning the completed Earth Formal Magic Scroll releases its power. The process is described as producing a Void ingredient, although the ash is entered here in Destruction at strength two.

Orc Teeth

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Teeth, Tusks & Horns
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Local rangers are the customary source for these teeth. An adult Orc may exceed six feet and has a heavily built body comparable to a bull. It is a dangerous relative of the Goblin.

Orcs also hunt in hordes, though the groups described here are roughly half the size of Goblin hordes. Their willingness to fight to the death, including against their own kind, is offered as the explanation for that difference.

Sarobar Marbles

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Two
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Enchanted Glass
Energy	negative
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

Seven of these polished-looking black spheres together make the ingredient. Also called Sarobar Spheres, they are perfectly round glass crystals sometimes found inside oysters and clams gathered along the shore. The nearby lakes around Mount Sarobar are associated with their source.

Mount Sarobar, in the Black Hills, is identified as Avalon's only active volcano. Frequent eruptions improve the surrounding topsoil. Volcanic erosion produces the dark beaches from which Darksands Bay takes its name; the bay lies to the north. Blackstone's seafaring people trade both the volcanic glass and the spheres for their livelihood.

Harpy Talons

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Claws and Talons
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Merchants dealing in harpy feathers often carry the talons as well. These are smaller than griffin talons but similarly sharp. They are described as middle-range components, with their catalogue record assigning Destruction strength three.

Harpies roost in tall, leafy trees within old, thick forest. They can stand as high as a person and defend their nesting territory to the death. A female may give birth to as many as five young; despite the birdlike form, they are not hatched from eggs. Wandering into a nesting area can provoke a particularly dangerous encounter.

Ogre Teeth

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Teeth, Tusks & Horns
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

A single tooth is more than sufficient for the grade-three ingredient described here. Its value is among the rewards of defeating an Ogre, a difficult task even for an experienced ranger.

The account places a common Ogre at about six feet while allowing individuals above eight feet. A massive, splintered club is its usual weapon, used to crush victims with considerable force.

Blood of a Black Unicorn

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Three
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Blood
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

The Dark Lord of the haunted wood corrupts these unicorns into his service, changing their blood into a Destruction ingredient. A scratch from the poisoned horn can kill. Encountering a Black Unicorn is taken as a sign that the Lord himself is somewhere in the surrounding woods.

Greater Vampire Ashes

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Ashes
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

Purchasing the remains is generally preferable to winning them in combat. A vampire combines unnatural strength with the ability to hypnotize through its eyes and charm through speech. Surviving such an opponent is already a considerable success.

After victory, burn the corpse and retain the ashes for Destruction work. Its blood is also worth preserving as a component. The creature's enduring, predatory life at night makes neither harvest easy to acquire firsthand.

The Hollows Eve Mushroom

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Mushrooms
Energy	Neutral
Endowments	Tyrrastial Endowment

The bright orange stem and flat black cap marked with orange spots identify this mushroom. Its name recalls Halloween, the sacred time also called Hollows Eve.

Beyond formal Destruction work, eating it on Hollows Eve can permit sight of, or speech with, the dead by bringing Tyrra and the graveyards into closer contact. Only the solid mushroom is described as safe to consume, and even that form retains otherworldly properties.

Griffin Talons

Record	Value
Tyrran Scale of Power	Four
Energy Stream	Destruction
Class	Claws and Talons
Energy	Negative
Endowments	Natural Endowment

The identifying mark is a single black dot concealed within a crevice of the claw. Genuine griffin talons are rare and difficult to recognize, though merchants who sell the feathers may also have claws available. The account calls them middle-range in strength, while their catalogue position is Destruction four.

The griffin has a lion's hindquarters and an eagle's forelegs, head, feathered breast and talons, with erect ears. Its usual docility ends when defense is necessary. Handling it casually would be unwise: the sharp claws can disembowel a person with one stroke, and it is these claws that hold the magical property.

Catalogue name forms

Other recorded name	Catalogue entry
Pippin Fairy Apple	Apple from a Pippin Fairy Tree
Kobold Horns	The Horns of the Kobold
White Wands	The White Wand
Goblin Mushroom	The Goblin Mushrooms
Sandalwood Oil/Incense; Ash Sandalwood Oil	Sandalwood Oil
Houpelande Honey	Houppelande Honey
Fengate Velvet	Fengate Red Velvet
Quill; Red Quill	The Wizard Quill
StoneWood Clear Quartz Stone	Clear Quartz Crystal
Kin & Kith Stones; Kyn & Kyth Stones	Kyn and Kyth Stones
Red Moss	Red Cap Moss
HammerFall White Dirt	HammerFall Dirt
Quentari Autumn Leaves	Quentari Leaves
Loca Barnus Shells	Loca Barnuss Shells
Sarobar Spheres	Sarobar Marbles
A Fairy’s Throne	A Throne for a Fairy
Dragon’s Blood	Blood from a Dragon
The Minotaur’s Nose Ring	The Nose Ring of a Minotaur
Forest Flutter-By’s	Forest Flutter Bys
Snow from a Frost Giant's Cave	Snow from the Cave of a Frost Giant
The Basilisk's Fang	The Fang of a Basilisk
The Assassin's Dagger	The Dagger of an Assassin