The Color of Magic The Lure of the Wyrm / Chapter 3 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • In this info-chapter, we learn about the history of magic on the Disc.
  • The gods created the First Men, and the First Men "understandably lost their temper" (3.3.3) over this obvious slight against common decency, and thus the Mage Wars began.
  • After a series of spectacular and expensive looking battles, the Old High Ones took charge, banishing the old wild magic from the world and making the gods smaller and less foreboding.
  • Yet, in places directly hit with a high concentration of magic, the magic was still fading away and distorting reality while doing so.