
Below we've included the artist, some example artworks, how you can contact them for your own commissions.

> If you'd like to be added to this page, then please [fill out this form](https://forms.gle/t13fCVumPSNoao7P8)

## Directory

- [Wise Sam](#wise-sam) - pixel art animations
- [bread](#bread) - illustration
- [Margret](#margret) - poems
- [John Bivens](#jb) - comic book style
- [Ozzz](#ozzz) - pixel art with backgrounds
- [Trevor Jones](#trev) - 3D models
- [Tad Major](#tad) - pixel art animations
- [Dr. Slurp](#slurp) - Music

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## <a name="wise-sam"></a>Artist: Wise Sam

- Twitter: [@wisesametheviper](https://twitter.com/wisesamtheviper)
- Instructions: [Commission details](https://hackmd.io/@fireninjadarkness/wizard-animations)
- Status: active

<WizardArt wizard="76" url="https://i.imgur.com/UMBV3jp.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="2651" url="https://i.imgur.com/9qBlGgY.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="2752" url="https://i.imgur.com/zgtW2H6.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="6001" url="https://i.imgur.com/XE8nebn.gif" />

---

## <a name="bread"></a>Artist: bread

- Twitter: [@sweetbread.eth](https://twitter.com/sweetbread_eth)
- Status: Active

<WizardArt wizard="2922" url="https://i.imgur.com/IP0y4rF.png" pixelArt={false} />

<WizardArt wizard="9745" url="https://i.imgur.com/PqBudpO.jpg" pixelArt={false}  />

<WizardArt wizard="4853" url="https://i.imgur.com/5KacfZT.png" pixelArt={false}  />

---

## <a name="margret"></a>Artist: Margret Corvid

Our resident bard

- Twitter: [@MargaretLabour](https://twitter.com/MargaretLabour)
- Status: active

<WizardArt wizard="2271" url="https://i.imgur.com/BF9hpO0.png" />

<WizardArt wizard="78" url="https://i.imgur.com/EJlFph7.png" />

---

## <a name="trev"></a>Artist: Trevor Jones

- Twitter: [@Yebkamin](https://twitter.com/yebkamin)
- Status: Active

<WizardArt wizard="5667" url="https://i.imgur.com/ehPy9GS.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="5627" url="https://i.imgur.com/vMuQbwx.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="5470" url="https://i.imgur.com/fz0kEYD.gif" />

---

## <a name="jb"></a>Artist: John Bivens

- Twitter: [@John_bivens](https://twitter.com/John_Bivens)
- Status: Active

<WizardArt wizard="8664" url="https://i.imgur.com/sRMJy5l.jpg" pixelArt={false} />

---

## <a name="ozzz"></a>Artist: Ozzz

- Twitter: [@ozzzmabro](https://twitter.com/ozzzmabro)
- Status: Active

<WizardArt wizard="6725" url="https://i.imgur.com/uMlj1d7.jpg" />

<WizardArt wizard="6776" url="https://i.imgur.com/e9en8eR.jpg" />

---

## <a name="tad"></a>Artist: Tadmajor

- Twitter: [@tadmajor](https://twitter.com/tadmajor)
- Status: active

<WizardArt wizard="685" url="https://i.imgur.com/kqQscBS.gif" />

<WizardArt wizard="1061" url="https://i.imgur.com/yGmszqr.gif" />

---

## <a name="slurp"></a>Artist: Dr. Slurp

- Style: Music
- Twitter: [@dr*slurp*](https://twitter.com/dr_slurp_)
- Discord: `dr.slurp#5822`

Examples:

- [#4159 Party Music for Artificer Horace](https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/9013605400530109520503820491760377436763154446583357164055150077560695554049)
- [#76 Study Music for Wise Sam](https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/90136054005301095205038204917603774367631544465833571640551500786602071818250)

## Like Wizard, Commission Wizard

Want to see your Wizard come to life? Commission one of the artists above!

## Other Resources

After you've commissioned a work, record it forever in [The Book of Lore](/lore).

If you'd like to see a Wizard in your City, you might enjoy [How to Commission a Mural](/posts/murals)


Our community has a vibrant culture of creating artwork from their Wizards. This document is a directory of folks who take commissions to create artwork of the Wizards

Commissions for Wizard Art


At this event, a Wizard and a Flame may be burned to receive a Forgotten Soul.

Burning a Wizard, however, is Dark Magic which is always risky and unpredictable. If you choose to burn a Wizard, there's a chance you may receive something undesirable.

So choose wisely.

## TL;DR

- 1112 Wizards were airdropped Flames
- Flames are used for Forgotten Souls on All Hallow’s Eve
- Burn a Flame token + a Wizard token for a chance at a Forgotten Soul
- You might receive the Ghost of your Wizard, something more powerful, or something "undesirable"
- You’ll always get an NFT back, but there are no guarantees on _what_ you will get, so there is a risk.
- For the wizards concerned with rate of return, the risk of an “undesirable” result is roughly 1 in 10.
- No time limit on using the flames. We wanted to avoid a gas war + a limited time window and we don’t want people to rush this decision.

## The Sacred Flame

![Sacred Flame](https://nfts.forgottenrunes.com/ipfs/QmWG5jc3spgFGPfiX3Rd4YLNSxDjXRSxeBQsS9TytVL1YD)

To burn a Wizard will require a Sacred Flame. The Flame itself is also an NFT, which was be airdropped to a limited number of Wizard holders.

Only 1112 Flames will be distributed. There will be no gas war to acquire a Flame: the airdrop will go to the longest holding and most committed Wizards, max one per account.

Flame-holders may choose to use, hold, trade, or sell their Flame, like any other NFT.

There are only a limited number of Flames, but as an individual, there is no limit to the number of Flames you can use, if you hold them. However each Flame can be used only once and the Wizard is burned with it.

While the Burning is scheduled for 🎃 All Hallows' Eve 🎃, there is no urgency on that day as Flames do not extinguish until they are used. There is also no urgency because burning a Wizard is dark and unpredictable magic. With dark magic, there are no guarantees.

## Questions About The Great Burning

**Q:** Does your wizard affect what soul you get?

**A**: Generally yes. What you likely receive is the next phase of your wizard, but there are no guarantees with dark magic.

---

**Q:** Can the community build utility for the “undesirable” results?

**A:** Yes, of course. Every Forgotten Soul is an ERC721 token that can be used in a permissionless way, like other ERC721 tokens.

---

**Q:** Can _every_ Wizard be burned? What about the super-rares and uniques?

**A:** There are no Wizards who are able to withstand being affected by a Flame. Every Wizard can pass through the Flame, from the highest to the lowest.

---

**Q:** Will the Forgotten Souls be on-chain like the Wizards?

**A:** In time. Because there is no time limit for the Forgotten Souls, it isn't possible for the entire collection to be put on-chain due to the fact that **your choices affect the final collection**. That said, we will put the collection on chain as we can.

