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Posted on: 2019-11-20 04:44:58 UTC

Verdani (The Saga of Seven Suns)

"While speculation as to the sentience of Equestria's Shadow and Everfree Forests remains ongoing (especially in the case of Timberwolves, whose wood might be as fine an addition to my collection as my limbs might be to the rest of the pack's supper), there can be no doubt of the sapience of the verdani, an elemental world-forest from one of the more obscure continua. Though verdani wand-wood is in excellent supply considering that entire battleships have been made of the stuff, the wands themselves have been rather more discerning in choosing their wizards and witches. They seek out wanderers and philosophers, peacemakers and navigators; those who would pour oil upon troubled waters with word and deed and presence. A practitioner of magic so favoured by a verdani wand will have a friend for life, as their inherent inquisitive swishiness masks a core of enormous strength. Great things come from a verdani wand, and rarely are their wielders aligned to darkness." -- Ollivander

Drasil (The Keys To The Kingdom)

"The Incomparable Gardens are a very Eden, but to a wandmaker there is no tree so fine in all that continuum as the four mighty Drasil trees that bear those gardens aloft. Despite the best efforts of unscrupulous local villains to destroy them, these four enormous trees - well over seventeen thousand feet tall at the last count - produce quality wand-wood in copious supplies. However, the wands they make are drawn to the prideful; they show marked disdain for other wands, and will deliver harsher blows and more grievous injuries than another wand might when targeting a wizard whose wand is unkempt or of inferior wood. Not that there is such a thing as inferior wood, of course, but try telling them that." -- Ollivander again

Cadonwood (Doctor Who)

"Whereas the previous examples have been easy to get hold of (for the sufficiently adventuresome wandmaker), cadonwood is rather trickier to get hold of. This remarkable silver-leafed specimen grew only on the lost world of Gallifrey, and is only accessible through sneaking around in a dangerous part of the Doctor's history. Whether there are any other parts of the Doctor's history is something I leave open to the reader's interpretation. Nevertheless, cadonwood produces wand-wood of beautiful quality, and the resultant wands tend to end up in the hands of powerful witches. However, much like the Time Lords from whose planet the wood comes, a cadonwood wand is typically an inflexible thing, and while strong it will break before it bends. Wizards and witches of a more rebellious and renegade bent are advised, therefore, to seek out that universe's many other woods for their wands; I myself have had great success working with Androzani conifers, who are often both wand and wizard." -- Merlin's beard, Ollivander, leave some words for the rest of us.

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