Codex reading
Tower Mage as a role in the hidden-road world
The Tower Mages feel like people shaped by old archives, crystal-law rooms, and restricted rites. They are less social than the guild line and more bound to the architecture of towers, thresholds, and forbidden reading rooms.
They help show that magic in Via Occulta has two tones: communal and procedural in the guilds, secretive and unsettling in the towers.
