Ideas

Words of Power

 * Maybe for everyone, maybe for Lord Glanvill only. The Seven Words of Power, known only to the Spellsmith. They utter words in a language, that is painful to hear.
 * Wardens are branded with a Word of Power such as: Obey, Reveal, Confess, Open, Grow, Crush (Shatter).
 * The Empress will learn the Seven Words of Power, and conquer the world.
 * Reflect: Word of Power for a Warden (Shattered Mirror sigil)
 * Glyphics

The Cloudmaker

 * Can either be an artifact.
 * Can be a person, a legend (Kalen, as named by the Niskaran).
 * A race, the hypokirin, according to local legends.

Regala

 * The Regala is a Carneval, a Masqurade.
 * Based on the Vampire: The Masqurade Tremere traditions.

Bleeding Forest

 * The tree bleeds liquid, weeping willow.

Story
When Sicarion destroys the Skyforge, the empire looses its main source of power, and the only remnant of this technology is the aezin marks on kalens hands. It is up to him to solve this problem, and to come up with a solution that would sustain an empire with energy. He learns about the ritual that creates falling silver (aezin) from the clouds, from a book. His flaw is that he does not believe in all this, he a reluctant hero, but he also wishes to help whoever he can. So he is faithless, but has all the drive to help. The problem is that only Evanor can control the weather, Kalen can only open the gateway to the welkin. He slowly starts to believe in all this magical stuff, and realises their importance, leading up to Beleriach's madness and the kidnapping of Evanor.