Editing Narcissus (section)

====The Munificent Guild of Mirror-Smiths====

The Great Purge in the aftermath of the Second Shattering demilitarized the mirror-smiths.  They formed their guild to further pursue and adapt their reflective sciences.  Although they continued to design and maintain burning mirrors for use in warfare, the mage-smiths began to explore and develop other applications of reflective science.  Originally they resisted cooperation with the guilds of what they saw as cruder sorceries, such as the mirror-casters and mirror-fishers.  By the golden age of the Time of Clarity, however, they willingly combined their arts to create wonders of reflective magic.

The original mirrors created by mirror-smiths were polished obsidian reflectors, polished bronze and copper, and eventually sophisticated and delicate silvered glass.  The basic forms of mirrors used by mirror-smiths are:  flat mirrors (simple reflections), concave mirrors (reflections converge), convex mirrors (reflections diverge), and mirror arrays (combinations of mirrors).  Mirror-smiths are skilled at the delicate science of creating mirrors – which is where apprentices are put to work.  Other sorcerers such as mirror-fishers and mirror-casters rely on mirror-smiths to craft the tools and mirrors needed for their arts.  However the true art of the mirror-smith lies in designing and installing mirrors and arrays of mirrors, to produce wonders such as the Mirror Towers and heliocamin cannons.

-- by Kakita Kojiro