Starfire

When lesser minds feared the heavens, Umbra taught the learned to listen when the cosmos spoke in fire.

Wisdom was not given to shield the timid, but to call down wrath with a will refined enough to survive its answer.

Thus the magi were taught to trade flesh for brilliance, that mana, warding, and ruin might gather in one disciplined hand.

For the highest art is not to borrow power safely, but to speak the burning language of the stars and remain standing when they reply. - Codex Umbra