Order is life; chaos is death. This is fact, not belief. Each living creature consists of ordered parts that must function together. When chaos intrudes…

Order extends down to the smallest fragments of the world. By influencing the smallest ordered segments to create a new and ordered form, an order-master may change where land exists and where it does not, where the rain will fall and where it will not…

In contrast, control of chaos is simply the ability to sever one ordered element of the world from another …without the use of order, focused destruction is the highest level of control to which a chaos-master can aspire…

Simple as these words are, learning about what order and chaos truly are is far from simple. One might say that order is like water, that it can change forms, and that is vital to life, and that without it nothing lives…That is less than the beginning…

The Magic of Recluce - page:222

Wellspring of Chaos - page:77

Wellspring of Chaos mentions this as being page 1

Learning without understanding can but increase the frustration of the impatient, for knowledge is like the hammer of a smith, useless in the hands of the unskilled and able to do nothing but injure the user who has not both knowledge and understanding…All things are not possible, even to the greatest, and even to those with understanding…

The Magic of Recluce - page:302

Wellspring of Chaos - page:77,78

In Wellspring of Chaos Kharl flips page, ergo, this is on page 2

Order cannot be concentrated in and of itself, not even within the staff of order, and no man can truly master the staff of order until he casts it aside.

For order cannot be divided in two without its power being diminished by four, and if it be divided into four parts, then its power is less by another fourth, so that the total of all portions is but one sixteenth of what it would have been undivided. Likewise, so it is with a staff imbued with order for whoever wields it…

The Magic of Recluce - page:378,456

Wellspring of Chaos - page:331

Love no one until you can love yourself, for love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

The Magic of Recluce - page:378

Order and chaos must balance, but as on a see-saw. The power of chaos is for great destruction in a confined area, for order by nature must be diffused over vaster realms. If you would battle chaos, or establish order, you must limit the area and the time in which it must be balanced.

The Magic of Recluce - page:378

All physical items-unlike fire or pure chaos-must have some structure, or they would not exist…

Because all wrought iron has a grain created from the forging of its crystals, the strength of the iron lies in the alignment and length of the grain. Using order to reinforce that grain is the basis for creating black iron…Its strength lies in the ordering of unbruised or unstrained grains along the length of the metal…

The Magic Engineer - page:318

If order or chaos be without limits, then common sense would indicate that each should have triumphed when the great ones of each discipline have arisen. Yet neither has so triumphed, despite men and women of power, intelligence, and ambition. Therefore, the scope of either or chaos is in fact limited, and the belief in the balance of forces demonstrated…

The Magic Engineer - page:318

Pure order cannot nourish life, for living requires growth, and the process of growth is the constant struggle to bring order out of chaos.

When a fire destroys the great forests of the Westhorns, immediately order replenishes itself with scores of seedlings and bushes striving to recover the hillsides.

When a stone wall is built, the forces of frost and heat continually tumble the stones. So too is it with a house, once the constant order of the hearthholder is removed.

The function of order is to support that life which can order chaos; and without chaos to be ordered, there can be no purpose to life.

The function of chaos is to destroy order. Without order, no structure can exist-no man nor woman, no plant, not even an earth upon which to walk. Thus, the total triumph of chaos is its defeat.

What can be said of order and chaos, then? Since the world was, is, and will be, neither order nor chaos may triumph. Therefore, in the world as a whole there must be equal measures of each, and that Balance will be maintained; for, if it is not, there shall be either no world or no life.

And upon this world are the lands and the seas.

People call the sea chaos, but the sea contains a deeper order within the ever-changing waves and depths, and the seas wash upon the beaches and retreat, and that changes not.

Likewise people call the land orderly, for it changes seldom, yet beneath that surface order is great disorder, filled with the fires and chaos of the demons.

A people of the sea must be of order, for order must contain the surface chaos of the oceans and harmonize with the deeper order under the waves.

Likewise, a people of chaos can only exist upon the land, for the sea will rend them unto nothing.

The Magic Engineer - page:521,522

Fragment attributed to Section II

Order is the basis of any community…

The Death of Chaos - page:167

…order must embody chaos, and chaos order.

The Death of Chaos - page:56

storyline says not too far past the 'Pure order' paragraph (above)

…order and chaos can be linked, and twisted, into smaller and smaller segments, as the sands of the beaches are the result of the constant pounding of chaos against order. Even the greatest might find despair in building pure order or chaos from such sands…

The Death of Chaos - page:56

storyline suggests this is part of the introduction

Those who do not understand order or chaos say that the two belong only to those with the gift for one or the other, and that those who have such gifts are few. This is truth, and it is also a falsehood. Many men and women have gifts. Some are more intelligent than others; some are stronger; some are more patient; some have great courage; some have great understanding. So to say that one has a gift for order or chaos can be truth. Yet, to suggest that there is something improper about understanding order or chaos because it requires a gift is a falsehood. Each and every great talent, whatever it may be, requires a gift of greater ability. A man may have a gift for letters, and for distilling truth. A woman may have a gift for numbers, and for trading of goods. A youth may have the gift of song, and another the gift of hands that can shape iron or wood. So it is with order and chaos.

