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THE SKY
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Cantrips

WORD ON A WING
To cast this spell, you must be alone at the top of a hill in the
wilderness, the taller the better. Shamen of the Sky are given three
little words which allow them to command the winds to carry a single
message to someone. Speak the three words, then speak your message -
which cannot last longer than ten seconds - and speak the name or
title of the one you want the message to go to. They will hear it
almost instantly. You can send one message on the North Wind, one on
the East, one on the South and one on the West, but after that you
have to wait two months before they will serve you again.

Sorcerers can steal this spell. The required relic is a piece of iron
that has fallen from the sky. In the Taking the three words are
trapped within the iron. Casting the spell is similar, except instead
of speaking the words the sorcerer merely holds aloft the iron.

SMOOTH THE WHEELS
Collect a jar of rainwater in a vase and bless it in the name of the 
Sky. Sprinkle your vehicle with it before you undertake a journey. You 
will have an efficient journey unhampered by irritating delays.

To steal this spell the required relic is a vase made out of clay that 
has had sparrow bones scattered in it. This vase must be used in the 
casting of the spell.

KNOW THE PATH (Cantrip)

This cantrip gives the shaman casting it an intuitive knowledge of the way
they need to go in order to get to a particular destination, within certain
limitations.

- The shaman must be looking for a *locaation*, not a person or an item. "Where's
the Emperor?" won't work, "Where's the Emperor's Palace?" will work. "Where is
the Emperor's prison?" will get the Doghouse (the prison that belonged to the
Emperor), not the Emperor's War Room (the place where the Emperor is imprisoned).

- As specified, you get an intuitive knoowledge out of this spell - you don't
get a list of directions, just a sense of where you need to go in order to get
to the place. You can't point to a map and say "it's here!" - if you want to
find the thing in question, you're going to have to follow your intuition and
get travelling.

To cast this spell, the shaman need merely meditate for five minutes in a place
where they can hear the wind.

To steal this spell, sorcerers must use in the Taking a map that has been used
by an Adventurer-quality explorer. (Such maps are liable to be valuable
collectors' items, of Significant value). To cast the spell, the sorcerer must
spread the map out in front of him or herself before meditating. The route won't
actually appear on the map - again, the sorcerer only gets an intuitive knowledge
of where to go - but if the sorcerer loses the map for some reason before
reaching the destination, the spell will be broken.

Enchantments

TEARS OF FREEDOM'S JOY
To cast this spell, you must dance naked under the sky for hours,
chanting and wailing and celebrating your freedom. By so recreating
the song and dance of the Gods at the birth of the world, you move the
Sky itself to tears as it remembers its glorious birth. It begins to
rain. Anybody who is trying to free themselves or somebody else from
imprisonment - literal or metaphorical - during the rainstorm will
find themselves refreshed and confident, and their attempt is much
more likely to succeed. *Everyone* who frees (or tries to free)
themselves or anyone during the rainstorm will gain a point of Sky
Affinity, unless their Sky Affinity is greater than 8.

Sorcerers must make a mask out of the skin of magpies, and paint it in
the likeness of s God (a likeness which must be in use by an active
cult) to steal this spell, and wear the mask during the dance so that
the Sky will mistake them for a God. (This will involve at least one
turnsheet action to get the magpies and make the mask, and a clever
plan to discover how a cult represents its god.)

SLIP THE LEASH
This spell is to be used if you have become a prisoner for some 
reason. Simply wait until your captors are moving you from place to 
place under the open Sky, look up, and whisper six words that the Sky 
will give you. You will get an opportunity to escape as soon as 
possible. (Of course, if you've been thrown in the Doghouse and won't 
be allowed to see daylight again...)

To steal this spell Sorcerers should tattoo the palms of their hands 
with certain symbols, and encode within the symbols the six secret 
words. Each symbol must be written with a different needle, and each 
needle must be anointed with the blood of a shaman of the Sky. To cast 
the spell they should hold their palms up to the Sky when they are 
moved outside instead of speaking the words.

CLEAR THE PATH
Before undertaking a journey, the shaman must anoint their vehicle 
with their own blood. No bandit, highwayman, thug, soldier or other 
danger of the road will assail the shaman on his journey.

Sorcerers must use a small spoon carved from the skull of a shaman of 
the Sky in the stealing of this spell, and use this spoon to scatter 
the blood.

BLUE ROADS (Enchantment)

There are paths in the Sky that are swifter and straighter than any on
the ground. The shaman who is given the secret of the Blue Paths may use
them to travel great distances in mere days. There are, however,
restrictions:

- Only the caster of the spell may traveel: it is not given to them to bring
guests.

- The caster must walk, and can thereforre bring along no more than they can
comfortably carry: those who guard the Blue Roads become agitated if you keep
going back and forth to fetch stuff.

- The caster must know where they're goiing: either by knowing where their
destination is on a map, or through the use of Know the Path.

To steal this spell, a sorcerer must use in the Taking a sword. The sword must
have been forged in a fire that was kindled by sunlight, and must be quenched
in snow at the peak of a mountain. This sword must be taken with the caster as
they travel on the Blue Roads: those who guard the Roads will then allow the
caster to pass, since such a sword is the only thing they fear.

Grand Rituals

WIND OF CHANGE
To cast this spell a representative of imprisoning Authority must be
sacrificed beneath the open Sky at the top of a hill in a ritual
lasting from sunset to midnight. Suitable sacrifices include:

- The warden of a prison.
- A monarch or mayor, or a high-ranking  emissary of such folk.
- A cult leader.
- A shamen of the Stars.

When the sacrifice is made a terrible storm will ensue. During this
storm, any attempt to rebel against people in authority - against
rulers, against crime lords, against cult leaders - by their
underlings will have a much greater chance of succeeding.

For a sorcerer to steal this spell, they must craft a knife for the
sacrifice out of the bones of a dead daimon of the Sky.

EXILE (Grand Ritual)

Travel broadens the mind, and sometimes people just need their minds
broadening. The Ritual of Exile will cause someone to be flung into the Sky
and dropped in a distant wilderness - perhaps the deserts of Jurica, perhaps
the wildlands of Vegdarbarra, perhaps a bizarre wasteland in the middle of
the Treacherous Lands... there's really no telling.

To cast this spell, the shaman must burn a lock of the victim's hair, a
scrap of the victim's clothes, and one of the things which currently ties
the victim down in their particular location - this last thing can range
from "the court order which prevents them from leaving the city" to "their
true love" to "their house". The victim must be tricked or forced into
breathing deeply of the smoke of this fire - once this is done, the Exile
will be enacted.

To steal this spell a sorcerer must seek out the remains of a former victim
of the spell, and the remains of the shaman who cast the spell upon them. A
fan should be made from the ribcage of each individual, and the two fans must
be used to fan the fire.

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THE LAND
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* Note that when we say Land magic works on animals, this isn't quite true. It doesn't work on domesticated animals like cats or dogs (especially the Loyal Order of Hounds...) who bend to the yoke of humans. They are not among the Land's faithful. Nor will it work on a Beast-King. They do not take orders from mere shamen. Finally, it won't work on birds, who follow the Sky, not the Land, or fish, who follow the Oceans. It will, however work on feral animals that just happen to be living in cities. Rats, for example.

