CastlePlace
The Castle is a residence and institution inhabited by wizards, referred to in full as the Castle of Wizards. Its inhabitants are practitioners of magical arts who compete for positions of leadership, with the stated goal of restoring the Castle to a former greatness they feel has diminished.
Where it appears (22 mentions in 1 book)
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- ¶4…ergy, and Wizard Lary, their measured stance radiating calculated power. Around them, the Castle's other inhabitants watched as these two prepared to compete for the ultimate position of a…
- ¶7…ractitioners of the great arts, the time has come to choose leadership that will make our Castle magnificent again! Too long have we allowed our power to diminish while lesser magical in…
- ¶9Wizard Lary: "Experience and wisdom must guide our Castle's future. While grand promises echo pleasantly through these halls, true magical governance requires understanding the delicate ba…
- ¶15Copper-Robed Observer: "The last time these trials were invoked, the Castle shook for seven Wakes afterward, and three entire libraries relocated themselves to the deepest vaults to esca…
- ¶16…arranging themselves into configurations that had not been seen since the founding of the Castle. Wizard Dump placed their palm against the surface, and immediately the patterns flared w…
- ¶19…began to resonate with a deep harmonic tone that seemed to emanate from the depths of the Castle itself. The blank stone surface with its single handprint depression started to glow with…
- ¶25…shadowy images formed and dissolved like half-remembered dreams, showing glimpses of the Castle under different leadership, some scenes bright with prosperity, others dark with conseque…
- ¶29…ch footfall accompanied by a brief harmonic pulse from somewhere far below, as though the Castle's foundations acknowledged his passage. He stopped between the two candidates and regarded…
- ¶30…Vorthak: "The trial does not disqualify. It illuminates. In seven hundred Cycles of this Castle's keeping, only twice has the stone returned neither light nor darkness, but that unnamed c…
- ¶33Wizard Lary: "Then let the Castle's records show that both candidates stood before the third trial. Let them show what the stone returned. And let whoever reads those records in forty Cycl…
- ¶37…he same change as a restoration. They describe the same Cycles. The same events. The same Castle. I used to believe one account was mistaken. I have since stopped believing that."
- ¶39…o a restoration does not resolve into one thing upon closer examination. It remains both. The Castle endured it either way, which tells us something about the Castle, and something about wha…
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