Glintstone Sorceries

## Glintstone Spells

This is the result of an internal conflict between the Academy of Raya Lucaria and the Carian Household, led by Queen Rennala. The history of Raya Lucaria is based in Glintstone magic, which derives its power from the stars. However, Rennala treasured the Full Moon and its powers even as the head of the Academy. Thus started a conflict between Raya Lucaria and the Carian Household, which appears to have ended in Rennala's favor considering her position as headmaster.

Regardless, Glinstone and Full Moon sorceries appear to not be completely incompatible - they only find their source of power in different entities. Glintstone appears to be stone lodged in the earth of *Elden Ring*'s Lands Between that contains power from the stars. In other words, they are akin to meteorites or star dust that crashed into the Lands Between.

Full Moon sorceries alternatively come from different moons. Whether these moons are literally different entities or if they are different phases of the same moon is not clear. Nevertheless, the Carian Household and Ranni became bewitched by these moons and now use them as the source of their sorceries.

There are two known moons when it comes to Full Moon sorceries, and the first one is Rennala's Full Moon. Rennala discovered this moon as a young child and has since used it as head of Raya Lucaria. Rennala's Full Moon spell shields those who cast it from sorceries while weakening those who are struck by it, suggesting the Full Moon is in some way dominant over Glinstone sorceries.

Given that the Carian Household was led by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, its sorceries likely derive their power from the Full Moon. Many of these spells were specially designed for combat with the Academy of Raya Lucaria during the Glinstone-Full Moon debacle, hence them being modeled after weapons. Loretta, as the former head knight of the Carian Household, has her own unique spells modeled after bows related to the Carian sorceries.

The second of Full Moons is Ranni's Dark Moon. Ranni discovered this moon alongside her mother Rennala at a young age. Different from Rennala's charming Full Moon, it is said that Ranni found in her Dark Moon something "*cold, dark, and veiled in occult mystery*."

This occult mystery is related to the Nox people of the Eternal Cities, who used Night sorceries. This is because of the Moon of Nokstella that was cherished by the Nox is likely the same moon Ranni discovered as a child, as this would explain hers and Radahn's interest in the Nox. The Dark Moon guided the stars and attracted them toward it. This suggests that the Full Moons in some way hold power over the Glintstone sorceries.

Closely related to the Ranni's Full Moon and Night sorceries are the Claymen and Cold sorceries. The Claymen are ancient people who may have existed in and near the Eternal Cities before the Nox. Their sorceries are related to prophecies that may or may not relate to the Dark Moon. On the other hand, Cold sorceries originate from the Zamor people from the Mountaintops of the Giants, but they were honed by Ranni's teacher, the Snow Witch Renna. Though Cold Sorceries can make use of Glinstones, their relation to the cold in Ranni's Dark Moon align them with Full Moon sorceries.

Glintstone sorceries are more prevalent namely because there are more stars than there are moons. Indeed, some of these sorceries find their source in the very first stars. Such sorceries are known as Primeval Sorceries. They hold some controversy among magic-users, however, as both former Raya Lucaria grand masters and Primeval sorcerers Lusat and Azur were banished from the Academy for use of the Primeval Current.