Ah, I think I get it now.. so instead of slow, you'd lump speed + void and haste would be speed + expansion... something along those lines.
Haste is speed and slow is separate. Glyph of Gravity is already mentioned and exists.
Here's some info about the wizard orders if forgot to include:
The highest-ordered glyphs are L7 glyphs, and quite conveniently wizards order themselves in 7 orders, the seventh being, naturally, the highest (at least where you're from). Each order studies glyphs up to their own level. And so, a powerful but relatively low-ranking wizard's first priority would probably be to get himself placed on a higher order. There are 7 wizards of the 7th order, 70 of the 6th order, 700 of the 5th, 7000 of the 4th, and the
same amount for the 3rd, 2nd and 1st (meaning there are 35777 wizards in all the 7 orders). There are 7 chapters, each with the aforementioned 7 orders within them (so 250439 wizards in total, excluding rogue wizards, unordered wizards, expelled wizards and non-glyph based wizards, the last of which don't exist in your home reality/plane). It is similar in this way and others to the hierarchy of the Discworld wizards.
To advance an order, one has to proceed up the ladder full of other order members. Whenever free spots opens up in an order, the highest ranking wizard on the order below is brought up, then the next, and so forth. This will naturally open up more spots in the order those wizards came from, so wizards from the order next in ranking are brought up and etc.
Ranking within an order is initially determined by seniority (if, say, your friend graduates from apprenticeship just before you did, he'll start out as a higher-ranked first order wizard because he came first), then can be raised by things such as grades in theory, tournaments, practice performances, duels with other members, success in extracurricular activities, favours done for the Chapter and Order (each order is led by the highest ranking wizard, so it pays off to work up even though you don't get elevated), leadership ability, recommendations, talent, bribes (unofficial; it's all very hush-hush), recovery of artifacts, magical research, invention, innovation withing the field and so forth. You can also have your rank lowered, if your work isn't up to par or your behaviour is bad. You can even be demoted an entire Order down in ranking, at which point you are forbidden from using any higher-ordered glyphs until you advance again.
However, these things will only elevate you when there are not free spots (it's like a leaderboard; if your score is high enough, you will be pushed up and others will be pushed down). If a place suddenly happens to open up, say, immediately above you, you will be raised no questions asked (justice is separate, and it usually goes "advance first, reprimand later"). Because of this, there's a lot of politics involved, and assassination is frequently the preferred method of advancement for many students and wizards, especially as you go higher up, where it becomes harder to "prove your worth" and your superiors suddenly become your colleagues.
In the 7th order it becomes a little different however, as they have no superiors to turn to for advancement. It's generally a stalemate among the 7 wizards, and politics move slowly there (as wizards that high up are usually good at surviving, and assassination becomes harder). They are, unfortunately, generally seen as petty, squabbling crusty old farts (or at least until the old farts release hellish armageddon and
LAZORS OF DOOOOOOM upon them).
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