The Wandwright’s Craft
For Thor, the crafting of a wand is never merely an act of shaping wood—it is a sacred conversation with the unseen. Guided not by formula but by an instinctual reading of the lay, the subtle lattice of magical currents that run beneath and through the world, Thor begins each wand not with tools, but with listening.
He walks the wooded edges of known paths, attuned to the whisper of spirit and strain in the bark. Through a form of intuitive divination, he identifies wood that with latent potency—not always the most beautiful or straight, but the ones humming with need and purpose. Oak, Willow, or Rowan each wand begins with a relationship to the spirit, not dominance over it.
Once selected, the wood is ritually cleansed and awakened, then shaped slowly, by hand, with carvings that follow the energy lines already running through its grain. Coils, crystals, or sacred grooves are added—not for decoration, but for amplification, directing the flow of arcane energy.
Thor often binds the wand with natural cord, antler, or forged copper, and embeds small crystals, bone shards, or plant resins where energy collects or releases. These elements are selected based on the wand’s intended function. Some wands are single-purpose instruments—finely tuned to healing, shadow work, or lunar rites. Others are generalists, made to be flexible companions for ritual practice, attuned through use. He polishes and sands, never uses the lathe.
Every step of the process is infused with intention and attunement. Thor does not rush the making of a wand, nor does he replicate a design. Each one emerges as a ritual artifact, a vessel built not only of matter but of will, resonance, and devotion.
To hold one of Thor’s wands is to hold a thread in the great weave of magical flow—a bridge between body, spirit, and the wild current that speaks only to those who listen.
