NERO INTERNATIONAL

FORMAL CANTRIPS PACKAGE

Ver 4.1

Written by Matthew Sims

Reviewed and Supplemented by AJ Loiacano, John Healy, and Juan Mojica

Reviewed and Supplemented by the NERO International Rules Committee

Summary of Changes From Version 3.25 to Version 4.1

  1) The following Cantrips were removed

• Exchange Formal Cantrip

• Incision

• Protected State

• Deadly Blade

• Reduction

• Spell Wall

• Wall of Elements

                  For in game purposes these cantrips had existed and the power of them has waned and no longer functions.

                When the cantrip system is brought into the mainstream rules of NERO the cantrip Enchant Cantrip Tome will be replaced with a full Formal Magic with the same general effect.

  2) The following Cantrips are removed in any chapter following the Base 5 play test for spells.

• Eldritch Bless

• Eldritch Shield

                 If the Base 5 play test is not being followed these Cantrips may remain.  The ultimate decision as to whether or not these Cantrips will stay in the system will be based on whether the Base 5 play test is accepted into core rules.

  3) Costs for many of the Cantrips have changed to either 0 components or 1 component, several of the Cantrips including all the Broad Cantrips remain at a cost of 2 components.

 4) The duration of Mark and Spirit Mark was changed to 2 years

 5) The Cantrip Contingency has been moved to both earth and celestial

Please note the following often misplayed parts of the Cantrip System

1. Contingency REQUIRES the contingent spell to be cast at the same time as the cantrip by the caster of the cantrip.  That spell may only be used for the contingency at that point.

2. You may only have one Armored to Magic at any time and only to one category of spell

3. You may only have one Eldritch Bless at one time or one Eldritch Shield

4. Tyrra’s Claw and Etherial Blade swing for Normal and have a duration of 1 hour

5. You may not throw the elemental healing packets of Healer’s Pool

6.  Carrier Immunity is invoked against a specific opponent and a specific type of carrier attack.  It does not protect from all opponents swinging that carrier attack.  In addition if protected by carrier immunity you still take the damage of the blow, just not the effect of the carrier

                 Cantrips are an attempt to give everyday use to the expensive skill of Formal Magic.  In addition they give something more to scholars who at this time often feel overshadowed by fighters and magic items.  The design of cantrips were to give limited increases in power to ritual casters in ways that would not seriously affect the balance of the game or the plot of the game in a continual manner.

                Cantrip magic is a playtest.  Re-spending of build will not be allowed if cantrip magic does not remain after playtest and a player took the skill formal magic simply to get cantrip magic.  NERO International reserves the right to eliminate or modify the playtest of cantrips at any time.

                All associated tags, items, and effects generated by or for Formal Cantrips are considered Restricted to chapters engaging in the formal cantrips playtest for purposes of inter-chapter transfer.

 The Rules of Casting Cantrips:

                 For a player to cast a cantrip they must have the skill formal magic earth or formal magic celestial.  A player may cast one cantrip of their school of magic per day for each level of formal magic they possess.

                In order to cast a cantrip the player must be carrying a cantrip tome which contains the cantrip they wish to cast.  Cantrip tomes are in game objects that must be acquired in game.  The phys rep for a cantrip tome must be at least 6" x 4".  The tome is governed by the rules defined in the Enchant Cantrip Tome Formal Magic.

                In addition to cantrip tomes, there are also cantrip pages.  Cantrip pages function like cantrip tomes but are of one use only and will only contain a single cantrip.  A cantrip page must follow the rules for size as if it were a scroll and must be read and a packet touched to it in order to cast from it.

                To cast a cantrip the player must incant the proper incant for the cantrip and physically break or tear the number of level one components designated for that particular cantrip (0, 1, or 2) to gain the power for the cantrip.  Breaking or tearing a single level two component will power a cantrip which takes 2 components or two cantrips which take 1 component cast one immediately after another.  Breaking or tearing a level four component will power two cantrips which take 2 components or four cantrips which take 1 component cast one immediately after the other.  The components must be broken or torn within 10 seconds of finishing the incant.  The components used for a cantrip may only be unrestricted NERO components or local to the chapter being cast in, and may not be SR-1, the components must be identifiable by the chapter which they are used in at the time of the casting (Please note a chapter may further restrict the components which may be used for casting of cantrips to chapter issued components only).  Components are to be turned into a marshal after the casting of it, the components will be checked.  If incorrect components are frequently used, the ability to use cantrips may be removed from the PC by the local disciplinary committee.  Cantrips are cast on the fly for any cantrip in the carried tome(s).  Cantrips do not require a circle of power to cast.   Cantrips are never thrown at an opponent in the manner of battle magic, but they may allow the caster to throw a packet or series of packets with a defined effect (i.e. 10 elemental flame).  If a caster takes body damage at any point between the beginning of the incant and the snapping of the sticks, the cantrip fails and the components are still consumed.  No other skill or item may be used from the point when the incant is started till the point when the components are snapped or torn or the cantrip will fail and the components are still consumed.

