Via Artificia

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The Via Artificia is one of the nine vias, or "ways", of mages in the Ars Magica - a subset of the school's formalized magical theories. The Via Artificia is the "way of magical artifice", which is concerned with both the creation-ex-nihilo of physical objects through the conversion of magical energies into matter, and the creation of magical goods from existing physical materials. Many students of this via break the subject up further into specialties such as Alchemy, Enchanting, and Arcane Literacy - this latter discipline being concerned with the construction of magical writings such as scrolls, spellbooks, and magical certificates. This latter discipline of the Via is considered especially valuable in court wizards, senate aids, and other positions of authority as a measure against counterfeiting - ironically, another common use of the school.