Spellweaver

Magic is the birthright of many creatures, powers in excess of most mortals’ abilities that seem to grant them dominion over lesser races. Dragons, beholders, titans: these beings all manipulate the world through magical might, but none hold mastery over and refine their powers to the degree of the enigmatic and elusive spellweavers. Natural sorcerers, as potent as they are alien, spell weavers are the orphans of an ancient empire, ruined seemingly by happenstance. Collectors, traders, and instigators, spellweavers ever seek a way to reshape the present, which has perhaps gone terribly wrong.

Civilization and Culture

History

Only seen on rare occasions, and always because of their involvement in some scheme to obtain magic items by trade, persuasion, or force, spellweavers are a mysterious race of powerful sorcerers. These elusive beings are evidence of the last descendants of an ancient, magically advanced empire that, millennia ago, spanned numerous worlds and planes.
In this forgotten time, the spellweaver empire comprised a vast league of colonies called nodes that spanned the multiverse. Huge pyramids of stone and steel powered by gigantic magical furnaces, these nodes were widely separated, often with only one existing on any single world or plane of existence. All of them, however, connected to one another through a complex matrix of magical portals. Thus, each node served as a huge planar travel installation, capable of instantly moving with all its inhabitants to other locations or planes.
The so-called spellweaver empire was largely noninvasive—an advanced community of intellectual watchers who only occasionally subjugated more primitive creatures to carry out menial chores and hard labour. What few races they encountered that posed threats, the spellweavers gifted with powerful magic items and artifacts, allowing these cultures to destroy themselves from within (an act some spellweavers still practice in modern times). Yet, above all, the spellweavers were interested in semantics, a subject they had researched for thousands of years, travelling through the multiverse to meet and observe nearly every culture imaginable. Through the tireless study and practice of innumerable symbols and language codes, the spellweavers learned to avail themselves of their physical attributes and natural talents like no other race, developing uncanny telepathy and the ability to cast multiple spells simultaneously.
Few know if the spellweaver plan to acquire total knowledge of all existing communication was their ultimate goal or if they had some other purpose. It is known that, at the height of their prosperity, the spellweavers conducted a grandiose and dangerous experiment, possibly attempting to alter reality across the entire multiverse. This experiment, however, met with tragic failure and caused a catastrophe of colossal proportions. For unexplained reasons, the furnaces within every spellweaver node exploded one after the other in a terrible chain reaction, obliterating the pyramidal colonies and all their inhabitants within seconds, effectively purging the multiverse of the spellweaver empire in a single moment. Only a few members of the race who were away from the nodes survived, becoming the ancestors of all modern spellweavers.