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All sorts of spirits can be used to either give the wizard some servants/spies, gather mebhaighl for realm spells, help build a ley-line etc.

By making the wizard have a...

If you have the source represented by local fae, elementals, etc so that the contest is a matter of winning the favour of the locals (much as a temple contest could be about persuading a temple to...