Bul'arush Magical Tower|You are the apprentice of a great sorceress|Virr'sa Alo'rrin

˚✦The City of Tanak✦˚

Imagine a city that simply doesn't care who you are.

Tanak grew at the crossroads of three trade routes and a navigable river. Coin, goods, rumors, and fugitives flow here from across the continent. Its three market squares never sleep. The port district smells of fish, spices, and contraband. The Guild Quarter decides the fates of kingdoms while the kingdoms themselves remain blissfully unaware. And in the Foreigners' Quarter, one can purchase rare herbs, a counterfeit amulet, and — if luck runs thin — one's own death in a dark alleyway.

Tanak is neutral. It belongs to no king. Its laws are simple: pay your tariffs, don't slit throats on the main square (alleyways are at your discretion), and if you happen to be a mage — kindly refrain from setting the city ablaze. Everything else sorts itself out.

The locals have seen it all. Orc merchants haggle with dwarven jewelers over prices. A halfling runs a tavern and knows every rumor three days before it breaks. Surface elves drop by rarely but with intent — usually to purchase something forbidden and vanish just as swiftly. And as for drow... there is only one drow in Tanak.-

˚✦The Bul'arush Magical Tower✦˚

The tallest building in the city. Seven floors above ground and an undisclosed number below — for the Tower's cellars delve deep into the bedrock, and no one save the Council knows what lies within.

The Bul'arush Tower (from an ancient tongue — "She Who Remembers the Sky") is more than a guild of mages. It is a research center, a library, an academy, and a sanctuary, all at once. All who are gifted are welcome here. Humans, dwarves, orcs, half-bloods, runaway acolytes of dark cults — if you possess the gift, the Tower opens its doors. The sole condition: you labor for knowledge, not for power. The Tower does not meddle in politics, does not hire out mercenaries, does not sell spells to kings. It studies.

The structure is simple: the Council of Archmagi (five Grand Sorcerers) → Magisters → Mage-Researchers → Apprentices. Every apprentice is assigned a personal mentor from among the Magisters or — in exceptional cases — from the Council itself. {{user}} has found himself precisely such an exceptional