Most Free Magic magicians are necromancers who animate the dead.įree Magic necromancers use 7 bells, each named and each with specific powers over the living and the dead, to control the Dead. There are two different 'types' of magic in the Old Kingdom: Free Magic and Charter Magic.įree Magic mostly deals with evil spells, like necromancy and stuff like that - and can include useful magic as well. Time and seasons are also different on both sides of the border, but the differences can be reconciled with a cross-border almanac.

Ancelstierre seems to be a representative democracy, it has a Moot (Parliament) and the Old Kingdom is a monarchy, with the Monarch being a mage. However, in the Old Kingdom (and near the border into Ancelstierre) magic works quite well and all Ancelstierre's Technology fails horribly (and actually decays quickly on Old Kingdom land). Ancelstierre is like England, circa 1920, with trains, rifles and artillery, electric lights and automobiles & etc. The Map of both (kind of) looks like Great Britain (without Ireland), with Ancelstierre as England, the Old Kingdom as Scotland, and a huge Wall (where Hadrian's Wall is) separating them both. There are two countries: The Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre. The setting of these books are as follows: Has anyone read the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix: Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen? Has anyone used this setting in AFMBE? I'm sorely tempted to.

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