Fragment

A Fragment is a portion of the power origionally stored within the Heart of Titan on the origin world of humanity. The power was brough to Farhaven as ten distinct pieces implanted into the demigod paragon. As such each fragment of power divided the previously whole aspects of magic into ten distinct schools. For the schools to function the fragment must inhabit a living host, the power turning that mortal into a demigod and avatar for that aspect of magic. If a paragon has elected an heir before death the fragment will pass to that individual and the school will continute to function with new mages able to express power of that given school. If the fragment is not assigned to a new host or if in the case of Abjuration the Paragon and their heir are killed at once the power is lost and must be reborn into a new vessel. In history this has happened more than once, the magic of the school in question laying dormant until a new paragon is reborn. This process has been known to take anywhere from 100-300 years depending on the following and devotion of the mages of the school. The conservation school sucessfully reanimated their dead paragon (Defenately a Zombie) during The Fall in an attempt to save the schools fragment. The fragments, while not themselves sentient, are colossal manifestations of pure life energy that has a limited will of its own.