                When using a tag based logistics system, a cantrip tag for each level of formal magic the PC has will be issued for each day of play.  One tag must be ripped and turned over to a marshal when a cantrip is used, or filled out with the cantrip information and witnessed by a marshal when the duration is greater than one hour, for Field Resurrection or for Lore.

                A cantrip may never be extended in any manner or placed into an item in the manner of an enchantment, expanded enchantment, etc.  A cantrip or the effect of a cantrip may never be spellstored.

                The statement “dies and requires a life spell” refers to any time the character is dead whether they receive a life spell or not, resurrect, regenerate, revives through a manner other than a life spell, or is not affected by life. 

 There are five types of cantrip:

1. Personal - These cantrips cause an effect upon the caster of the cantrip.  They may not be placed on another nor may they be transferred.  For the effect of a personal cantrip to remain the PC must retain the skill Formal Magic <school>.  If they lose the skill in any manner the cantrip will cease functioning (if they still possess the skill but may not use it i.e. are tainted or drained they do not lose any cantrips upon them).  In addition they must retain the cantrip tome with the cantrip they placed upon themselves.  To lose possession of the tome even to allow another to cast a cantrip from the tome will negate any current personal cantrips.

2. Item - These cantrips are cast on an item with no spirit only.

3. Spirit - These cantrips are cast on a recipient with a spirit only.  They may not be thrown but must be touch cast in a NERO legal manner by being touched with a packet.  The touch casting of such a cantrip on an immobilized person may not be refused.

4. Broad - These cantrips affect a broad category in the estate/military system of NERO and are usually never used in play during an event.  On occasion plot may define specific uses of these cantrips during actual play such as weakening a building under siege with Weaken Defense but they may NEVER directly affect PCs or NPCs in play.

5. Offensive - These cantrips give the caster the ability to directly attack opponents and thus their effect would be stopped by the appropriate normal spell defenses.

  Cantrips may have the following durations:

1. Hour - One Hour

2. Day - One Day, until the next tag reset or game end.

3. Instant - Immediate and not lasting, the effect on another may last.

4. Year - Until removed by in game methods or 1 year passes.

5. Concentration - The caster must maintain concentration to keep this cantrip going

6. Invoked - When an invoked cantrip is cast the caster will receive 1 charge per 3 levels of the appropriate school of formal magic.  Using the effect uses one charge.  An effect can be used against one opponent only and for a maximum of 5 minutes or line of sight.  All unused charges expire at the next tag reset.  Multiple charges may be used against multiple opponents at the same time.  The caster must state “I Invoke <cantrip name> against you” to the opponent it is being used against such that the opponent can hear it.  This is an in game statement  and the caster may not do it if silenced.

7. 2 Year - Until removed by in game methods or 2 years passes.

                 Unless otherwise indicated, the effect of any cantrip with the duration of Day is lost if the target requires a life spell.

 Cantrip Verbals:  

Current Cantrips

Shared between both schools of magic:

  ARMORED TO MAGIC - Indessa’s Dweomer Barrier

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Both
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: I grant myself armor to <spelltype>

 Effect: The caster gains a dumb magic shield which may go under their normal protectives and will protect them from the first spell of a given type which hits them.  A shield magic or reflect magic will come into play before an Armored to Magic does.  The types are based upon the casters school and are as follows:

    Earth: Gift, Curse, Mystic Force, Chaos, Earth, Command, and Summoned Force.

    Celestial: I Call Forth, Mystic Force, Imprison, Command, and Summoned Force.

    The Armored to Magic will be triggered by any spell (incanted, spellstrike, or magic; but NOT arcane, physical, or elemental) which has the above word in its incant.

    Only one Armored to Magic may be in effect at a given time.  Armored to Magic is lost if caster dies and requires a life spell.  A new casting of Armored to Magic will replace an old casting of it.

