Sevendor Magic Fair

## Participants

Everyone
All races

Annual Event in Sevendor/Sevendor Town.

## Summary

Each autumn in Sevendor, a great silver bell is rung to open the largest Magic Fair in all the Kingdom of Castalshar. An event conceived by Minalan, in his first year as magelord, as an opportunity to bring together the mundane public with footwizards and hedgewitches, resident adepts and spellmongers, all to experience the wonders that magic has to offer. Minalan commissioned Banamor to be the proprietor of the Magic Fair. Under Banamor’s leadership the Fair has grown in popularity, causing the size and scale of the event to increase with each successive year.

The Fair provides the opportunity to buy, sell, trade and discuss the affairs of the magical world. There are many receptions and scholarly events hosted by the various orders of the Arcane Orders. Since the beginning, the Order of Horka has raised a pavilion to recruit potential warmagi, likewise has the Order of Hessia, both orders actively welcoming chartered and unchartered magi to their ranks.

### Logistics

The Fair is held on the Sevendor commons where tents are strung out across the open ground and on nearby fields. To secure lodging fair goers must book early, establishments such as the Lakeside Inn and the Sevendor Inn are quickly booked to capacity. More comfortable accommodations can be sought, for a fee, in one of the many hostelries built along the road from Boval Village and throughout Southridge Hold.

Banamor's staff ensure the north half of the Commons is organized in lots chalked on the ground in ten-foot squares.  For a reasonable weekly fee, a merchant can erect a booth or pitch a tent on the busy concourse. As attendees vie for the best locations, tents and temporary awnings will often be seen crowding under the dam. A merchant can pay a much lower fee for a spot at the far end of the Commons, just large enough to stand or sit on a blanket and sell. Many sellers have few items or small wares that don’t need the investment of a market booth.  Many footwizards will bring cherished components gathered on their travels, grateful for the opportunity to trade or sell.

### Enchanted Wares

Selling enchantments is the bread-and-butter of the Magic Fair.  As much trade as was done between magi (or quasi-magi), a much larger amount was done as magi sold spells and enchantments to the public. Some of the most popular items include heatstones, enchanted rocks that can heat a home, a bathtub, or a kettle, all with a single command. And enchanted cedar wands, that can produce magelights, it did not take long for chandlers in Sevendor to seek other forms of employ. Taren developed several enchantments that are now commonly sold at the Magic Fairs.

### Lectures

Each Fair has a theme, with the Order of Tarkarine taking a lead in hosting a scholarly lecture. One theme was Enchantment; among other things the magical community learned that during the time of the Magocracy, wizards had crafted magical constructs that could direct themselves. Those lectures led to the development of using paracletes, copied from ghost rock, in enchanted weapons and tools like a mage’s baculus.

## Spellmonger's Trial

One of the main features of the Fair is the Spellmonger's Trial, a contest any low mage can enter, the winner receiving their very own shard of *Irionite.*  After the Trial, a Champion’s Feast is held to fete the winner of the trial and other events at the fair.

### The Winners

1. *Lenodara* of Westwood, because she bilocated using her Falcon, the 2nd place winner who defeated all the challenges was also awarded a witchstone, Jendaran the Trusty.
2. A Remeran, Daro of Quins.
3. Doran a footwizard from Wenshar
4. Nothoua Venaren
5. There's an attack *The Bane of Sevendor.*Instead of running the Spellmonger’s Trial as planned, Minalan held a brief court and awarded three shards of irionite to wizards who’d displayed great courage, selflessness, and heroics during the attack and its aftermath.

## References

1. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Magelord: The Spellmonger Series Book 3.
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. High Mage: The Spellmonger Series Book 5.
3. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Enchanter: Book Seven Of The Spellmonger Series..
4. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Shadowmage: Book Nine Of The Spellmonger Series.
5. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Necromancer: Book Ten Of The Spellmonger Series.