Conduction Rooms

Research rooms at Glassmere studying whether spirit presence can serve as conduit or catalyst in arcane work — initiating effects, stabilising transformations or permitting workings ordinary apparatus cannot sustain.

Rooms at Glassmere where a spirit influence can be tested as conduit or catalyst without granting it local standing; the ordinary destination of Retrieval Office parties. Cambridge rooms at Glassmere to which sealed material traces from Sarrum's deep workings are sent for comparison.

Ties

• linked to the Collegium's Retrieval Office
• receives the Retrieval Office's recoveries
• receives consignments via Ash House and the Retrieval Office

At the table

Cambridge insists this is not pact worship; Oxford sees it as preserving an enemy because it is useful. Sealed material is sent back to Glassmere when judged safe. Oxford calls them an argument for learning how to use an enemy rather than finishing the war.