Yet many would claim that the gift to understand order and chaos is different from the gift of understanding other aspects of the world, that anyone can be a crafter or an engineer, but that only a special few can become order-mages or chaos-masters. This is a falsehood, for the great ones in any area of endeavour are few, whether that area be engineering, cabinetry, fishing, or order-magery…

In the beginning, as a child, a boy or girl can have the gift, not for one or the other, but for either, or, if the gift is great enough, for both…So can a man or woman, once grown, if he or she approaches order as might a child. For order is a wonder, and those who can yet wonder as children can have their eyes opened at any age…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:101,102

…a staff, or any other object, may be infused with order. If the Balance is maintained, concentrating such order must result in a greater amount of chaos somewhere else. Therefore, the greater the effort to concentrate order within material objects, the greater the amount of free chaos within the world…

The Order War - page:5

The Order War mentions this as being on page 50, 3rd section of 1st part

Wellspring of Chaos - page:153

…all that is, everything that exists, is little more than the twisting of chaos in a shell of order, and the greater the complexity of those twistings, the more solid the object appears. A thumb of lead or gold may appear more solid than a feather or a flower, and may indeed overbalance the scales, yet there is no difference in the fashion in which they are constructed…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:153

…the form of everything under the sun is determined by the amount of order and chaos and the way in which they are combined and intertwined…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:153

Water is of both chaos and order, yet it is order, and represents order, for its structure overweighs its parts…

Because water is both order and of order, yet comprised of parts that are totally chaotic, it challenges chaos with the depth of its order. Truly a river people or a sea people must hold to order or they will be lost. Chaos fares best upon the dry land, and least in a steady rain or snowfall…

Even a fog will affect a chaos-wielder, but only those who are of the weaker sort. A steady rain is a patterned fall of ordered chaos. A raindrop is ordered, and the fall of each is unpatterned, chaotic, yet all raindrops falling together results in a pattern ordered by chaos, and that order can weaken or destroy many of the links of power created by those who wield chaos, as the fires of sun itself can weaken those who wield order, if they do not understand that the sun is a furnace of chaos…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:153,154

…there is more that lies beneath the surface of anything, whether it be the ocean or the mountains…Do not assume that what lies beneath is the same as what lies above, nor that it is different…

In substance, there is no difference between chaos and order, for neither has substance in and of itself…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:155

Is there a source—a wellspring—of order or of chaos? Can something exist without a source? And if there be such, what is indeed the wellspring of chaos? Or that of order? There is but one, for chaos can be said to be the wellspring of order, and order the wellspring of chaos. These are so because, for so long as there is life, neither chaos nor order can exist by itself for long without the other.

Yet for so long as there have been peoples upon the face of the world, there have been those who championed order over chaos, or chaos over order. There have been those who denied the power of one, or of both. All creatures that live are born, and birth is the triumph of life. All creatures, from the largest to the smallest, are brought low by death, and death is the triumph of chaos.

How can one say, then, that chaos is greater, or that order is?

Wellspring of Chaos - page:193,194

…each thing under the sun, be it man or a machine, a creature or an object created, is unique, no matter how closely it resembles another, and yet all these unique things are created from the sameness of order and chaos, and all that is unique is the manner in which order and chaos are twisted into the unique forms that we are and that surrounds us…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:207

The greatest danger in practicing deception is not in the reaction of others, whether it be anger or cupidity. A greater danger is the cultivation of contempt for that which is. Deception is a practice of contempt, contempt for those whom one would deceive, and contempt for the world as it is. Just as understanding what is must be the first step toward using order, contempt for a true vision is the first step toward being a tool of power rather than its enlightened user…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:255

…often those inexperienced in using order will force raw order upon an object, thinking that such an effort will strengthen the object. Such an effort will indeed strengthen the object, even as it weakens the one who attempts this, but only for so long as the would-be mage lavishes his strength. When his strength is spent, the object will become once more as it was. Far better is to study the object, and to learn how it is tied together with order and chaos, and to gently change those bonds in keeping with what the object is, for if weak bonds are replaced by strong bonds within the object itself, those bonds will remain strengthened, just as black iron remains stronger than iron forged without ordering…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:255

Black iron should only be created while being forged…attempting to change less—ordered cold iron into black iron is possible only with great effort, enough to exhaust even the strongest of mages…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:257

Order is like glue, in that it links all together, while chaos is but the opposite. Its power lies in separating…and when even the smallest bits of that which surround us are separated, basic fire and the heat of the flame are released. A chaos-wizard channels that fire and flame, and yet he must use order to do so, lest he be separated from himself by the powers of separation…

Wellspring of Chaos - page:355

…there is power, and the control of power. Chaos unchecked can obliterate its would be user. So can order. What an order—master must do is channel that power…

The Death of Chaos - page:108

…iron has a grain, and through that grain can order be stored as in a warehouse, both in tools and even deep within the earth…

