Category Archives: A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft

This is a series of worldbuilding articles about the setting of my new series, An Inheritance of Magic.

A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #25: Matter Essentia

Matter is generally considered the second-most straightforward branch of drucraft (Light being the first).  Long associated with craft and industry, it is perhaps the best-understood of all the branches. Capabilities Matter drucraft is focused around altering matter by changing its … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #24: Light Sigls (II)

A further overview of Light sigls.  This section concentrates on one of the most coveted and widely used powers of Light drucraft – invisibility. Diffraction Sub-branch:  Manipulation Type:  Triggered Appearance:  Blue, transparent Rank:  C to B+ Bends visible light around the … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #23: Light Sigls (I)

An overview of some of the most common Light sigls.  Light sigls are almost always spherical, and their colour varies from light blue to dark blue. Torch/Torchlight Sub-branch:  Projection Type:  Continuous/Triggered Appearance:  Pale blue, opaque Rank:  D The most basic … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #22: Light Essentia

Light is the first and most widely studied of the branches of drucraft, and is generally considered the easiest to learn.  New drucrafters are often given weak Light sigls to practise on, and a basic ‘torch’ Light projection sigl is … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #21:  Sigl Creation (Tracing)

Tracing means creating a sigl with the aid of a limiter.  It was a niche and rarely-used technique through most of human history, but advances made in the 19th and 20th centuries caused its popularity to soar.  Nowadays, the vast … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #20: Sigl Creation (Manifesting)

Sigls are created through the third of the drucraft disciplines – shaping.  Shaping is the art of manipulating free essentia (typically, though not always, in a Well) and causing it to crystallise into a piece of solid essentia, otherwise known … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #19:  The Lesser Houses

An overview of some of the more notable Lesser Houses of the UK.  Due to how many Lesser Houses there are in the UK (they currently number over thirty) this list is deliberately incomplete. Ashford A relatively new player on … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #18:  The Great Houses 

An overview of the current Great Houses of the UK. Barrett-Lennard House Barrett-Lennard is the only House in the UK to own title to an S+ Well, which is located in their family estate in Colchester, Essex.  It is the … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #17:  Houses of the UK

Houses in the United Kingdom are divided into three categories:  Great, Lesser, and minor.  Great Houses are those which possess a Well of class S or S+, Lesser Houses are those which possess a Well of class A+, and all … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #16:  Limit of Operation

A sigl won’t work without a bearer.  The least-studied of the Five Limits, the Limit of Operation is often treated as more of an afterthought.  For the most part this is a reflection of the attitudes of drucrafters – drucrafters … Continue reading

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