Preface: Outside the HToS we've all seen the stave merchant guy, who just can't find a good buyer for his worthless unmagicalized pieces of wood.

Idea behind this: This, in essence, takes the personal DR idea and couples it with still putting it into a wand/stave form. So sort of a hybrid idea based on my earlier idea about rewarding long-lived mage characters, good amounts of exploration points, and other factors the gods see fit.

Execution: As the lifespan of the mage progresses, they learn the ability to imbue the stave/wand with some of their own magical essence from years working the veil. First it would start out with the imbue shield spell, then later you would achieve the imbue aura spell, and finally one day you would get the imbue barrier spell.

A few options exist on how this could work... each imbue would respectively require a weeks worth of rest before you could do another of that sort of imbue (or you could make it more challenging by limiting it to one imbue of any kind a week.. yuck though). There would be specific vendors for this sort of thing... would also give the option to area writers to maybe include rarer pieces of stave/wand material (that's a down-the-road idea).

Battleragers (or other predators) would know these locations pretty easily... HToS, mages consortium, thar-acia are all pretty likely places for these shops.

Another option could be requiring additional regeants beside the stave material. An example could be maybe the execution is about transferring the essence of aura and combining it with your own to make it stronger... so you could take a stout bronze wand, and transfer that and your own magical essence and make it as good as an amber rod in the process.

Thoughts?