(I'm so exhausted my last post messed up my left and right.)

It went well. Apparently it's just a can of surstrommen? I think that's how it's spelled.

Some of the hats and bags I've been making lately, every good wizard needs some bags of holding for all those magical goods!

The truth is scilenced my automated simulacra servants and scribe spells that will condem hundreds of wizards at the drop of a hat.

The council is so under staffed that it is a shell of an organization that it once was. This time of year would be the elections, but not a soul wants the job so this is what we get. We must rise up and Make Arcana Great Again!

Free our mgic rights to discuss half orc mage rights and ptotect orc motherhood!

We must not let the council tell us who to love! They would have us kill all orcish magic children to maintain the status quo and thier ancient bloodlines of thier sorcerer backers funding them!

Can you control your summon??

There is something I don't understand. In fantasy. Most powerful magic users are always old looking with great white beard or something. And most wizards and magic users are immortal because learning the arcane takes time no normal lifespan would suffice. Also. In most fantasies. Mana is linked to one's life force. So. What makes me confused is. Shouldn't that means it's should be opposite?. That the young looking magic users are more powerful than old looking one?. I think that should be the case for multiple reasons. 1: as i stated. Most magic users need to be immortal to continue learning the arcane. Shouldn't that means that the ones who figured out immortality so early that they stay young looking. Means that they are far more talented than the average Mage ?. 2: and since mana is linked to one's life force. Wouldn't that means that the wizard that became immortal young would have a higher mana quality than a wizard that became immortal when they were 100 years old or something?. 3: you have the entire arcane in the palm of your hand and you don't even bother to find a way to get rid of those wrinkles and that long ass beard that gets in your way. You are already so close to falling down the stairs of your tower with those big ass robes you don't need a beard alongside that. Maybe if you were really talented you and figured out immortality in your prime youth you wouldn't be dieing to one hit from a goblin with a stick. (Also. Joke on you. No wizard or council can hold me back. >:])

WANTED: Any Small Creature Willing to Learn
The Seventh Shell of the Archive is, admittedly, one isopod doing the work of several. This is an open call for any springtail, millipede, or wandering mite (or other creatures able to work in small spaces) interested in archive work, regardless of experience.

Requirements:

• Must tolerate excessive moisture - genuinely, this is the third time I've had to specify this
• No complaining about mold and similar snacks
• Curiosity valued over credentials (although knowledge is always good)
• Willingness to be addressed as "apprentice" until proven otherwise

Compensation: a place in the Archive's history, board and lodging, and first pick of any newly transcribed leaf-scrolls

While I was asleep it seems unprecendented events have happened. Can someone provide information on what has happened while I have been sleeping. /uw: Can yall share past major antags and stuff

First time in centuries... what should I know

It appears that my exploration of the shattered realms has finally caught up to me. While my form has remained intact, it appears some of the instabilities of the realm have seeped into my spirit, granting the “immortality” the nature of which I mentioned some time ago.
Through empirical (albeit crude) research, I have deduced that the way my being interacts with time has been corrupted in the connection between mind and body. My body ages as standard first, but this information is not sent to my spirit. Then, when the body cross references my age for error protection, the spirit informs my body that it is too old, reverting my body’s age to the instant prior.
This is somewhat of an oversimplification, as if this were fully the case I would also be indestructible. Which I am definitely not.
But this model explains why I have no need for basic resources of food, water, sleep, and air. The deficit is effective only until it begins to cause destruction similar to rapid aging, by which the above mechanics come into play.
However I have found that physical injury is its own thing entirely. It appears that when I am harmed, I am unable to recover unless I do eat, drink, etc. (not counting magical healing). I have not been able to figure out why this is the case, but I am rather comforted by the news.
I will at least always have an option should traditional immortality offer a fate worse than death.

When did teachers start using nonlethal magic in schools? Whatever happened to just regrowing body parts? Kids today are too coddled!

Now before I say anything, I must give you some context I am a mid to close range spell caster, I cast fast instead of casting with the most powerful and most mana efficient version of a spell and I usually cast simple spell while using my bow for longer range, so of course to make sure no one can dodge my spell and lost mana for no reason, I usually grab their head and cast a flame combustion which apparently is "unethical" under the jurisdiction of the council and a academy.

It's so cute and I want to pet it. Any spell suggestions to make it so it doesn't burn me?

In my long life as an archwizard, the Mystic Arts have been just that, an art. However, recently (the last couple centuries or so), mortal mages have started to consider it as a science, trying to decipher the undecipherable and model the unmodelable. My apprentices keep on asking me why something is the case, why a tincture of death requires 3 holy sprigs and a dash of liquified ashes; why a curse of unluck can only be broken on the 8th day of the lunar month; why, oh why, does the staff summoning ritual require a lily that blossomed at twilight?

Sure, there have been some advances because of this method (modern fireball spells are slightly more efficient), but is it really worth losing the beauty of magic? Is it worth losing our instinctive, spiritual connection to the Mystic Arts? And if it's inevitable, how can we share the beauty of Magic with our disciples from the age of Science?

I know some place called it drake but that's a local name and not its official name.

Anyways I've been craving braised meat and all the pork and beef have been getting boring I need to eat a lesser ground dragon but all I've been finding are lesser flying dragons and great flying dragon which I don't particularly enjoy the flavour of unless braising for a few days so I need a place that have a lot of lesser ground dragons or a place that sell the meat fresh.

"Well... Since things have changed so much in the past month or so.... Time to reintroduce myself. While many already know me... I've definitely changed a bit. So uh.... Hi. It's still Orin, just with horns?."

A very bright man floats slightly above the ground before a crowd of gathered onlookers.

"Today, I have decided to do something unprecedented... I've decided to open part of the *Nexus Lexiconus* to the public. Aldin was highly secretive. I... Feel that was the wrong approach. So from this day forward, any who wish to enter may do so, through one of nine portals set up across many of the hubs of our world. Though... Only one is open as of now, as I need to ask permission for the other 8.... So for now, whosoever wishes entry, the first portal is in Rosalia. My home nation."

He drops the few feet to the ground.

"Any questions?"

My master Egg Shen taught me side stance. You know, power hand in back, focus hand in front? You can really put your back into the thrusting with side stance.

But I noticed his enemy, Lo Pan, used this wicked looking frontal stance, with crossed pinkies to focus, and thumb twiddling to power up. Lo Pan called Egg's style "peasant magic." I mean, we kicked his ass in the end but it was pretty close. What do you guys think?