 OOG Note: The caster must call <Type> Shield when the effect is triggered

CARRIER IMMUNITY - Karvecki's Protection From Dweomered Claws

Type: Personal
Duration: Invoked
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself carrier immunity to <effect>

 Effect: The formal caster who uses a carrier immunity may declare one carrier type from which they may invoke a limited immunity where they choose to not take any extra effect other than damage.  The type of carrier attack is chosen at the time of the casting of this cantrip and may not be changed except by the casting of a second carrier immunity which removes the first. For example a formal caster who runs into a pack of Yellowjackets swinging paralyze and has cast Carrier Immunity <Paralysis> may choose to become immune to the carrier attack paralyze of a particular yellowjacket attacking him.  To become immune to a second yellowjacket attacking him he would have to invoke a second use from the casting.  If the caster suddenly comes face to face with a creature swinging wither they would have to cast a brand new carrier immunity to wither before they could use the immunity and they would lose all remaining charges of the carrier immunity to paralysis.  The following are not considered carrier attacks for the purpose of this cantrip: Magic, Silver, Flame, Ice, Lightning, Stone, and Normal.  Only one Carrier Immunity may be in effect at a given time.  Carrier Immunity is lost if caster dies and requires a life spell.  A second casting of Carrier Immunity will replace an old casting of it.

 OOG Note: The caster must call “I Invoke Carrier Immunity <carrier type> against you” to the opponent to activate it and then call no effect <carrier type> when struck.

CHANNELING - Erol's Mnemonic Spellstrike

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Both
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I grant myself the ability of channeling

 Effect: Allows two spells from the memory of the formal caster to be delivered as a spellstrike.  The spells must be of a level less than or equal to the number of levels the caster has of the appropriate school of formal magic and must be of the same school as the channeling cantrip which was cast.  Thus a caster with nine levels of formal magic earth could spellstrike any earth spell by casting channeling.  A caster with seven levels of formal magic earth could spellstrike any seventh level or lower earth spell by casting channeling.  Neither of these casters can use an earth channeling cantrip to spellstrike a celestial spell.  The caster chooses when to use these spellstrikes.  Only one Channeling may be in effect at a given time.  Channeling is lost if caster dies and requires a life spell.

   OOG Note: The caster must say the full incant of the spell being channeled and then strike the target with their weapon while calling spellstrike <Name of spell just incanted> <Option for spell just incanted>. 

CONTINGENCY - Karvecki's Grant of Hope

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Both
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I grant myself a <spellname> spell contingent upon my <trigger state>

 Effect: One spell from the memory of the caster is used and placed in a state in which it will take effect on the caster if a certain condition is met.  The conditions for earth magic are Charmed, Cursed, Death, Magically Bound (Pin, Bind, Web, Confine), Paralyzed, Poisoned, Silenced, Sleeping, or Unconsciousness.  The conditions for celestial magic are Charmed, Imprisoned, Magically Bound (Pin, Bind, Web, Confine), Silenced, Sleeping, or Unconsciousness.  The contingent spell is triggered as soon as the caster enters the triggering state and may neither be stopped by anything nor may the caster choose not to invoke the contingency.  A new casting of contingency will replace an old casting of it.  Contingency is lost if the caster resurrects.  The contingent spell will still trigger a shield magic, the caster may chose to accept the spell if he is in a state capable of accepting a spell.

 OOG Note: The caster must call Contingency <spell> when the spell is triggered.

COPY FORMAL CANTRIP - Pasadelin's Cantrip Duplication

Type: Item
Duration: Year
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I scribe this cantrip into my tome

 Effect: This cantrip will copy any cantrip of the same school from one Cantrip Tome to another Cantrip Tome which has free space.  Limitations on the use and copying of certain cantrips may be included in their text in a given tome.  The caster must touch both the book which is the source of the cantrip being copied and the book which is the destination.

ENCHANT CANTRIP TOME - Tamir's Enchanted Tome

Type: Item
Duration: Year
School: Both
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I enchant this book as an <school> cantrip tome

 Effect: This cantrip causes a book with minimum dimensions of 6" by 4" to become usable as a Cantrip Tome.  A Cantrip Tome can hold up to 10 cantrips of its school.  The book used must have a value of at least 10 gold.  A Cantrip Tome may not have any other formal magic cast upon it or it will cease functioning.  The caster must touch the tome being enchanted.  The tome enchanted is still a shatterable object and is vulnerable to any force which may destroy a normal book.

