"And here I thought the plot was going to call for me somehow matching Cheliax despite their purportedly vastly greater number of wizards."
"My -"
"Carissa Sevar developed a method of speeding the production of +2 and +4 headbands, like an Armillary Amulet except 2-3 times as effective, made up of individual pieces speeding up individual stages of the process so that a dozen different wizards can work on them in parallel while trading the speed boosters amongst each other. Now that she's developed those, presumably other wizards can make them too, though they'd need higher Spellcraft than the third-circle wizards she was boosting. It roughly quadruples their working speed, as of the prototypes. Carissa was fourth-circle but has Spellcraft at about seventh-circle or so, she can use spellsilver from seven feet away if that means anything to people who aren't me."
"Ismat, what's your method? And is Carissa's boosting technology likely to apply to it, or do we just have to take a different route and scale it to hugely more people?"