A Thyatian magic system
by WizlockThe goal is to express the cultural nature of Thyatians in either a Karameikos or Thyatis campaign. This involved replacing the Magic-User class with the OSE Mage Class from Carcass Crawler #1 (which makes them "scroll readers" and not Vancian casters) and grafting on the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium rule onto the Mage class (or Magos class to be Byzantine) as a demi-skill/mastery system that expresses the culture of the Thyatians via Byzantine academia. It also provides a back door for the referee to discount the cost of "bad" spells, or react to something that legitimately did hose the gold economy of the Mage player's character or fix situations where the referee wants to charge very high taxes and training costs without hamstringing the Mage. The Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium rule relies on what I call "Mechanical Latitude", which is just a fancy name for what usually happens anyways in old school games, but naming a thing gives it power and streamlines procedure. The final "soft" part of the system is to include an example letter below each spell on its wiki page showing an approved or denied application for a Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium so the player can "read the spell section" as a means of getting hints on how to come to grips with understanding how to interact with the game world to get better at casting spells. The player can just ignore the flavor text and ignore the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium system until they feel like interacting with it, or even never interact with it. It also breaks the ice on allowing the referee to just say "no", or insert obnoxiously high hurdles, for spells like sleep or light that the referee doesn't want to add any more flexibility to. It also helps a referee to have example behavior of a Byzantine academic credentialing system.
Mechanical Latitude
Some classes grant their characters more latitude within specific domains. This means that in situations involving that domain, those characters experience reduced risks, improved outcomes, and greater flexibility. It’s rarely a matter of numerical bonuses—it’s about how the rules interpret events and dice.
Example:
A peasant attempting to bless a desecrated shrine might risk spiritual backlash or even possession if something goes wrong. An acolyte doing the same task might face a different worst-case outcome: discovering that the rite cannot be completed until a local relic is retrieved to ground the blessing. Same task, different risk models—because the Acolyte’s class implies practical fluency from domain expertise in tasks like this.
Narrative as Rules
Mechanical latitude is also a narrative lever. It’s like the 10-foot pole: it has no numeric stat bonus, but it’s one of the most useful and powerful items in D&D—because of what it lets you do.
So when a class feature gives you domain expertise, treat it like a 10-foot pole. It doesn’t need a number to work. It works because it changes the referee’s ruling window. That is the purest form of character power.
Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium
Magos may, through exemplary use of a given spell from the Imperial Arcana Codex, apply for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium—a formal seal of mastery granted by an Arcane Review Board. Those so awarded may add the honorific Magister Incantationis for that spell in formal correspondence, and gains Mechanical Latitude when casting the spell. Recognition also allows a magos to attempt requisition scrolls of that spell at reduced cost through proper bureaucratic channels. Approval is based on merit, strategic value, prior conduct, supply, personal connections, luck, bribes, jealousy, thinly veiled bias, and byzantine institutional politics. Especially the latter, which is all of the former and more.
Imperial Arcana Codex
Issued under the authority of the Imperial Academy of Arcane Science and ratified by decree of His Celestial Majesty, the Lex Thaumaturgica Imperialis establishes the official nomenclature, application, and regulation of all approved arcane protocols authorized for use within the jurisdiction of the Empire. Practitioners of the Fourth Estate operating under imperial sanction shall adhere to the following nomenclature and limitations. Unauthorized derivations or non-standardized rituals may constitute a violation of the Thaumaturgical Safety Edict (Year 983).
Fascinatio Humanae Voluntatis
Charm Person
To Magos R. V.,
Applicant #8742-G, Field Division III
Re: Request for Oral Presentation in Pursuit of the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for Fascinatio Humanae Voluntatis
After review by the Committee for Ethico-Practical Thaumaturgy and Applied Influence Protocols, and with the concurrence of the Institutional Oversight Liaison for Magical Ethics (Western Provinces), your petition has been declined at the preliminary stage. You are not authorized to present an oral defense for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Fascinatio Humanae Voluntatis at this time—or, if the undersigned may be candid, under any foreseeable constellation of circumstances.
The decision was not made lightly. In most cases, when an applicant’s submission raises questions of intent, scope, or technique, the Board recommends appearance and inquiry to better judge character and judgment in person. It is with particular care, therefore, that we communicate our refusal in this instance—not for lack of technical competency, but because the document you submitted reveals a pattern of thinking that is, if we may be frank, unnerving in both tone and implication.
