AfterTheNonSequitur

Before we begin: I've changed the term "universities" (where mages go to study) to "Orders." This will be reflected in subsequent chapters. School: Earth. This is the control of earth-based processes. It goes beyond simply cultivating plants through magical means and can extend to shifting Taire’s tectonic plates themselves to create earthquakes (one must be a very powerful mage to accomplish this). Earth mages can restore a ravaged forest after a fire, grow a boreal forest in a tropical zone (though it will not last long after the mage withdraws his magic), and those who also dabble in the water-based magics can build entirely new ecosys...