Cantrips:

* Eyes of the Beast: The shaman kisses the back of an animal's neck, just below its head. Then he can see through the eyes of that animal for as long as he wishes. When he's finally fed up with watching a rat burrow through rubbish, he simply breaks the connection and goes back to being himself. He doesn't have any control over the animal-- he can just see what it's seeing.
For a Sorcer to cast this spell, they require the lips of an animal or a shaman, which are preserved during the Taking and then touched against the animal's neck in place of the sorceror's own.

* Blessed Grove: The shaman simply spends time tending the soil of an area. It grows with unusual and supernatural fertility. With repeated application, a back garden in an inner city could be a veritable jungle.
Sorcerors need to first wear lambskin gloves, thus hiding their true nature from the ground they touch.

* Shelter: When around the Land (in a forest, or otherwise in the wilds), the Shaman can fade away into the folds of the land. He doesn't actually go anywhere, he just seems to be such a natural addition to the landscape that observers overlook him as they would a fieldmouse scurrying along the path.
Sorcerors require to craft a cloak sewn from leaves when casting this spell, which they wear before fading away.

Enchantments:

* Angel of the Animals: The shaman reaches out with his mind to touch all the animals nearby and deposit a thought in their minds. It will have to be something simple that an animal could understand: detailed instructions will not work, but "Rip that man to shreds" will.
Sorcerors are required to craft a skullcap from the bark of seven sapling trees, which is fixed and sealed during the Taking. They must wear this while peforming the ritual, so that their thoughts have the earthy smell of a genuine Shaman. The ritual also requires the caster to find out and speak the name of an Ent.

* Skin-changing: The Land blesses the shaman with the shape of one of its worshippers. His body changes shape. His body *only*: possessions and clothes don't come with him, so when he changes back he'll be naked as the day he was born. This won't give him the shape of an Ent, Menhir or any other daimon: it has to be an animal or a tree. He can change back at will.
For the Taking, a Sorceror will have to prepare the pelt of the beast he wishes to turn into and wear it before changing. During the Taking, he will also need to paint the pelt with the blood of a man close to the Land (anyone with Land affinity over 1 will do.) This has to be done separately for each pelt and it has to be a different man each time.

* Blessed Seed: A child conceived by a Land-shaman using this spell will be born ready with an unnatural attunement to the Land. Its Land affinity will be equal to the shaman's Land affinity. If both parents are shamen, then it will be the sum of their Affinities. If this is over 16 then yes, they give birth to a daimon and many different flavours of havoc ensue.
Sorcerors are unable to replicate this spell.

Grand Rituals:

* Timeless Tomb: The shaman needs to be standing in an area of ground he has worked himself for a year and a day, when he performs this ritual. He simply turns into a tree. He's still alive, he still notices everything that goes on, and he lives for as long as the tree does. He can take with him as many willing followers as he chooses, though they will have had to subsist on food from the ground as well. When he is truly needed by the Land, he will turn back to human form.
A sorceror will need not only to have worked the land for a year and a day, but will need to have fertilised the ground with the corpses of Land shamen and eaten nothing but the food from the land he has worked. This way, he attunes his body to the land he has tilled, fooling it into believing he is one of theirs.

* March of the Woods: Trees are not really just lumps of wood that sit there. They don't normally hang around, doing nothing. They're just sleeping right now.
With the right methods, a shaman can awake the trees and send them on a campaign.
The shaman needs to know the correct mixture of herbs whose smell will awake the trees; this information is imparted into him with the ritual. Getting hold of these is a Significant purchase. Next, the shaman needs to sacrifice something precious to the trees' soon-to-be enemy while reciting a list of their crimes against the forest. Finally, the shaman must lead the trees personally into battle.
For sorcerors, the process is somewhat different. They cannot wake the trees peacefully; they must use force. For this they will need a whip made from the wood of six oaks and a mask carved from obsidian mined from the heart of the Ornotha Peak. Since the Peak is a deeply powerful daimon of the Land, this will be a long and arduous undertaking. The sorceror still recites the crimes committed against the trees and makes the sacrifice, but he now needs to be protected from flailing branches, lashing thorns and so forth while he completes the ritual.

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THE FIRE
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Recreate: This allows the caster to take the bits of a broken thing
and reform them, fusing together broken pieces etc. This does not have
to be the way it was originally intended to be but is limited by the
nature of the broken item. The caster can direct what he wants to
remake the item as within the given limitations.
This works on physical things only not on organisations or mental
states of people. It could be used to mend physically broken people
but the results would not be a normal remaking.
	Casting: this requires the object broken to be in front of you. It
also requires a sacrificial item made by the caster in the image of
the original object that will be broken in order to reform the first
object. The image need only be a carving or a sculpture or a detailed
picture. The complex the original object the more detailed the
sacrifice must be.
	Sorcerer stealing: To cast this spell the sorcerer must break the
sacrificial object with a marble hammer.

Confuse the future:  Anyone trying to devine what outcome the future
is going to have will get a mixed response instead of a definite sign.
It will narrow down the options but leave some ambiguity – often the
ambiguity is between very right and very wrong.
Casting: requires a pendant of obsidian to be held by a cord over a
drawn inscription while focusing upon the person who is known to be
devining (and therefore who you want to confuse); this must be done
either before or during the divination not before obviously.
Sorcerer stealing: In order to perform this spell a sorcerer must
steal the obsidian pendant off a known fire shaman and anoint it in
the fire shamen's blood.

Enflame: This accentuates the emotions of any living being in the
confines of the spell. Whatever the person was already feeling they
are now feeling it MORE. Rational thought is impaired (has less effect
on star affinity people) Lasts for 1 hour.
	Casting: The caster must trace out the area to be effected by the
spell in his own blood in an unbroken line. This limits the area of
effect to a street or two at the most however a room or building is
easy. Once he has traced the line he must set fire to it and it will
burn as if it was oil very briefly spreading around the limits.
	Sorcerer stealing: the sorcerer must again use his own blood for this
spell but must first place it in a bowl taken from a ruined building
where a fire shaman once lived.

Spark: Allows the caster to summon up the essence of fire from within
themselves and create sparks from it that can then be used for any
purpose (setting things on fire, disturbing a wild creature, burning a
person etc.). The downside of this is that it requires the casters own
blood to do this – the more blood they have direct access to the more
sparks they have (so a small cut will give enough sparks to jolt a
horse, give someone a fairly nasty burn if held onto by it or light –
a larger gash is more likely to give someone bad burns and set
furnishings on fire)
	Casting: as mentioned it requires blood.
	Sorcerer stealing: The cut must  be made with a knife that the
sorcerer carved from obsidian taken from a currently active volcano.


Enchantments:

Trick Fate: Anyone trying to fix a set future (such as in DESTINY) in
one way or the other will find it a lot harder to do so and will only
be able to narrow down the options possible to two rather than one.
(if it is a yes/no choice anyway then this spell gives a small chance
of DESTINY failing – roll a dice to see)
	Casting: To do this the caster must represent the many possible
outcome in a physical and creative form. This could be in the painting
of small pictures, the carving of small tokens or carving small
models. They need not be that good, they merely need to have been made
while thinking passionately about that particular option – this means
a new set must be made for each casting of the spell, this isn't that
bad as it counts as a trivial purchase and merely takes time. The
caster must then throw the options to the wind out of a window or
preferably off of a high roof top thus confusing what option may be
chosen.
	Sorcerer: To cast this the sorcerer must have stolen an unused set of
such tokens from a fire shamen. These are not thrown to the wind but
must be on the person of the sorcerer when they throw their own tokens
to the wind.


