Colour: Purple

Magic Rune: Shyish - the Scythe

Of all the energies of the Winds of Magic Amethyst is the most difficult to see. This is because it blows through the past, present and future; weaving in and out of the time stream following the undetectable currents of fate. Many wizards say that the Amethyst winds blow where death lies most heavily, that it is drawn to death and that doom follows in its wake. It blows strongly over battlefields and mortuaries, it clings around graveyards, and falls over the gibbet like a purple shadow.

The Amethyst College is dark and sepulchral. It sits next to the dreaded Haunted Cemetery of Old Altdorf where thousands were hastily interred after the devastation of the Red Plague. Dust lies thick within its tomb-like halls, for the winds of Amethyst Magic drag with them the dust of ages and the stench of death.

Amethyst Wizards are a silent brotherhood. They never speak openly and instead communicate by mind reading and telepathy. Their college building is silent save for the creaking of timbers and the sighing of the wind beneath the eaves.

Amethyst Wizards wear hoods and cowls, and heavy cloaks of dark purple and midnight blue. Instead of a staff they carry a great scythe, which they also wield with deadly skill in battle. An Amethyst Wizard also carries a leather-bound book, the contents of which remain a mystery to those outside their College.