Your listed use cases include inducements of loyalty under false pretenses, enforced romantic declarations, staged confessions extracted through emotional coercion, and numerous euphemistic references to “smoothing negotiations” with local administrators, functionaries, and minor clergy. Of particular concern was your repeated use of the phrase “circumventing moral hesitation” as a point of merit in spell employment. I pause, as I write this, because I cannot believe I have penned that sentence as part of a formal credentialing response.
There are matters of technique, and then there are matters of conscience. And it is the conviction of this body that no applicant who evinces such a casual, mechanical approach to emotional override—no matter how elegant their applications—can be trusted with formal recognition. A magos who manipulates minds with the unreflective ease of someone lighting a torch does not represent the scholarly tradition of the Academy. They represent its desecration.
I have reviewed, to date, one hundred and twenty-eight applications for this spell. I have seen it used to fake truces, collapse wills, secure unearned loyalty, and turn brother against brother. But until today, I had not encountered an application that treated all of this not as regrettable necessity, but as if it were clever bookkeeping. You may think this letter severe. It is not. It is restrained.
You may reapply in ten years’ time. The Board is unanimous in hoping you spend those years learning the limits of your own influence—not from a scroll, but from the world.
We return your documents to you, unread a second time.
– Magistra Demetria Calvessa
Presiding Ethicist, Credentialing Board II
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science
In cooperation with the Office of Magical Affairs, Karameikan Province
Divinatio Thaumatica
Detect Magic
To Magos Helcinia Var,
Applicant #982-G, Field Division VI
Re: Petition for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Divinatio Thaumatica
Upon review by the Committee for Observational Protocols and Pre-Effect Diagnostics, it is my pleasure to inform you that your petition has been approved. You are hereby granted the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for the spell-form Divinatio Thaumatica, Operatio Praevia, in accordance with the statutes of the Imperial Academy and the Index Arcana Minor.
I understand, from your appended personal note, that you were somewhat unsure whether your application would be deemed “clever enough.” Let me say this plainly, insofar as our office ever speaks plainly: some spells do not easily lend themselves to fireworks. Divinatio Thaumatica is a precursor—meant to clarify, to prepare, to discern. It is a quiet spell, and cleverness with quiet spells often depends on circumstance aligning itself just so. That does not mean the absence of brilliance—merely that its shape differs.
What impressed the Committee was not a singular act of brilliance, but the breadth of your application. Your careful deployment of the spell across varied phenomena—necromantic residues, enchantment echoes, alchemical field testing—demonstrates an admirable patience and breadth of attention. One might call it a “diligent cleverness,” and there is no shame in that. You reached far, and what you brought back was lucid, useful, and well-framed.
It is, after all, a Rank I credential. The bar is not the moon. But one must begin somewhere, and how one climbs is watched more carefully than most applicants suppose.
Permit me, on a more personal note, to offer a piece of advice. In truth, your application was one of several that met the threshold. What carried the vote was, I suspect, your tone—measured, earnest, and disarming. You spoke not only as someone hoping to be credentialed, but as someone a Board might one day want to see again under different circumstances. Do not mistake this for favoritism. Rather, understand it as the unspoken part of every examination: that we are choosing not only practitioners, but future colleagues.
Confidence, tempered by humility, is a valuable thing. In your next petition, do not apologize. Stand straight, write well, and remember—we do read everything, including what is not said aloud.
On behalf of the Committee, and in my own right: congratulations.
– Rector Corvinian Thessalos
Committee for Observational Protocols and Pre-Effect Diagnostics
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science
Discum Levans Tenacitatis
Floating Disc
Filed under authority of the Bureau for Practical Applications of Kinetic Arcana, Sub-Office for Motion-Adherent Conjurations, Third Vestibule (Provisional), Department of Arcane Logistics.
To: Magos Quirinius Alviro
Regarding: Petition for Certification of Discum Levans Tenacitatis
Let it be affirmed that, after appropriate review, and a thorough accounting of the circumstances surrounding the incident in the flooded crypt beneath the Old Sigmir Mausoleum, the board hereby confers the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for demonstrated proficiency and battlefield application of the above-referenced conjuration.
We were particularly pleased to note your reflexive use of the disc as a kinetic force platform rather than, as has tragically become customary, a glorified porter’s sled. It is, of course, a conjured planar membrane of inertial rigidity maintained by thaumic tether—not a wheelbarrow. That so few of your peers seem to grasp the implications of this most obvious fact is, frankly, something of an institutional embarrassment.
