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the wielder’s strength and rank among the Bearded
(and range from daggers to great blades or scythes).
Boneshards, incidentally, cherish pieces of broken
drakeblades for their own purposes.
• Beacon Watchful: Whenever possible, Dramidgeth always sleep facing the stars, in hopes of seeing
Tharcluun’s Beacon, should it appear.
• Daragkorlis Festivals: The Dramidgeth engage in
the Daragkorlis, monthly dragon festivals dedicated to particular dragon types or constellations
of the same, revering a sort of a Zodiac of Dragons.
During these festivals, any dead Dramidgeth (some
packed in salt, if they passed away since the last Daragkorlis) are laid out with ceremony and left for
wild dragons to eat.
• Dragon Slayer Enmity: Dramidgeth hold deepseated hatred in their hearts for all dragon slayers
and hunters.
• Kuad Ahir Enmity: They hate the Kuad Ahir, the
“Awakened” followers of the enigmatic Prophet,
since their powers are a mockery of true magic.
• Gare Attessa Enmity: The Bearded Ones also loathe
the Gare Attessa and distrust those pervasive Chroniclers “who must be up to no good.”
• Trakeen Affinity: They are always friendly to Trakeen, the Dragon King worshipers.
• Tharcluun’s Blessing: The Dragon King Tharcluun
blessed the original founders of Dramidge to enhance their magic. The most senior mages repeat
this ceremony annually, using a wild dragon to keep
that tradition alive (along with whatever mysterious enhancements come from it).
The Importance of History
When one meets a Dramidget, one always finds more
than a few books near at hand, as this college stresses
an importance on history and knowledge thereof. Their
books on magic are equally important, some more than
others. A popular saying in Teleris mocks that “A Dramidget holds knowledge aplenty, if he has a way to
carry all his books.”
However, the mages make a distinction between a
book and a tome. To a Dramidgian, a tome is both a holy
relic of the college and a powerful artifact and spellbook
in its own right. Each Dramidget hopes to attain a level
of knowledge and spellcraft that their own personal
book—a combined journal and spellbook containing all
a mage learns and experiences since his graduation be-
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yond Daragari status—might attain the coveted status
of a Dramidgian Tome.
While the exact number of Draneek Tomes is unclear
even to many Bearded Ones, there are at least a dozen
verified by non-Dramidgian historians and eyewitnesses. They are of three types in order of importance—the
Major Tomes (attributed to the seven original college
founders), the Grand Tomes (those later Dramidgeth
with extensive contact with Tharcluun, of which there
may be up to five tomes), and the Great Tomes (any major Dramidgeth in power or daragkish knowledge since
the Classic Age, these numbering no less than four).
All the most revered magical tomes of the college originally stayed in Rhojess from their writing until the recent past. Now removed and almost always on the move,
the Draneek Tomes secretly travel around the Granite
Basin with several deep hiding places. Draneek Tome
Guards specialize in protective and obscuration magic
to keep the tomes safe. Failure to protect the tomes or
adhere to the magical college rules is punishable by
death. The loss of any tome matters most to Dramidgeth—without their Tomes, they may lose their rituals
and their magic from which they draw their power and
their connections to the Daragkarik.
Rumors & Whispers
The truth of any rumors attributed to the Dramidgeth
is unclear, as they never confirm or deny any of them.
This leads most to safely assume any stories heard are
true until personal experience proves otherwise. Of the
wide and varied rumors, these are the most frequent.
• Dramidgian mages control wild dragons without
any apparent spells at all.
• Many blame them specifically for the departure of
the Dragon Kings, though most are hard-pressed
for an explanation as to why.
• Even a fool “knows” the Dramidgeth nurture dragon eggs in the desert.
• Many fear they gather slaves to feed to wild dragons
or their tame servitor dragons.
• The only places you can find more than one Dramidgian wizard are their schools and tutor halls,
inside which are guardian dragons reduced in size
but not in power.
• Their entire college estate in Rhojess, some say, is
not carved stone but actual daragkin—the bodies of
rock and mud dragons that died at the command
of Tharcluun and the founding Dramidgeth to bulwark the college and its students with their power
(and to provide permanent self-sustaining water
supplies separate from the city wells).
