Research

The following is a timeline of the Realm of Castles, as best as I can determine, as it pertains to the Sacraments of the Unicorn and the Lion. I will attempt to identify items that are hypothesis and inference by a notation in parenthesis following the entry. This is to be a “quick reference” to those interested in this area of study, as well as to help bring the information described in section one together.

This chapter will be, perhaps, the most difficult to write down coherently because of how I came upon much of this knowledge and, more importantly, the order in which I came upon it. Further, there is still a good bit of information that is still missing, and so I have had to re-construct some of these events and their potential causes through analysis, supposition, and educated hypothesis based upon what I know did occur and the context of those events.

The “magic” of a world is determined by two things: the Metaphysics of the world and the Will of those who utilize it.

The above is the most basic principle of magical theory. It is this tenant which started my research and has been the centerpiece of nearly every discovery I have made. But what does it mean? First, let us explore what “magic” actually is.

(Author’s note: I will be placing terms into quotation marks until the term is defined.

The following are my (Talon’s) final memoires detailing my research into magical theory and, specifically, how it pertains to the Realm of Castles. First, I should give a list of my credentials. My initial introduction into the scholarly arts occurred while within the Forest of Doors, and I was initially trained in the method used by the Desert of Brass. This method stresses objectivity, verifying sources, and publishing sources so that others can conduct their own research independently and achieve the same result, thus verifying the original’s findings.