![]() ![]() The answer is that not even the Redguards are truly willing to eschew the ship’s battlemage – sand magic offers destructive power without requiring the physical presence of a spellcaster. Yet even without this basic norm of naval combat, the Redguards are able to rule the waves of western Tamriel and beyond. The Redguards, however, and the Colovians who have largely inherited their naval traditions, will not tolerate wizards aboard ship – they are seen as an unpredictable, unlucky, and undesirable factor at sea. Most navies employ ships’ battlemages as a matter of course, relying on them to blast apart enemy ships as well as repairing and fortifying their own. The Yoku suspicion of mages extends to their other great domain, the sea. But the underlying natural philosophy of the school has far more practical applications. Most often, sand magic manifests itself as a subtle, reserved school, focusing perhaps rather unimaginatively on the physicality of the sand, tossing it here and there in whirlwinds and missiles and all manner of spell. The ancient stone and sand of the desert, especially under such constant attention from Magnus, has been infused with aetheric power since time immemorial, and it is the Redguard mages who have discovered the secrets to unlocking it. In the Alik’r desert, mages practice an ancient pre-Ra Gada school that hinges on the desert sands and the Magnal energies locked away in such mundane media. ![]() But nevertheless an arcane tradition exists. The Redguards of Hammerfell are not well known for their sorcery, and indeed the magical arts are little respected and little practised in the province. It would also be good to have samples of ordinary sand to compare it with.Adapted from a letter to Elder Councillor Vedo Icthus, 3E 420 Magic sand will need to be sourced prior to the activity. Practical considerationsĬhildren may need an explanation about what the term ‘hydrophobic’ means and how the sand works, before being able to suggest viable real-life applications. Alternatively, learners could work in groups to test the sand and ask questions about what they are observing. It could be used as a demonstration to get children thinking about any real-life applications of the sand. You could use the activity with small focus groups to stimulate discussion and questioning between learners. This activity could be used in a number of ways, depending on the ease of access to ‘magic sand’. The coating on magic sand is similar to some types of cleaning products, which are sprayed on fabrics to protect them from stains. It starts out as normal sand but is then coated with a substance that keeps water away, this sort of substance is called a hydrophobic substance. Magic sand is magic because even when it is underwater, it stays dry! When ordinary sand gets wet it sticks together, forming clumps, but magic sand is different.
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