Wizard's Manual

One of many, many names for the basic body of wizardly knowledge made available to all wizards.

(A note to the readership: This Concordance entry will be fairly complex, and is intended to be canonical, so it will more than likely take a couple of weeks from 6/15/05 to complete. Nothing in it should be considered definitive until the "stub" notation disappears. --DianeDuane 07:01, 15 Jun 2005 (EDT))

The Manual on Earth: cultural variations and technological implementations

Not everyone on Earth receives their Manual as a book. There are numerous interspecies variations, not to mention cultural variations among humans alone.

In Ireland, for example -- unquestionably one of the earliest widely-literate European societies -- wizards are nonetheless usually "issued" the Manual as discrete pieces of information which then are committed to memory, the way druids and bards handled their own large bodies of data during millennia past. (AWAB) That said, the slightly crazed technological acquisitiveness and adaptation of the Irish makes it entirely likely that some new young wizard is already carrying a Manual implementation in a cellphone, and receiving updates via SMS.

Other pertinent entries: CATNYP: WizPod.