---

**Q:** For the undesirables, we have these odds. But what are the odds for other non-ghost results?

**A:** There are ultra-rares in the collection. So you could get a soul/ghost-type, an undesirable, or ultra-rares.

---

## The Sacred Flames Airdrop

The Sacred Flame is an ERC1155 token which [you can find on OpenSea here](https://opensea.io/assets/0x31158181b4b91a423bfdc758fc3bf8735711f9c5/0)

The [official contract](https://etherscan.io/address/0x31158181b4b91a423bfdc758fc3bf8735711f9c5#code)

You may find the whitelist, motiviation, and auditable Dune SQL Query used [to generate the whitelist here](https://gist.github.com/cryppadotta/df2e29112ab131fa371336b417278d3c)

💀 The Great Burning will be held on All Hallows Eve 💀

May the gods look favorably on your choices


On All Hallows Eve, 2021 the Great Burning will be held at The Secret Tower.

The Great Burning, The Sacred Flames, and the Infinity Veil


Forgotten Runes Wizards come with all kinds of extras, beyond the NFT itself. Many of these extras come from our team, and some come from our cult members.

To get the extras from our team, which currently includes all the wizard oarts (head, body, familiar, etc) in 3 different resolutions, full turnarounds, and a GM generator, use one of these 3 methods below:

#### **The Book of Lore method**

When flipping through the book of Lore, you’ll notice 4 icons in the bottom left. For the purposes of this guide, we'll focus on the GM and the Download button. In this example, we are using Wizard #1945, Mystic Silas of Xanadu.

![](https://i.imgur.com/X1IxYea.png)

Clicking on the GM button will display Mystic Silas saying GM.

![](https://i.imgur.com/4VT3rgt.png)

To use this on your social media, simply take a screengrab of it! You can also drag and drop these elements to your desktop. Now be sure to post this to all your Twitter followers when you wake up! (If you don't know, “GM” is a popular top-of-the-morning greeting in the NFT space.)

The Download Icon will give you a zip file containing all the pixel art for the Wizard. You’ll get the Wizards separate parts (head, body, familiar, prop, etc), the Wizard with transparent background, a sepia toned version of the Wizard, and a full turnaround of the Wizard. In the future, the Wizard walk cycles will appear here too.

![](https://i.imgur.com/uJXgFWx.png)

Additionally, you’ll receive 3 different resolutions of the Wizard: 50x50, 400x400, and 1024x1024. The 50x50 are the easiest to edit in a pixel editor like [Aseprite or Photoshop](https://www.forgottenrunes.com/posts/how-to-use-aseprite-for-wizards), but the larger resolutions are easier to display on Twitter or other social media. You can also edit the 50x50, and then enlarge them before export. (In Photoshop, be sure to enlarge with [Nearest Neighbor](https://www.hipsthetic.com/enlarge-pixel-art-without-blurring-in-photoshop/)).

#### **The Gallery method**

There is a gallery of all 10k Wizards on the website, sitting right under the Book of Lore. Many of these Wizards do not have Lore written about them yet, but you can still access their parts. Simply click on one to access the download button.

#### **The URL method**

Maybe the easiest way to access these elements is to simply copy paste [this URL](https://www.forgottenrunes.com/lore/wizards/1945):

`https://www.forgottenrunes.com/lore/wizards/1945`

into the URL bar. The only trick here is you’ll need to know the serial number of the Wizard you want to access. The above example is for Wizard number 1945, but if you want a different number, replace the 1945 with the desired number. So if you want Wizard #32, simply put
`https://www.forgottenrunes.com/lore/wizards/32` into the URL bar.

✨✨✨

## Extra goodies from our Cult members

One of the best things about the Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult is that our Cult members are very passionate, creative and always contributing amazing things to the community.

#### **Mugshot Bot**

One such thing is the Mugshot Bot. This fun tool was coded by spz [@SorcererIlyas](https://twitter.com/SorcererIlyas), with artwork by ozzz [@ozzzmabro](https://twitter.com/ozzzmabro).

![](https://i.imgur.com/s2fK085.png)

To use this fun tool and get a "mugshot" of your Wizard, simply follow these steps:

1. Join our [Discord](https://t.co/maMRpMaVhJ?amp=1)!

2. Go into the #wiz-bots channel
   
   ![](https://i.imgur.com/7qD2f6I.png)
   
3. Type `!mugshot [your wizard number]` into the chat. For example, if your Wizards serial number is #32, type in `!mugshot 32`

   ![](https://i.imgur.com/6EGvDn9.png)

   When you type this in and press Enter, your Wizard in a beautiful frame should immediately pop up! You can now use this image wherever you want!

If you don't know the serial number of your Wizard, just go to their page on OpenSea, click open the Stats, and there it is:
![](https://i.imgur.com/9U0cc12.png)

**BONUS:** You can also type in `!gif [wizard number]`, `!gifbig [wizard number]`, or `!pic [wizard number]` to get a gif turnaround or a simple image of your wizard. Have fun!

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The Forgotten Runes Team and our Cult members will be adding lots more goodies in the future. In the meantime, have fun with these Wizard extras! We can’t wait to see what you do with them!


Forgotten Runes Wizards come with all kinds of extras, beyond the NFT itself. This guide will show you how to access your Wizard’s art, turnarounds of that Wizard, the GM generator, and many other upcoming treats such as walk cycles.

How to access all the extra Wizard goodies


There are four operational Guilds, which are open to _any_ Wizard holder with the requisite skills:

- The Art and Lore Guild
- The Hype Guild
- The Gathering Guild
- The Coding Guild

And there are three Guilds for members who own specific Wizards:

- The Kobald Horde
- The Sect
- The Coven

## The Operational Guilds

For example, the operational guilds help do things like:

- Create art and stories for fellow wizards
- Hire artists for a global, physical street-art (mural) campaign
- Organize live events (like custom D&D campaigns), irl meetups
- Build smart contracts and UIs for organizing The Book of Lore, etc.

The **Art and Lore Guild** helps tell the stories of the Wizards and their world.

The **Hype Guild** faces outward and tells the others about the Wizards.

The **Gathering Guild** faces inward and organizes time to bring us together.

The **Coding Guild** writes the code to make the UI and contracts to interface with the Wizard world.

## Guild Member's Principle

A Guild member is a higher level of responsibility than being a Verified Wizard. A Guild member:

- is helpful to the Wizards around them
- is a doer, a person of action
- assumes the best of their fellow Wizard
- communicates well
- uses their wisdom in making choices for The Cult
- takes the lead

## Structure

The Guilds will be limited to 3 members each to start. In order to let them find their bearings, each Guild will be given a private channel, and they can choose to open it in time.

## Requirements

To qualify for a Guild position, one must be a Verified Wizard. (We may allow unverified collaborators for a time-limited basis when it makes sense, but only Verified Wizards can be full Guild members.)

# Details about the Individual Guilds

## The Art and Lore Guild

The Art and Lore Guild is for those who wish to write stories, draw pictures, and create animations about Wizards and their world.

The Art and Lore Guild is good fit for you if you:

- can write stories or poems
- can animate pixels
- can 3D model
- are good with Photoshop, Aseprite, Blender, etc.
- can paint pictures with words

## The Hype Guild

The Hype Guild will be responsible for promotion of the Wizards both online and offline. This includes things like organizing a physical street-art campaign, collaborations with other projects, and organizing merch (shirts, stickers, rugs) etc.

