Permission granted from Crimson. Due to my PC being in two different cities this season, rather than continue to break up the staff creation into many different little threads, I'm doing the creation that takes place in both Demios and Jae in this one thread here.
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The Season of Winter, PF XV
Demios, Month of Kalendryas
Aydyn's home was pushed up against the woods near Demios, right at the edge of town with a lovely view of trees and shadows. Or at least, she supposed that it would have been a lovely view of trees and shadows were in summer and the trees alive with their verdant leaves that whispered with each wind gust. It was, nonetheless, the perfect place for Aydyn to set up without fear of being interrupted by those just trampling around at all odd candlemarks of the darkening.
Once her daughter was laid down to sleep for the darkening, Aydyn bundled herself warmly and locked the doors of her homestead behind her. She did not leave Noah alone without hesitation. Her daughter was her love, her life. She cherished everything about the little girl, one of the few things Aydyn had these brightenings that warmed her with only the barest of thoughts. She left her alone because it was the one darkening that month during which she knew she would be able to accomplish what she needed to have done.
She strode through the naked trees not without some wariness, aware that spiders too large to mention did work their way throughout the island, and came upon the clearing that Aydyn had found during one of her meanderings. It was small, certainly, but upraised on a slanted hill and with the trees bare of leaves it provided ample opportunity for the moons to shine their light downward. She brushed aside some of the dead leaves and bracken that remained in the clearing, having done some of the work on previous brightenings she had come out.
Once the clearing was comfortably cleared, Aydyn picked up a heavy rock and began to create the pentagram that she required. She did so carefully, minding the lines and curves of the circle, the points of the star, as she set it into the earth. She supposed that some people drew their circles with charcoal and other materials on wooden floors. But this made her feel comfortable. And here she was not endangering the welfare of her daughter, should something go terribly wrong.
At the tip of each star point, Aydyn set down a candle and lit them with a flint and at each important point she marked their importance--the Astral Essences, the material elements, the magnetic directions. The moonlight bathed the whole of her construction in its light and she smiled a bit to herself, stepping forward and settling the staff in the heart of the pentacle, sealing both it and herself in with first a Circle of Magic that prevented herself from traveling outward from the pentacle and a second one to prevent things from meandering inward.