It has long been our position (unofficially, of course) that Discum Levans Tenacitatis is merely the elementary cousin of a family of conjurations—applications of which are yet to be fully cataloged, much less formally disseminated. The notion of force constructs which may, shall we say, be affixed in space rather than trailing behind the caster has… certain ongoing investigatory traction. In theory, I mean. Naturally. In the abstract.
You are to be congratulated on this insight, however intuitive it may have been in the moment. I urge you to maintain discretion should any colleagues inquire as to the precise nature of your success, and to kindly disregard any mentions you may have heard (erroneously, I assure you) about Project Praesidium. I have said too much.
Your seal shall be dispatched via the usual channels. Please ensure the standard certifications are notarized and returned within 12 days of receipt. Continued excellence is anticipated.
– Legate Menophilos Trask, Acting Senior Delegate
Bureau for Practical Applications of Kinetic Arcana
Claustratio Accessus
Hold Portal
To Magos Liraen Dositheia,
Field Division III – Department of Arcane Implementation,
Re: Petition for Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Claustratio Accessus
It is my honor to inform you that your petition has been accepted and certified without reservation. You are hereby granted the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for the containment and control protocol known formally as Claustratio Accessus, Sigillum Temporale, under the authority of the Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs and the oversight of the Sealing Applications Board.
Your use of the protocol to arrest the influx of sand triggered by a tomb’s breach mechanism during an archeological expedition in the Riverfork uplands was reviewed with particular interest. While the precise targeting of the ingress point, and the semi-permeable nature of the displaced mass, might be argued to stretch the spell’s traditional envelope, that is—indeed—the point. You did not break the rules. You made the world behave as if your reading of the rules had always been the correct one. This is, in fact, the very definition of mastery.
We receive no shortage of applications festooned with recommendations, accompanied by small tokens, or bolstered with well-timed compliments to board members or their published treatises. Your application carried none of these things. What it did carry was the precise detail of an urgent situation, a decisive and elegant use of the incantation, and a modest statement of events.
There was no tilt. No posturing. No courtship. Just a spell, used as spells ought to be used: with authority, necessity, and art.
On behalf of the Board, I thank you for the reminder of why this process exists at all.
– Magistra Ulthenia Pyrron
Chair, Sealing Applications Board
Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs
Lumen Artificialis
Light
To Magos Rutilius Heron,
Applicant #1127B, Field Division VII
Re: Petition for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Lumen Artificialis
We acknowledge, with due ceremony, your application for the credentialing of formal mastery in the incantation registered as
Lumen Artificialis, Designatio Luminae Minor.
It is our duty to inform you that the request has not, at this time, met the requirements necessary for conferment of the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium.
Your central thesis—namely, that the spell’s true merit lies in its capacity to startle or blind opponents—was reviewed with professional diligence. That your petition included no mention whatsoever of illumination, guidance, visibility, or any use case involving light as a phenomenon, was noted with something akin to awe.
The use of Lumen Artificialis to disorient foes, while once considered an inventive deviation from orthodoxy, has by now attained the status of received wisdom among the least imaginative of tactical spellcasters. Its first notable employment in this capacity was reportedly recorded by a battlefield practitioner over four decades ago. Since then, the maneuver has appeared in no fewer than one hundred and sixty-seven credentialing attempts, the last thirty-four of which—including yours—failed to even gesture at the spell’s original design function.
We take no joy in rejecting earnest candidates, but we must express our concern that an applicant seeking institutional recognition for arcane mastery has not, by all appearances, ever used this spell to see in the dark.
While the Sigillum for Lumen Artificialis remains available, the present state of its applicant pool suggests that this credential may soon be subject to temporary moratorium or formal review by the Office of Thaumaturgical Standards and Intended Effects. Petitioners are advised that—until such time—a successful application must demonstrate some quality of personal insight, theoretical advancement, or, failing that, basic familiarity with the operative result of the spell in question.
We thank you for your participation in the examination process, and wish you illumination in your future pursuits.
– Rector Hilarion Theodes,
Chair, Committee for Minor Invocationary Utilities
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science, Credentialing Division IV
Missilum Arcanum
Magic Missile
On behalf of the Office of Applied Thaumaturgy, Department of Recondite Vector Dynamics and Sympathetic Targeting Protocols (Klymene Annex),
To Magos Aurex Ilvanthros,
Let it be recorded that your petition for conferment of the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in the discipline of Missilum Arcanum has been duly reviewed, with particular attention given to the submitted field account involving a spirit of considerable malice concealed within a mirror of known indestructibility in the eastern manor of Arvarian Hollow.
