Spellmoot

A spellmoot is a private gathering of wizards and other arcane magic users for the purposes of demonstrating magical powers and general enjoyment. It is fundamentally identical in nature to a Magefair, but traditionally spellmoots were smaller in scale and held more frequently - on an annual basis, as opposed to the traditional magefair being held but once a decade. Due to their describing the same basic function of a wizardly gathering, the distinction between the two has largely faded and instead the terms are used interchangeably.

Halaster Blackcloak is accredited with founding the tradition of both spellmoots and magefairs. This is contradicted by Alphraxis of Deneir, an author who wrote on the history and nature of Skullport and whose tome proclaims that the practice of attending annual spellmoots was enjoyed by the Netherese wizards who founded the original outpost that would later grow into Skullport in the eighth century before Dalereckoning, more than 400 years before the fall of the empire of Netheril.