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'''Hedge-magic''' is a form of magic primarily in the [[Six Duchies]]. This magic is fairly commonplace and often represented at markets, fairs, and festivals. Common folk seem to attach no awe to hedge-magic, unlike other Six Duchies' magics, the [[Wit]] and [[Skill]]. Some practitioners are street magicians that use sleight of hand, tell fortunes to entertain, and sell love potions. They call themselves [[hedge-witch]] or -wizard, but are not magical at all. True practitioners' foremost offerings are constructed charms of various effects.

As with most occupations and skills in the Six Duchies, hedge-magic knowledge is passed from master to apprentice.

===Charms===
A hedge-witch or hedge-wizard may construct their charms out of various materials, like beads, small rods of wood, tufts of fur or feathers, and pitch to stick materials on. They can also have runes carved in them and be painted different colors. They have to be attuned to the owner, usually by the practitioner first reading the palms of the charm owner. The practitioner adjusts the charm based on what they read to personalize it, either by adding more runes, beads, rearranging the order, or painting it.

At markets, charms are traditionally set out in bags of colored fabric. Some of these colors are known: pink for love charms, red to rouse lagging passions, and green for good crops.

===Known Charm Effects===
-Protection against pick pockets
-Attract good fortune to a person and their home as they search for a partner.
-Verdant gardens (encourage growth)
-Hunter's luck
-Promote health in babes
-Keep predators away from chicken houses and sheep pens

{{Elderlings}}
[[Category:Magic]]
[[Category:Hedge-magic]]

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 ===Charms===
-A hedge-witch or hedge-wizard may construct their charms out of various materials, like beads, small rods of wood, tufts of fur or feathers, and pitch to stick materials on. They can also have runes carved in them and be painted different colors. They have to be attuned to the owner, usually by the practitioner first reading the palms of the charm owner. The practitioner adjusts the charm based on what they read to personalize it, either by adding more runes, beads, rearranging the order, or painting it.
+A hedge-witch or [[hedge-wizard]] may construct their charms out of various materials, like beads, small rods of wood, tufts of fur or feathers, and pitch to stick materials on. They can also have runes carved in them and be painted different colors. They have to be attuned to the owner, usually by the practitioner first reading the palms of the charm owner. The practitioner adjusts the charm based on what they read to personalize it, either by adding more runes, beads, rearranging the order, or painting it.
 At markets, charms are traditionally set out in bags of colored fabric. Some of these colors are known: pink for love charms, red to rouse lagging passions, and green for good crops.

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 ===Known Charm Effects===
--Protection against pick pockets
+* Protection against pick pockets
--Attract good fortune to a person and their home as they search for a partner.
+* Attract good fortune to a person and their home as they search for a partner.
--Verdant gardens (encourage growth)
+* Verdant gardens (encourage growth)
--Hunter's luck
+* Hunter's luck
--Promote health in babes
+* Promote health in babes
--Keep predators away from chicken houses and sheep pens
+* Keep predators away from chicken houses and sheep pens
 {{Elderlings}}
 [[Category:Magic]]
 [[Category:Hedge-magic]]