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The Moving Towers of the Magi

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  I have been busy for some time with work and will remain busy for some time yet, and I've been too taxed to write things here. But I'm in a bit of a lull so I thought I'd bang one out to prove I'm not dead. But anyway, a refresher. Sorcery, as discussed here , is a complex affair reliant on a selection of methods and items by which one may safely practice the art. Of particular interest to us now is the focusing implement, a complex contraption of sorcerous artifice which may allow a magus to channel the most potent of spells with ease and relative safety. But past a certain point, it becomes an unwieldy device like a pipe organ or alchemical laboratory, one which cannot easily be lugged about. How, then, does a wizard store such a thing? The natural answer is a tower. With its height it may loom over the trees and huts surrounding it, granting the sorcerer a clear view of earth to shape and things to smite, their booming voice echoing through the sky as the world twi...