The Adepts of the Doxology of San Destinakon (to use the Order's title in full) practice animation, substance alteration and body control magics.  While the Order does not discriminate racially - officially - a preponderance are Fristles and Khibils, both races native to the desert home of the Order.  Further, all mages of the Order carry bronze flails which they use as foci for their magics (and in place of enchanted Staves).  However, the Adepts can and do also use the flails as weapons, and are among the most skilled warriors among wizards.

Their schola is in the far-off western desert land of Mycretia, and most Adepts train there, making wizards of this otherwise useful and well-regarded order more uncommon the farther one gets; along the Talendic coast, Adepts come near to parity with Wizards of Fruningen in numbers, while it is quite rare to find an Adept in Loh, the Southern Reaches or around Valon.  At their schola Adepts are schooled in a demanding and punishing regimen which includes a degree of mysticism and ascetic practices unusual amongst magical orders.  Privation, starvation and mortification are known to be part of the training.  Self-flagellation is a notable part of their religious practices, commonly employed when Adepts believe they have failed or faltered in a task through carelessness, clumsiness or inattention on their own part.  Nothing beyond rumors exists of the god/s they worship or the private rituals they undergo, although it is believed that the “San Destinakon” of the Order’s title refers to the mystic who founded the Order and codified its practices rather than any focus of veneration in her own right.  “Listening to the Wind” is known to be an element of meditation, although what that means is unrevealed.

What is known is that the last stage of the Adept’s training involves the feared Desert of Blood, ringed with cruel mountains, where he must survive naked - with only the bronze flail for a tool - for one month.  There, in a haunted land where the flow of mana is slight, is where Adepts learn to cope with weak or erratic mana flows; this also stands them well in enchanting magical artifacts, something at which the Order excels.  Adepts who survive leave the Desert with a familiar, almost always a winged dragonet slightly smaller than a house cat, believed by observers to be sentient.

SYMBOL: A bronze flail.

GARB: Adepts wear robes in a diamond checkerboard pattern, usually in brownish and black colors: brown, bronze, umber, tan, brass and so on.  It is usual to wear a mantle which covers the shoulders.

CONSONANT SPELL COLLEGES: Animation, Alteration, Body Control, Movement
PROHIBITED SPELL COLLEGES: all Elemental lists

The mages of this order specialize in mind control, body control and nature magics.  The stronghold of the sect is in the wild fastnesses of Altania, where many serve as tribal shamen.  The Muircroinim are not often popular outside their barbaric homeland, due to their outré habits and practices, but are certainly feared and respected nonetheless.

There is no schola central to the sect, per se, although Muircroinim Sorcerers do not eschew scholarship and willingly patronize libraries in the city Chapters, if to the dismay of the other patrons.  It is the practice, even more so than with most orders, for Muircroinim to take on apprentices and pass on their knowledge in that fashion alone.  This tradition of teaching is very important to the order, and apprentices are expected to be able to recite their lineage going back many generations.  Note that Muircroinim mages are not necessarily members of the College of Mages (it is not often their practice in Altania to join, even in the semi-civilized coastal domains), but they generally belong in more civilized lands and there is no bar to their membership.

A measure of versatility is a hallmark of the Order.  Many Sorcerers have at least a passing familiarity with traditional tribal elixirs and decoctions which serve as a de facto Alchemy skill, and the way their spells operate often deviate from the known canon in terms of duration, side effects and particulars ... enough so to wrongfoot wizardly foes from other orders, who presume foolishly that they’ve seen it all.

There is a strong degree of mysticism in the sect, part of which are the odious habits (such as failure to bathe, working blood magics) which serve to stigmatize the order.  The belief system seems to be a primitive nature- and ancestor-worship, in line with the pre-Invasion practices of their steppe ancestors.

SYMBOL: A white circle charged with a golden “X.”  It is not often worn or displayed by Sorcerers of the Order.

GARB: Muircroinim Sorcerers usually wear long leather or hide robes; these can be decorated with fringes, tooling, embroidery or be bedecked with semi-precious stones, wrought shards of bone or twists of metal which often render them quite heavy. They typically carry wooden staves (though not necessarily enchanted with the Staff spell) topped by an animal skull of some sort; the staves are heavily carved and decorated with feathers and strips of fur and hide.

CONSONANT SPELL COLLEGES: Mind Control, Body Control, Nature, Plant
PROHIBITED SPELL COLLEGES: Temporal, Illusion, Transformation

The Wizards of Fruningen are mages who specialize in one of the six classical elements: air, fire, earth, water, starlight or darkness.  Wizards of this order are popular as battle mages, as well as in construction, seafaring and other mundane endeavors where their powers serve well.  Unlike virtually every other order, the Fruningen wizards eschew order-related mysticism, and are considered among the most pragmatic of wizards.