The Hype Guild is a good fit for you if you:

- like getting the word out
- have good taste
- don't mind making phone calls
- can research and rank bids from different vendors
- are organized

## The Gathering Guild

The Gathering Guild will be responsible for organizing live virtual and irl events that help everyone get to know and spend time with one another in a fun and safe setting.

This includes things like hiring a Dungeon Master to run a custom campaign based on our Wizards, organizing Lore telling nights, and organizing in-person events.

The Gathering Guild is a good fit for you if you:

- love creating a sense of belonging
- can coordinate groups of people
- are mindful of **all** types of Wizards who may want to attend
- enjoy crafting delightful experiences for groups of friends

## The Coding Guild

The Coding Guild will be responsible for building the website and smart contracts that let Wizards interact on chain.

This includes things like building The Book of Lore, Forgotten Souls, and organizing community knowledge on the website.

The Coding Guild is a good fit for you if you:

- already know how to program one language at an intermediate language
- want to get experience in working with live mainnet smart contracts
- know React and/or Solidity, to some degree

You don't need to be an expert in Solidity to apply to this Guild - there is quite a lot of front-end React/TypeScript development to be done.

## To Apply

To apply, 👉 [fill out this form](https://forms.gle/g4wd9hffZQvZfjh9A) 👈

Dotta and/or Elf will reach out to you within a few days.

We have big plans for Forgotten Runes and our powers are stronger together.


Guilds are functional subgroups within the Cult that collaborate to contribute in unique ways. Through the power of nimble, effective Guilds, the Wizards can combine their affinities for action and create magic for the community.

The Guilds of Forgotten Runes


First, you'll want your Wizard broken into it's separate layers, which will likely include the head, body, prop, familiar, and rune.

To get your Wizard's layers, go to forgottenrunes.com. Connect your wallet by clicking the crow.

![](https://i.imgur.com/Mm2nFNW.png)

You must, of course, connect the wallet that is holding your Wizard collection.

Then click on the little hat and staff.

![](https://i.imgur.com/6kUQgED.png)

This will give you a pop-up of all the Wizards you own. I, for example, own **Adept Carly of the Wood**, serial #32.

![](https://i.imgur.com/8dIDwkv.png)

You'll see little icons as the bottom. From left to right, we have share to Twitter, view on OpenSea, and download. Click the download button. You will get a little zip file that contains all the layers. You'll notice the name of the zip file corresponds to the Wizard's serial number, (32 in this case.)

In this zip file you'll see:

![](https://i.imgur.com/wPjxtXu.png)

The 50 folder has the assets in a 50x50 pixels frame. The 400 folder has them at 400x400 pixels. If you want to do proper pixel art in Aseprite, you'll want to use the assets in folder 50.

Now it's time to get into Aseprite. If you don't own it, it's only $19.99 [from this website](https://www.aseprite.org)

If you are an aspiring pixel artist, I highly recommend it. It's easy to learn and there are many tutorials on Youtube on how to use it. In fact, one of my favorite pixel artist [Youtubers is Brandon James Greer](https://www.youtube.com/c/BJGpixel/videos).

This guide is not intended to be an entire course on Aseprite, nor animation, it's only going to show you how to get your Wizard layers into the program.

So open Aseprite and go to `File > New`

Set your document to these settings.

![](https://i.imgur.com/37Bi6pp.png)

Now, there's actually not a super streamlined way to get all these layers into Aseprite. If anyone knows a better way, please let me know, but here's my method:

1. Drag and drop the body file into Aseprite. Instead of putting that body image into the document you just created, you'll notice Aseprite actually makes a whole new tab!

   ![](https://i.imgur.com/iBsrNm0.png)

   Ok so now you can actually just close that first document you made (the tab labeled Sprite-001) You don't need it!

   Back in the body file, double click the Layer and rename it Body

   ![](https://i.imgur.com/YmwUlxA.png)

2. Next, drag and drop the head image on top of the body. Again, a whole new tab!!

   ![](https://i.imgur.com/kxKZthO.png)

3. Now here's the trick- click on the little black dot on the head layer. Make sure it's highlighted and go to `Edit > Copy`. Then go back to the Body tab. Make a New Layer above the Body layer and rename it Head. Now, click in the little square in the Head layer, and go to `Edit > Paste`. The head should pop right into place!

   ![](https://i.imgur.com/ID8us8V.png)

   Now you can close that tab that holds only the head.

4. Just reapeat those steps for every remaining part (prop, familiar, rune). The point is to gather all the parts into one Aseprite file.

Using this method, you'll have each part on an easily editable layer that will allow for easier animation. Have fun and be sure to share your animations with us @forgottenrunes on Twitter!

---

**Secret Wizard Tip #1**
There is another way to get the Wizards parts if you don't want to connect your MetaMask. Simply put http://nftz.forgottenrunes.com/wizard/32.zip into the URL, but replace 32 with whichever serial number of the corresponding Wizard you want to access. But remember, it is considered good form to be sure you have the permission of the Wizard owner before using the parts of any Wizard.

**Secret Wizard Tip #2**
You don't have to use Aseprite! Photoshop also works quite well for image editing. In fact you can use any image editor you want. Dragging layers into these other programs is much easier. In some cases, the folder containing the 400x400 parts may be better for your use.

-Elf


This guide will show you how to get your Wizard into Aseprite to use for art remixes, animation, or anything Aseprite will allow you to do.

How to get started with Aseprite (or Photoshop) for Wizards


### **What is Decentralized Lore Creation?**

Every minute of every day, the drama of humanity is being inscribed on the internet. It is a catalog of human culture, distributed across the planet, and any individual with internet access can add to it. Thus, the creation of humanity’s omnibus is decentralized.

So too, is the World of Forgotten Runes.

To understand what decentralized lore creation is, let’s first look at the antithesis of this concept: Disney. The largest media company in the world, Disney is an absolute behemoth. This beast has been steadily devouring IP at an insatiable rate, with well-known franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar, Winnie the Pooh, The Chronicles of Narnia, and more. There seems to be no appeasing its hunger. With much of the IP they push through their corporate bowls, a soulless travesty comes out the other end. These characters are controlled by executives with a profit motive, and not by the artists or fans who love them.

So what is the solution to this problem? Is there a way to invert this profit-driven model? Is there a way for fans to take control of their favorite characters, to contribute to the growth of an IP, and let love be the primary creative force? Is there a new way to world-build from the bottom up, in a decentralized way? We believe the answer is yes, and the solution lies in NFTs.

