Four facts a wizard might tell you
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Most of this is me trying to take this old post and rewrite it as in-world lore, but Fact #1 is an all-new idea. I. Everyone knows that magic spells are "slippery," such that a wizard who casts a spell immediately forgets how to cast it. But did you know that this phenomenon extends to the geography of the world itself? Indeed, the larger the area depicted on a map, the harder your mind must strain in order to understand it! For this reason, complete maps of the world's continents are exceedingly rare, although some claim to have completed them. I once knew a cartographer who believed continent maps would be just as easy to understand as local maps if not for the inscrutable meddling of some Great Cosmic Being, but I've since heard he was committed to an asylum. II. Wizardry is not so old a practice as you might think. The Golden Empire had its augurs and oracles, but the first proper wizard was Mysmak. A century later, people still blame Mysmak's prophecies for ...