New Year, New Magic
Congratulations on making it to the end of the year, young wizards of future repute. Rarely does the start of the new calendar year and the start of the new magical year line up so neatly, given that the magical year is a completely random series of days only revealed to mages once it has ended, but a new year of magic began yesterday morning, and in just a few days we will flip over our calendars to a new year. Of course, its difficult to celebrate the start of the magical new year given what we all knew would happen upon its arrival, but I urge you all to push through and take advantage of this magical time nonetheless.
For those somehow unaware (I’m beginning to suspect some non-magically inclined people are enjoying these letters based on the increasing number of questions about the basics I’m receiving) during the shift of the magical new year, magic flows sporadically and abundantly for a brief burst of time. Spells are a little easier to cast, potions taste way better, and all those magically hidden places in the world teem with renewed fervor. While all this is great for the average wizard performing their normal magical tasks, there are always those looking to take advantage of the magical new year, and of course this year we have the honor of dealing with the impending conquest of the Dark Lord on the horizon.
Per the reports I have read and communications between myself and people I know in the north, the Dark Lord and his forces immediately began using the magical new year to sew chaos more efficiently. First, there was the animation spells. Everywhere the Dark Lord and his forces trekked, in their wake they left dozens of inanimate objects suddenly capable of movement. Townsfolk everywhere were livid as their buckets suddenly grew legs and ran away. They had the same issue with fences suddenly booking it into the distance, leaving animals untethered and wandering.
Then things began to get gigantic. When they ran out of things to animate, the forces of evil began making the animated objects and now escaped farm animals huge. All across the country side there were reports of giant chickens soaring through the air, giant cows munching on the tree tops, and giant cleaning supplies hopping to and fro.
As quickly as the chaos emerged in the north, the reports then say there was a sudden shift. The big chickens, unable to reach their usual feed now that they were huge, turned to the next nearest potential food source: the forces of evil milling about laughing at their own tricks. Quickly following the hunger of the chickens, the magic of the new year increased once more, and all the animated giant objects became erratic, galavanting through the Dark Lord’s forces with enchanted wildness. With all the chaos they’d been attempting to afflict on the common folks now turned against them, the Dark Lord and his forces were forced to fall back, and when all the chickens were shrunk back to their normal sizes, I hear they were given all the seeds and corn they wanted as a reward.
May the moon shine favorably and without hesitation upon you,
Alexan Drytus
