Category Archives: A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft

A brief overview of Matter sigls affecting the properties of transparency and hardness. Transparency Type:  Triggered/Continuous Direction:  Conducted Appearance:  Pale to very pale pink, transparent. Rank:  B to A Alters the transparency of the wearer, causing light to pass through … Continue reading →

Matter sigls work by temporarily altering one of the target’s physical properties.  Over the centuries, drucrafters have consistently found that one of the most useful properties to alter is mass. Lightfoot Type:  Triggered/Continuous Direction:  Conducted (self) Appearance:  Pale red, swirl … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →