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Constructs

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Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Shield forms: Cassian made a boat from golden shields, while Eira and Lythariel supplied oars formed from darkness.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Divine constructs: Divine Magic can shape restraints and tools. Divine constructs held a captive creature, and Cassian formed a boat from golden shields, propelled with oars made from darkness by Eira and Lythariel.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

In Ashenford, Eira helped Victor experiment with channeling darkness magic into steel devices.

Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Divine constructs: Divine Magic can shape restraints and tools. Divine constructs held a captive creature, and Cassian formed a boat from golden shields, propelled with oars made from darkness by Eira and Lythariel.
  • Duplicates: Kaelion conjured luminous copies of himself whose movements mirrored his own. These illusions could attack with solar spears.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

Brighthaven produced metallic boats with controls for their crews, flying skyships and humanoid guards. Its aerial machines could remain aloft while they had enough Essence cores to sustain them.

In Ashenford, Eira helped Victor experiment with channeling darkness magic into steel devices.

Development

Brighthaven's construct technology came from the Malverand Empire. During the empire's fall, roughly three millennia earlier, Pyrathalor helped stabilize and repair the old technology.

Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Divine constructs: Divine Magic can shape restraints and tools. Divine constructs held a captive creature, and Cassian formed a boat from golden shields, propelled with oars made from darkness by Eira and Lythariel.
  • Duplicates: Kaelion conjured luminous copies of himself whose movements mirrored his own. These illusions could attack with solar spears.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

Brighthaven produced metallic boats with controls for their crews, flying skyships and humanoid guards. Its aerial machines could remain aloft while they had enough Essence cores to sustain them.

Brighthaven workshops assembled metal plates around Essence Engines. These machines served military and everyday needs. In Astralynne, engine-driven constructs repaired roads, cleaned streets and patrolled the city; armed constructs elsewhere could fire air blasts, cosmic beams and divine waves.

In Ashenford, Eira helped Victor experiment with channeling darkness magic into steel devices.

Development

Brighthaven's construct technology came from the Malverand Empire. During the empire's fall, roughly three millennia earlier, Pyrathalor helped stabilize and repair the old technology.

Constructs associated with Varnhallow reached Skarnheim through timerifts. Benedict explained that the machines had fallen through accidentally.

Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Divine constructs: Divine Magic can shape restraints and tools. Divine constructs held a captive creature, and Cassian formed a boat from golden shields, propelled with oars made from darkness by Eira and Lythariel.
  • Duplicates: Kaelion conjured luminous copies of himself whose movements mirrored his own. These illusions could attack with solar spears.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

Brighthaven produced metallic boats with controls for their crews, flying skyships and humanoid guards. Its aerial machines could remain aloft while they had enough Essence cores to sustain them.

Brighthaven workshops assembled metal plates around Essence Engines. These machines served military and everyday needs. In Astralynne, engine-driven constructs repaired roads, cleaned streets and patrolled the city; armed constructs elsewhere could fire air blasts, cosmic beams and divine waves.

In ancient Maraveth, constructs cleaned streets, including those near farmhouses. Within the city, they also delivered goods and performed maintenance. Brighthaven later exported constructs to Valrindor.

In another world, automated constructs hauled goods for humans. Amos compared machines incorporating human thought processes to divine and earth mages infusing their will into constructs.

In Ashenford, Eira helped Victor experiment with channeling darkness magic into steel devices.

Development

Brighthaven's construct technology came from the Malverand Empire. During the empire's fall, roughly three millennia earlier, Pyrathalor helped stabilize and repair the old technology.

Constructs associated with Varnhallow reached Skarnheim through timerifts. Benedict explained that the machines had fallen through accidentally.

Constructs are magically shaped forms and manufactured devices used for labor, transport, protection and combat. They range from stone bodies guided by mages to metallic machines powered by Essence.

Magical forms

Divine and earth mages can infuse their will into constructs. Jareth described the same principle of Essence and will in Brighthaven's machines, comparing it with the much larger scale of god cores.

  • Earth constructs: Earth mages shape and guide stone forms to repair roads, move cargo and carry riders. Less skilled mages can struggle to keep them balanced.
  • Spectral constructs: Lyssara created pale forms that extended her will, lifting wreckage and guarding children. Her constructs vanished when she was killed.
  • Divine constructs: Divine Magic can shape restraints and tools. Divine constructs held a captive creature, and Cassian formed a boat from golden shields, propelled with oars made from darkness by Eira and Lythariel.
  • Duplicates: Kaelion conjured luminous copies of himself whose movements mirrored his own. These illusions could attack with solar spears.

Manufactured constructs

Metallic constructs were also found among the machinery and Essence cores inside Essence Towers.

Brighthaven produced metallic boats with controls for their crews, flying skyships and humanoid guards. Its aerial machines could remain aloft while they had enough Essence cores to sustain them.

Brighthaven workshops assembled metal plates around Essence Engines. These machines served military and everyday needs. In Astralynne, engine-driven constructs repaired roads, cleaned streets and patrolled the city; armed constructs elsewhere could fire air blasts, cosmic beams and divine waves.

In ancient Maraveth, constructs cleaned streets, including those near farmhouses. Within the city, they also delivered goods and performed maintenance. Brighthaven later exported constructs to Valrindor.

In another world, automated constructs hauled goods for humans. Amos compared machines incorporating human thought processes to divine and earth mages infusing their will into constructs.

In Ashenford, Eira helped Victor experiment with channeling darkness magic into steel devices.

Development

Brighthaven's construct technology came from the Malverand Empire. During the empire's fall, roughly three millennia earlier, Pyrathalor helped stabilize and repair the old technology.

Constructs associated with Varnhallow reached Skarnheim through timerifts. Benedict explained that the machines had fallen through accidentally.

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