Magic

Magic

Magic is split into six realms; four are linked to each other and represent the elements (earth, air, fire and water), the other two represent the body; blood and mind magic.

For practitioners who can wield multiple forms of magic, the elemental magics will clash across boundaries, therefore earth and air are mutually exclusive, as are fire and water.

Spells are found at six orders of magnitude, as follows:

·        Magnitude 1: Order Minora

·        Magnitude 2: Order Media

·        Magnitude 3: Order Majora

·        Magnitude 4: Order Maxima

·        Magnitude 5: Order Magnifica

·        Magnitude 6+: Order Miracula

For elemental spells taking the first rank in a school of magic gives you access to all the magnitude 1 spells in the realm, each day you can cast 2 spells. If you wish to cast further spells, you will need to find and use the relevant fetish for each spell. The second rank allows you to cast 4 spells, 2 of which can be Magnitude 2 spells, and so on up to the fifth rank which allows you to cast 2 x Magnitude 5 spells, and any of your 8 remaining spells can be cast from the lower orders of magnitude.

For Blood and Mind magic, for each rank taken the caster has access to all the spells at each relevant order of Magnitude. Each spell costs the equivalent in white health beads to cast as its order of Magnitude.

An individual practitioner can only cast up to Magnitude 5 spells, and this would require a significant investment in time and skill. Magnitude 6+ spells are only able to be cast by covens who have been linked together by the appropriate blood magic spell at a previous date. Small covens of lower ranked magicians can bond together to cast lower magnitude spells if they have the relevant fetish for the spell. E.g. A person with Rank 2 Water magic and a fetish for a Rank 3 Water spell could join with a Rank 1 Water magician to cast the spell.

Covens have a principal caster who is responsible for the spell and will receive any backlash from the casting. Miraculous spells always have a backlash.