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Swardmagic Skymagic bears two elemental charges — water and wood. Water-charged magic is ichor, and wood-charged magic is soma.
In the cycle of arcana, the soil of the earth drinks water and begets the life of the sward, which bears the stalk and leaf that over time become wood. Ichor takes on the flavor of the Sward domain as it begins its descent in the cycle. Ichor becomes soma as water and seed form trees. Metal cuts down the stalk and trunk of the sward, which in turn begets rot that begins the renewal of swamp, fen, and bog.
Swardmagic is an absorptive magic of life and growth. Its folk and its wielders understand ichor and soma through learned observation, trial, and error. the flowing motion of the cycles of nature. Skyfolk watch and wield these flows by nature, but human practitioners must learn methods of druidry, the guiding of Skymagic by arrangement of physical objects or meditation and performed choreography or music.
Observing the aetherial flows of the heavens, the winds, and the waters gives insight into events and knowledge, distant in both time and space. Manipulating these flows, either by innate affinity or through druidry brings the force of those flows to bear to change the surrounding world.