Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Benalor/The Ebony Tower (section)

=The College of Shapers=
Do not let the name mislead you, for the College of Shapers is nothing like the Department of Shapers of the Imperial University. Though there is evidence that the College may be a precursor of present-day Shaper Magic as the Empire defines it, the Benalorans saw '''Shaping''' as a combined process of physical engineering and magical augmentation, shaping the world around them into the forms they wished it to become. The practice of Shaping would usually involve the assembly of a machine by workers in a factory, which would then go to College's mages which would somehow breathe life into the machines to various degrees, depending on the machine and the task in which it would be assigned.

For instance, smaller machines of convenience, such as the quintessential '''Evertorch''', were found to have the instructions for two spells etched upon it. The first spell would be upon the bottom of the grip, designed to absorb ambient mana into the device at that point. This absorption spell would be found on many other Benaloran machines, which suggested that it used mana primarily as a fuel source above all else. The second spell on the device was found on the rim of the torch before the opening, which converted the energy into light which would emit from the business end. The intensity of the light could be adjusted by a turn of the dial, the mechanism containing various components of the spell which dealt with such.