IMBUE - Yolathurn’s Transfer of Spell Ability

Type: Spirit
Duration: Day
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I enchant you with a <Spell Name> spell imbued from my knowledge

 Effect: This cantrip allows the caster to touch cast an additional spell from memory into the spirit of another.  The target of the spell then gets the ability to cast that spell as if from their own memory for the remainder of the day.  Once they cast the spell it is used from memory as normal.

OOG Note: The caster should give the recipient both a cantrip tag indicating the imbue and the spell tag for the spell that was imbued.

MARK - Madaline's Magical Imprint

Type: Item
Duration: 2 Year
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I scribe a mark upon this <item>

 Effect: The caster may place a Mark of up to 4" by 4" and any two colors upon a target item.  The caster decides what the Mark looks like.

 OOG Note: The Caster is responsible for initial placement of the Mark in a manner that does not destroy or damage personal property.  The possessor of the item is responsible thereafter for placement of the Mark.  The caster must touch the target during the incantation and breaking of the components.  This cantrip in no way confers indestructibility upon the marked item.

MAGIC DELIVERENCE - Erol's Innate Aura

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Both
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: I grant myself the ability of magic deliverance

 Effect: Allows one spell from the memory of the formal caster to be delivered as magic instead of by full incantation.  The spell must be of a level less than or equal to the number of levels the caster has of the appropriate school of formal magic and must be of the same school as the magic deliverance cantrip which was cast.  Thus a caster with nine levels of formal magic earth could cast as magic any earth spell by casting magic deliverance.  A caster with seven levels of formal magic earth could cast as magic any seventh level or lower earth spell by casting magic deliverance.  Neither of these casters can use an earth magic deliverance cantrip to cast a celestial spell as magic.  The caster chooses when to deliver this spell as magic.  Only one magic deliverance may be in effect at any given time.  As per the rules for delivering a spell as magic the caster must be able to speak but need not have use of their arms as “Magic” is an innate ability.  A magic deliverance is lost if the caster dies and requires a life spell.

   OOG Note: When used the caster must state Magic <spellname> <option for that spell>

RENDERING - Tamir's Temporary Indestructibility

Type: Item
Duration: Hour
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I enchant this <item> to be rendered invulnerable to harm

 Effect: Renders one object immune to the effects of the spells Shatter and Destroy and most physical harm including acid, flame, and explosive damage for a period of one hour.  The object may be no larger than 6 feet in its largest dimension.  Massive mechanical damage will still destroy and object under the effects of Rendering.  The caster must touch the item being rendered during the full incantation and the breaking of the components.

SPIRIT MARK - Madaline's Magical Spirit Imprint

Type: Spirit
Duration: 2 Year
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I scribe a spirit mark upon this being

 Effect: The caster may place a spirit mark of up to 4" by 4" and any two colors upon a target person with a spirit.  The caster decides what the spirit mark looks like and where it is.  The spirit mark will appear on any body the spirit, which has been marked, is within, it will appear in an equivalent place to where it was originally placed.  The spirit mark will always be on that body part containing the spirit if parts of the body are separated.  When the body is reformed through resurrection, the Spirit Mark will be upon the identical location it was on before resurrection. The caster must touch the target during the incantation and breaking of the components.

 OOG Note: The Caster is responsible for initial placement of the Spirit Mark with suitable makeup or prosthetics.  As with gypsy curse the player subject to the Spirit Mark may bargain for a different one with the caster placing the Spirit Mark if it is uncomfortable or personally offensive.

SPIRIT UNMARK - Madaline's Spirit Imprint Eraser

Type: Spirit
Duration: Instant
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I remove this spirit mark

 Effect: This will remove a spirit mark of the appropriate school from a spirit which has one. The caster must touch the target during the incantation and breaking of the components.

UNMARK - Madaline's Imprint Eraser

Type: Item
Duration: Instant
School: Both
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I remove this mark

 Effect: This will remove a Mark of the appropriate school from an item which has one. The caster must touch the target during the incantation and breaking of the components.

BANE OF THE DEAD/BOON OF THE DEAD  - Yolaturn’s Dead Strike/Yolathurn’s Dead Strength

Type: Offensive
Duration: Concentration
School: Earth
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: By the earth I bane the dead... Magic Harm Undead... Magic Harm Undead...
             /By chaos I boon the dead...  Magic Help Undead ... Magic Help Undead ...

