“The Iseana. Too fine a gift for a sailor like you to be holding.”
Lady Amina of the Selkerian House to Atia, current owner of the Iseana.
The Mage-maps are a set of three identical maps created shortly before the end of the Wrath of the Gods. They were created by the 36 magefolk called by Nyx in the third attempt to end the war. Only two maps are extant, the third having been destroyed at the end of the Wrath. The destroyed map was called the Omirina, and the two that remain are the Iseana and the Tuliona.
The three maps are nearly identical in all forms. They are made of parchment and have ink that does not fade. The names of major landmarks are penned in a small and neat hand, slightly different between the three maps. The only other notable difference between the three maps is the color that magic appears.
The maps' function is to show the location of any major collection of magic, be it portal, magical site, or a gathering of mages. The map's location is also shown as a small black star. Magic is shown through pulsing colors that look like ink, but move on their own across the paper, appearing almost like clouds. The color of the magic differs between the three maps. The Omirina's colors were gold and bronze, the Tuliona's colors are red and purple, and the Iseana's colors are blue and green.
The three maps are immune to physical damage, and can only be destroyed by magical means or by the people who created them.
The three maps were created around 96 A.G. (Age of Gods), by the thirty-six magefolk called by Nyx to form the third protectors. The maps were given such that each group of twelve magefolk recieved a map to see the deities' wherabouts and attacks so they could be prepared if one arrived.
The Omirina was destroyed during the third year of the Battle of the Seven. The Pyrsi magefolk took the Tuliona to the Floating Fortress and left it under Celian's protection in the third year after the Omirina was destroyed. At the end of the war, the magefolk who held the Iseana was ambushed in the Iksandi Bay and the ship sank into the sea, and the map was thought to be lost forever.
In the years following the war, Celian returned the Tuliona to the Pyrsi magefolk, and they kept it with them to watch the spread of magefolk across the world. During the Magefolk Wars, the map was taken to the fortress Selkros in Marisen and put under the watchful care of the priests of the ancient ones, along with a number of other magical artifacts. There, it was used to find refugee mages and bring them to Selkros or send them to one of the other magefolk cities around the world.
The Iseana was recovered centuries later by the siren poet Eillu, and was gifted to her elven lover for safekeeping. She dissapeared, and for a long time, her lover kept the map safe and hidden, until his death twenty years later. His daughter found it and used it to become the famed Captain Theodosia, sailing the seas looking for magic. When she was captured, it fell into the hands of the Dravic Museum of History, and there it stayed for many years.
However, both maps were once again moved. The Tuliona was gifted as a peace gift to the Nitheme magefolk community after a period of tension that nearly culminated in fighting. The Iseana was stolen by the pirate Ami, who believed that the artifacts in the museum should be used and not kept for a nation that advocated for the death of the people who created them. The Iseana was passed down through the Amian pirates and eventually ended up in the posession of Captain Theo, who used it to continue the legacy of their namesake and sail the seas, looking for magic around the world. Currently, the Iseana is in posession of Atia, a siren in the crew of the Blue Beauty. The Tuliona was lost to the ocean after the death of queen Meyri and later found by the merfolk Queen Leiena, where it remains in her posession today.