Georges is an event planner and has decided that he is going to create some elixirs that will help him plant lavenders in specific areas for special events. He decides to take the leaves from a fresh lavender plant and press them to place the oil into a sealed glass vial. This vial will then go into a pot that is filled with dirt. Once the glass vial is broken, the lavender will start to permeate the air. This reaction will be the trigger for a Create Lavender Plant spell. The spell itself is a small one, although he wants a fine quality of plant. The range and the radius for the spell will be 0. He only needs about 1 Liter of plant per spell, but he wants them of excellent quality, so he will need 60 power in the spell. His Magic Theory is 8, therefore he needs 8 intensity in the spell. All totaled, he will be crafting an alchemy of 8 total power, with one spell. Therefore he first rolls his Create Lavender spell and achieves 7 Ss; resulting in 1 MF drain. He will then need two successes on his Ritual Magic (Alchemy) skill roll to avoid loosing Will. He achieves three successes and so creates the vial and loses no drain. He goes on to create twenty of these and when the next party happens, he takes ten of them with him. He lines the main walkway with five planters on each side and breaks the glass vials in turn. He turns around and is enthused to see 10 fantastic plants in the planters. the smell of lavendar wafts through the air greeting every new person to the party. Fantastic!

To anchor these spells without any drain of Will he would need 5 successes; 2 for the 2 spells and 3 for the 21 MF. An alterantive approach would be for him to cast two enchantings: One for the Protect from Fire (10 MF; 1 spell; 2 Ss on enchant roll) and one for the Create Fire spell (11 MF; 1 spell; 3 Ss on enchant roll). This is smarter approach for him for two reasons. First, he can get closer to the center of the area of effect and therefore, he can reduce the cost of that spell. Second, obtaining 3 successes on one roll and 2 on another is far easier than obtaining 5 successes on one roll.

Power Foci store Mana for use at another time.

There are two types of power foci: renewable and expendable. Renewable foci will refresh themselves over time, while expendable will not. Expendable power foci, once used up are forever useless as a foci again. The object would have to be unmade and remade to be useful again. Each type of focus is creating in a ceremony that lasts as long as the caster chooses to maintain it (or until the object breaks). Each hour the mage looses 1 MF, 1 PF and rolls their ritual magic skill. Renewable foci use a target number of 5 and expendable foci a 4. The number of successes is then stored in the object as MF. Renewable foci cost the mage 1 character point per hour of casting.

The binding cost depends on the type of focus. Renewable foci cost 1 character point/MF stored. Expendable foci cost 2 character points/MF stored. Renewable foci will restore MF at a rate of 2 MF per hour.

For example, Harris wants to create a ring of fire when he speaks a command. He first buys a good quality ring. The ring’s quality is of excellent quality and so will give him a +2 for the Enchant roll. However, he has a -2 penalty for not personally creating the object. His skill in Ritual Magic (Enchant) is 8+1, therefore he will be rolling 8+3-2 dice. He doesn’t want the fire to burn him so he decides to also cast a Protect from Fire spell. He decides that the ring of fire will have a 6 meter radius (6 MF), a range of 0 (0 MF), and he wants the temperature to be high enough to start wood on fire, but not melt metals. He decides on 200 degrees Celsius, for a needed Power of 10. With a Magic Theory of 7, he needs 2 Intensity for a total spell of 8 MF. His protect from Fire spell will be similar, but with a smaller radius; 4 meters, for a total cost of 7 MF. He wants the trigger to be the spoken word “Alight”, that would be a simple spell costing only 1 MF. The rune for the word “alight” is unknown by Harris, therefore he will need to pay a penalty for that.

Therefore he has the following:

Afterwards, Harris needs to roll his Ritual Magic (Enchant) skill. In order for the skill to be successful, he will need three successes (one for each spell). In addition, he will need 2 more successes to avoid draining any Will. All totaled this comes to 5 Ss needed. He only rolls three successes and so has enchanted the item successfully, but at the cost of 2 Will. However, he now has a ring that when someone says, “Alight” a 2m wide sphere of fire will be created and the person wearing the ring will be safe (as will people within 4 meters of him)!

In game terms, placing a Geas on someone works much like enchanting. First each spell that will act as the penalty are cast onto the person (or object). Drain is taken normally. Like Enchanting, the number of successes required is the same as the number of spells used plus the power of the spells divided by 10 (rounded up). Any extra successes in the roll represents the power of the Geas. This is the number of success that the recipient must roll on a Will roll to avoid following the compulsion. Please note, that no penalty spell has to be defined. This will give the person a compulsion with no penalty if avoided.

A Sanctification ceremony is a permanent location attuned to casting magic. Sorcerers create magical circles; priests, temples; Shaman, holy groves or lodges; and psionic chambers.

Sanctification ceremonies are long, complex ceremonies. The base ceremony takes at least 2 hours plus 2 hours per bonus point of spell to be cast in it’s environs. Each hour the mage will roll their Ritual Magic skill requiring a number of successes equal to the total number of hours in the ritual, e.g. creating a +2 lodge will take 4 hours and, thus, requires 4 successes every hour. If this number is not achieved, then the caster looses number of MF equal to the number of successes missed. In other words, if the caster only achieved 2 successes in the above example, they would lose 2 MF. In addition, a character must pay 5 character points per bonus point that the sanctification ceremony provides.