Mystara

*"All of us--whether we draw power from the moon of silver, red or black--ultimately draw our power from the mother of all magic. The Weave we access to cast spells and cantrips alike, is the body of the dead mother herself, and that is a gift that should never be taken for granted."*

- Archmage Arathene Orias

## The Mother of Magic

**Mystara** is said to be the first Weaver--a being who can manipulate the fabric of reality using **The Weave**. In the current era, there are Sorcerers, Wizards and Warlocks who channel their power through **The Weave** in various different ways, but none like the Weavers of old who could do miraculous magic at very little cost to the spellcaster, some on the levels of the Gods themselves. **Mystara** was a neutral Goddess who did not interfere with any of **The Elder Gods** wars or ambitions, unlike her brothers **Eos** and **Vex**, who were in eternal struggle with the forces of Chaos.

In an event known to the Elves and Dragonborn as **The Weaveshatter**, **Mystara** was said to have been killed when she sacrificed herself during plot by **Vex**and **Lilloth**, and attempted to chain the World Easter **Uzgaros** in **The Abyss**. The Goddess was killed, but her body became scattered throughout **The Weave**, fracturing itself into tube-like channels that spanned across **The Astral Sea**. Access to The Weave became harder and more costly, causing many Weavers on Terra to disappear entirely in the next century. The Spellcasters of the current era still access The Weave in tiny doses thanks to the three Daughters of Magic, but their access is limited and costly.

## Three Daughters

After **the** **Weaveshatter**, the three daughters of **Mystara** were given control of the three aspects of magic: Good, Neutral and Evil. All spellcasters on **Terra** revere, but not necessarily worship, one of the three moons of Terra, and also the associated daughters of magic--**Eluna**, **Lyraea**, and **Nethryll**, who after **The Weaveshatter** were tasked with channeling the broken strands of Weave to their followers. Spellcasters often wore the colors of their chosen moon as well. Those with white, silver or light blue robes were denoted as followers of **Eluna**. A mage wearing red, crimson or sometimes purple robes were followers of **Lyraea**, the red moon. And in the remote, hidden places of the world necromancers and practicing of dark magic often wore black, or grey robes, associated with **Nethryll**, who was the holder of forbidden knowledge.

It is important to note, however, that spellcasters unlike clerics of a church, have their own agendas, motives and ambitions that could fall outside of their chosen "school" of magic, and did not lose their powers or connection to **The Weave** because of that. They did not necessarily belong to some unanimous or hierarchical order, or cult, although some did. Spellcasters of the same colored robes often found themselves fighting enemies who donned the same colors, and shared their devotion to the same deity. Especially those who revered **Lyraea**, the Goddess of Neutral Magic, who valued personal ambition and knowledge above binary distinctions like good or evil, and law and chaos.