The committee was—dare I admit—delighted to read of the spirit’s own taunting remarks in the moments preceding your attack. While the theoretical permissibility of such targeting through sympathetic vector anchoring has long been a matter of arcane debate, its practical application is widely considered unreliable to the point of futility. That you succeeded in this case does not revise the prevailing doctrine. It does, however, greatly entertain it.
As you appear to intuit, the magic of Missilum Arcanum degrades when stretched to the symbolic edge of its nature. The spell was never built to find reflections, echoes, or phantasmal shades hiding in mirrors—but sometimes, when the winds of fate are still and the targeting intent is true, it strikes. This time, it struck. And from your record, I gather the spirit did not enjoy it.
The lesson, Magos, is this: the spell may fizzle; the spell may not. Most will never try. They fear to look foolish more than they hope to be brilliant. But not all practitioners are content to abide by cautious certainty. Some will gamble—and sometimes, gambits pay.
Of course, it must also be said: a true Magos not only risks the impossible, but does so with a backup plan tucked discreetly into a scroll tube or pocket sleeve, and—if I may offer personal advice—with a practiced expression of dignified indifference in case of failure. The station has gravitas to protect, after all.
In recognition of your understanding of the spell’s structure, the courage of your field application, and the spirit’s demonstrable irritation, we hereby confer upon you the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for Missilum Arcanum.
– Caldrax Memnion, Sub-Auditor of Applied Arcana, Office of Recondite Vector Dynamics
Klymene District, Imperial Academy of Arcane Science
Defensio Contra Malum
Protection From Evil
On behalf of the Third Sub-Committee for Thaumaturgical Verification and Protocol Review, Imperial Academy of Arcane Science, Office of Arcane Credentialing and Oversight (Klymene District),
Let it be recorded with due solemnity that Magos Vellius Tarmek, after no less than five scheduled evaluations, three provisional deferrals (pending budgetary review), one formal challenge by the Chair of Ephemeral Invocations, and the resolution of certain irregularities in stipend disbursement, has now been duly conferred the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in the discipline of Defensio Contra Malum.
The Board acknowledges with satisfaction the exemplary persistence, correct posture, and appropriate obsequies shown throughout the process—particularly in the matter of correspondence formatting and gift modesty. Such tact in navigating both arcane precision and institutional decorum bodes well for continued advancement within the limited but necessary channels made available to a Fourth Estate practitioner of your origin and appointment.
The Committee wishes you every success as you embark upon the next stage of your professional arcana development. May your subsequent petitions—for more complex incantations—find a brisker pace of review, should they be submitted in the appropriate season and accompanied by the expected endorsements.
May your parchment be unwrinkled, your ink true, and your letters never misplaced.
– Sebastios Aridennos, Senior Delegate, Credentialing Board IV Imperial Academy of Arcane Science
Scriptum Generalis Cognitio
Read Languages
Filed under Verification Request C-19/II
Scriptum Generalis Cognitio (Permissum Linguarum)
Committee on Lexicographical Applications and Written Arcana
Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs, Subsection III (Linguistic Reconnaissance and Cognate Decoding)
To the attention of Initiate Helion Sarvolis,
Your petition for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Scriptum Generalis Cognitio has been provisionally denied pending formal resubmission.
Upon review, the Board finds your accompanying field documentation and use-case analysis insufficiently rigorous to merit certification at this time. Specific deficiencies include, but are not limited to:
Your reference to “unlocking the secret etchings of the fallen ruins” lacks any etymological breakdown of the root-script or relevant orthographic variants.
The third account references “encoded trade manifests,” but does not provide syntax charts, substitution matrices, or comparative cryptographic keys. A glossary of merchant cant is not a decryption algorithm.
Section IV fails to distinguish between pragmatic fluency and ritual comprehension—a distinction we consider nontrivial in high-risk magical transcriptions.
You used the phrase “like a key in a lock.” This simile has now appeared in no fewer than 74 prior petitions. We request original metaphors in all future submissions. May we suggest “unsealing the clasp of silent parchment”?
While we acknowledge the spell’s utility in low-level exploratory and clerical operations, the bar for mastery—as per Article IX of the Index Arcana Minor—is contextual application across a minimum of three distinct linguistic families, including one extinct or non-human script.