 Effect: At the time of casting, the caster plants both feet.  As long as both feet remain planted and the cantrip is not disrupted as per normal spell rules, the caster may throw a packet after completing the incant “Magic Harm Undead” or “Magic Help Undead”. While the cantrip is in effect, the caster can perform no other skill nor cast any other spell or cantrip.  Each packet thrown acts as a separate spell equivalent to a Harm Undead or a Help Undead depending on the form of the cantrip cast.

ELDRITCH BLESS - Var’s Superior Protection

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Earth
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: I grant myself the power of an eldritch bless

 Effect: This cantrip gives the caster 10 extra body points.  These points are the first body points lost to damage.  As long as these body points last they will protect the caster so spells may be cast while taking damage.  If a Bless and/or Greater Bless are also present, they are lost before the Eldritch Bless.  If the caster dies and requires a life spell the Eldritch Bless is lost

FIELD RESURECTION/FIELD ABJURATION - Benevolence's Instantaneous Resurrection/Benevolence’s Spirit Banishment

Type: Spirit
Duration: Instant
School: Earth
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: By the earth I resurrect this spirit/By chaos I abjure this spirit

 Effect: Field resurrection allows a single spirit to be resurrected directly in front of the caster, without he need for a circle.  This occurs in the time it takes to cast this cantrip with the target if the cantrip resurrecting at only one body.  In all other ways this resurrection is identical to a normal resurrection.  A spirit may refuse to resurrect when called to a field resurrection, instead seeking to resurrect as normal.  If this happens the cantrip is wasted and may not be redirected to another spirit.  The caster must be aware that a spirit has just left to resurrect in the area, they gain no special sense for spirits.  A spirit seeking resurrection will feel the call of a field resurrection as if it were an earth circle.

   Field abjuration will prevent a spirit in need of resurrection from being able to be resurrected using the field resurrection cantrip but will in no other way affect the resurrection of a spirit.

   The caster must be within 10’ of the spirit to be field resurrected or field abjured at the time of casting of this cantrip.

 OOG Note: To use this cantrip a caster must carry life stones with them and have the bag and draw witnessed by a marshal for later reporting.  A hold may not be called for this.  Any field resurrection must be reported to those responsible for tracking resurrection as soon as possible following the casting of the cantrip.  The marshal is required to inform the target of the cantrip that they do not have to resurrect and if they do they return immediately at one body.

FORCED MARCH/EXHAUSTION - Olvenca’s Light Feet/Olvenca’s Damning Fatigue

Type: Broad
Duration: Day
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the earth I sustain these men/By chaos I exhaust these men

 Effect: Forced march allows 5 men per level of earth formal magic of the caster to travel at full normal pace for a day.  The magic of the cantrip will sustain their pace.  A man cannot be affected by more than one forced march in a 24-hour period.  The caster must touch each target of the forced march immediately following the snapping of the components.  No other action may be taken or skill be used other than to designate the targets by touch.

   Exhaustion will cause 5 men per level of earth formal magic of the caster to be exhausted and only travel at half-normal pace for the next day.  The targets of exhaustion must be within 10’ of the caster per level of earth formal magic possessed by the caster when this cantrip is cast. A man cannot be affected by more than one exhaustion in a 24-hour period.

HEALER'S GRACE - Johovan’s Grace

Type: Personal
Duration: Invoked
School: Earth
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself healer’s grace

 Effect: The caster of this cantrip gains the carrier attack healing against one opponent when invoked.  Any undead hit with the carrier attack healing takes double damage.  As with all carrier attacks this may not heal anyone.  This works on melee but not ranged attacks.  If the caster dies and requires a life spell the healer’s grace is lost.

HEALING POOL/DEFILING POOL - Yolathurn’s Pool of Purity/Yolathurn’s Putrid Pool

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Earth
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: By the earth I create a healing pool/ By chaos I create a defiling pool

Effect: Healing pool allows the caster to create, for themselves, a pool of elemental healing of 50 points  plus 10 points per level per level of earth formal magic possessed by the caster, to a maximum of twenty five levels (300 points) which may only be touch cast as 10 elemental healing.  The effect is lost if the caster dies and needs a life spell.  Defiling pool is a pool of elemental chaos with the same limits as the healing pool.  A caster may have both a healing pool and a defiling pool at the same time but not more than one of each.  If the caster takes body damage during the call of “10 elemental healing” or “10 elemental chaos”, that 10 point casting fails and is lost to the pool but the rest of the pool remains.