Cloud the mind: Logical thinking becomes nearly impossible and the
person more suggestable  and will rush into things they would usually
give more thought to. Lasts for only a few minutes depending on the
fire affinity of the caster – 1 min per point of affinity. In this
time they are very suggestable.
	Casting: The caster must chant a small mantra to call upon the
blessing of the fire which will then glow in his eyes for the duration
of the spell.
	Sorcerer: The sorcerer must create a pair of smoked glasses from
burning a significant creative work created by a fire shaman. This
tricks the fire into thinking it is entering the eyes of a fire
shaman.

Inspiration: Puts one individual into a uniquely creative frame of
mind with the burning desire to complete their project (whatever that
may be – the caster has very little control over that) instantly and
to the best of their ability regardless of the concequences or their
own personal safety.
	Casting: The caster must spend 1 hour chanting and dancing round a
large bonfire. If the target is someone other than themselves then
they must have an object that links them to the target.
	Sorcerers must in addition be wearing a pair of shoes made from the
skin of a fire shaman.


War Cry: 
The caster gives forth a tremendous yell at the beginning of a fight,
which affects everyone within earshot who is participating in the
fighting. Onlookers and so forth are *not* affected, nor are deaf
people; the War Cry only people actually involved in inflicting
violence on each other. It will raise up the primal essence within the
fighters and tap into brutal instincts and emotions within them,
giving them thirst for the fight ahead. This may not sound that useful
against your enemies, but it does mean that they will abandon any
clever tactics and strategies they had cooked up and face you in a
straight fight, and they will be disinclined to use guns, bows, or
other ranged weapons; their anger will be such that only beating your
face in with their bare hands will suffice. Effectively, the spell
forces combatants to face each other on a level playing field, on
which the outcome of a fight will be decided solely by the numbers on
each side and the skill of the fighters involved. The major risk
involved is that if you lose the fight your opponents' rage and anger
will not let them as merciful as they may have been intending."
	Sorcerers: To do this the sorcerer must cover his mouth over with a
scrap of cloth weaved from the hair of someone driven mad by the fire
to make his voice sound to the fire like a fire shamans.

Grand rituals:

Turn the tide: Essentially you can deflect a process in motion from
its original course to another one. This will probably be a more
chaotic course but you never know. This will perhaps help you stop a
river from bursting its banks onto your village but means it may well
destroy the villages crops downstream. It could divert the attentions
and change the goals of an organisation so they are not longer
targeting you but instead your mother or neighbour might be effected
instead or another gang wanting something different may find you out
as being useful. You can try and exert some influence over how the
thing you want redirecting is redirected but once its occurs the
repercussions are entirely at GM discression.
	Casting: The caster must stand as a lynchpin at the site of interest.
If he's trying to stop a river bursting its banks then he must stand
on the banks to act as a barriers and sing. If he's changing the goals
of an organisation then he must stand in the centre of their
operations and again sing.
	Sorcerer stealing: The sorcerer must steal the song by listening to a
fire shaman cast it.


Raise the Fire: This allows the undercurrent of the fire to bubble
that little closer to the surface across the area of about a district.
All those with fire ancestry will feel compelled to act accordingly
being closer than normal to the fire. Generally across the area people
feel more incline to act in a rebellious and anarchist manner. Those
with artistic talents will find themselves working in a self
destructive frame of mind creating things. All fires – suddenly
finding themselves that much closer to their essence get illusions of
gradure and flare up – this has the potential to be really really bad
if you're closer to anything larger than a candle flame. This can, in
some areas, have the unforeseen effect of actually causing the fire to
breach the earth where it is thin causing volcanic eruptions – this
only happens when there is a fault in the land originally.
	Casting: This requires that the caster to throw themselves into a
fire. The fire will probably throw them back out without killing them
(especially if they are of high affinity) but they will most likely
end up scarred and hurt for a bit.
	Sorcerer stealing: The sorcerer must create a cloak soaked in the
blood of a fire shaman – this will require the death of the shaman.
The shaman doesn't have to have died at the hands of the sorcerer
though. The cloak is not consumed by the fire and must be worn by the
sorcerer to fool the fire into thinking that he is a fire shaman.


Twist: This spell results in the permanent twisting and warping of
something from an ordered thing into an entity of chaos. If cast on a
person they lose their mind irevicably, if cast on an organisation its
infrastructure collapses and there is anarchy and dissention in the
ranks. If cast on a machine it will distort so badly it will either
not work at all or work in such a way that its original design
couldn't possibly allow it to do that – an example of this is the
rearranging of internal clockwork into something utterly different
and, well, twisted. As a general rule of thumb the bigger the thing
you are trying to twist the less twisted it will be. Trying to twist a
city will either have a small chaotic effect over the whole or give
you pockets of twistedness, twisting a pocketwatch will result in you
getting a pocket watch whose internal workings probably can't actually
exist in this dimension but it doesn't seem to have noticed yet… this
will quite possibly lead to it doing something odd like it no longer
telling you the time but actually giving you a very accurate account
of the positions of the heads of the mob families. Or something.
	Casting: The caster must create something, such a sculpture, of great
detail and then break it and keep the shards. These shards can then be
used whenever they are casting the spell. They must focus on the
shards and work with them trying the many combinations of trying to
put them together (hence twisting the final form). As they are
focusing on this the spell is cast. This takes at least a day and a
night and cannot be interrupted. If it is then the caster must begin
again. Every time this is cast it also causes the twisting of the
casters mind a little (cumulative effects begin to be noticeable if
cast many times) from the sheer focus put into creating a new form
from the shards.
	Sorcerer stealing: The sorcerer must steal shards created by a
genuine fire shaman.

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THE STARS
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Starlight (cantrip): the immediate area of the caster is lit by starlight,
providing illumination roughly equal to the
moon and stars on a clear night. It would probably be easier to light a candle,
but at least now you've got the choice. To cast the spell, the caster closes his or her eyes and concentrates, visualising as many constellations in rapid succession as he or she can.
Sorcerers must mimic the presence of the stars with a chunk of crystal or ice.
This spell can be cast relatively quickly
by sorcerers or shamen. TOKEN: none

Calm (cantrip): the caster, or a target in the immediate vicinity, feels an
immediate reduction in the intensity of any and all
emotions they are experiencing. Lasts about half an hour. To cast the spell on oneself is simple enough - if it is night, 
gaze at the heavens and let the stars sedate you, if it is daytime or 
you cannot see the heavens visualise the constellation called the Ice 
Maiden. To cast the spell on another, one must tap one's fingers upon a 
part of their body in rapid succession, tracing the pattern of the Ice 
Maiden upon them. This does not take long (you could do it in the time 
it takes to shake their hand, or put a hand on their shoulder and say 
"calm down, there's a good fellow"), but it does require you getting 
close enough to touch them. Sorcerers must, in the course of stealing 
this spell, tattoo the Ice Maiden upon their body somewhere. Sorcerers need to do
more than meditate for a few seconds. TOKEN: none

Frost (variable): cast this at what level you will, subject to your abilities.
The more power the spell is cast with, the
greater the effect. In all cases a flash frost affects an area designated by the
caster, which must be close to her. The more
power is put into the spell, the deeper the frost and the larger the afflicted
area. Bodies of water will freeze; solid surfaces
will be covered in rime. It is possible to cast this directly into a living
creature; the creature will *not* freeze solid,
but the process does hurt. Unless the spell is cast in the most powerful form
though, it's usually easier to hit whatever the
creature is with sharp metal. Sorcerers must find either a sizable piece of a
Daemon of the Stars or a piece of meteorite
and use it to invoke the spirit of the frost; the higher the level, the larger
and more pure the piece must be. TOKEN: the
piece of meteorite or Star Daimon.

