MoL&D describes the Comet Seers who are a school in the CoM. They are 57 strong plus servants and guards.
I would expect other schools to have roughly similar numbers but organised differently due to their respective traditions.
>If we take the figure of 25 then a unit of magicians would have fourty
>men. These are just the actual magicians, of course. They'll need their
>assistants and their bodyguards.
>
>Does somebody have "offiscial" numbers for this? I'd also like to know
>what sorts of troops the body-guards are and how quickly do the magicians
>move when they have to. Are any of the magicians mounted (I don't mean
>they would cast their spells from horseback, but that would mean they can
>relocate quickly when they have to).
Magical units are elite units so I expect they'll be equipped with anything they might find useful. Certainly riding animals unless they have another fast mode of transport - I'm sure there's a school of Darjiin magicans who operate from moonboats.
Bodyguards will be well equipped soldiers of a type related to the tradition of the magicans. So the Comet Seers would have a bodyguard of Dara Happen style armoured cavalry.
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