INCREASE HARVEST/BLIGHT - Bin’Aven’s Plentiful Earth/Bin’Aven’s Poisoned Ground

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the earth I increase this harvest/By chaos I blight this land

 Effect: Increase Harvest will increase the food production of 10 acres of farmland per level of earth formal magic of the caster by one category.  The area affected must be continuous.

   Blight causes 10 acres of farmland per level of earth formal magic of the caster to decrease food production by one category.  The area affected must be continuous.  The caster is the center of effect of this cantrip.

MORALE/ROUT - Lucin’s Enhanced Morale/Lucin’s Devastation Of Hope

Type: Broad
Duration: Battle
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the earth I raise morale/By chaos I rout these men

  Effect: Morale will boost the over all morale of 10 men per level of formal magic of the caster by one category.

  Rout will decrease the overall morale of 10 men per level of formal magic of the caster by one category.

  The men who are the targets of this ritual must be within 10’ of the caster per level of earth formal magic possessed by the caster.

PURIFY WELL/POISON WELL - Lucin’s Purity/Lucin’s Taint

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the earth I purify this well/By chaos I poison this well

 Effect: Purify Well will cause one well, cistern, spring, or most non-flowing water sources to become clean, pure water free of disease and taints.  Poison well will cause one well, cistern, spring, or most non-flowing water sources to become impure and cause slow sickness in any who drink from it.  The caster must touch the well to be purified or poisoned.

REPLENISH/CORRUPT - Bin’Aven’s Natural Enhancement/Bin’Aven’s Unnatural Growth

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the earth I replenish this land/By chaos I corrupt this land.

 Effect: Replenish will bring a 10’ by 10’ area per level of earth formal magic of the caster more in line with the natural progression in the area.  This will undo the effects of corruption and chaos upon the land in slow increments.  Corruption will cause an area to become more out of line with the natural flow in an area, impassible thorns and brambles may grow, fertile areas may become swamp like, pools of chaos will become more likely to develop.  This will affect a 10’ by 10’ area per level of earth formal magic of the caster rendering it harder to develop and use.  The caster is the center of this cantrip's effect.

OOG Note: For each level of formal magic of the caster both dimensions increase by 10’ so someone with 2 levels has a 20’ x 20’ maximum and someone with 8 levels has an 80’ x 80’ maximum.

RIDERS ON THE WIND/FOUNDERING MOUNTS - Sydello’s Equine Enhancement/Sydello’s Equine Eliminator

Type: Broad
Duration: Day
School: Earth
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I call upon the Earth to make these horses fleet/By chaos I founder these mounts

 Effect: Allows 1 horse per level of earth formal magic of the caster to travel at maximal pace for their entire normal movement in one day.  Regular stops for food and water are still needed but while riding a gallop may be sustained.  A horse may not be affected by more than one riders on the wind in a 24-hour period.  The caster must touch each target of the horses to be affected by the riders on the wind immediately following the snapping of the components.  No other action may be taken or skill be used other than to designate the targets by touch.

   Foundering mounts will cause 1 horse per level of earth formal magic of the caster to be exhausted and only travel at half normal pace for the next day.  The targets of foundering mounts must be within 10’ of the caster per level of earth formal magic possessed by the caster when this cantrip is cast. A horse cannot be affected by more than one foundering mounts in a 24-hour period.

TYRRA'S CLAW - Angat’s Rake

Type: Personal
Duration: Hour
School: Earth
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself a Claw from Tyrra

 Effect: The caster grows one shortsword-sized claw that they may used for one hour.  The claw does a base damage of five dagger blows and the damage may not be increased by skill.  The Tyrra’s Claw takes no special skill to wield and may be conjured into either the caster’s primary hand or off-hand and used.  Once conjured the Tyrra’s Claw may not be switched between hands.  The casting of two Tyrra’s Claw cantrips will allow the caster to wield a claw in each hand.

 OOG Note: The caster must have and use a red claw phys rep as the claw created by this cantrip.