Glimpse Pattern (cantrip): the caster considers some process that appears to
have no order whatsoever, and for best results
holds something involved in the process. The spell enables her to determine some
fact about any hidden order that underlies
the process. For example, a shaman gripping a form from the Treasury might
suddenly gain some insight into why seemingly
random tax demands are made to his dead mother. Such glimpses of hidden patterns
are not always helpful, or welcome. Sorcerers
must construct a pair of spectacles with rims of silver and lenses of crystal,
and use them to look at something of direct relevance
to the process they are trying to glimpse a pattern in. TOKEN: the spectacles.

Rebuke (cantrip): if the caster actually witnesses a crime taking place, she may
choose to cast rebuke straight away. The criminal will
be stricken with a stabbing pain and an accompanying sense of impending doom.
This lasts for a several seconds. Until the
next time they sleep, the criminal will find themselves unwontedly questioning
the course that their life has taken. To actually cast Rebuke, one must loudly call out the individual 
in question, state their crime, and remind them that no wickedness goes 
unseen. Sorcerers
must make a wand of silver, with which they must publicly strike the offender
while loudly admonishing them. TOKEN: the wand

Word of Truth (cantrip): This spell takes the form of an agreement 
between the target and the caster, witnessed by the Stars. The agreement 
is simple: the target will answer three questions asked by the caster 
truthfully, if the caster will answer three questions asked by the 
target truthfully. If either side welches on the deal, they will be 
cursed by the Stars. The caster need not explicitly mention the Stars when making the agreement - saying "I will answer three of your questions truthfully if you answer three of mine" is sufficient - but the target will be intuitively aware that perjury will have dire consequences. A sorcerer must convince or force the target to 
drink a mixture of pure spring water and their own blood; if they force 
the target to drink this, then the target *must* accept the offer of 
three questions for three answers. The consequences of a sorcerer 
neglecting to answer three questions in return are severe, since this 
will bring the sorcerer to the attention of the Stars - who won't take 
kindly to this spell being stolen.

Preserve the System (enchantment): this is cast on some sort of ordered system
(specifically excluding living beings) 
- a machine, a structure, alchemical equuipment, etc. The system is then
protected from everyday wear, tear, and decay 
for up to a year. It can still be smashed up, of course. To cast the spell, one must expose the system in 
question to starlight for an entire night. A sorcerer must break
no laws and live a life of solemn withdrawal
for seven days, then sprinkle the system with his own blood. TOKEN: none

Eyes of Justice (enchantment): this must be targeted at a specific person. Some
item with a connection to them must be in the
possession of the caster. The caster gains one clue as to the greatest crime
committed by that person (note that this could
be taken to include various obscure crimes against the natural order or
consorting with Fire; all these are crimes as far as
the Stars are concerned). The clue is usually vague and symbolic, and is not
necessarily immediately useful. Also, the spell
can only be cast once per target. A sorcerer must burn an item with close links
to the concept of justice (the robe of a judge,
for example), sprinkle himself with the ashes, then look through spectacles with
lenses made of diamond. TOKEN: the spectacles 

Destiny (enchantment): something which might happen now either definitely
happens or definitely doesn't happen. Randomness is
replaced by certainty. The possible event must not occur on too great a scale;
as a rule of thumb, anything encompassing
whole city districts is too large to affect easily with this spell. To be
affected, the event must contain a considerable
degree of randomness, and must have at least a realistic chance of happening (or
not happening) in the first place. So no "I make
an elephant manifest in the centre of the Riverview Tavern, there's got to be
*some* chance of it happening,"  - that's just
too unlikely. Also no "My rifle shot definitely hits" - this isn't particularly
dictated by chance, just your crappy aim.
A good example is: a rival is taking a short cut through the slums when there's
a touch of plague in the air.
He might have caught it, or he might not; now he definitely will. Note that
internal states of living beings (thoughts,
emotions) are specifically excluded from this spell. To cast this spell, the shaman must close his eyes and appeal 
to the star which rules the destiny in question; to use the plague 
example, for example, one would appeal to a star which rules over disease. A sorcerer must make gloves
from the skin of a Daemon of the Stars, or some
creature closely associated with them. He must then carefully turn through a
deck of cards and remove the Ace of Diamonds.
TOKEN: the gloves.

Still the Tempest (enchantment): the title is a bit of an overstatement. An area
of the natural world in the caster's immediate
vicinity that is in a state of chaotic disarray (river rapids, part of a storm,
a really confused tavern fight) orders itself
for a short while - up to half an hour (the rapids run smooth, the winds calm
down, the tavern fighters organise themselves
into two proper sides). To cast this spell, a shaman must fling himself 
into the heart of the chaos - steering his boat into the heart of the 
rapids, leaping into the whirling winds, or jumping into the middle of 
the tavern brawl and shouting "STOP!" - and trust in the Stars to 
protect him or her. The shaman does not need to remain at the centre 
once peace is established. A Sorcerer must sprinkle the area to be affected by pure
water that has absorbed the light of the Stars
for a whole night; the water must be scattered from a thurible forged of
meteoric iron. TOKEN: the thurible.

Sublime Perfection of the Body (enchantment): the chaos induced by unfettered
thought and slow decay is removed from the targeted body.
It becomes still, quiet, timeless. Specifically, all mental functions shut down
and the body ceases to age, and also recovers
much more quickly from any damage. Also things like heart beat and breathing
stop - the body appears dead, although it is
not. The caster can end the spell at any time; it requires renewing once a year
unless otherwise disrupted. Any intelligent
creatures must give their consent for the spell to take effect. Note that this
does not have to be willing. For this spell
or Perfection of the Spirit, a sorcerer must wrap himself in a cloak woven from
a precise mix of rare threads; the cloak must
be held in place by a clasp forged of meteoric iron, in a certain elaborate
design. TOKEN: the clasp.

Radiant Perfection of the Spirit (enchantment): the nasty glands that cause
emotions and nervous system that brings pain are
cast aside, along with the rest of the gross flesh. This spell must be cast on
an intelligent being. The physical body
temporarily disappears, leaving an immaterial (and faintly radiant) spiritual
representation of the subject. This can think
and talk normally, but does not 'suffer' from emotions without great effort, and
does not interact with the physical world
unless it cares to. Again, the caster can end the spell at any time, and must
have the consent of the subject to cast it.
It must be renewed daily. The individual shedding their body 
must lie naked under the Stars for an hour at midnight for this to take 
effect; during the hour when they are renewing the spell, their body 
will return, rendering them vulnerable. For this spell or Perfection of the Body, a sorcerer
must wrap himself in a cloak woven from a 
precise mix of rare threads; the cloak must be held in place by a clasp forged
of meteoric iron, in a certain elaborate design. 
TOKEN: the clasp.