Owning an NFT is far different from owning a Bitcoin or a Dogecoin, and that difference is not merely limited to its “fungibility.” If you own a Dogecoin, you have no control over the value of that token. There is nothing you can do to make your Dogecoin stand out among other Dogecoins. But with a Wizard NFT, you are in total control of your character's destiny. You have the power to make it come alive and stand out among other NFTs. You are able to leverage your passion and creativity to propel your token to legendary status. And everyday, we are seeing our Cult members do just that. We’ve seen these pixel Wizards rendered as [stunning illustrations](https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/96577616716374093869564910580926487133870015185803080998328868080250039304193/), [animations](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes/status/1440129105916170242), [paintings](https://twitter.com/MagusTumbaj/status/1428828506490822657), and [murals](https://twitter.com/dr_slurp_/status/1433594139405398018). We’ve seen [t-shirts](https://twitter.com/simoneconti_/status/1437868192668524549), [3D models](https://twitter.com/yebkamin/status/1420586426505129992) and [3D prints](https://twitter.com/tiki_teki/status/1448097970306568196). We’ve read Wizard [poems](https://twitter.com/tv3636/status/1422005523298222081), and [storyboards](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes/status/1429813751922913280), heard Wizard [music](https://twitter.com/dr_slurp_/status/1448281692310016000), and even seen [mock video games](https://twitter.com/MagusWazir/status/1442183961279610883). Oh, and [memes](https://twitter.com/thetrellen/status/1444373244388200454). [TONS](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes/status/1441517229720236032) OF [WIZARD](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes/status/1437836919556116482) [MEMES](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes/status/1435987077733048323).

To facilitate this creative energy, The Forgotten Runes team is regularly developing ways to incentivize and encourage it. We have released a partial [map](https://www.forgottenrunes.com/map) of the world, which gives these legends an anchor. We share community lore on our social media, and highlight it during Wizard Wednesdays. But perhaps the most significant development, thus far, is the release of the [Forgotten Runes Book of Lore](https://www.forgottenrunes.com/lore).

### **The Forgotten Runes Book of Lore**

This digital tome is an ever growing archive of each Wizard’s lore. When you own a Wizard, you have the rights to build them out and create their history. By connecting your crypto wallet to the Book, you have access to that Wizard’s page for immutable lore entry. You are free to edit your Wizards lore as long as you own them, but if your Wizard changes hands, the lore written by the previous owner is locked forever.

We are betting that great care will be taken when crafting Wizard Lore. If the Lore is unappealing, spammy, or careless, it’s hard to imagine that Wizard will be changing hands. Conversely, if a Wizard’s Lore is compelling, beautiful, and well-crafted, we imagine they will travel far as a very popular character.

But “Wait!” you say, “What if I’m not a good writer or artist!? I don't want to write Lore or make artwork! I only want to collect Wizards!”

That’s totally fine! The beauty of this decentralized lore project is that as other creators build out their own characters, it lifts the quality of the entire project, thus bringing non-Lore Wizards along with it. Non-Lore Wizard holders benefit greatly from the creative talents of our most passionate cult members.

### **Larger Media Expressions**

Adding to the Book of Lore has another very exciting benefit. The Forgotten Runes team is busy engaging entertainment industry partners for larger media expressions. For example, we are currently in production of an animated short. The short will indeed feature scenes that were created not by our core team, but by the cult itself. This cult-sourced creation will be an ongoing dynamic as Forgotten Runes is seen in larger media expressions. We intend that the Book of Lore will be the first stop in the development of future animated content, comic books, and any other industry driven content.

Forgotten Runes is an NFT project unlike any other. We emphasize identity and creativity over most other projects that focus on price charts and flipping. You can certainly trade Wizards on the NFT market, and have fun doing it! But like Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Final Fantasy, franchises that dominate their respective industries, we believe the true value lies in compelling characters, unforgettable stories, and enchanting aesthetics.

### **Some Tips on Creating Your Wizard's Lore**

1. Only create lore about your individual Wizard. It’s best not to write lore that would pertain to other owner’s Wizards. For example, if you own a Wolfkin Wizard, don't write lore about all Wolkins in general. Just focus on your Wizard as an individual.
2. Try not to write too much lore about the world at large. Again, try to focus mostly on your Wizard. It’s ok if you want to write about your Wizard’s immediate community, and their place in it, but try not to make grand claims about the entire Forgotten Runes world.
3. Try not to overpower your Wizard. It can be tempting to make your Wizard the greatest, most powerful Wizard of all time. But oftentimes, such characters are uninteresting and lack depth. Think of the most interesting Wizards in the stories we know; Gandalf, for example. He had weaknesses and rarely showed his power. He had depth and humanity. The same with Dumbledore, and even Yoda (yes, Yoda is a Wizard!). Try to make your Wizards relatable and give them believable appeal.
4. Dont worry too much about continuity. If the lore you write eventually contradicts something in the show, comic, video game, or something someone else has written, that’s ok! First of all, this is a magical world where reality bends with time-travel, parallel dimensions, and unpredictable arcane forces. Secondly, compare to other franchises like Final Fantasy, the Legend of Zelda, even the Marvel Universe. There are countless continuity issues in these stories, but we love them anyway.
5. If you need some guidance, there is some meta-narrative within the Forgotten Runes world to help you get started. The first pages of the Book of Lore give you some basics on the factions within the world, the magic system, and the role that technology plays. There will be more blog posts about the Forgotten Runes meta-narrative in the future. But remember, these are loose guidelines, you do not need to rigidly follow them.
6. You are anonymous! Don't let feelings of inadequate creative skills prevent you from writing. Your IRL identity is hidden behind the NFT, so you can feel totally free to create and publish anything your wacky mind comes up with. This is your chance to get totally weird.
7. Have fun! It’s likely that if you have fun creating your Wizard’s lore, other people will have fun reading it!

[Join](https://www.forgottenrunes.com/wtf) the Cult today, and help us build out this world.


This digital tome is an ever growing archive of each Wizard’s lore. When you own a Wizard, you have the rights to build them out and create their history.

Decentralized Lore Creation


## Austin, Texas, USA - 3101 Speedway

- Status: Active
- Wizards: [#4709](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/4709)
- Dates: August 2021 - Present
- Address: Arcade UFO, 3101 Speedway, Austin,TX 78705

Photos:

![](https://i.imgur.com/fg29jza.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/xVPav6m.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/fBYzhXN.jpg)

## Austin, Texas, USA - 2716 Guadalupe St

- Status: Active
- Wizards: [#6170](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/6170)
- Dates: September 2021 - Present
- Address: 2716 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 7870

Photos:

![](https://i.imgur.com/q0R3j8h.jpg)


## Miami, Florida, USA

- Status: Active
- Dates: September 2021
- Location 1 [#9044](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/9044): 3404 N Miami Ave Miami, FL 33127
- Location 2 [#1556](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/1556), [#48](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/48), [#5969](https://opensea.io/assets/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42/5969): 30 NW 34th Street Miami, FL 33127

![](https://i.imgur.com/SfsuVoN.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/5bWOID0.jpg)

## Los Angeles, California, USA

- Status: In progress
- Wizards: _To be revealed_
- Dates: September 2021
- Location: Santee Alley and Midcity, _Address to be announced_

## Oakland, California, USA

- Status: In progress
- Wizards: _To be revealed_
- Dates: September 2021
- Location: Downtown Oakland and Laurel District, _Address to be announced_

## Commissioning Your Own Mural

Want to see a mural in your own city? Here are the instructions how.

Wizards who live in the same city sometimes team up to coordinate and share funds. Feel free to find other Wizards in your area who might want to collaborate on making this happen - and we'll add your mural to this page!

