The cadets obtain 18 additional powers and gifts during this expedition. The most impressive power, perhaps, is the ability to grab the soul of another living creature an..
These stories first took shape back in college 1986, when I wrote some 50 pages of fantasy about Nystol the ancient wizard-collegium. Years later I found the manuscript buried away in my closet. I still possess the original manuscript and refer back to it when I need a reminder about the lore-system. I have been treating the original manuscript as if it were an archeological find, and I have re-placed the milieu to be a lost continent in our historical reality, not an unrelated highly fantastic world.& more...