Sorcerers offer aid to Lord Kestrel about son, Cyph

Research by members of the Sorcerer’s Guild on Sunday night looks promising about a coordinated implosion technique to assist with trapping the young Kestrel, Cyph.

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Category: Towns
Topic: Wehnimer’s Landing

Date: 03/27/2017 01:32 AM CDT

From: GOAT

Subj: A notice left in the Sorcerer Guild

At the end of the Black Sands, A note rests on an ebony marble table inside the Sorcerer Guild. The penmanship is a bit messy, as if the author was excited to complete it.

Sorcerers:

It is common knowledge that the Faendryl unleashed demons upon the battlefield, but some forget the sorcerers’ other critical contribution – the implosion of Despana’s keep.

We have retained knowledge of Implosion for some twenty thousand years since, but on limited scale. We lost the ability to combine our focus and mana to generated larger, more powerful voids. The ancient Faendryl removed a keep from existence; today we have trouble removing a sturdy masonry hut from existence.

I recently located an epic poem within our libraries that recounts the exploits of Faendryl sorcerers at the Battle of Maelshyve. While it is a literary work rather than a instruction manual, I was able to extract some inspiration. Everything described sounds almost exactly like the current state of our art, except for the shape they focused upon:
“And so each of their number added to power unleashed by the last, palms twisting, layer upon layer, spheres of nothing upon spheres of nothing.”

Tonight, Deckits, Linsha, Shaelethe, Fromer, and Goat discussed the matter in detail, and attempted a small-scale recreation. We found highly encouraging results. We formed a void perhaps twice the size of anything we could individually form, and it exerted unusual power. We were not successful in increasing the duration of a single void. We all emerged unscathed, but several of us noted that the increased power made breathing somewhat more difficult, simply by force of air being sucked from our lungs.

The primary insights we found:
* The first sorcerer can form an open void in the manner to which we accustomed, focusing on a single point.
* Other sorcerers can contribute by adding a spherical void that encompasses the previous one.
* Perhaps most importantly, induced rotation seems necessary to maintain stability, else the additional power is lost. This is largely a matter of will, of course, but we found that opening our plans and twisting our wrists in the desired direction was a helpful aid.
* Adding a tempest to the vicinity seemed to assist with rotation, and thus stability, but we are unclear on whether it can provide any additional power beyond the more direct approach of focusing on rotating voids.

We are far from the ancient days when hundreds or thousands of sorcerers could increase the power of a single void, but we seem to be on the right path. I expect we can scale to dozens simply with better organization and a bit of practice – each sorcerer adding power immediately after the last, within the duration we experience today. Scaling beyond that will likely require a new approach, either with parallel invocations or another novel breakthrough. We hypothesized that the void’s power may benefit from the release of air-attuned mana, even by non-sorcerers, but we have not yet tried it. Involving mages and the like seems to substantially increase the chance for something to go wrong, but sometimes research demands risks.

Be advised that some of us may choose to employ this rediscovered technique in order to aid in the capture of Cyph Kestrel, sucking him into a bane coffin at the center of such an implosion (with the coffin properly warded to avoid its own destruction). We, the researchers, currently neither endorse nor discourage this endeavor.

Independent of this current affair, we may choose to be somewhat circumspect about the application of this knowledge. Anything that recalls the Battle of Maelshyve, in particular any incidents leading to collateral loss of life, may make cooperation with others more difficult.

Signed,
Goat