Preserve the Vital System (Grand Ritual): as above, but living things can be
affected. This has the effect, among others, of
halting the aging process. Repeated applications of the spell in this way leave
the subject seeming... well-preserved. To cast the spell, the subject must wear a 
robe embroidered with depictions of constellations and sit in starlight 
for an entire night, while the caster presents the subject's case to the 
Stars. As well
as their own purified blood, sorcerers must scatter the 'system' (person) with
various rare and expensive oils; the scattering
must be performed from a thurible made from the bones of a Star Daemon. TOKEN:
the thurible.

Eternal Truth (Grand Ritual): another overstatement. But the target of this
spell is obliged to speak the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, for the rest of the day. This includes remembering
anything they may have forgotten, and in extreme
cases subjects have even been known to 'recall' parts of the truth never known
to them, but only to close family or good friends. For a shaman to cast this spell, the subject must be tricked, cajoled 
or forced into eating a wafer consecrated to the constellation of the Book.
A sorcerer must himself forge a speaking trumpet and manacles from meteoric
iron, have them handled by a daemaon of the Stars,
then bind the target with the manacles and force them to speak through the
trumpet. TOKEN: the speaking trumpet and manacles.

Celestial Justice (Grand Ritual): the caster must address the subject in a place
open to the sky, in the sight of at least twelve
other intelligent beings (who are able to observe what's going on - asleep
doesn't count). The caster must then recite a list
of the subject's crimes, ending with an appeal to the Stars themselves to make
redress for the crimes. The Stars themselves
then do make redress - for those crimes the subject genuinely did committ. This
comes in the form of horrible wracking pain,
hallucinations of doom, physical deformity, and multiple 'destinies' to the
subject's detriment. Generally the punishment
inflicted is disproportionate to the crime, and no account is taken of attempts
by the criminal to right their wrongs. Any 
false accusations made by the caster result in similar (but lesser) punishment.
A sorcerer need only use an elaborate form
of words (along with the open sky and witnessess routine) to unleash this spell.
However, the sorcerer is then simultaneously
judged for his own crimes - including any and all instances of using the power
of the Stars by theft. TOKEN: none. 

Music of the Spheres (Grand Ritual): in the realm of the Stars it is said that
the most perfect music in existence plays eternally.
This spell brings some of that down to earth. The music is the most perfect
expression of harmony; no aggression or violence
(or much of anything chaotic) is possible while it plays. Legends tell of whole
battles ended by the Music. To cast this spell, a shaman must turn towards 
the constellation of the Harp and ask it to play; this means that to 
cast the spell during the day the caster must calculate the Harp's 
position beforehand. A sorcerer must
assemble a group of the finest musicians in the world; he must then have an
entirely new piece of music commissioned specifically
for this group by a composer of great talent. Finally, the group must perform
the music while within a specially prepared and
highly elaborate diagram constructed from silver. If all goes well, the Music of
the Spheres will enter into the music they play.
TOKEN: the music composed for this use.

Call Silver Knight (Grand Ritual): the nearest Silver Knight comes to the
caster's aid in investigating and punishing an injustice.
Even once the (difficult) ritual is completed, the injustice must be of
sufficient magnitude to warrant a Knight's attention.
And once on a case, the Knight does not give up - even if the caster changes
their mind.

Call Flaming Minister (Grand Ritual): as above, but their must be a sufficient
disruption of natural order to justify the
Minister's time.

Call Cold Angel (Grand Ritual): as above, but the sort of things that require
the intervention of an
Angel stretch the mind. It would be difficult for one individual to committ
enough and serious enough crimes or cause enough
chaos to warrant this. The loss of reason to slaughter and arson in an enitre
nation would be closer to the mark, or multiple
Fire daemons openly wandering the Lands with impunity. Nevertheless, if there is
sufficient reason, an Angel will descend
and Sort Out Business. The wide ranging consequences of this will likely haunt
the caster for the rest of his life. The Angel 
doesn't care.

Any of the 'calling' spells may be performed by a sorcerer who knows the ritual.
But they are less likely to be answered, and
the Daemon is likely to make punishing the sorcerer a priority when it arrives,
except in exceptional circumstances. 

CONSTELLATION (Grand Ritual)
This spell allows the caster to brainwash a number of individuals, 
shanghai-ing them for a specific purpose. The victims' personalities, 
hopes, dreams, desires and emotions will be seared away by starlight, 
and replaced with a very specific purpose; precisely which purpose 
depends upon the particular constellation the starlight in question 
comes from.

When the Spell is granted by (or stolen from) the Stars, the caster 
must choose which constellation they desire to invoke. There are 
numerous constellations visible in the night sky, each holding sway 
over a very specific range of ideas and concepts. The caster must 
choose what he wants the victims of the spell to do, and then spend an 
action looking up an appropriate constellation before 
requesting/stealing the spell - for example, if you wanted the victims 
of the spell to enforce the Stars' (or your own) ideal of Justice, you 
might choose the constellation of the Lawmaker, whilst if you wanted 
your victims to seek places of power and, once they've achieved them, 
enact policies of your choosing, you would choose the constellation of 
the Puppetteer.

Once the spell is granted (or stolen), the caster can emit the 
starlight of the chosen constellation from a particular gemstone at 
will - shamen will be granted this gemstone when they are given the 
spell, sorcerers must steal it and use it in the Taking (the gemstone 
in question must be of Staggering value, or be a gemstone used for 
this spell by a shaman of the Stars). This light must be shone in the 
eyes of a victim of this spell all night for 7 nights in a row (the 
victim is going to have to be restrained and his or her eyes forced 
open for this to work); no other starlight must strike the victim 
during this week. By the end of the exposure the victims' persona will 
have been burned clean, and they will be devoted to the purpose 
decided for them.

===========
THE SOLDIER
===========

CANTRIPS:

- Voice of Command: When the chips are ddown and everything's going to hell, the
Soldier stays calm and in control. If people near you are in danger, you can use
this ritual to issue a command, which they will then follow immediately without
thinking. "In danger" means a clear, present and unambiguous danger: you could
not issue as a command "Stop drinking, or you'll die of liver failure!" or "Join
our cult quickly, or you'll die like the rest of these poor fools when the final
battle begins!". And significantly, the command has to be one that will protect
people from danger. So you couldn't set a building on fire and then Command
people to give you their wallets.
Sorcerors stealing this spell require for the Taking the blood of a man
following the path of the Soldier (consciously or unconsciously) which they
gargle with before issuing the command. They can then spit it back into a
container and re-use it. If they don't mind the grossness.

- Quartermaster: The Soldier is never wiithout his armour. When you wish, you can
find a set of equipment apparently just lying around. You open a cupboard, look
under a cart, or whatever, and it just happens to be there. It consists of a
bronze breastplate, shortsword, helmet and greaves, as well as one day's
rations. When you're done with them, you need to stow them somewhere: just
leaving them lying around won't do, and you'll lose them. When they're stowed,
you can call them back whenever you need them.
Sorcerors stealing this ritual must take a personal item from a member of a
Soldier-worshipping cult. They create during the Taking a key bound about with
this item, which must be used to unlock the door behind which the Sorceror is
looking for the armour.

