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It is possible for players and GMs to create non-standard spells and miracles (see Player Created Spells/Miracles for details). The following castings have been created and the player has requested that they be made publicly visible (primarily as ones that may come up mid-combat).
If you have a character that wants to learn them, however, you will need to do the research to find out who to ask in-character – they are not automatically available as per the standard lists. Some castings have been made availible to members of certain guilds. Where relevant this is mentioned.
| Fire | Water | Earth | General |
| Cauterise <n> | Communicate <n> | Gravity | Mana Burn <n> |
| Condense | Reinforce | ||
| Purge Mind (T/R) | Wall of Earth |
| Order | Chaos | Life | Death |
| Reattach | Repel Golem | Incubate | Entrap the Soul |
| Destroy Ray <n> | Triage |
School: Fire
Level: 0
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: —
Effect:
Seals up bleeding Body, Head or Limb wounds without healing them (i.e. no longer bleeds). Does not work on bleeding from negative Life. On sealing the wound x ‘Fire’ Power Damage is caused to the affected part of the body (where x is the amount of the bleeding in minutes, or seconds for Throatslit). Appropriate power armour can help prevent this damage.
Guild availability: Tower of Fire
School: Fire
Level: 1
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: —
Effect:
Seals up all bleeding wounds without healing them (i.e. no longer bleeds). This includes bleeding from negative Life. On sealing the wounds an internal Combust x is caused (where x is the sum of all of the bleeding from wounds and life in minutes, or seconds for Throatslit) as elemental Fire sweeps through the target’s body. As this is internal, power armour does not help to prevent the damage, but Toughness (both natural and magical/miraculous) and Endurance are still effective.
Guild availability: Tower of Fire
School: Fire
Level: 2
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: Not Stackable
Effect:
Reduces the level of any Poisons/Diseases suffered by the target by 1 at the cost of an internal Combust N, where N is the sum of the levels of Poison/Disease on the target. As this is internal, power armour does not help to prevent the damage, but Toughness (both natural and magical/miraculous) and Endurance are still effective. The effect caused by the Poison/Disease will be reduced accordingly, and if the level is reduced below 0 then the Poison/Disease is cured.
Cauterising a target’s diseases or poisons takes 5 minutes, during which the caster must maintain contact and Concentrate. If Concentration is broken the spell fails, but the target still takes the damage as fire runs out of control through their body.
Guild availability: Tower of Fire
School: Water
Level: <n>
Range: Various
Duration: 15 minutes (target), Instantaneous (self)
Type: Mental, Not Stackable
Effect:
First the caster must prepare the recipient by casting a Communicate 0 on them. This creates a connection between the two. This connection will last for 15 minutes, but higher levels of Communicate can be used to extend the duration in the normal way (as can Extension & Extend). The caster can only have one such connection and preparing a new recipient removes the connection to the old one. Also, a person can only be the recipient of one Communicate at a time. The caster is unaware if the recipients connection has been lost (e.g. duration expired or dispelled). Recipients are personal to the caster and cannot be communicated with by others.
To send a message to the recipient, the caster casts another Communicate 0 on themselves. Communicate 0 allows the caster to send a phrase (up to 10 words) to the predesignated recipient up to 20’ away. For every additional level, the caster can choose one of the following:
Casting Communicate when the recipient is out of range or the recipients connection has been lost causes the message to bounce back. The caster is aware that the message is not received.
Communicate has the following properties:
Guild Availibility: Tower of Water to Level 3
School: Water
Level: 0
Range: 20’
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: —
Effect:
Condenses one pint of water from the air (enough to quench a small campfire).
Guild Availibility: Tower of Water
School: Water
Level: 3/4
Range: Touch/Range
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: Offensive, Mental
Effect:
As Clear Mind.
To learn this spell, the character must know Clear Mind (T/R).
Guild Availibility: Tower of Water to (R)
School: Earth
Level: 2
Range: 20’
Duration: 15 minutes
Type: Offensive
Effect:
Targeted weapon or shield is pulled to the floor for 15 minutes. If the character has Strength at least equal to the strength of the spell (i.e. Strength for Gravity, Double Strength for Double Gravity, etc.) he can prevent it falling to the floor/remove it from the floor by resisting/pulling for 5 seconds. In both cases the effect is then cancelled.
School: Earth
Level: <n - 1>
Range: Touch
Duration: 15 minutes
Type: —
Effect:
Can be cast on any shield or armour, reinforcing the sturdiness of the object.
Armour
When cast on a piece of armour, Reinforce increases its Normal Protection by <n>. However, the total protection provided from the armour and this spell cannot exceed double the base Normal Armour (e.g. a piece of Plate, base 6, can have up to Reinforce 6 cast on it). Note that higher levels of Reinforce can still be cast on the armour, which makes the effect harder to dispel, but the spell’s effect is limited.
Higher levels of Reinforce can be cast over multiple locations by reducing its overall effectiveness. For each extra location, the amount of reinforcing is reduced by 1. When cast in this manner the spell obeys the following rules:
Permanently Reinforced items cannot be created in this manner.
Example: Caled wears a suit of Studded Thick Leather armour, base 3, which covers his body and both arms. With Reinforce 4 he has the following options:
1. Cast the spell on one location, adding 3 points of Armour (the maximum for Studded Thick Leather). At least a Dispel Magic 4 will be required to remove the spell.
2. Cast the spell on two locations, adding 3 points of Armour to both. At least a Dispel Magic 3 will be required to remove the spell.
3. Cast the spell on three locations, adding 2 points of Armour to all. At least a Dispel Magic 2 will be required to remove the spell.
