#SpellFocus Tempt-Me-Not-Into-Heresy Parable is a heathen cleric who collects the holy books of fallen gods. She invokes their names, tempts from them the words of power, presses them between the pages like flowers for safekeeping.

At night she prays to them; they glow as they feed on her belief.

#SpellFocus Acanthrus Minitaur draws glyphs with mazes. The inherent randomness of dead ends and false leads, solved by rats, mice, fungi... Every pattern unlocks another spell. He sinks hours into his research, cultivating slime molds, breeding the smartest rats, rewarding them all with cheese.

#SpellFocus Magic is a living thing, and no one knows that better than Demetra Digitigrade. She stores her spells in digital pets, listening to their blips and bloops to ascertain their needs. She is pushing buttons all day, cleaning poop, playing games; any death means the loss of a spell forever.

#SpellFocus Aria Minimus is a master of the magic tones, but only on makeshift instruments. She tightens rubber bands round a cardboard box to summon vitality from a toy guitar, finds the anti-magic disharmonies in a tin can maraca.

Give her a field, she'll stop an army with two blades of grass.

#SpellFocus Studifer Elkhorn finds magic in rebellion. She murmurs blasphemies and builds a reservoir of mana through disobedience. She infuses strikers with an iron will, gives volume to the refusals of unruly children. Where her presence is felt, protest is on everyone's lips and in every eye.

#SpellFocus Nigel Terwilliger spends hours crafting his magic dioramas. Armed with flocking, model scenery, and "n" guage and below model railways, he builds tiny loops and stations which attract spirits of joy, curiosity, and fastidiousness to power them with magic.

#SpellFocus China Cillikait sits on the beach and digs her hands into the sand for raw materials in her magic. She burns hot, melding specific impurities into her casting. Fire comes out red, life green, a calming enchantment a pale blue.

She weaves a stained glass tapestry of her magic history.

#SpellFocus Laurent A L'Orange makes magic in the kitchen. With a spatula carved from magic heartwood, and a charged iron frying pan, he sautés spells into his dishes. Fried phantasms, stewed sorceries... With the right ingredients, and a good group of friends, magic is a Michelin star dinner party.

#SpellFocus Tobias Murmur has an ear for arcane words. He sits on park benches or leans against street corners, snatching words of power from everyday conversations.

Word on the street is powerful magic, when you can tune it correctly.

#SpellFocus Natty Hittentrick is a trash wizard. She roots around in garbage bins and sifts through discarded waste to steal the leftover magic from everyday trinkets. Is your wand of wishes out of juice? Natty'll take it off your hands and turn those last sorcerous dregs into something useful.

#SpellFocus Horus Carpedium has a 24 hour memory for magic. He loads up at midnight with his spell-a-day calendar, and he has to get through the next day with only that spell.

Sometimes it's a fireball. Sometimes it's a cleaning spell. For Horus, every day is something new!

#SpellFocus Djinn D'jarojas is an earth wizard with happy feet! Her dances "tap" into the mystic rhythms of the ground beneath her feet, shattering mountains, cracking valleys, or quieting volcanoes. With golden taps on her enchanted shoes, her jig can even make a river dance!

#SpellFocus Avatrice the Gambler carved her runes into two knucklebones. Folks who see the dice skittering towards them never know what they'll get: will her magic grant them super strength? Or will it blow them to smithereens?

Here's a hint: it's usually the latter.