Magos Perdidos

The Magos Perdidos is a subset of the Magos Seguros guild in Tandeli. Once Virgil established Tierra Catuela and became Advisor, he gathered a small group of mages and founded a group dedicated to finding and homing Changelings until they could fend for themselves.

They have the main base in the outskirts of Oscureloj and a few outposts in the mountains, northern part of the Ayuda Forest, and on the northern edge of the Calorona Desert, all dangerous places for Changelings to appear and would need immediate help. Not to say that it’s much safer further south, but new and wandering Changelings there are more likely to be found by navigators or just wander into a town.

## Main Complex

Their main complex is a series of buildings within a walled complex. There’s an entrance hall for new arrivals, returning Changelings, new Mages and visitors to register. The walls have covered walkways on the inside for bad weather/strong sun.

The buildings are arranged with a central courtyard in mind, and the courtyard has various fruit trees, vegetable patches, some goats, chickens, and a fountain. This is all with the intent that Magos Perdidos could be self-sufficient if necessary.

The buildings themselves contain storerooms, dorms, private rooms, and classrooms.

On-site live a nest of Nomes, which are more than welcome as fellow Changelings. Most of the time, these Nomes are just milling around, jingling, and occasionally helping out. Nomes will care for the younger Changelings, carry baskets of materials around the guild, and keep track of everyone in the complex. In return, the human Changelings leave food out for them. Whenever anyone else is feeling overwhelmed, they can go to the Nome's nest and they will help comfort them.

## Bases

Each base has 8 people, 4 scryers, 2 trackers, 2 navigators, and they swap between being at a field base and going back to Magos Perdidos compound every 6 months.

While at a field base, the scryers are essentially nocturnal, scrying in the 1 mile radius around their base when it would be too dangerous to go outside and physically look for Changelings. Usually 2 scryers are active at a time, swapping who’s scrying every half an hour. The two scryers would swap with the other two scryers every 3 days.

That said all the scryers would be awake at the same time, just in case something went wrong.

The navigators and trackers also swap every 3 days, but they work in the daytime. Every day one tracker and one navigator will go out on a transect for several miles out from their base. The exact transect covered would depend on physical fitness and weather conditions, but on a good day they might exceed 10 miles walked.

This system is not perfect, if an injury occurs while on a transect the navigator and tracker are out of scrying range then it would be tricky to get help. Not to mention it is physically and mentally taxing, with not much reward. A base will be lucky to get more than one Changeling a year.

There is an upside. Given the pretty consistent transects walked regularly, the navigators and trackers can record, at certain points, weather patterns (cloud cover, approximate temp, wind speed and direction etc.) and any significant changes or wildlife sightings. The data is sent to the Estalta University and Libros Antiguos.

If a Changeling is found they are brought back to the field base to be fed, clothed and given some ideas for a name before being escorted to main compound.

## Life in the complex

There the Changelings undergo a crash course in just about everything. Social skills, emotional intelligence, reading, writing, numbers, the basics of all subjects, how to sail, how to ride. This is the closest to an under 15 formal school in Tandeli and it takes full advantage of a Changeling’s ability to learn ridiculously quickly.

Although it must be said that the Changelings are not forced to stay there. They can come and go whenever they want, and the doors are always open for any Changeling who has fallen on hard times or just needs a place to hide. There is an idea about opening a similar building for normal humans, but it’s been agreed that’s more Patton and Tierra Eticora’s department.

Some Changelings actually never leave this group, and go on to either take on the locating mage’s role or just mentor the new Changelings. Given the low number of Fae Gardens, there are usually around half a dozen new Changelings a year.

It is common practice when a Changeling is preparing to leave to let the Nomes know. Otherwise, they will panic. They will still worry, but at least they know you're leaving deliberately.