Summary: a Vanha tome about different flavors of magic
Starting Location: office in keep beneath the sinkhole — Session 3
Current Location: In Clodagh’s possession
Notes
Book Contents
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The Eightfold Path of the Weave (Kudoksen Kahdeksan Polkua)
“To touch the Weave is to walk eight paths. To master them is to understand the soul of the world—and to risk losing your own.”
— Sieluhaltija Virel Saarn, Final Archmage of Valonlähde
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1. Valokudonta – The Path of Light-Weaving
“From light came vision, from vision came creation.”
- The art of shaping light into solid form.
- Practitioners build radiant constructs, forge sunfire weapons, and reveal the unseen.
- It is the path of clarity, but one that can blind the soul.
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2. Varjomuovaus – The Path of Shadow-Molding
“What light reveals, shadow remembers.”
- The manipulation of darkness as matter and mind.
- A path of spies, assassins, and those who speak to the void beneath perception.
- Those who mold shadows too often forget where their own ends.
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3. Sielun Arkkitehtuuri – The Path of Soul Architecture
“To shape a soul is to hold a star in trembling hands.”
- The study of soul-structure, memory, and essence.
- Used to create kin-bonds, bind spirits to vessels, or rewrite desire.
- Most feared, and most sacred to the Sieluhaltijat.
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4. Runoverkko – The Path of the Rune-Weave
“The world is made of words written before time.”
- Glyphs woven into matter, creating enduring enchantments.
- Used in infrastructure, defense, and magical programming.
- Misused, it unravels causality itself.
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5. Veriharmonia – The Path of Blood-Harmony
“In blood, all truth is written.”
- Life essence used not to destroy, but to unify.
- Binds allies, awakens hidden gifts in lineage, and links will through veins.
- Forbidden when used to hybridize multiple species.
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6. Tyhjyyskuiskaus – The Path of Void-Whispering
“The silence beyond the stars is not empty. It listens.”
- Communion with the unknowable.
- Used to gain forbidden truths, fold thoughts across time, or hear the end of all things.
- Every whisper leaves a scar.
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7. Aikakudonta – The Path of Time-Weaving
“Time is not a line. It is a garden—pruned, twisted, and regrown.”
- Alters time’s flow, allowing glimpses of what was or might be.
- Risky even in controlled forms; failure spawns echoes or paradox.
- A path that creates ghosts before their death.
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8. Elävien Vesi – The Path of Living Water
“Life flows. Magic flows. Water is the breath between them.”
- The animation and sanctification of water.
- Used for healing, communion, and forming living guardians.
- At its peak, it dissolves the boundary between caster and current.
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Final Words
“One may walk a single path and know mastery.
Two, and know greatness.
Three, and court madness.
Four or more, and cease to be Vanha at all.”— Inscription beneath a shattered mosaic in the ruins of Sieluntuuli