thank you Anubis---<br/><br/>I realized I missed asking you what your wand is made of<br/><br/>Wands range from 6-11" long made from a tree with a core of a magical creature of some sort (usually)<br/><br/><br/>Alder: Controlling the four winds, controlling and banishing elementals, battle.<br/>Almond: Fruitfulness, purity/chasteness, self-protection.<br/>Apple: Love, divination, fertility, health.<br/>Ash: Focus, strength of purpose, linking inner and outer worlds, control of tidal forces, healing, magical potency.<br/>Beech: Guidance, insight, ancient knowledge.<br/>Birch: Fertility, creativity, healing, lunar workings, protection.<br/>Blackthorn: Forcefulness, strong action of fate.<br/>Coconut: Protection from astral forces, fertility, nursing.<br/>Elder: Banishment, sheltering, magical artistry.<br/>Elm: Stability, grounding.<br/>Fig: Balance.<br/>Hawthorn: Purification, male potency, enforced chastity, cleansing.<br/>Hazel: Knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, inspiration.<br/>Holly: Holiness, consecration, material gain, revenge, sleep, easing the passage to death.<br/>Hornbeam: Endurance, renewal of the spirit.<br/>Larch: Ward off evil spirits, protection, inducing visions.<br/>Mahogany: Protection from lightning, strength.<br/>Maple: Abundance, success.<br/>Oak: Stamina, endurance, dominion, prosperity, lust, fertility, sacrifice, guardian, liberation.<br/>Palm: Durability, rejuvination, circle of life.<br/>Peach: Abundance, fruitfulness, happiness.<br/>Pine: Strength, life, longevity, relief from guilt.<br/>Rosewood: Romance, healing, calming.<br/>Rowan: Enhance psychic powers, divination, healing, protection from enchantment or beguilement.<br/>White Poplar: Hope, rebirth, divination, shielding, endurance, aiding astral travel, enhancing eloquence.<br/>Willow: Love, healing, fertility, lunar workings, inspiration, ebb and flow.<br/>Yew: Death, destruction, invoking visions, aiding psychic powers.<br/><br/><br/>Cores<br/><br/>Phoenix/firebird/feng huan/garuda feather: Mastery of fire, rebirth and renewal, the balance of life and death.<br/>Unicorn hairs: Beauty, purity, healing, life.<br/>Dragons heartstrings: Power, passion, ferocity.<br/>Veela hair: Balance between beautiful and beastial, seduction, self-protection.<br/>Kneazle hairs: Truth, loyalty, comfort.<br/>Thestral hairs: Perceptiveness, intuition, guidance, mortality.<br/>Hippogriff feathers: Pride, protection, ferocity.<br/>Griffon feather: freedom, loyalty, fierce determination.<br/>Basilisk skin: Stealth, longevity, renewal, vengeance.<br/>Leprechaun hair: Glamour, trickery, cunning.<br/>Thunderbird feather: Power, strength, unconquerable spirit.<br/>Chimera hair: Illusion and intrigue, surrealism, multifaceted or "two-faced."<br/>Manticore spine - Anger, spitefulness, defensiveness.<br/>Barghest/Grim/Black Shuck fur - Dark omens, disquieting, flirting with mortality, gothishness.<br/>Roc/Simurgh feather - Strength, a soaring spirit.<br/>Gargoyle scales - Protection, warding away danger, stony of countenance.<br/>Werewolf fur - Protean nature, fast-tempered, ties to the moon.<br/>Ki-rin hair - Holiness, prosperity, pristine.<br/>Hippocamus mane hair - Ties to water, flowing, swiftness.<br/>Hydra scales - Having many faces, quick to recover, hard to conquer.<br/>Jackalope fur - Mercurial, quick-witted, not-quite-serious nature