ENCHANTMENTS:

- Snafu: The cultist can be the loose wrrench in somebody's carefully-laid plans.
If somebody has a plan to do something (what does and doesn't constitute a plan
is debatable, but 'something requiring a turnsheet action' is a good rule of
thumb) then the cultist can jinx it. To perform this ritual requires the cultist
to steal an object related to the plans. It doesn't have to be vital to them (it
could be, for example, the coffee mug that the target was drinking out of during
the vital meeting) but it has to be related because of that *specific* object's
history (so you couldn't use a coffee mug you bought in a shop just because you
knew that your target was drinking coffee).
After the ritual, the plan will find itself riddled with incompetence, bad luck
and disaster. There won't be any obvious signs of sabotage, but the degree of
disaster will be too much to just dismiss as misfortune.
Sorcerors stealing this ritual need to obtain for the Taking the results of a
similarly large cock-up. This can take any form, though the more significant the
better. It doesn't have to be one caused by this ritual (though that *would*
work). They are burned during the ritual and a pinch of the ash sprinkled upon
the object needed.

- Bodyguard: The cultist puts his life oon the line in order to protect another.
Permanently. After performing a ceremony involving the anointing of both with
various oils (a Notable purchase), the cultist becomes ceremonially tied to his
target. Whenever the target should be wounded, the cultist will instead be
damaged-- wherever he should happen to be. The tie can be broken, but only with
the target's consent. The target does not have to be a cultist, but it will be
painfully obvious to him that he is undergoing a magical ceremony.
Sorcerors stealing this ritual need during the Taking to have a set of bronze
armour that has been used in a Soldier cult's ceremony. Armour created by the
Quartermaster ritual is automatically considered to have been used in this way;
alternatively, many cults have a supply of bronze of armour that they wear
during worship. They need to wear this armour as part of the Bodyguard ritual,
though it can be removed afterwards.

GRAND RITUALS:

- Call Avatar: The cultist performs a daay-long ritual with the rest of his cult.
The details of the ritual differ between avatars of the Soldier, but the incense
and oils are a Significant purchase. It's likely that special items related to
the avatar are necessary as well: usually, these are possessions the avatar had
while still human.
At the end of it all the Avatar shows up. You don't bind the Avatar, nor do you
force it to do anything. It may speak to you, it may do as you ask, or it may
slaughter you all. That's avatarhood for you.

- Band of Brothers: This spell bonds a ggroup of people (including the cultist)
together into an elite fighting force. They gain an uncanny intuition into where
the others are, if they're in any kind of trouble, and what is on their minds.
This increased affinity for the others is most evident in a battle, where they
co-ordinate their movements to a scary extent. This gives everybody in the Band
a major edge in a fight-- but only if all the members are in there. It also
gives everybody in the Band the flaw "Twue Wuv (platonic): The rest of the Band".
The ritual to cast this spell is long and complicated, and has to be performed
with the willing consent of the people to be bonded together. During the ritual
something dear to each of the participants needs to be ceremonially burned, and
each participant needs to be anointed with the spit of a different soldier from
the same platoon.
For Sorcerors the Taking requires the weapon of a man who died protecting his
fellows. This is then made into the torch used during the ceremonial burning
(meaning that the weapon will have to be a sword, spear or similar-- not a
crossbow or gun).

- Vessel of War: With this spell, you caan allow your body to come under the
control of one of the great soldiers of times past. You will be transformed into
an unstoppable fighting machine. Your body will also come entirely under their
control when in a fight, and they may well have their own ideas about whose side
you should be on. On the other hand they also know full well what happens to
people who switch sides, so are likely to just go along unless you're doing
something utterly, utterly abhorrent to them.
The other big danger with this spell is that if somebody issues an order to the
soldier controlling you (at any time, not just in a fight) using his rank and
name then you'll be obliged to carry it out. No matter who they are, no matter
what the order is.
To obtain this spell you first need to go to where your target died. If their
remains are not there, you need to bring them there. Then the ceremony begins.
You need to name the person who killed him during the ceremony and then be
killed in the same manner your target was. Yes, you have to be killed. Then you
have to hope very hard that you performed the ritual correctly, because if you
didn't you remain dead. If you got everything right then the spirit of the dead
soldier will enter your body and you will return to life. Hopefully, you will
have somebody on hand to stabilise you, because you'll still be on death's door.
But you'll be an unstoppable killing machine on death's door.
Sorcerors will need for the Taking the weapon used by an avatar of the Soldier.
They need to be killed during the ritual by this weapon, not just any.

========
VERSINYA
========

Although many Versinya spells are non-trivial to steal she does not really
mind sorcerors- in fact usurping power from her is pretty much considered
an act of worship.  From this point of view, consider stealing powerful
Versinya spells as another way of increasing affinity for those who are
alligned with Versinya but not cultists.

Cantrips:

Sickness:  This spell lasts about the duration of a week and during that
time causes the target to become more prone to illness and injury.  It is
unlikely to kill them or permantly injure them but it will slow them down.
A sorceror can steal this spell by taking the hand of someone who has died
from disease and anointing it with the blood of a Versinya cultist.  Then
each time they cast the spell they must hold the hand above their target
whilst they chant the appropriate incantation.

Endurance:  This allows the caster to continue functioning whilst infected
with an illness or injury that would generally prevent them from performing
mundane tasks.  It does not rid the caster of the illness and it
specifically only works against minor ailments (ie. fever, common cold,
superficial injuries).  This spell requires the blood of someone who has
recently died from a disease to be stolen by a sorceror.  They must then
anoint the bone of an animal who they have killed with the blood.  Each
time they cast this spell they must touch the wound, or for sickness part
of their body preferably associated with the ailment, with the bone.[THERE
IS A SIMILAR SPELL FOR LACRYMOSA, I BELIEVE, HOWEVER, THIS ONE VERY
SPECIFICALLY ONLY WORKS AGAINST PHYSICAL AILMENTS].

Unbalance:  This spell causes one object or person to become temporarily
unbalanced.  It will have an increased tendency to violate its nature for
the duration of about a week.  When cast on a person it may cause them to
suffer from indijestion or depression as their body ceases to function
properly and the  chemicals in their system become out of sync.  A clockwork
device will function less efficiently or the output of a steam device in a
factory will produce half the number of products that it should.  Generally
this will not do anything too powerful but can be a nusance.  A sorceror can
steal this by gathering the tears of a mother whose child has recently died
and anointing a set of scales with them.  The scales will never function
normally again and will sometimes measure a feather as lighter than a stone
and sometimes not.  Each time they cast the spell they must chant an
incantation before the scales.

Enchantments:

Decay:  This enables you to infect a place or person with decay.  The
effects are more or less permanent unless you choose to remove the curse.
In game terms this renders the target more vunerable to disease, ie. if
they go walking in the slums they will most likely come back infected with
something horrible.  Again like sickness it is unlikely to kill them but
will mean they are often weakened.  The effects of this spell can be reduced
by the healing magics of the Intercessor.  You can only use this spell on one
target at a time and must break it before casting it on someone else.  To be
stolen by a sorceror one must procure the eyes of a lepor (without getting
infected thejmselves) and hold them above the target whilst chanting.

Survival:  This enables you to keep on going whilst badly injured.  It allows
you to keep fighting on in the middle of battle with an arrow through your
shoulder, for example.  It does not stave off mortal injuries permantly but
will allow you to keep going for a few hours longer whilst mortally wounded.
If the wound is not fatal then it will never heal and will instead become
permantly infected.  A sorceror requires the bones of an animal who has been
sacrificed in a ritual to Versinya and must anoint them in the blood of
someone who has suffered terrible pain in life.  Each time they cast this
spell they must touch the wound with the bones.

