Spaurian Mages Association

### Overview

The Spaurian Mages Association is the prime authority of all magic in Spauria, responsible for the management and balance of all arcana within the empire. Their duties include resolving magical dilemmas, controlling the commerce of magical goods, upholding Spauria's arcane academies, and swiftly putting a stop to those who abuse the gift of magic.

The Mages Association includes representatives from Spauria's magic schools, druid circles, temples of faith, and bard colleges.

## Schools of Arcana

### **MONARCH ACADEMY**

*(Conjuration, Transmutation, Necromancy)*

The original arcane academy of Spauria, established in Noogle by the wizards of old during the Age of Illiteracy. The Monarch Academy is the headquarters of the Spaurian Mages Association, known for its extra-dimensional interior and many teleportation circles. It is home to one of the greatest libraries of knowledge known to man, and is *strictly* exclusive to elite scholars, wizards, and other superiors of the academy. Some of the best arcanists alive studied here, including Toben the Otherworldly and Midas the Mage. This school is responsible for wizards of conjuration, transmutation, and necromancy specialties, as well as many other basic magic-using classes.

### **BORTALN ACADEMY**

*(Evocation/Abjuration)*

Located in Dislar, Bortaln is the "battle school" of Spauria's arcane academies, training the next generation of magic-wielding warriors to defend and protect Spauria from mystical problems that cannot be won with swords and spears. This academy would be responsible form training wizards of evocation and abjuration specialties, as well as sorcerers, eldritch knights, sword-bards, paladins, and war clerics.

### **CALIXTUS ACADEMY**

*(Illusion, Divination, Enchantment)*

In Pvarm, the "school of beguilers," teaches crafty arcanists how to weave convincing illusions, manipulate the minds of living creatures, and glimpse through the veils of time and space to examine the past, present, and future. This hasn't earned Calixtus a reputation as the most trusted academy, but they have earned some favor by training reputable arcane detectives who use enchantments and divination to extract information from otherwise cold cases. Calixtus would be responsible for training wizards of enchantment, illusion, and divination expertise, as well as arcane trickster rogues, and most bards.

## Notable Mages

### Galahan the Wise

The current Crownsmage of Spauria, and trusted advisor to the king. Before his rise to Crownsmage, Galahan was considered one of the greatest Abjurers ever to live, renowned by wizards for being the first to master the *Antimagic Field* spell and cast it without a ritual.

### Midas the Mage

Having cast his first spell at age five, and excelled through arcane studies at Monarch with unparalleled arcane skill, Midas has always been a wizard of great power and intellect. Despite his mastery and determined fascination with Conjouration, Midas has never taught, and when offered the position of Crownsmage, he politely refused in favor of pursuing his personal studies, secluding himself in his reclusive tower in East Spauria. Midas seldom makes public appearances, and maintains contact with very few in the outside world, making details on his current status scarce.

### Toben the Otherworldly

Toben Tebkus was a gnomish scientist and arcanist who devoted his life to discovering, exploring and studying the dimensions beyond the Prime Material plane. Raised in a family of simple tinkers and hedge wizards, Toben rejected his family interests at a young age, taking a keen interest in mythology and deep arcana. He excelled in school as a boy, and was accepted into Monarch Academy at age fifteen. There he went on to research, explore, and eventually document the things that would earn him the title "Otherworldly."

### Sarvoldis Ilifiel

A high elf wizard of some renown in Noogle, and a retired teacher of transmutation within the Monarch Academy. Ilifiel is best known for his instrumental aid in simplifying and improving many transmutation spells, and afterwards spent two decades teaching Transmutation before retiring in IIA 155. In IIA 163 however, eight years later, he mysteriously vanished after using a teleportation spell to visit a family member. It is surmised that there may have been a miscalculation in the spell, but the investigation is still underway.

### Hjoldus Huzzir

A hardened and respected dwarven sorcerer-wizard, and teacher of Conjuration at Monarch, who was the prominent voice of the Spaurian Mages Association during the Bax Crusades. Hjoldus is the original creator of *Faithful Hound* and *Stoneskin* spells, and is well-known among students as the master of *Fireball*. Though Huzzir is old and somewhat callous, his reputation as an honorable arcanist and professor remains concrete.

### Gwenra Languveg

Born in IA 219, Gwenra Languveg is better known as Gwenra the Sorceress, or "the Witch." She was a dwarven spellcaster who is said to have dabbled in many forms of magic, including wizardry, inner sorcery, and druidic. The magic that most intrigued her, however, was the art of necromancy, which at the time was avoided by most respectable mages. This taboo did not stop her from pursuing the necromantic arts, however, and today she is best known for pioneering the basics of the spell *Animate Dead*, and for mastering *Speak with Dead*, *Vampiric Touch* and *Crown of Madness*, before she disappeared into the Shadowfell, never to return.