Celestial Cantrips:

BOLTSTORM - Runewind’s Elemental Bombardment

Type: Offensive
Duration: Concentration
School: Celestial
Cost: 1 Component

 Incant: I grant myself a boltstorm to throw... 10 elemental <Flame, Ice, Lightning, or Stone>... 10 elemental <same element>…

 Effect: At the time of casting, the caster must choose a single element; flame, ice, lightning, or stone; and plant both feet.  As long as both feet remain planted and the cantrip is not disrupted as per normal spell rules, the caster may throw a packet after completing the incant “10 elemental <type>“.  The elemental chosen may not be changed without casting another boltstorm.  While the cantrip is in effect, the caster can perform no other skill nor cast any other spell or cantrip.  Each packet thrown acts as a separate elemental attack doing 10 points of the chosen element in damage to the target.  The call “10 elemental <type>” is considered part of the verbal and like any other verbal the cantrip is lost if the caster takes body damage, performs an in game skill, or speaks other words to interrupt the verbal.

DEVESTATING CHARGE - Gintain’s Thunderous Charge 

Type: Broad
Duration: Hour
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the stars may these lances strike true

 Effect: When cast upon a group of lancers containing up to two men for every level of celestial formal magic of the caster this cantrip will render their lances so they will not break for the next charge and give them all the equivalent of a +1 damage aura per five levels of celestial formal magic of the caster for that charge (up to a maximum of +5).  The caster must touch each target of the devastating charge immediately following the snapping of the components.  No other action may be taken or skill be used other than to designate the targets by touch.

ELDRITCH SHIELD - PanTarsa’s Superior Protective Field

Type: Personal
Duration: Day
School: Celestial
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: I grant myself an Eldritch Shield

 Effect: This cantrip gives the caster 10 extra armor points.  These extra points are the first armor points lost due to damage.  As long as these points last they will protect the caster so spells may be cast while taking damage.  If a shield and/or greater shield are also present they are lost before the eldritch shield.  If the caster dies and requires a life spell the eldritch shield is lost.

ELEMENT'S FURY - Karvecki’s Planar Conduit

Type: Offensive
Duration: Day
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I grant myself <Flame, Ice, Lightning, or Stone>‘s Fury

 Effect: The caster may choose an element (Flame, Ice, Lightning, or Stone) which they receive a pool of 50 points plus 10 points per level of celestial formal magic of the caster to a maximum of twenty five levels (300 points).  The caster may throw attacks of 10 elemental <type> until the pool is used up. The caster may only have one Element’s Fury at any time.  Thus a caster with ten levels of formal magic gains a pool of 150 points which they may throw as 10 elemental <type>.  This pool is lost if the caster dies and requires a life spell.  A new casting of Element’s Fury will replace an old casting of it.  Casting the elemental packets follow the same rules as casting a spell and thus may not be done if taking body damage or if the caster cannot speak or use their hands.

ELEMENT'S WAY - Tuscon’s Elemental Aura

Type: Personal
Duration: Invoked
School: Celestial
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself the way of <Flame, Ice, Lightning, or Stone>

 Effect: The caster may choose an element (Flame, Ice, Lightning, or Stone) which they may invoke to swing as a carrier attack against a chosen opponent.  The caster chooses which of the four elements they will swing when they invoke the use and may change elements when they invoke this again.   Only one element’s way may be in effect at a given time.  The caster may invoke this against multiple opponents but if they change the carrier type then the first carrier ends.  This works on melee but not ranged attacks.  The element’s way is lost if the caster dies and requires a life spell.

ENCHANT ENGINE - Gintain’s mighty Siege Engine                 

Type: Broad
Duration: Hour
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the stars may this engine strike true

 Effect: Gives a siege engine the equivalent of a +1 damage aura per two levels of celestial formal magic of the caster.  The caster must touch the siege engine being enchanted during the full incantation and snapping of the components. 

 OOG Note: This bonus may never be placed on a weapon to be used in NERO safe combat.

ETHERIAL SWORD - Tuscon’s Blade

Type: Personal
Duration: Hour
School: Celestial
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself an ethereal sword

Effect: The caster gains a short sword sized ethereal Sword for one hour, it is made of their own spirit and an extension there of.  An ethereal Sword may not be disarmed or shattered.  The sword does a base damage of five dagger blows and the damage may not be increased by skill. The Etherial Sword takes no special skill to wield and may be conjured into either the caster’s primary hand or off-hand and used.  Once conjured the Etherial Sword may not be switched between hands.  The casting of two Etherial Sword cantrips will allow the caster to wield a claw in each hand.

 OOG note: The caster must have and use a red shortsword phys rep as the sword created by this cantrip.

