Found (21 page)

ACADEMICOS
—Set on an island in the river that runs between the Twilight and the Sunrise, the academicos is a school for the rich students and potential wizards of Wellmet. Conn enrolls there after becoming Nevery’s apprentice.

DAWN PALACE
—The home of the duchess and Rowan. The palace itself is a huge, rectangular building—not very architecturally interesting, but with lots of decorations crusted on it to make it fancy.

DRAGON MOUNTAIN
—Far away from Wellmet, in the very highest of the Fierce Mountains to the south, is a strange mountain with a huge cave right at its peak. Do dragons live there? Is it a place of magic?

DUSK HOUSE PIT
—The place where the Underlord’s Dusk House used to stand. It’s a pit now because the house was destroyed—blown to bits when Conn freed the magic from the Underlord’s evil device. Now the city’s magic gathers its strength in this pit, maybe drawn there by the slowsilver left behind when the device exploded.

HEARTSEASE
—The old Heartsease, the mansion house with the big hole in the middle, was destroyed in a certain pyrotechnic experiment, so Nevery is building a new Heartsease. When finished, it will have plenty of room for Nevery and Benet and Conn to live there. Conn might even get his own workroom!

MAGISTERS HALL
—Seat of power for the wizards who control and guard the magic of Wellmet. It is a big, imposing gray stone building on an island with a wall built all the way around it at the waterline.

In Wellmet, some people write using runes to stand for the letters of the alphabet. In fact, you may find some messages written in runes in
The Magic Thief: Found
.

a  

b  

bb  

c  

d  

dd  

e  

ee  

f  

ff  

g  

gg  

h  

i  

j