Decay of Mind: This spell induces a night of maddening visions.  This has
two main uses.  A cultist may cast it in order to seek out divine inspiration
from Versinya.  You may or may not glean something useful from the experience.
On the other hand it is also often used as an exotic method of torture.
Depending on how you view it it is either a blessing or a curse, Versinya spells
are interesting like that.  A sorceror will need to remove the brain of a madman
and seal it in some sort of vessel.  The artifact must be next to the target
when they fall asleep each time they cast this spell.

Twist Perception:  This enables you to incite a sense of confusion in your
target.  It is useful if you are running away from the scene of a crime and
want to slow down your pursuers, for instance.  The target will be prone to
maddening visions of death and decay and they will see things that seem to
violate natural order.  A sorceror will first need the body of something dead
and decayed to cast this spell and they then must anoint it with the tears of
someone crying for something long gone.  The caster must hold this up at their
target when they cast this spell.

Grand Rituals: 

Living death:  This renders the caster immortal, however, at a terrible
price.  They still age and can still be injured.  Their injuries do not heal
but instead become infected by filth and decay.  It is possible to cast this
on someone else if you so wish but it is considered by Versinya and many of
her followers to be a blessing rather than a curse.  A sorceror must steal
parts of bodies of those who died in futility and construct a replica human
body from the organs.  These must be from at least six different people to be
considered sufficiently warped.  They must then anoint the body with the blood
of a Versinya cultist and chant the appropriate ritual.  This is an individual
designed to die in your place.  It will animate and for the spell to work you
must kill it immediately with a dagger that has been blessed by a Versinya
cultist otherwise you have “ye liveliest awfulness on the loose”.  The zombie
is similar to that created by reanimation, except it is not subserviant to you.

Animation:  If you are able to get hold of a dead body before it is claimed by
the ghouls you are able to reanimate it.  This does not allow you to resurrect
people, since the body does not retain its memories and has no will other than
that which you impose on it.  As with living death the body’s injuries will
never heal and it continues to decay.  For this reason the spell only lasts
until the corpse is destroyed.  The corpse is only as strong as it was in life
and may even be weakened by circumstances of death.  Having essentially no soul
or mind it cannot practice magic in any form.  This spell really annoys the
ghouls and if they catch you at it you’re in serious trouble.  A sorceror must
have the body blessed by a Versinya cultist beforehand and then anoint it in
the blood of twelve murdered children.

Insult the Natural Order:  This subverts the natural order of things.  It cannot
be used to control the actions of people.  It is generally used to prevent
something which ought to happen from occuring, such as a notorious murderer
being released because the judge failing to find enough evidence for some
inexplicable reason.  To cast this a sorceror must first kill someone they love
and then drain their blood.  They must say an incantation over the decaying body
each time they cast this spell.

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ILLARIA
=======

Lady Illaria hates those who steal spells from her as often it involves harming
her loyal servants.  Those who persistantly steal spells will be constantly
hunted by cats.

Note:  There are very few human followers of Illaria.  Those that do exist are
primarily theives and assassins.  As ones affinity with Illaria increases one
generally begins to show increasing cat like tendencies.

Cantrips:

Instinct:  This quickens your reflexes and improves your agility for the duration
of about an hour.  It is useful for breaking into places or in a fight.  It gives
you a minor advantage in either of these situations.  A sorceror must kill a cat
and then they must remove one of its paws and say an incantation over it.  They
must have the paw somewhere on their person when they use this spell.

Cats:  Cats quite simply like you.  It is not as much a spell as a state of
being.  They consider you as one of their own and if you’re in trouble they
will do their best in their limited capacity to help you out.  This spell is
automatically granted to anyone who buys Favoured: Lady Illaria, whether they
are a sorceror or not.  However, they may not realise they are under its effect.
To steal this spell a sorceror will need to find a Illaria cultist (incidently
most cats are) and skin them.  They must then produce a mask made from the skin
in order to fool cats into thinking they are one of them.  The spell only lasts
until the cats see through the disguise.

Cover of Darkness:  This allows you to summon a black cloud, which last for about
a minute.  For cultists this is a very conspicuous thing and is likely to get
them into trouble unless they have a good explanation prepared.  A sorceror
requires the blood of a cat, which has been blessed by a Illaria cultist, mixed
with various oils (a notable purchase).  They must then seal this in a bottle of
some sort.  Every time they uncork the bottle a black cloud will emerge.

Enchantments:

Speak with Cats:  This spell enables you to understand the cat language.  You
can speak freely with cats and if you have the spell “cats” they may be willing
to do favours for you.  A sorceror must kill a cat and remove its vocal chords
in order to steal this spell.  They must then create an instrument from the vocal
chords, which they pluck in order to speak in the cat language.  They can then
try to bargain or threaten them but most likely will be treated with disdain.

Agility:  This increases your agility and reflexes above normal human level
permantly.  It grants you a permenant minor advantage breaking into places or
in a fight.  Like instinct a sorceror must take the paw of a cat and carry it
on them whenever they are using the spell.  This spell does not need to be recast
like instinct.

Cats Eyes:  This spell enables you to see in the dark.  It grants a minor advantage
in any action carried out under cover of darkness.  A sorceror must take the eyes
from a cat and have them blessed by an Illaria cultist.  This is fairly hard to do
as it is pretty clear what they are and most cultists do not take kindly to killing
cats.  You see through the cats eyes rather than your own when you use this spell
and must keep the eyes preserved somehow.

Sight:  They say cats can perceive things that ordinary people can’t.  That is
because many of them are under the effect of this spell.  It enables you to
perceive spirits and otherworldly entities, although you will not necessarily
know what they are.  It also makes you sensitive to those with fae ancestry.
Like cats eyes a sorceror needs to take the eyes of a cat and have them blessed
appropriately.

Be the Night:  You can blend into the darkness and move around without being seen
easily.  In game terms this gives you another level of stealth above those which
you have already bought, when moving about at night or in the shadows.  A sorceror
must kill a cat and then make gloves and slippers from its skin.  They can only
use this spell whilst wearing the appropriate paraphenalia.

Grand Rituals: 

Summon the Huntress:  This spell calls upon the powers of a legendary assassin.
She is said to appear as a beautiful woman or a black cat, depending on how you
look at her.  You will need a good reason why your request will be of service to
Illaria.  A sorceror must sing the appropriate song to have the huntress appear
and most likely she’ll just kill you when she turns up, unless you can sway her
otherwise.

Survival:  This is the orginal spell that was granted to Tybalt.  It allows you,
to a certain extent, to endure the effects of the powers when living out in the
wild.  It is a major advantage whenever exploring anywhere but this advantage is
only granted to you personally and not the rest of your party. A sorceror requires
the paw of a cat and must carry it on them whenever they are using this spell.

Sneak:  You become adept at the art of sneaking into places.  This grants a major
advantage when breaking in or attempting to assassinate someone and lasts for
about an hour.  A sorceror requires the preserved heart of a cat blessed by an
Illaria cultist.  They must carry it with them whilst using this spell.

An Incredible Transformation:  You embrace the power of Illaria and become a cat.
This effect can either be temporary or permanent.  It is the pinnacle of every
cultists art.  However, should you choose to make the transformation permanent
you better have a new character statted up.  A sorceror must skin around ten cats
for this and create a costume from the skin for themselves which covers their
entire body.

