A newbie question

[Alneyan]

Any spellcaster is able to create a lab, and your Pretender might be able to do so even without any kind of magic path (that would be helpful to avoid the "losing your laboratory on turn 2 while you have no spellcaster available" symptom).

Gems (and magical items incidentally) are available in any laboratory of your Empire, and are "teleported" where they are needed.

To transfer magic gems, you have two solutions:
- Either go to the Laboraty of the correct province, then to Magic resources, and then to Transfert Gems to Commanders.
- Or more simply double click on the "personnal gems" part of your Commander's inventory. If you want to give them magical items, a double click on the rest of their inventory directly brings you to your magical item storage.

In both cases, your Commander needs to be in a province with a laboratory; you will only be able to transfer gems and magical items between commanders otherwise.