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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #48:  Sigl Fashion (Head/Feet/Other)

Heads, feet, and everything else. Headband/Circlet The traditional location for any sigl affecting the wielder’s vision.  Sigls are usually worn in this location because you have to, not because you...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #47: Sigl Fashion (Hands/Arms)

A look at the ways in which sigls can be worn on the hands and arms. Rings Traditionally the second-most popular location.  Setting sigls into a ring requires a little more work than stringing one on a...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #46: Sigl Fashion (Body/Torso)

Essentia channelling is very short-ranged.  To channel through a sigl, a drucrafter needs that sigl to be very close – preferably, touching their skin.  This means that if you plan to make a habit of...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #45:  Life Sigls (II)

A handful of the vast quantity of medical Life sigls in current use. Mending Type:  Triggered Appearance: Pale green, sphere Rank: C to B+ Although all medical sigls are inherently specialised, the...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44:  Life Sigls (I)

Life sigls are generally divided into ‘medical’ and ‘other’ categories.  This article will look at a small sampling of the latter. Strength Type:  Continuous Appearance: Deep green, teardrop shape...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43:  Life Essentia

The fourth of the branches, Life essentia gives drucrafters the ability to affect living biological systems. Capabilities Life effects work quite differently to Motion, Matter, or Light.  While Light...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #42:  Attunement

Attunement is a measurement of compatibility between a drucrafter and a sigl.  Higher attunement means a sigl will function better, lower attunement means a sigl will function worse, and below a...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #41:  Country Affinities

‘Affinity’ can mean two things in a drucraft context.  Usually people use it to mean an affinity with one or other of the branches;  the same thing that makes it so much easier for a drucrafter to...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #40: Corporations (IV)

A few of the most notable non-British and non-American corporations operating within the UK.  Due to the sheer number of such corporations (the list of drucraft companies with an office in London alone...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #39: Corporations (III)

A brief overview of drucraft corporations that supply the US military.  While the continental USA has strong essentia resources, the US military’s demand for sigls is enormous, and US defence...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #38: Corporations (II)

A brief overview of non-military U.S. corporations that trade in the UK. Atlantic A corporation based in New York.  Unlike most drucraft companies, they do not have a shaping department at all and...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #37: Corporations (I)

A brief overview of some of the more important drucraft corporations currently active within the UK.  This section will cover British companies. Cambridge Group a.k.a. Camlink Camlink is the only...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #36: Essentia Capacity In Practice

The previous entry discussed the theory of essentia capacity;  what it is and what it means.  This entry will focus more on how it works in practice. When Essentia Capacity Matters . . . A higher...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #21:  Sigl Creation (Tracing)

Tracing means creating a sigl with the aid of a limiter.  It was a niche and rarely-used technique through most of human history, but advances made in the 19th and 20th centuries caused its popularity...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #20: Sigl Creation (Manifesting)

Sigls are created through the third of the drucraft disciplines – shaping.  Shaping is the art of manipulating free essentia (typically, though not always, in a Well) and causing it to crystallise into...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #19:  The Lesser Houses

An overview of some of the more notable Lesser Houses of the UK.  Due to how many Lesser Houses there are in the UK (they currently number over thirty) this list is deliberately incomplete. Ashford A...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #18:  The Great Houses 

An overview of the current Great Houses of the UK. Barrett-Lennard House Barrett-Lennard is the only House in the UK to own title to an S+ Well, which is located in their family estate in Colchester,...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #17:  Houses of the UK

Houses in the United Kingdom are divided into three categories:  Great, Lesser, and minor.  Great Houses are those which possess a Well of class S or S+, Lesser Houses are those which possess a Well of...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #16:  Limit of Operation

A sigl won’t work without a bearer.  The least-studied of the Five Limits, the Limit of Operation is often treated as more of an afterthought.  For the most part this is a reflection of the attitudes...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #15:  Limit of Creation

You can’t change a sigl after it’s made.  The Limit of Creation states that sigls can not be modified or redesigned.  Once they’re created, that’s it – if you want them to do something different, you...

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