We encourage resubmission within the next review cycle (Mid-Year, Imperial 1003), accompanied by a corrected field dossier, annotated translations, and a revised personal statement not exceeding one page (in hexameter or formal prose, no poetic license permitted).
May your subjunctives remain properly declined,
and your marginalia annotated with restraint.
– Maximos Trakeides,
Deputy Chair, Lexicographical Applications Committee
Subsection III, Arcana Linguistica
Scriptum Arcanum Lectio
Read Magic
Filed under Credentialing Record G-102/A
Scriptum Arcanum Lectio (Accessum Praeparatorium)
Clerical Division VIII: Arcane Literacy and Symbolic Access
Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs, Provisional Oversight Cell
To Initiate Rhemos Althidos,
Your request for recognition under the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in Scriptum Arcanum Lectio has been reviewed and approved.
As per standardized review procedure for Class I codices requiring no applied thaumaturgical risk, your petition was circulated for silent consent among reviewing board members. No objections were raised within the allotted 14-day period.
We note for the record that:
Your case notes involve successful application of Scriptum Arcanum Lectio in no fewer than four documented instances.
Each application could have been achieved using Legere Magicae with no scroll expenditure.
Your supporting documentation is formatted acceptably and does not exceed margin allowances.
No disqualifying grammatical errors, ink discoloration, or informal marginalia were noted.
Please find your certification seal affixed to this letter. No further commentary is deemed necessary.
Do not contact this office again for clarification or feedback regarding this matter. This credential is considered final.
– Hestia Notarion,
Clerk-Auditor IV, Provisional Oversight Cell
Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs
Transcribed from corridor wall notice, Inner Scriptorium, East Wing—scribbled in hex ink (semi-permanent)
To the Esteemed Initiate Rhemos Althidos,
Now Certified Master of Reading Things
Congratulations—truly. One can hardly overstate the significance of this achievement. Many of us were taught Scriptum Arcanum Lectio by our first-year tutors, but few among us had the foresight, patience, or bureaucratic endurance to drag it through credentialing.
I’ve always said it takes a special kind of mind to see a spell that urchins could recite for bread and think, “Yes—this. This shall be my legacy.”
While some foolish aspirants waste time mastering Detonatio Ignea or delving into multi-tiered applications of Duplicatio Illusoria, you’ve reminded us that nothing—absolutely nothing—is beneath paperwork.
I suppose you’ll be teaching Advanced Scriptum now? Do let us know when the scroll for “Opening Envelopes With Intent” goes up for review. I’m certain it’ll cause a stir.
Most humbly awed,
– Anonymous (but you know who)
P.S. We all saw you use Legere Magicae last week. We won’t tell if you don’t.
Scutum Energeticum
Shield
Filed under emergency review directive per override authority (Lex Thaumaturgica Imperialis §VII.14.c, as invoked by Senior Ordinator Secundus Valerian Laskaros, Field Rank IV, Order of Evocation & Protocol).
Candidate: Initiate Petros Davalinos
Certification Date: Imperial Year 1002, 4th Quarter
To Whom It Concerns, Including the Office of Records, the Academy Disciplinary Tribunal, and the credentialed party, if he’s still breathing,
This is not a letter you applied for, nor one you earned in the usual bureaucratic fashion with six forms, four bribes, and a modestly flattering letter to your sponsor. You cast Scutum Energeticum in the Academy’s inner hall, during a rather unflattering altercation with one Symeon of House Karphadon, a boy whose name outweighs his bearing and whose uncle, unfortunately, shares both qualities.
By now I imagine you’ve been informed that there was a motion to have you expelled with dishonor—a tidy phrase, useful for gutting someone’s future without the inconvenience of a corpse. As I understand it, you were “approached,” verbally cornered, and then chested. That was the moment you cast Shield. Young Symeon, as close as he was, purportedly bounced off and made a rather comical sound.
The incident crossed my desk because Karphadon’s uncle tried to grease the usual channels, and some poor sod in Tribunal Protocol thought they’d toss it into my in-tray to make a show of being thorough. You are not the first student to cast a spell in anger. But you may be the first to be accused of attacking someone with a shield spell while physically retreating and making no offensive gesture.
So I convened a Board. Because I can. And I declared that a shield is, by definition, not an attack. If it breaks your nose when you walk into it, that’s your business. We voted. It went my way. Funny how that happens when I start asking who’s planning on dueling me later if they disagree.
