I came to Nashville, not to bring inspiration, but to find inspiration.


    Pre-Fall minister.


    Nashville, Johanna vaguely remembered from history lessons, had been a major Ancient city. But it had not left ruins. Instead, a gigantic Changestorm had wiped it entirely, center and surroundings, leaving instead a compass-perfect circular lake 20 miles wide, with just a little irregular side where a pre-Fall lake had been located and incorporated into the new Nashville Lake. A few ruins of minor cities were left next to it, but the entire area had been erased.


    In practice, that meant the modern Nashville wasn’t the Ancient one; it just took the name. People had managed to make a refuge on its new lake shore, make it through the chaos of the Fall, and build up from there. Seeing the lake, she wondered now if there was a colossal ruin deposited on the other side of the world, like the foreign village on its mesa-like plateau near Zahl. Or maybe it had been split worldwide, and some parts of the former city ended up making up the unnamed ruin near Valetta.


    Talent House of yours will qualify if you’ve expanded to another city already. And that extends to all four co-owners. So, I hope the National League will find your vote. I’m nominally apolitical now that I’m the Executive, but I still remember my affiliations,” he laughed.


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    Johanna Marcia Milton, tier 8 fire Archmage.


    Johanna Milton is the second youngest sorceress recorded, at an incredible age of 19. Born April 9^th, 2154, in Anasta, near the city of Valetta in the Marches of the Montana…


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    Johanna Milton is the first recorded tier 8* archmage, with a continuous casting time of around two hours and forty-one minutes. This is due to also being the first archmage to exhibit four sorcery Talents at the time:


    Ground lock – a semi-common earth talent (see page 396).


    Flaming hand – one of the most common fire talents (see page 384).


    Flame blade – a rare fire talent, the second recorded occurrence (see page 382).


    Mana sight – a rare mind talent, often associated with dual or better mages (see page 422).


    *See the chapter on sorcery tiers. Tier 7 and 8 are currently tentative, as tier 8 is uncertified, and tier 7 is a mathematical assumption, based on increasing tier times.


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    Laura Anna Donnall, nee Vogel, tier 6 mind sorceress.


    Laura Donnall is the youngest sorceress ever recorded, at an incredible age of 18. Born November 19^th, 2154, in Virtu, near the city of Valetta in the Marches of the Montana…


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    Laura Donnall is the first recorded sorceress also to exhibit Saintly aspects* alongside sorcerous Talent. She is not currently affiliated with any religious order and has not been ordained a Saint by the Pope in New Rome (Eagle Republic). Despite having only a single sorcery Talent, she is still ranked at a solid tier 6.


    Dreadful Gaze – one of the rarest mind talents, the second occurrence at the time (see page 370).


    *Professor Ernesto Gomez of the Nashville Academy of Post-Fall Physics is one of the proponents of the theory that Saint’s miracles in this post-fall world, rather than being a sign of divine help in times of tribulation, are merely an aspect of sorcery and expressed his opinion that Laura Donnall might be an archmage rather than a simply extremely talented sorceress. This 11^th editor notes that there is a precedent for a single-Talent sorceress to be at tier 6 with Elena Worchester and, therefore, takes no position on the issue.


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    “That looks very dated,” Ulrich commented over her shoulder.


    “It’s from when we were drafted in New Benton, I think. The biography does mention that part. I know the Sorceress of the Mists sent mail about us to the Society… but it looks as if she never updated anything. I mean, she was there when I lost the Earthbind and gained Fireball.”


    “Then you fled,” Wexler noted, remembering their story.


    “That, yes.”


    “She probably did not want to be associated with the debacle… although that’s a bit bizarre. Why would she suddenly clamp on that information?” Ulrich speculated.