**Overview**

Getting a Mural done is relatively simple: find an artist, describe what you want in detail, pay them, and wait.

Cost: between $1,000-$5,000  
Timeline: About an hour of prep, a few weeks of waiting

# Instructions:

### 1. Decide Your Wizard(s)

The first thing is to decide which Wizards you're going to have painted.

![](https://i.imgur.com/jThTIeG.png)

For our initial set of murals that we commissioned, we asked for two murals:

1. A large 10 foot by 10 foot of a single Wizard and
2. A 3 foot tall by 10 foot wide of three Wizards in a row

> This generally cost about $5,000 depending on the city, but sometimes you can get someone to do for free or the cost of the paint, depending.

We recommend requesting that the artist paint the Wizard name and number (and probably the URL to where folks can learn more.)

For the font, we use [`Alagard` which you can find here](https://www.dafont.com/alagard.font).

You can get a high-res version of your Wizard with the following URL, replacing `<wizardNum>` with your Wizard's serial number:

`https://nftz.forgottenrunes.com/wizard/<wizardNum>.zip`

So for example, you can get Wizard 777's file from the following URL:

`https://nftz.forgottenrunes.com/wizard/777.zip`

### 2. Finding a Location (optional)

If you own or know of a location that would be a good fit, then recommend that location to your artist.

> Wizards are good citizens. While we'd love to see a Wizard on any wall, it's important that the owner of the property consents to a mural being painted on their property. If you're unsure, just ask! Be sure to show them a picture - it makes it easier if they know what they're getting into.

That said, if you don't know of a good location, a paid artist will generally include finding one in their price. So even if you don't know of a location, they should find one for you.

### 3. Finding an Artist

Now you need to find an artist, we found the most success on [Thumbtack](https://www.thumbtack.com/)

Head over to Thumbtack, type in "Muralist" and type in the zip code of your city and then it will give you a list of Artists for hire near that zip code. Easy.

Now, reach out to **several** artists with instructions of what we want done.

> We recommend reaching out to several because some will be busy, prices will vary a lot, and it can all take time. It's always good to have options.

When you make your initial contact, here's a template you can use to make the initial ask:

> Hi **\_**, I saw your work on Thumbtack and love your work. if you are currently accepting commisioned projects, I would love to get a quote on reproducing a 10 foot x 10 foot mural of a pixel-art Wizard NFT that I own. Is this something you'd be able to help me with?
>
> (attach the image of the Wizard above)

### 4. Clarifying What You Want

If the artist responds and is interested, you need to do two things:

1. Make sure they understand the level of quality we're expecting and
2. Find out details of the paint

**Quality specifications**

Tell the artist the following:

> For this mural, it's pixel art. So it's important to us that you replicate this image as closely as possible. Keeping the pixel art style means that we need to have a sharp, consistent grid. And you don't need to stylize it or add to it - just try to keep the colors as close as you can.

And you need to:

**Ask the following questions**

- How much is it going to cost, all in?
- Where exactly is it going to be located?
- When will it be complete?
- How long do you expect it to remain (before being painted over)?

Location, location, location. The better the location, the higher the price. But you want to make sure you're going to be happy with where the mural is.

Also **be careful of artist-only alleyways**. There are places where all of the artists go to paint and these often get painted over within days! If you're paying good money you want at least a nominal guarantee that

1. folks will see it and
2. it will last for weeks/months.

... but if you don't ask the muralist they won't necessarily tell you above. So just ask.

### 5. Finalizing the Deal

Once you found an Artist that fits what you are looking for, regarding price and style, the next step will be to pay them, typically they will ask for 50% of the total price first (for materials and acquiring the wall) and once they have finished and you have approved of the work, you will pay the other 50%.

### Share Images and Location

After a few weeks, you'll have a beautiful Wizard on the Wall. Every Wizard around is going to want to come by and take a picture.

So share the address in #art-and-lore [in Discord](https://discord.gg/forgottenrunes), tweet about it, and tell the Forgotten Runes folks and we'll share it and add it to this page.

A Wizard leaves his Rune on the Door, and we can't wait to see your runes.

-- Dotta, Elf, and team.


See a Wizard in physical paint in your neighborhood. Here's a list of murals that exist or have existed and instructions on how to commission your own

Wizard Murals


# Provenance: Encoded Fully On-Chain

Our Wizards are fully encoded on-chain. This includes pixels of the image, names, and traits. The result is that the entire collection is completely reproducible rom on-chain data.

Most NFT projects merely store their images on IPFS, and the owners of such NFTs only hold a pointer to that image. The result is that, in these projects, if at any point the images are not hosted by anyone, they will disappear. Not so with us.

The provenance of the Wizard images and data are recorded wholly within the Ethereum blockchain, attached to our [custom contract](https://etherscan.io/address/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42). Which means ownership of a Wizard, and the image itself, is fully on-chain.

This means that they do not depend on any external or centralized hosting service to exist.

In short, your Wizard is 100% decentralized and will live forever on the Ethereum blockchain.

This post is for the technically minded who wish to understand _how_ this encoding works and how to retrieve the NFTs from on-chain data.

## tl;dr How to Re-create Any Wizard

If you'd like to re-create your Wizard(s) entirely from on-chain data, you can run the following commands:

```
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getTransactionByHash","params":["0x0b8eb29d7a592023b5330fd9a93299bca2a9604aaa2494c87333fc56da50ec9e"],"id":67}' https://cloudflare-eth.com/ | jq -r '.result.input' | cut -c 139- | xxd --plain --reverse | head -n 297 > decoder.ts
npm init -y
npm install ethers@5.0.26 yargs@16.1.0 chalk@4.1.0 ora@5.3.0 ts-node@9.0.0 typescript@4.0.5 bson@4.4.0 sharp@0.28.3 parse-numeric-range@1.2.0 mkdirp@1.0.4 @types/yargs @types/node
./node_modules/.bin/ts-node ./decoder.ts --wizards "0-9,13,123"
```

It will look like this:

<video controls width="100%" height="auto">
  <source src="https://nftz.forgottenrunes.com/website/cdn/wizard-decoding.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
  Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

## How the Storage Works - transaction calldata

Typically when you store data in a smart contract, that data is expensive. The typical way of storing data is by using `SSTORE`, which is one of the most expensive operations a smart contract can use because it stores data to be accessible by other smart contracts.

For Wizards, we use a "trick" of packing data into a transaction's calldata. Because all transactions [must have their arguments persisted](https://ethresear.ch/t/clarification-on-how-calldata-persists-on-the-blockchain-and-how-optimistic-rollups-use-it/8136/5) we can use this area for a storage that is much, much cheaper than `SSTORE`

## Investigating `tokenURI` and `uploadWizardsImage`

Wizards are an ERC721 Standard token. That means they have a `tokenURI` method, which you can find on our [contract](https://etherscan.io/address/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42#readContract).

If you use this method you will see an IPFS URL. "Wait", you might be asking, "you said the Wizards are stored on chain?" That's true, but we use an IPFS URL as a mirror for convenience and interoperability with off-chain tools like OpenSea. Continue reading and we'll explain.

