Category Archives: A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft

Sensing is the ability to feel essentia, and it is the first and most basic discipline of drucraft.  At its most primitive level, sensing gives a drucrafter awareness of their own personal essentia (the essentia that is attuned to a … Continue reading →

Drucraft corporations are much less ancient than Drucraft Houses . . . which is to be expected, as they originated from them. Houses dominated the drucraft world for thousands of years.  While outsiders could and did learn drucraft themselves, the … Continue reading →

Drucraft Houses are essentially magical aristocracy, and like the regular aristocracy, their origins go back thousands of years.    Drucraft requires sigls, and sigls require Wells.  Drucrafters with reliable access to Wells have a significant advantage over those who do … Continue reading →

Creating a sigl requires an enormous quantity of essentia, and the only place where so much essentia can naturally be found is at a Well. Despite its name, a Well is not created in the same way as a human-dug … Continue reading →

Sigls and the effects they create are the ‘finished product’ of drucraft.  Essentia comes first, Wells come second, and drucrafters come third – the creation of sigls is the second-to-last link at the end of a very long chain.  When … Continue reading →

Drucraft is comprised of three disciplines, namely: Sensing:  Perceiving essentia. Channelling:  Controlling essentia. Shaping:  Creating sigls. All drucraft is an application of one or more of these things. Sensing is the first and most basic of the disciplines.  A drucrafter’s … Continue reading →

What is drucraft?  It is the art and skill of working with essentia. Essentia is fundamental and omnipresent, a universal energy source that only interacts with the physical world in limited ways.  It can occupy the same space as material … Continue reading →