The Death of Chaos - page:111

…separating order out of chaos is like forging a fine pair of blades and giving each to twin sons of the ruler at his death…

The Death of Chaos - page:111

…too much order, or too much chaos, may recoil upon the user and consume him as fat in a smith-fire…

The Death of Chaos - page:111

…the order of the earth is the order of the order within and around chaos, and he who can order the earth can order the world, would he bear the weight of the sorrow he would cause…

The Death of Chaos - page:173

…there is order, and there is chaos, and those who follow each will declare that either order is truth or chaos is truth. A truth that holds for all does not exist, not in the world, nor in the stars, nor on the surface of the land, nor beneath the waves of the ocean. That which is exists, but those who search for truth that applies to all seek what never was and never will be. That is because truth is an image of what is, and that image is painted in the colours of the seeker's beliefs. Each seeks a different truth, and each claims that his is the only truth. In that the seeker is surely correct…

Ordermaster - page:26

…when chaos that is bound to nothing strikes an object, it loosens the bonds that holds the object together. Order holds all together. Without order, stone would be as sand, water as mist or rain. Thus, order can strengthen what is beyond its natural strength, while chaos weakens it…

Ordermaster - page:44

Kharl opens, begins to leaf thru, after several pages…

Light from the sun is thought by the learned to be chaos, but it is not that. Rather it is not precisely that. Light is composed of tiny particles of order that can be thought to flow like water in a millrace from the sun—or from a lamp. The flow is chaotic, but the light itself is not. Could the light be ordered, in a fashion similar to what a burning glass will do, except within itself, its power would be almost without limit…

Ordermaster - page:45

Kharl skims thru nearly thirty more pages…

Every strength is a weakness, every weakness a strength, for under the Balance there cannot be more order than chaos. Thus, if order is concentrated in one place, there must be another place where there is less and where it will take less effort for chaos to prevail. Likewise, the same is true of chaos…

Ordermaster - page:84

Because chaos reflects the absence of order, it can manifest itself in two fashions, or both at once. The first is what appears as white fire, and that is chaos free of all order and all constraints, but chaos drawn from elsewhere by one who is able to do so and imposed upon what order may exist in a given place. The second is that chaos caused by the withdrawal of order from the place itself. Both methods produce that force known as chaos, and the unrestrained chaos created by either means cannot be differentiated, one from the other. The first method is the easiest, and the one most widely practiced, but the amount of chaos that can be mustered is limited by the strength of the wizard, because by nature such free chaos is widely dispersed. The second method does not require strength alone, but great mastery of both order and chaos, and has seldom been employed because failure to attain mastery is almost inevitably fatal.

Ordermaster - page:85

Magery is no different from any other craft. Each action must be constructed with care, and all the components must be finely finished before being assembled into the final form…

Ordermaster - page:133

Water is chaos bound in two levels of order. Thus, an ocean or a lake conveys order, as does rain, and will provide a barrier against lessor chaos, but not against greater…

Ordermaster - page:136

placement: several page before ;- Water is of both chaos and order

One might also say it another way. Chaos is power without form, and order is the form that enables chaos to inspire the spirit of life, to allow the crafting of tools and of all manner of devices that improve the way of life of man and woman…

Ordermaster - page:158

One danger of order-magery or chaos-magery is that the mage who handles either in mighty efforts may become what he attempts to control. For a part of that mage must accompany the order or chaos that he infuses or creates. An order-mage may become so fixated upon order that he can do nothing without a structure so rigid that he accomplishes nothing of value…

Ordermaster - page:158,159

Some twenty page later…

…more unnoticed is the danger that order or chaos may rebound upon him who casts it forth, for there is a tie between what is cast forth and the one who casts it…

Ordermaster - page:159

further down the same page

There is a Balance, too, among those who can master order or chaos. There are few who have the talent and the discipline to claim even minor skills in handling such forces. There are even fewer who can boast of some limited degree of mastery, and fewer still who attain great mastery, especially of order, for mastery of chaos is far easier than the same level of mastery of order…

The balance is this: A mage may have a wide range of skills, but his breadth of skills will limit great skill in one area of mastery. Conversely, a mage may have great mastery in one area, but most limited abilities in others, where lesser mages may in fact show greater skill.

This Balance of mastery, then, must be considered in all things. A great weather mage may not be able to spur the slightest growth in plants nor heal the simplest cut. A mighty metal mage may not be capable of even sensing when the weather will change.

Yet a possessor of even minor order abilities may be able to heal a cut, strengthen the wool of sheep, find the bad pearapples from among the good without touching a one, and always know when the weather will change. But he can do no great mageries, though he can accomplish some magery in all areas where order may be fruitfully used.

That often is the weakness of those of great single magery skills, that they fail to understand that they cannot be great in all areas, and that they may make great errors if they fail to recognise that the Balance applies to them as well as to the relation between order and chaos.

As in all matters of order, chaos, and the affairs of men and women, there is a Balance, and a price to be paid for greatness and great accomplishments.

Ordermaster - page:181,182

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