4. Cast the spell with a single Extend 4 for 1 hour on two locations, adding 3 points of armour to both. At least a Dispel Magic 3 will be required to remove the spell.
5. Cast the spell as a Reinforce 3 for 1 hour on two locations, adding 2 points of armour to both. At least a Dispel Magic 2 will be required to remove the spell.
You can have layers of Reinforce stacked (e.g studded leather with a Reinforce on and then plate on top with a Reinforce on).
Shield
When cast on a shield, Reinforce increases its Breakage Value by <n> x 3 (Reinforce 0 only protects the shield from destructive spells/spells). However, the total Breakage Value provided from the shield and this spell cannot exceed double the base Breakage Value (e.g. a superior shield, base 15, can have up to Reinforce 5 cast on it).
School: Earth
Level: 1 for Wall of Earth 1
Range: Touch
Duration: 15 minutes
Type: —
Effect:
This spell allows the caster to create an immovable, solid wall of earth up to 10’ long & 6’ high. This wall cannot be seen or struck through, although it can be gone round (or animal leapt over). Also, a creature (or equivalent numbers) with at least Strength for Wall of Earth 1, Double Strength for Wall of Earth 2 etc. can demolish it in 10 seconds. A creature (or equivalent numbers) with Quadruple Strength for Wall of Earth 1, Quintuple Strength for Wall of Earth 2 etc. can destroy it instantly.
In order to cast this spell, the player needs a 10’ long piece of brightly coloured cord or ribbon as a Phys Rep. When casting the spell, this is used to determine the extent of the wall.
School: General
Level: <n>
Range: Touch
Duration: 15 mins
Type: Protective (Weapon)
Target: Weapon
Effect:
Mana Burn can be cast on any weapon and adds the effect of Mana Lace <n> for 15 minutes.
Mana 0 causes no additional damage, but does protect the weapon from being melted, warped or otherwise destroyed by magical means.
The call upon a successful hit is “Mana Lace <n>”.
Path: Order
Level: 5 for Reattach 1, 7 for Reattach 2
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: —
Effect:
Allows you to reattach a severed location or repair a crushed location within 15 minutes of the injury being obtained.
If reattaching a severed location, it must be the exact same location that was originally severed and must have sustained no further damage.
Note that this miracle only allows the severed/crushed location to be repaired, it does not do any wounds healing (the location will be on -10 wounds).
Reattach 1 can be used for severed/crushed limbs (legs & arm).
Reattach 2 can be used for severed/crushed body.
Availibility: Characters in the Van Heusen Barony
Path: Chaos
Level: 2
Range: Self
Duration: Instantaneous
Type: Offensive
Effect:
All construct type creatures are thrown back from the caster to a distance of 10’ (those beyond 10’ are not affected).
It requires at least Triple Strength to resist the effect of this miracle.
Path: Chaos
Level: 4 for Destroy Ray 1
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Offensive
Target: Area
Effect:
Destroy Ray lasts for one minute, or until the caster decides to stop it. The caster must stand upright and hold his arms in an arc. The caster nominates a type of item when they cast the miracle. One item of the specified type on all characters with less than <n> usable Dexterity within 20 feet of the caster inside the arc is targeted by a Destroy. The Destroy targets items currently being used first, but continues to other items of the specified type until it takes effect. If a type of Armour is specified, each location is treated as a separate item and the Destroy progresses from the strongest to the weakest.
The Ray is only in effect within the arc of the casters arms. The size of the arc can be chosen by the caster (up to 180 degrees) but cannot be varied once cast. The Ray ends when the duration expires or the caster closes his arms (in which case it cannot be restarted without re-casting the miracle).
The caster can move at a slow walk and turn with a Ray in effect.
Guild Availibility: None
Path: Life
Level: 6
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Type: -
Target: Person
Pre-requisites: Revive (T)
Effect:
Incubate puts a willing target into a deep and restful sleep, accelerating the natural healing process. As long as target remains asleep for 15 uninterrupted minutes they are restored to full life, and to full wounds on any present unbroken locations. If this process is interrupted the miracle fails and the standing is lost. Beneficial castings (Earth Merge, Withdraw, Cure Disease etc.) do not interrupt this process.
Guild Availability: Temple of Life
Path: Life
Level: 0, 2, 4
Range: Self
Duration: 15 Minutes
Type: Informational
Target: Area
Pre-requisites: Discern Wounds
Effect:
Triage is a miracle designed to ascertain who need medical attention most, so that Healers can make better medical decisions.
For Triage 1:
For Triage 2:
Example: During the combat Dara sees Master Harlock take a Drain Life effect from one of the enemy priests. She calls “Harlock, Miraculous Quick Discern Wounds” to which he responds “Ping, Life and Right Leg”.
For Triage 3:
Guild Availability: Temple of Life to Triage 2
Path: Death
Level: 0 for Entrap the Soul 1
Range: Touch
Duration: 15 Minutes
Type: -
Target: Dead Body
Effect:
Entrap the Soul has two effects. Firstly, it pauses the 1 hour timer within which a dead body can be brought back to life with Ressurection, Raise Dead and Rebirth, as well as the time they have been dead for the purposes of how long these miracles take to cast.
Secondly, if a dead body is targeted by the Animate Dead spell or Summon Undead Servant miracle the original soul is not driven off to the Plane of Tortured Souls as long as the Entrap the Soul miracle is active. This does not prevent them from being raised as undead but they can still be resurrected if the resulting undead is destroyed.
Guild Availibility: Temple of Balance