Icecaster Weekly

Icecaster Weekly is a razhean magazine featuring journalism, fiction, social commentary, and other hot topics related to glaciamancy. The weekly magazine series was founded in 2125, soaring in popularity after the first few years.

The magazine is primarily sold online, with paper copies sold in five districts in the Arctic Circle of Razhea Capita, and Saventi, an icy moon orbiting the planet.

Magical Magazines

Icecaster Weekly Logo by Mochi

Magic magazines have become a trending topic in the last few hundred years. Razheans are a more technologically inclined people, as opposed to magic, but the recent influx of foreign species on Razhea Capita has led to more cultures blending together.

The Icecaster Weekly's first issue attempted to gather a number of useful tips and guides for casting ice magic, stories and accounts from sorcerers, and the risks of icecasting and how to avoid them.

The magazine was directly influenced by others of its kind, specialising in other forms of magic. Life of a Pyromancer was the first razhean magazine focusing on magic, pyromancy.

Next Icecaster Weekly tomorrow! I hear they've got a story about someone attacked by a yeti on Daglaci. Chased him through a forest, up some mountains, even followed him into a city. Or so I hear...

— Avid reader of Icecaster Weekly

Controversy

Icebreaker by Mochi

The magazine's founder, Pagos Menos, ran into serious controversy in 2143, after reports of him performing illegal glaciamancy spells circulated online platforms.

One report even claimed Menos summoned a snowflake warden - don't let the cute name fool you, snowflake wardens haunt the Snowball Realm, powerful entities with the power to wield avalanches, shift mountains, and coat entire continents in ice.

Thousands of people attempted to boycott Icecaster's Weekly, and the following issue had lost 13% of its predicted sales, from 7,518,000, down to 6,540,660. Sales continued to decline, plateauing around 4.5 million weekly sales. Pagos Menos had become somewhat of a poster-person for the icecasting community, and people were worried that sorcerers would get a bad name because of it. It was already beginning to happen, with well-known icecasters receiving death threats and other cyber-bullying on various social media platforms.

Menos eventually stepped down as lead editor of the magazine, his son, Eles Menos filling the position. While the public were initially sceptical of this, sales slowly increased as Elos worked to prove he wasn't like his father.

People began to notice Pagos never actually denied the accusations against him. It got the public wondering, and eventually he was confronted when spotted in Ossaco City in 2156. After being followed by several reporters, he eventually turned round and whispered three words, before disappearing in a cloud of mist.

I regret nothing.

— Pagos Menos, to the reporters

Type

Text, Magazine

Location

Razhea Capita

First Issue
28/1/2125
Based In
Razhea Capita

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