View source for Item:Electric-blue sanowret crystal captured by a firestained icesteel chain

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==Elemental Magic==
You gaze intently into your sanowret crystal, seeking the promise of hidden knowledge as light dances across its surface.
A soft light blossoms in the very center of the crystal, and begins to fill your mind with the knowledge of Elemental Magic.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
The oldest scholarly body of work on magic concerns Elemental magic.  While Holy and Arcane magic have mythic histories and Lunar magic a scattered archaeological record, only Elemental magic has a continuous history stretching multiple millennia.  Broadly, Elemental mana derives its power from natural forces and interacts with the physical fundament of the Plane of Abiding.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
At the heart of Elemental magic is the knowledge that all things on the Plane of Abiding are complex mixtures of simple building blocks.  The commonly accepted elements are Aether, Air, Earth, Electricity, Fire, and Water, though fringe scholars within the Warrior Mage Guild have recently begun championing the existence of Metal as an additional element.  These compose the atoms of which all material is made, and Elemental magic exploits (and, commonly, explodes) this.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
Elemental mana is resonate with or created by (depending on your point of view) natural forces.  Everything from waves to earthquakes, storms to volcanoes, find Elemental mana in abundance.  Conversely, places that are stable and geologically 'dead' are bereft of elemental might.  In addition, some mana appears to come into Elanthia from the Elemental Planes, springing forth from seemingly nowhere.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
The Warrior Mages are perhaps the most iconic magicians on Kermoria, summoning relatively simple but powerful manifestations of pure elements.  Lightning bolts, sheets of ice and pyroclastic clouds are their staples.  Bardic magic, through the medium of sound waves, focuses more on subtle manipulations.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
Elemental magic has the distinction of being the first 'legitimized' branch of magic in the current epoch.  While the other branches were still mired in mysticism and elaborate ritual, Elemental magic had already grown to regard itself as a science. The first consistent Attunements were to Elemental mana, and the first magical devices made by mortal hands were Elemental powered.<br>
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Knowledge from your sanowret crystal about Elemental Magic rings clear in your mind:
By the Imperial era the study of Elemental magic was so well entrenched that the College of War Magics was the single institution of scholarly magic within the empire.  This hegemonic force would last until the formation of the Moon Mage Guild, which sought and acquired legitimacy despite the College's best efforts.<br>
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The light and crystal sound of your sanowret crystal fades slightly as you come to the end of the knowledge about Elemental Magic.  You feel quite enlightened, if a bit mentally tired.<br>