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- **Training method:** Leon provides variable-timing heat pressure from off-angle during sustained thread exercises. Tests structural absorption vs. reactive compensation.
- **Significance:** The ring's original specification (Ch13) was 15–20ft range. Sustained channelling extends this to 25–30ft trained, 35–40ft theoretical maximum. The 3-month training arc moves the ring from a range multiplier to a sustained combat tool. Full technique documentation: `/world/magic/fire-magic.md`
## Equipment: Pre-Compact Thaumometer (Ledger's Wedding Gift)
- **Chapter:** Book 2 Epilogue
- **Provenance:** Pre-Compact, specific origin unknown. Delivered to Phelan as a wedding gift by Ledger at Chandler's Row Day 28 evening. Previously held by "a hand that had known exactly what it was holding" — grip worn smooth by years of use. Ledger's own channels (source not specified on-page).
- **Physical description:** Palm-sized, ornate. Casing chased with inlay work in a script Phelan does not recognise. Focal stone set behind a convex lens the size of a thumbnail. Graduated ring around the bezel etched in half-mark divisions finer than anything the Compact licenses to non-institutional use.
- **Function:** Detects ambient magical workings within range. Projects a visible overlay map of every working inside range, displayed "in the air over the lens for anyone holding it and paying attention." Walking map of magical activity at city-block scale.
- **Effective range:** **50+ yards.** "Maybe farther." Per Phelan's noise parenthetical, "farther than I could read on my own by a long measure" — contrasts explicitly with Phelan's close-range native Flaw Sight.
- **Tactical significance:** Resolves the fundamental limitation of Phelan's Flaw Sight — namely that his native perception is close-range (arm's length to a few feet). The thaumometer extends detection to city-block scale and hands Phelan advance warning capability he did not previously have. "A tool that would let me read rooms I had not yet been told to walk into." In Phelan's coat pocket going into Book 3.
- **Underlying architecture (via Phelan's Flaw Sight cold-read):** Pre-Compact engineering — deeper anchoring than Compact-licensed hardware, irregular node spacing, "engineering that had been beautiful before the Compact had standardised beautiful out of the craft." Kin to the bracelet and the Mallory crystal in era and craft philosophy.
- **Rarity:** Phelan has seen two thaumometers in his life before this one. This is his first owned thaumometer.
- **Notes:** Symbolic handoff. Ledger's gift line: *"From the guild. And from me, because the distinction matters tonight."* Object is personal goodwill from Ledger plus institutional recognition from the guild — the distinction Ledger is deliberately drawing. Part of Ledger's ongoing private investment in Phelan as a capability asset (see `world/story-summary-book2.md` Ch20 Phelan Flaw Sight disclosure notes).
## Equipment: Focusing Ring (Carter's Custom Build)
- **Chapter:** Ch13
- **Builder:** Jonael Carterson ("Carter")