If you inspect the [code](https://etherscan.io/address/0x521f9c7505005cfa19a8e5786a9c3c9c9f5e6f42#code) you will see that there are two methods:

- `uploadWizardsImage(bytes calldata s)`
- `uploadWizardsAttributes(bytes calldata s)`

But the function implementations are empty! That's because we aren't using the storage _in_ the contract, but rather the _persistence of the transaction calldata_.

## Encoding the Wizards

Even though we're using the calldata for storing the images and traits, we don't upload all 10,000 images individually. Because the Wizards are made up of _parts_, we encode the 341 parts in a single image grid and upload that image, along with a pairing of wizard attributes to decode it.

The code can be found in [the Decoder Crystal](https://opensea.io/assets/0x2d00d68bf8bc14d139b4dcea5fb7ce0a42e09c86/0).

We also used a **limited palette of about 180 colors** for the entire collection. Because of this limited number of colors are are able to to use _png8_ (8 bits per pixel) instead of _png32_ (32 bits per pixel) and then we hex-encode that image. This allows us to fit the images for the entire collection into a single transaction.

For the traits, we use the [BSON](https://bsonspec.org/) encoding scheme. The details can be found in the code, which also can be found on-chain, by using the commands above.

## Trade-offs

## Use of an IPFS Mirror

We host a mirror of our images and data on IPFS and centralized services. This is only a mirror and is for convenience of tools like OpenSea and not requirement for the provenance or persistence of the Wizards.

An improvement might be to render `<svg>` tags within the Solidity. That said, this approach gives us both the ease-of-use of IPFS and durability of the blockchain

## Trait Composability

Probably the biggest shortcoming of this approach is that the traits, while readable on-chain, are not in SSTORE, which means **they aren't readable by other smart contracts**. While this isn't a big problem for the permanent provenance of a collectable NFT, but if we want to compose the traits with other smart contracts (such as games), we **do** want the individual traits to be readable on-chain.

Thankfully a community member has already written the code for this in [The Lost Grimoire](https://github.com/aleb-user/LostGrimoire). [Rinkeby](https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0xe5a0b43035f0cf0b577d176ffc9a3ff307205af3#readContract)

## Transactions

<img src="https://nftz.forgottenrunes.com/website/cdn/decoder-crystal.gif" width="400" height="400" style={{"margin": "0 auto"}}/>

You can find the transactions used to store this data at the following hashes:

```
img: "0xbb6413bd70bae87b724c30ba9e46224fa63629709e7ccfe60a39cc14aa41013e",
traits: [
  "0x227552b04af7606108d306654c620a655393451742e299e8bfd28236683da2cf",
  "0x529b29d36d07c917cc24bf162d737adc0c8ddc07003f9d5ca59876cf8167bfda",
  "0x8ec128ed9b3f4f92853d8df0ff6a2159963e81f2a611145f60a8d96990439049",
  "0xe6f0b0e76ddbc581ba3a8155ff545b7d5c31a394ac0a54b44aa9ea21525d0d06",
  "0x78a6304221ff044d3adcdb037be10aa843707f2c8241e81b4b2c6fbcb51f8b79",
  "0x74b9d75a174e76981f823d594c2c2fbcaff61e66a76be7977e0cbeb52c28f01f",
  "0x3500861637fce52bef4be39ae935e632881df4a69a47abcca8bbfc9490278dc6",
  "0x96677df7c85535328b16d93acf8cd925b87886ca2198c3654ff8d8cc56236f69",
  "0xa2977bf5ef9864796fe713db9e08f98fbbce129f4280651b6b9782c4ffdf4bd2",
  "0xe9ecc9dd5f0518617afb8593157dde0bc58d5d1e4fdb5f10a3ff8f96a81897dc"
],
affinities: "0x1be4aa782c9dc164ecbf2cd155537e7250b344f405dff03b5c33fdd63261c80e"
```

This data _itself_ is also stored within the [Decoder Crystal](https://opensea.io/assets/0x2d00d68bf8bc14d139b4dcea5fb7ce0a42e09c86/0).

## Other Resources

- [Decoder Crystal](https://opensea.io/assets/0x2d00d68bf8bc14d139b4dcea5fb7ce0a42e09c86/0)
- [Github Gist of the Decoder](https://gist.github.com/cryppadotta/375dee1903598f5163e2c1d7d3ce9db9)
- [0xmons v2 Cthulhu: On-chain Encoding](https://blog.0xmons.xyz/79081566310)
- [MagneticB's post on Decoding Wizards](https://magneticb.github.io/blog/wizards-decoding)
- [Clarification on how calldata persists](https://ethresear.ch/t/clarification-on-how-calldata-persists-on-the-blockchain-and-how-optimistic-rollups-use-it/8136/5)


The 10,000 Wizards pixels, names, and data are fully reproducible from on-chain data. This post explains why it's important, how it works, how to retrieve your NFTs forever.

On-chain Encoding of Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult


## "Wizards are for Everyone"

<ResponsiveImg src="/static/img/posts/Wizards-are-for-Everyone.png" pixelArt={true} />

Wizards come from every walk, age, and alignment of life. We have Wizards who are [kids and Wizards over 60](https://twitter.com/dotta/status/1445919395939819526). Our community is a place to make friends, tell stories, write Lore, and share art.

## "Like Wizard, Buy Wizard"

<ResponsiveImg src="/static/img/posts/Like-Wizard-Buy-Wizard.png" pixelArt={true} />

In the world of NFTs there's an over-emphasis on "rarity" of traits. Flippers look to strict rankings like rarity tools to tell them "what's valuable and what's not".

In Forgotten Runes, we eschew the idea that a Wizard's _traits_ alone give them their value. Each Wizard has a _story_ to be told and Wizard holders contribute to that story by sharing it through derivative art, poems, songs, paintings, murals, storyboards, animations, sculpture, and every possible art form.

"Like Wizard, Buy Wizard" encapsulates the idea that it's important to focus on a wizard you vibe with. Worry less about _rarity_ and more about if you feel a personal connection.

## "Lore not Floor"

<ResponsiveImg src="/static/img/posts/Lore-not-Floor.png" pixelArt={true} />

a.k.a. Proof-of-Lore
a.k.a. "Live, Laugh, Lore"

**We don't have a `!floor` bot** in our Discord, only `!lore`.

Across Discord channels in the NFT space you'll see them filled with folks calling the `!floor` command, which asks a bot "what is the lowest price in the collection?" The idea is often that the price is the most important feature of the collection, so much so that people are constantly watching.

Instead with Wizards, we emphasize the _Lore_. The stories that we tell let every individual Wizard contribute to the collaborative Legendarium. Every single Wizard can contribute, regardless of how skilled you are.

If you're not sure what Lore to write, [flip through The Book of Lore](/lore).

If you see something you love, but can't make it yourself you can [checkout our Wizard's commissions page](/posts/commissions).

Everyone has a story to tell. And when you're having fun sharing Lore, the floor takes care of itself.

## "Ours over Official"

<ResponsiveImg src="/static/img/posts/Ours-over-Official.png" pixelArt={true} />

Or: Authenticity over Authority, Community over Clergy

This decentralized world belongs to all of us. While the Creators are building a show, a game, and providing a meta-narrative for the world, **the Canon is in the Community**.

