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 ===== History =====
-The origins of enchanting appear to lie with one of the xtauh civilizations that inhabit the northern [[geography:sekhaa:region:brightness]]. A people remembered by later xtauh histories as the [[ethnicity:Stone Eaters]], dwelling mostly along the banks of the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:river:Ehvanti]], lived in the region during the [[history:storm_era:|Storm]] and [[history:steel_era:|Steel]] Eras, and were distinguished by the large, abstract, and highly individualistic symbols they carved into nearby sandstone cliffs, apparently as a form of devotion to their gods. It seems likely, given the similarity of some of the symbols to those used for emitting heat, that the first enchantments were discovered by accident as a byproduct of this practice. While the exact time of the invention cannot be known, enchanting was certainly in existence by the early Steel Era, where the records of the court of the [[geopolitical:queendom_of_light_unobstructed:Radiant Queen|Radiant Queens]] mention - dismissively - reports of their use among xtauh tribes.
+The origins of enchanting appear to lie with one of the xtauh civilizations that inhabit the northern [[geography:sekhaa:region:brightness]]. A people remembered by later xtauh histories as the [[ethnicity:Stone Eaters]], dwelling mostly along the banks of the [[geography:sekhaa:river:Ehvanti]], lived in the region during the [[history:storm_era:|Storm]] and [[history:steel_era:|Steel]] Eras, and were distinguished by the large, abstract, and highly individualistic symbols they carved into nearby sandstone cliffs, apparently as a form of devotion to their gods. It seems likely, given the similarity of some of the symbols to those used for emitting heat, that the first enchantments were discovered by accident as a byproduct of this practice. While the exact time of the invention cannot be known, enchanting was certainly in existence by the early Steel Era, where the records of the court of the [[geopolitical:queendom_of_light_unobstructed:Radiant Queen|Radiant Queens]] mention - dismissively - reports of their use among xtauh tribes.
 The circumstances of its discovery, to say nothing of the miraculous nature of its effects, meant that the effects of enchantment were ascribed to the power of the gods. On the one hand, this - together with the habit of inscribing the glyphs on large masses of stone, whose internal properties could not be easily investigated - meant that the ultimate source of the energy being produced was not understood for some time thereafter; although the heat was moved out of the mass of stone and into the air, it was seen to simply appear. On the other hand, since it became clear that some glyphs produced a real, measurable effect and others did not, it sparked a search to find other glyphs that might be pleasing to the gods. This trend remained even after the collapse of the Stone Eaters' civilization, where stonecarvers specializing in this branch of knowledge spent their free time trying different configurations of symbols. The greater portion of their compatriots tended to consider them holy men (or, just as frequently, women), and their search to be a divinely inspired quest.