'One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. Fires a volley of glintstone crystal shards. Charging increases potency. A sorcery of the Crystal Cadre, a group of sorcerers who pursue the wisdom of stone—the secrets locked in the faint cogitation of the Crystalians.' The Crystal Cadre is the academy's quietest research wing. Where Karolos chases comets, Olivinus meteors, Lazuli moons, and Haima cannons-and-gavels, the Cadre studies the stones the academy is built on. The Crystalians, the silent cogitating crystal-bodies that wander the deep caves, are the lineage's research subject. The Cadre's premise is that consciousness can take a mineral form, and the slow thinking of the Crystalians is the canonical evidence.

'Spear fashioned from pure crystal; a deed impossible for a human. Enwreathed with powerful magic, its attack scales with intelligence. The inscrutable Crystalians have but one clear purpose; to safeguard their crystals unto the end. One theory posits that they yearn for the return of their creator who will carve for them new brethren.' The Cadre's sorceries, Crystal Barrage, Crystal Burst, Shatter Earth, are direct transcriptions of what the academy's scholars witnessed Crystalians doing in their natural state. The canonical reservation is the line about the Crystalian's purpose : their cogitation is faint, their loyalty is absolute, and their longing is for a creator who has not returned in living memory. The Cadre studies them as theological evidence that consciousness need not be biological. The conclusion of that study, by the canon's silence on the Cadre's progress, is yet to come.