Don't worry about writing Lore that might not conform _exactly_ to the narrative shared by the creators. Your Wizard is your own and may not fit in the typical mold.

What is Authentic has Authority in Forgotten Runes and it's a world created by all of us.


Our community has many principles that we live by. This document captures some of them.

Principles of The Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult


On July 30th, at roughly 8:30 am, a crow perched upon the Secret Tower, and the Tower came alive. Within a frenzied timespan of 20 minutes, our community had summoned all ten thousand Wizards, and the Secret Tower closed once again. It was an historic moment in NFT history, and our team suddenly realized we had become Cult leaders, with a Discord full of passionate Wizards. Over the following weeks, we studiously knocked off each item on our Roadmap 1.0, and with every milestone our ambitions grew larger.

![roadmap](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70826742/130158226-57424412-0088-4270-9482-f517a858dd9a.png)

Roadmap 1.0 is nearly complete. We have decided to release Roadmap 2.0, which more accurately reflects our larger ambitions:

![roadmap2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70826742/130158243-ad5c15ba-81ac-4d3b-a473-f1b83bc7aec4.png)

First a few caveats:
The order of these items is in flux. We may complete these milestones in a slightly different order than what is presented, but we think it’s a pretty good estimation.
Also, two items from Roadmap 1.0 are carried over, namely Forgotten Souls and the Warriors Guild. And for those wondering, the commercial rights milestone will be clearly spelled out in a near future blog post. And finally, there will be many other surprises along the way. This Roadmap only covers a few of the major milestones.

As for Roadmap 2.0, here it is in text form:

- All Wizard holders will receive full turnarounds for every Wizard they own.
- Wizards will be deployable into other metaverses with full walk cycles
- Forgotten Runes Book of Lore goes live
- The Great Burning: Forgotten Souls token burn at the Secret Tower
- FRWC comic book issue #1 released
- Official FRWC Metaverse beta launch
- FRWC animated short premieres
- Forgotten Runes Warrior's Guild drops

Let’s discuss these one by one

## All Wizard holders will receive full turnarounds for every Wizard they own.

Currently, our Wizards exist as beautiful static images minted as NFTs. But FR Wizards are meant for so much more...

Elf is currently undertaking the arduous task of drawing the front, side, and back views of every single head, body, and familiar in the collection. This equates to roughly 240 pieces of art being tripled, for a total of 720 new sprites! Then we will take these parts and assemble them in the exact combinations of our 10k collection.

![](https://i.imgur.com/yDy4XJz.gif)

This means, as a Wizard holder, you will receive the front, right side, back, and left side of your Wizard and your Wizard’s familiar. These turnarounds will not apply to spells, items, staffs, or runes.

It’s a lot to take on, but Elf is roughly half way through. So why are we doing this?

## Wizards will be deployable into other metaverses with full walk cycles

If you want your Wizard to walk around in a metaverse, they will need to walk in all directions!

We will use these turnarounds to extract walk cycles, emotes, battle stances, and other poses required for full interaction in the metaverse.

We are talking to many partners about allowing Wizards to walk freely in other metas. Additionally, we are making moves to create our own meta based on the current map of the Forgotten Runes world.

![](https://i.imgur.com/ku9ZiuW.png)

This meta will be a place for Wizards to socialize, adventure, and battle monsters. There is so much to say about this meta, but more details will need to wait for a future blog post.

Another interesting use for these turnarounds will leverage the creativity of our community. Currently you can [download your Wizard in easily editable parts.](/posts/how-to-use-aseprite-for-wizards)

Our Cult members have been making AMAZING art and animations with their Wizards and sharing them on social media. With these new sprites, our holders will be able to expand their artistic expressions and show Wizards doing things from any angle!

## The Forgotten Runes Book of Lore

In addition to sprites, probably the most exciting development is the Book of Lore. This device will be a groundbreaking feature unique to Forgotten Runes, something no other NFT project has.

Since launch, our holders have been creating a staggering amount of artwork, animation, stories, poems, and other media expressions to supplement their Wizards. They have been building out their characters, bringing life to them. We knew this lore development needed to be saved on the blockchain, so that it could be preserved forever along with the Wizards themselves. Hence, the Forgotten Runes Book of Lore.

This Book will be an online compendium where any Wizard holder can attach art, stories, poems, or any NFT artifact to Wizards they own. Over time, we imagine this tome will become a massive wealth of information detailing the biographical history of each Wizard. We believe that a Wizard with well developed lore can become a legendary NFT.

## The Great Burning

In the near future, The Secret Tower on our website will undergo a subtle transformation. Wizard holders will have the opportunity to commit the unspeakable act of burning their Wizard!!! This act, while incredibly risky, will destroy the Wizard but may potentially return a mysterious Ghost Wizard. The exact details of the Great Burning have yet to be revealed, but for those who choose to take part in this even, be warned:

> “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
>
> -Gandalf the Grey

## FRWC comic book issue #1 released

The Forgotten Runes comic book will be one of the earliest ways the community will learn about the larger metanarrative. With approximately 20 pages of spellbinding lore, readers will learn about the magic system, the political intrigue, and several characters in this seminal issue.

## FRWC animated short premieres

Perhaps one of the things we are most excited about is the animated version of the Forgotten Runes Wizards. We are currently in talks with a few animation studios in Los Angeles, and one in particular seems very promising. We look forward to sharing more details about this in the coming months ahead.

## Forgotten Runes Warrior's Guild

When the time is right, and only then, we intend a companion Warrior drop to the Wizards. But why Warriors?

Every good book, film, and video game in the Fantasy genre needs this power balance of the brains (Wizards) and the brawn (Warriors). Indeed, it is an established trope: Wizards & Warriors, Swords & Sorcery, Might & Magic.

We believe this dynamic will be crucial in our own books, animations, and games. If we have a large metaverse of 10k Wizards, we will need other power dynamics to cooperate with or to challenge them!
Though Warriors will arrive much later, we see Wizards as the emissaries to our universe.

The Wizards will shape this world in its nascent creation. In due time, they will be long established in this world- settled in Hedge Wizard Wood, populated in Calista’s Citadel, and fortified in the Blue Wizard Bastion. They will be well learned in the Forgotten Runes. Their power and wisdom will pervade across the land.

But even the very wise cannot see all ends...
How will the Wizards respond to the arrival of the Warriors?

- Elf and Dotta


Sprite sheets, Metaverse, Book of Lore, and more

Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult Roadmap 2.0


On July 30th, at roughly 8:30 am, a crow perched upon the Secret Tower, and the Tower came alive. Within a frenzied timespan of 20 minutes, our community had summoned all ten thousand Wizards, and the Secret Tower closed once again.

There are 10,000 unique Wizard NFTs. The Summoning began on [Ethereum block 12736300](https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/12736300), which was on June 30th, 2021.

The Wizards are encoded fully on-chain. The image of each Wizard is 50x50 pixels, scaled to 400x400. Each Wizard has a unique name and configuration of traits.