Four historic schola exist, all in the south; Foamriser on the island of Tirna (principally Water and Darkness wizards), the Fruningen school at Kubera in the principality of Istria (principally Earth wizards), the Academy of Magickal Arts at Camisol in the realm of Revelin (principally Air and Starlight wizards) and Flameguard in the kingdom of Chaniera (principally the rump Flame wizards).  However, Fruningen training is collegial to localities - in customary master-apprentice bonds - and few Fruningen wizards ever visit the historic scholas.  The traditional home of the Order, Fruningen Island in the Sea of the Five Winds, is little more than a museum.  To the degree that the Order has central governance - not very much, and that only locally - it is based around the elemental divisions.

The Order has a feud with the upstart Dragon Brotherhood, a recent breakaway order comprising the majority of the Flame mages, who believed they should have a disproportionate say in the governance of the Order.  Despite the schism, there are still more Fruningen wizards than of any other order, and the same cohesion that has sparked the feud leads Fruningens of all disciplines to be tightly knit, forming powerful blocs of influence in local chantries of the College of Mages.  Indeed, the “divisions” between elements are much more a matter of magical affinity and laws than in social practice, and (for instance) Darkness and Starlight mages get along quite as well as they do with mages of their own element.
                                               
SYMBOL:  Four silver arrows in a cross pattern, representing the four “physical” elements.  Sometimes, the symbol is set within a double circle to represent the two non-material elements as well, but this variation is commonly used only by adherents of Darkness and Starlight.

GARB:  None in common use, though many wizards wear mage robes in colors popularly thought to correspond to their element.

CONSONANT SPELL COLLEGES: For Air mages, Air, Starlight, Water, Weather, Steam, Lightning; for Darkness mages, Darkness, Earth, Water, Defense; for Earth mages, Earth, Fire, Darkness, Molten; for Flame mages, Fire, Earth, Starlight, Molten, Steam; for Starlight mages, Starlight, Fire, Air, Defense; for Water mages, Water, Darkness, Air, Ice, Weather.
               
PROHIBITED SPELL COLLEGES: Creation and Summoning are prohibited throughout the Order.  Air and Earth, Darkness and Starlight, Flame and Water are all mutually exclusive.

Centered at Talath Threndor, the Wizards of Loh are publicly regarded as the most powerful of wizardly orders.  They specialize in temporal, spatial and movement magics.  Wizards of this order are highly prized as court mages, and receive more favorable reactions than members of any other order from the public at large, although a number of mages resent their tacit supremacy - by tradition, the Archmage of the College of Mages is a wizard of this order.  

They are the least numerous of the international wizardly orders, and do not often gather in any one place in numbers save for the largest of cities, but cooperate well enough with one another when they do.  They favor ceremonial castings of their magics - and where tampering with the fabric of time itself, no such precaution is overly fussy - and in doing so, have the curious habit of spreading their arms widely and spinning in a circle like a top.  Wizards of Loh will not discuss their reasons for doing so, in addition to some of their other quirks, such as their rigid taboo against the use of physical weapons or their invariable habit of using the Serioli word kharnna to describe the use of their powers, as opposed to any other mage’s sorceries.  Almost uniquely among wizardly orders, Wizards of Loh take no apprentices, and this, too, involves the order’s mysticism, which they will not discuss.  There is widespread speculation as to just how they are chosen and trained, but credible evidence exists to suggest some training site in Loh.

The legendary original schola of the order (the fabled “Seven Arcades”) is at an undisclosed location, but believed to be southeast of Loh proper in the former deodanth-held lands.  The Seven Arcades were rediscovered in recent decades just before the accession of the High Lord Lin-Wa-Lionling to the Throne of Stars, who had been publicly credited with the find.  “By the Seven Arcades” is a customary oath of Wizards of Loh.

Wizards of Loh have a standard naming convention, a single hyphenated name of three letters, followed by two, followed by a longer name: Deb-Lu-Quenyin, Khe-Hi-Bjanching, Deb-So-Parang.  The first two syllables comprise the first name; thus, "San Deb-Lu."

SYMBOL:  None in general use, though a badge with seven dots within a hexagon, representing the Seven Arcades, is very occasionally seen in heraldry.  It is, in any event, never worn.

GARB:  Wizards of Loh usually wear turbans, and typically dress in dark colored or red robes - it is considered gauche for them to be ornamented or embroidered - often with a mantle in an identical hue over them.  Master-class Wizards of Loh may also (but are not required to do so) wear black or silver colored robes; no other Wizards of Loh will do so. 

CONSONANT FIELDS OF MAGIC:  Temporal, Movement, Communication, Animation, Gravitic

PROHIBITED FIELDS OF MAGIC: Necromancy, Illusion, Plant, Nature