Cliff-Notes/Spellmonger

## Spellmonger

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1. Minalan is born in the town of Talry as the 6th child and only son of a baker.
2. Minalan accidently triggers his magic by starting a fire in his father's bakery and learns he has rajira.  He is tested by the local Court Wizard and accepted into Inarion Academy.
3. Minalan discovers he has a talent for Thaumaturgy. A visit home causes him to realize he no longer fits in with his old life.
4. Minalan earns his Journeyman papers and selects magical theory for master studies and is introduced to Lady Pentandra, another thaumaturge focuses on sex magic.
5. Minalan graduates from Inarion Academy and is drafted into the Duke of Castal's magical corps and trained as a warmage at Relan Cor.
6. Minalan fights his way down the Farisian Penninsula to Farise where he helps to overthrow The Mad Mage of Farise, Orril Pratt.
7. After being released from service atthe end of the Farisian campaign, Minalan takes up the life of a mercenary warmage.
8. Minalan "retires" from war magic six months later to become a Spellmonger in Minden's Hall, takes Tyndal as apprentice
9. Minden's Hall is attacked by the first wave of a massive Gurvani invasion. Minalan gains his witchstone by conquest while defending the village.
10. Minalan meets Alya by saving her life and that of her brother-in-law Sagal from a small Gurvani force. He uses the still tainted witchstone to heal Sagal's arm.
11. Minalan travels to Amadia, with the hedgemage Zagor, to consult with the Tree Folk and meets the Aronin and his daughter Ameras.  The Aronin cleanses the witchstone and gives the stone the ability to cleanse other stones. The Aronin reveals just how large a threat the Gurvani represent.
12. Minalan uses the Otherworld to contact his old friend Pentandra to ask for help in recruiting professional warmagi.
13. Minalan travels to the town of Tudry to recruit several groups of mercenaries and buy additional supplies.
14. Boval Castle is entirely surrounded and besieged by tens of thousands of goblins. Minalan gains several more witchstones and distributes them among the local magi, Garkesku and his three apprentices and Minalan's own apprentice, Tyndal. During this time, Minalan meets Alya again and they grow close. She eventually ends up pregnant.
15. Urik, Garkesku's youngest apprentice, goes mad from the power of the irionite he was given and attacks the other magi. Urik and Garkesku's oldest apprentice die as a result, a large blow against Boval Castle's magical defense.
16. Minalan meets Gurkarl, a captured gurvan, who informs Minalan about Shereul and is eventually the first gurvan to set eyes upon the sacred cavern and molopar beneath Castle Boval.
17. The castle is breached by the gurvani mining under the walls and Sire Koucey blames Minalan for not foreseeing the action. Minalan sets out to destroy the tunnel entrance and meets a powerful gurvan shaman being possessed by Shereul himself.  Only the timely arrival of Pentandra and about a 19 warmagi save his life.
18. With Sire Koucey growing more unreasonable, partly due to Garkesku's lies about Minalan and the cause of Urik's rebellion, Minalan eventually leads a peasant's rebellion when Koucey imprisons Pentandra.
19. After hunting down as many gurvani shamans as they can find to gain irionite for all the warmagi and then some,  Minalan and Pentandra devise an escape using the molopar and sex magic, allowing all the people of Boval Vale to escape to Inarion Academy.
20. The warmagi, Minalan and Pentandra, having been left behind to power the spell and escape on their own, encounter Shereul in person when he hurries to Boval Castle at detecting the activation of the molopar.  Only the intervention of the Aronin and his most powerful spellsingers allow the group to escape. Sire Koucey, who refused to abandon his keep decided to fight to the death in his home's defense, is captured by Shereul. The Aronin is presumed to have been killed.