A wizen-ed's staff
While combat mages are all about martial arts and contortionism to collect spells inscribed in pain on their bodies, the older, more slow and powerful mages of Natare (and collected around the academy) resort to something a little more complex with a little more planning.
The staff itself is usually a tube, with the circuits themselves grown into the wood that makes up these grand designs. Decorated at the head with some sort of showy display of artisinal power, these devices take years to craft, or teams of dozens.
Older staffs have contained tubes upon tubes, those complex spells on each layer to provide utility to their casting. Where a combat mage might throw a wall of force, a staff might be able to summon a familiar to manifest briefly for a massive push, or an army of ants to form as armor over an arm.
The tubes twist over one another to align the space for activation, often hidden by a blank but decorated outer tube, so that accidental spell casting is not possible.
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