Swamped

Created by the Confederacy of Magnum a very very ancient order of mages deticated to the "perfection" a state of mastery of the mind, body and moral. At first being a group of scholars but becoming radically elitist and reaching a point of only allowing mages, Mana roots also known as Magnum Opus were their greatest creating siphoning ether from around them during growth and enchanting greatly a wizard magic capabilities, they are described in Magnum Folly a required book for all mages though first thought to have been destroyed when the Confederacy was stormed out of fear of the potential threat(a lesson on cooperation and numbers vs power that would shape wizard history) a lesser version started running around years later in areas with great ether concentration later being tamed by some it is still rare due to the difficulty of gathering that much ether all through it's growth