And since this came before a Board, I credentialed you. You now hold the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for Scutum Energeticum. Congratulations.
Now. You need to understand something: I didn’t do this because I like you. I don’t know you. You’re probably mediocre. But the Empire survives because somewhere, some apprentice still knows the difference between a boundary and a blade. You didn’t swing first. You just stood there. That’ll do.
Study harder. Stay alert. Keep your damn back to a wall. Now that the Karphadon brat has lost face, you may find your name on the wrong sort of scroll. Assassins are a thing. We don’t like to talk about that, but that’s just because it makes the faculty meetings awkward.
You’re not expelled. You’re not dishonored. But if you survive this year, you may wish I’d let them throw you out. At least then you’d be alive and unemployed.
–Valerian Laskaros
Senior Ordinator Secundus,
Field Rank IV,
Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium Missilum Arcanum, Scutum Energeticum, Obfuscatio Optica, Duplicatio Illusoria, Restrictio Aranea, Detonatio Ignea, Locomotio Aerea, Stasis Corporalis, Fulmen Linearis, Defensio Balistica, Murum Igneum, plus all the others that the people with sour faces reading this before it is delivered are painfully aware that I hold for exceptional innovations in the field of killing men with magic
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science – Combat Oversight & Pragmatics Division
Sopor Thaumaturgicus
Sleep
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science
Office of Thaumaturgical Licensing and Scroll Allocation
Seal Request Docket: S.T. – 1002–94 (Unapproved)
To Magos Athenon Lykastos,
We acknowledge receipt of your formal petition for the Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium in the field of Sopor Thaumaturgicus and confirm that it has been reviewed in full by the Allocative Credentialing Board under the auspices of the Scroll Governance Subcommittee, as per standardized evaluation procedure.
The Board regrets to inform you that your request is denied.
This decision is not a reflection on your technical proficiency or deployment record, both of which were found satisfactory. Indeed, the record suggests you have used the spell to considerable practical benefit and with no small degree of discernment. You are, in short, quite good at putting things to sleep.
However, mastery—true mastery—is a matter not merely of repetition or effect, but of balance within the ecosystem of arcane requisition and resource distribution. The Sopor Thaumaturgicus corpus remains, as you no doubt understand, a matter of ongoing demand and sensitive supply, particularly in the field posts of the interior provinces.
As such, further elevation of candidates—however technically meritorious—would oblige the Academy to adjust access protocols in ways deemed currently unsustainable by the appropriate oversight offices. It is not that your application lacks strength. It is that the field cannot bear its success.
We encourage you to broaden your focus to less-subscribed protocols where your talents may still yield institutional distinction, particularly those incantations whose practical applications remain underdocumented or whose scroll dissemination quotas are not yet exceeded.
This matter is considered closed.
May your ambitions remain tempered by wisdom and your service unmarred by disappointment.
– Archivist Enteleia Doraxes
Scroll Allocation Officer, 3rd Tier
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science – Licensing Division
Further petitions on this matter will not be reviewed this year.
Vocalis Alienata
ventriloquism
To the Esteemed Magos Publius Nemeas,
Operating under Credential DCCXLVIII-A,
Field Division III, Karameikan Office of Magical Affairs,
Be it known—by sealed record and witnessed inscription—that following review by the Committee for Applied Incantation and Minor Harmonic Disruption, and pursuant to the third clause under Marginal Effects Governance (Revised Form, Year 994), the Collegium Phonurgicum has seen fit to grant the
Sigillum Incantationis Magisterium for the protocol formally recognized as Vocalis Alienata, Classificatio: Manipulatio Phonica Minor.
Your application, though modest in theoretical scope, demonstrated a commendable alignment with procedural sufficiency and an astute selection of evaluative target. The committee acknowledges, with appropriate decorum, your precise adherence to format, your timely inclusion of relevant cross-references, and your discreet restraint in not overasserting claims of nuance or innovation in the application of the technique.
It is often said within these chambers that mastery is not solely the province of the miraculous, but also of the well-timed and wisely chosen. Your submission, if lacking the unnecessary flamboyance of certain colleagues, carried instead the unmistakable mark of strategic discernment—a trait not formally tested, but informally admired.
May this seal serve as both credential and reminder: the path to eminence is not always paved with brilliance, but often with well-placed stones.
– Sophronios Kaïennas,
Assistant Under-Rector, Collegium Phonurgicum
Imperial Academy of Arcane Science