FORTIFY DEFENSE - Anvicia’s Fortress

Type: Broad
Duration: Day
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the stars may these defenses be fortified

 Effect: Increases the rating of any one defensive structure of 10’ x 10’ per level of celestial formal magic possessed by the caster for the period of one day.  The caster must be within the structure being fortified.  The structure may have a number of floors equal to the levels of celestial formal magic of the caster.  If cast following a weaken defense this will counter its effects.  Multiple casters can add their casting together to cover a larger structure, but they calculate their own areas and then add them together, they do not calculate a single area by adding their levels of formal magic.

 OOG Note: For each level of formal magic of the caster both dimensions increase by 10’ so someone with 2 levels has a 20’ x 20’ maximum and someone with 8 levels has an 80’ x 80’ maximum.  Two casters with 2 levels each may fortify a structure of 20’x20’ plus 20’x20’ (i.e. 40’ x 20’) not 40’ x 40’.

FURY'S STRENGTH - Kodos' Strength Of The Bear

Type: Personal
Duration: Invoked
School: Celestial
Cost: 0 Components
Incant: I grant myself Fury's Strength

 Effect: The formal caster will gain a strength of +2 (+1 in each hand) against one opponent when this cantrip is invoked, using one of its charges.  This strength is not cumulative with any other strength the caster may have and only the greater strength will function.  With this strength the caster may rip from pins taking 2 points of body damage or increase the damage of a two-handed weapon by 2 points or a one-handed weapon by one point and nothing else.  Fury's strength is lost if the caster dies and requires a life spell.  Only one fury’s strength may be in effect at a given time.

LEVEL GROUND - Holace’s Smooth Path

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the stars may this ground be leveled

 Effect: An area 10’ x 10’ per level of celestial formal magic possessed by the caster is leveled and made one category more useful for building or travel.  This has no effect on developed areas of land.  The caster is the center of effect of this cantrip.

 OOG Note: For each level of formal magic of the caster both dimensions increase by 10’ so someone with 2 levels has a 20’ x 20’ maximum and someone with 8 levels has an 80’ x 80’ maximum.

LORE - Indessa’s Sight of Attributes

Type: Item
Duration: Instant
School: Celestial
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I grant myself the vision to see the lore of what is before me

 Effect: One item for every two levels of formal celestial magic, rounded up, possessed by the caster is identified to the caster as if using a permanent celestial circle.  This may not be used to identify anything that has a spirit.

 OOG Note: The caster of this cantrip must give the tag for the cantrip to an appropriate person with access to the magic item tags.  A hold may not be called for this the knowledge comes to the caster as they get the tags.

MAGIC KEY - Anvicia’s Key

Type: Item
Duration: Instant
School: Celestial
Cost: 1 Component
Incant: I build a magic key

 Effect: This cantrip will cause any one locking mechanism touched by the caster immediately upon casting this cantrip to unlock or lock (at the choice of the caster).  Some locks may be built with complex multiple mechanisms and may require more than one casting of this cantrip to open it.

WEAKEN DEFENSE - Anvicia’s Undoing

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: By the stars may these defenses be weakened

 Effect: Weaken defense decreases the rating of any one defensive structure of 10’ x 10’ per level of celestial formal magic possessed by the caster the damage to the defenses remains until repaired or fortified (using the cantrip fortify defense).  The weakening takes ten minutes to take effect and is obvious in its progress during those ten minutes.  The caster must touch the structure to be weakened. Multiple casters can add their casting together to cover a larger structure, but they calculate their own areas and then add them together, they do not calculate a single area by adding their levels of formal magic.

 OOG Note: For each level of formal magic of the caster both dimensions increase by 10’ so someone with 2 levels has a 20’ x 20’ maximum and someone with 8 levels has an 80’ x 80’ maximum. Two casters with 2 levels each may Weaken a structure of 20’x20’ plus 20’x20’ (i.e. 40’ x 20’) not 40’ x 40’.

WIZARD'S SENSE - Buronto’s Vision

Type: Broad
Duration: Instant
School: Celestial
Cost: 2 Components
Incant: I grant these eyes a Wizard’s Sense

 Effect: Increases the rating of one scout per level of celestial formal magics possessed by the caster by one degree.  The scouts gain a preternatural increase of their senses making them more effective. The caster must touch each target of the Wizard’s Sense immediately following the snapping of the components.  No other action may be taken or skill be used other than to designate the targets by touch.

 OOG Note: This will give no additional effects to a PC in play.

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