Each wizard was summoned for 0.07 ETH, with a maximum of 12 summoned per transaction.

# Tokenomics and Incentivized Wizards

There are 10,000 unique Wizards.

The first 80 were minted directly by the team. From of those 80, about 30 were given away for free for marketing and friends and the remaining 50 will be transferred to the team.

The secondary market royalties are set at 2.5%. You can get a Wizard [here on OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/forgottenruneswizardscult)


The Summoning was when Wizards came into being. This page describes the occasion and mechanics of that day

The Summoning


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The founders Elf and Dotta and team give a weekly "AmA" dubbed _Wizard Wednesdays_ **every week** on Twitter Spaces. To listen in, follow [@forgottenrunes](https://twitter.com/forgottenrunes) on Twitter.

We also have recordings of all past weeks [on our Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/forgottenrunes)


Each week, we gather for a Cult meeting on Twitter Spaces

Wizard Wednesday, Forgotten Runes Weekly AmA on Twitter Spaces


The [_Forgotten Runes Book of Lore_](/lore) contains the stories, legends, and myths of thousands of Wizards. This tome is ever-growing, always evolving, but forever immutable once a Wizard changes hands.

## Video Quickstart

Watch this video for a quick introduction on how to add Lore to your Wizard.

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## What Lore Should Be Written?

This document will focus on _how to use_ the Book of Lore and _how it works_.

Your Wizard's path is your own and no one can plot the course for another.

One way to get ideas for writing Lore is to read what is written already, read the Discord, and discuss with fellow Wizards.

A future document will be written that gives guidelines for _what to write_ Lore, but this document focuses more on the _how_.

## How it Works, An Overview

[![](/static/lore/instructions/2cI5AXI.png)](/lore/)

Lore is attached to a specific Wizard token. While **anyone can read the Book**, only _Wizard holders_ can write Lore.

Here is a quick start guide to writing Lore (but please read through for detailed clarifications):

To write lore, you:

- [Visit the Add Lore Page](/lore/add)

![](/static/lore/instructions/4jSfHkl.png)

- Connect your Wallet
- Pick a Wizard

![](/static/lore/instructions/tZ3pPBw.png)

- Write your Lore using the editor

![](/static/lore/instructions/zW1QrZj.png)

- Sign a message

![](/static/lore/instructions/Cc8YlwR.png)

- Submit a transaction

![](/static/lore/instructions/12CCh8s.png)

- Enjoy - and share - your Lore

![](/static/lore/instructions/L7DgMrl.png)

## Writing Lore in the Editor

When you write Lore in the editor you can:

- control some formatting
- upload images
- background-color
- toggle NSFW

### Lore Formatting

You can add formatting by typing _shortcuts_ as you would in e.g. Discord. For example:

- A heading with `#` as in: `# Heading 1`
- A smaller heading with `##` as in `## Heading 2`
- **Bold** text with `**bold text here**`
- _Italic_ text with `_italic text here_`

### Lore Images

To upload images:

- Download the image you want to your computer or desktop and
- **Drag the image into the Lore editor**

You can upload multiple images and intersperse them with text. Or you can have Lore which is simply a single image. It's up to you.

### Background Color

You can change the background color of your Lore using the color picker.

![](/static/lore/instructions/3pxuUM4.png)

### Toggle NSFW

Lore is enjoyed by Wizards of all ages across many cultures - however, we recognize that not all actions of all Wizards in the universe may be suitable for minors at all times.

We ask that, as a courtesy to fellow Wizards, you mark NSFW content. While we realize what is NSFW varies across cultures, a good rule of thumb is to enable this if the Lore ought not to be seen by minors.

> NOTE: At this time, the website at `forgottenrunes.com` will not display NSFW content, however, it is still written to chain and stored as any other Lore. This website and code are completely open-source.

## The Rules of Lore

- Lore can only be written about a Wizard by the account that holds that specific Wizard
- Lore can be _updated_ by:
  - The account that holds a specific Wizard...
  - ONLY IF they _also_ created that specific Lore

Which means you're free to update the Lore of Wizards you own while you own it. But if you transfer that Wizard away, the new owner **cannot** change the previous Lore - and neither can you.

### Struck Lore

Lore can never be deleted, however, Lore can be _Struck_ from the record. If Lore is Struck, it is a public symbol that the Lore in question is considered Anathema by the Cult. We disavow it as part of our culture and history.

Lore that includes, but is not limited to, hateful content, unnecessarily grotesque, irrelevant sexual content and [other sorts of content listed here](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505) will be Struck.

> Any IPFS records of Struck Lore will not be pinned by Forgotten Runes.

The NSFW flag is a courtesy and NSFW content may, in many cases, be acceptable, whereas Struck Lore is a strong statement - and hopefully rare occurrence - that the community completely disavows the Lore.

## The Lore Master

There is a special role of the Lore Master. The Lore Master holds the following powers:

- ✅ The ability to add (or remove) token contracts that may have new Lore written about them
- ✅ The ability to mark any Lore as NSFW
- ✅ The ability to Strike any Lore

The Lore Master may not:

- ❌ Add Lore to any Wizard
- ❌ Update Lore of any Wizard
- ❌ Delete Lore of any Wizard

> The Lore Master keys are currently held by the Forgotten Runes Deployer (co-controlled by Elf & Dotta). The plan is to eventually turn the Lore Master keys over to the community at the appropriate time.

## FAQ

**Q:** Is my Lore stored "on-chain"?

**A:** Partially. The Lore contents (images, stories) are stored on IPFS, like most other NFTs. The record of the Lore - and a pointer to IPFS - is stored on-chain.

**Q:** Where is the Book of Lore contract?

**A:** The mainnet address of the Book of Lore is [`0x4218948d1da133cf4b0758639a8c065dbdccb2bb`, found here](https://etherscan.io/address/0x4218948d1da133cf4b0758639a8c065dbdccb2bb#code)

**Q:** Does it cost gas?

**A:** Yes. The contract ensures that only Wizard holders may write new Lore and it writes it permanently on-chain, so it does cost gas. The gas cost is almost exactly the same as a swap on Sushiswap (about 100k gas, which is about $22 at 50 Gwei at current prices).

**Q:** Is _The Book of Lore_ decentralized?

**A:** Yes. Writing to the Book is controlled by the smart contract at `0x421` and it cannot be disabled. All Wizard holders may write to this Book within the parameters outlined above. Currently, the website is hosted at `forgottenrunes.com` and The Creators _pin_ (ensure persistence of) the IPFS files of non-struck Lore, however, anyone else may pin whatever files they choose.

**Q:** How should I write my Lore?

**A:** Join the Discord and we'll help you think through this!

**Q:** Can I update my Lore?

**A:** Yes **if** you originally created it _and_ you still hold the Wizard. However, the editing interface has not been created as of 9/21. Editing will be shipped in Q4 2021.

**Q:** What about _Forgotten Souls_, _Forgotten Runes Warriors_, etc.?

**A:** The Book will support their stories to be told.

## Next Steps

Head over [the Book and write some Lore](/lore/add)


If you're looking for specific instructions on how to write in the Book of Lore, this post is for you

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