'One of the glintstone crowns bestowed upon Raya Lucaria scholars whose pursuits were deemed worthy. Increases intelligence to the detriment of stamina. The Karolos Conspectus is the oldest of the academy's lineages of study, begat by the sorcerer Azur. Scholars who follow in his footsteps pursue the mysteries of comets.' Karolos is the academy's oldest lineage, the one Azur founded before he ascended to grand master and began the long deterioration that ended in his glintstone-crowned silence at Mt. Gelmir. The conspectus's discipline is comets : the great stellar visitors whose passage lights the night and from whose substance, by tradition, glintstone descended.

'One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. Fires a great magical comet. This sorcery can be cast repeatedly and while in motion. Charging enhances potency. The greatest of the Karolos Conspectus's sorceries, that only a very few sorcerers have ever mastered.' Comet, the sorcery, not the celestial body, is the lineage's pinnacle. The flavour text is precise : only a very few sorcerers have ever mastered it. The Tarnished may learn it from Sellen, the academy's most banished daughter, whose Karolos training was suspended when she pursued the primeval current at the academy's deepest archive and crossed the same line that broke Azur. Glintstone Cometshard and Shard Spiral are the lineage's lesser, more reliable sorceries, comets the conspectus could repeat while waiting for the rare scholar capable of casting Comet itself.