the battle logs of the formation mage

My name is Antonio sevenstars, a captain of the black mountain guards. My duty is the protection of the scholars as they learn the magical secrets of our ancestors. The continent is a vast and ancient land, with as many paths to power as the stars in the sky, with so many paths forgotten or fragmented. Most have become secrets that are trapped in the rock of ruins, the rotten pages of books or the memory of the old. The black mountain has an hegemony on these secrets due to the scholars and we are the shield that guard the scholars. This is a logbook with the details of a mission that I am undertaking to the very north of the continent, in the lands of the snowwind empire, an up and coming imperial empire.