ARIKEL SPELLS

Note that Arikel gives out spells only very sparingly; he prefers his
worshippers to get things done by creating and using
tools and devices.
Various spells below imply some kind of direct contact with Arikel (Divine
Inspiration, the Loyal Apprentice, Guidance of the
Master, the Art of the Possible). For sorcerers there are two possible
approaches to these. The first involves a relatively
simple ritual; you get in contact with Arikel, who is fully aware what you are
doing and that you are not one of his worshippers.
Now is a good time to abase yourself like the lowliest peasant, and start
begging him not to slay you. If this part goes well
(Arikel is actually unlikely to be able to slay you directly, but it's the
thought that counts), you must then start bargaining
for the effect you want. Typically Arikel will demand that you go and join one
of his cults before he will give you the effect,
but if you take the initiative and offer him something (and it had better be
something good), he may give you the effect
without requiring your worship. The second approach involves masquerading as one
of his worshippers. This involves killing
a cultist of Arikel, rendering him down, having a journeyman alchemist distill
his essence, drinking it, then dressing yourself
up in the full paraphenalia of a cultist of Arikel, then performing the
appropriate ritual. The Token here is the essence itself,
(you only need to do this once), although this becomes infused into the
sorcerer. Note that the more you use this, the more likely
it is that Arikel will see through the ruse. You may try to devise other ways of
fooling him, at your own risk, which may
involve Tokens in their own right.



CANTRIPS

REPAIRS: If you possess the necessary tools and expertise to repair a piece of
equipment, this spell allows you to do so
without actually making physical contact with it. You need only be in the same
general area. You may repair one device in
this way per use of the spell. Sorcerers must carry with them an appropriate
tool that has been used in a ceremony to honour
Arikel. TOKEN: the tool.

ENGINEER'S EYE: you can look at some tool or machine and understand what it is
used for and how it works. Exactly how well
you understand it depends on how complex it is and how many other people already
understand it. So you would understand a
simple household object perfectly, including all its possible uses; but a master
clockworker's experimental gun would only
yield a few secrets of its working. Sorcerers must remove some organ associated
with sense from a worshipper of Arikel,
preserve it, then smuggle it into the device somehow. The organ may be reused,
unless the device destroys it somehow;
it will slowly dessicate with multiple uses. TOKEN: the worshippers eye.


THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE: Arikel is at some level connected to all technology.
With the use of this spell, he grants you
the right to use that connection to find if there is a tool in existence that
performs some function, or a design for such
a tool, and if so to gain some clue as to where it might be found. State what
effect you have in mind, and we will tell you
if there is a device that achieves it. Alternatively, state some principle or
component, and we'll tell you if there's a
device that utilises it (eg 'is anyone, or has anyone ever, developed an
internal combustion engine/clockwork brain/
big stompy robot?'). Sorcerers see above.

SPANNER IN THE WORKS: some tool or mechanical device in your vicinity breaks.
Not irreparably, and only in one place/way,
but it is nonetheless broken. Sorcerers must repair a previously broken tool
that had been used in a ceremony to honour
Arikel, and carry it with them when performing the ritual.

WARDING THE BAIRN: cast this on some tool or device; people will feel
disinclined to go near it or touch it, lest they
spoil or break it. This includes potential thieves or wreckers. It is possible
to overcome this aversion, particularly
for those who are aware that they are being influenced. Sorcerers must mingle a
little blood from a child with a little
of their own, and sprinkle the device with it. NO TOKEN.

ENCHANTMENTS

DIVINE INSPIRATION: a slight misnomer. This spell puts you in touch with Arikel
and the small group of his most dedicated
worshippers that reside on his barge, for the express purpose of helping you to
design some new piece of tech. They tend to
give you less than their full attention, and Arikel himself is rather busy;
still, in game terms, this saves you one turnsheet
action when designing new technology. Sorcerers see above.

THE LOYAL APPRENTICE: this uses just the same mechanic as Divine Inspiration,
but instead you seek training to improve your
skills in general. Cast the spell and dedicate a turnsheet action to absorbing
the wisdom of Arikel's Eternal apprentices;
you will now be more skilled in a selected field of engineering. Depending on
what field you picked, you may have to do this
more than once to gain game mechanical advantages, but the GM team will take all
advances into account. This spell always
makes the process faster then learning off another human. Sorcerers see above.


GUIDANCE OF THE MASTER: Arikel himself dedicates some of his attention to
guiding your hands as you build a device (this must
be something you already know how to build, though). As a result, it is of the
very highest quality, and is remarkably
durable. If you make it public, you will be renowned as a master craftsman. Note
that Arikel emphasises individual genius
in workmanship, and using this spell too much will earn you his contempt.
Sorcerers see above.

RUINATION: a machine in your vicinity completely falls to pieces, with several
components becoming irreparibly damaged
in the process. This will not work on very large machines [SO JUST FORGET
CASTING IT ON THE CITADEL OF STEAM THEN LAUGHING
LIKE A STONER], or may work only on individual components at the GMs'
discretion. Sorcerers do as for 'Spanner in the Works',
but the tool must have been handled (or at least recycled from one that was
handled) at some point by an Avatar of Arikel.
TOKEN: the tool.

AUTOMATON RESURRECTION: the opposite. Some utterly shattered device, of which
you must have at least a significant proportion
of the components, is instantly restored to full working order. You may need a
good explanation as to how you produced this
miracle. Again, very large macines may be exempted. Sorcerers do as for
'repairs', but the tool must have been handled (or
at least recycled from one that was handled) at some point by an Avatar of
Arikel. TOKEN: the tool.

MASTERY: you gain control, for an hour, over some device in the area. Its
components do as you will. You can't make them move
with much more force than is in them anyway (so you could use this to just beat
someone with a spade, but a strong individual
could just push it away). For best results, you should understand how the device
works, and how else it could work. Sorcerers
must have a small automated mannequin made (clockwork or grey engineering are
possible); it need do no more than walk short
distances itself. This must incorporate some component taken from a device the
design of which was in some way influenced
by Arikel (using Divine Inspiration to ask Arikel for a Mannequin design to use
in this spell would be plain cheeky).
The mannequin must then be placed before the machine to be controlled. TOKEN:
the mannequin.

SURROGATE TOOLS: if you find yourself stranded somewhere without the tools to
practice your craft, this spell allows you
to construct them from whatever you do have to hand. This is partly a process of
inspiration ('I could use that jagged bit
of flint') and partly a matter of magical transformation (rocks do actually
remeld into functional spanners). The less
supportive your environment is of your craft, the harder the use of this will be
to conceal. Sorcerers require some artefact
of Arikel, and an unsually long and difficult ritual. TOKEN: whatever the
artifact of Arikel is.

GRAND RITUALS

RIGHTFUL OWNER: someone else had an idea that you wish you had. This spell gives
you instant knowledge of how to construct
a device, as long as someone else already knows how to build it, and you know
who that person is. This knowledge is just as
if you had already built a prototype of it yourself. Sorcerers must somehow use
a tool they have made themselves and had
handled by an Avatar of Arikel, or used in a ritual to honour Arikel, and use it
(in whatever way) to steal a part of the
person. The person must not know that this has happened, at least before the
ritual is complete. TOKEN: the tool.



SCOURGE OF THE PLAGIARIST: you erase the knowledge of how to construct some
device from a person's mind. It is as though the
person never knew how to make the device. Sorcerers must persuade the target to
accept a lit fire from them, then arrange
matters so that the fire is extinguished leaving the person in utter darkness.
The fire source must have been associated
with Arikel in some way (blessing by a priest, blood of a worshipper, etc.).
TOKEN: any permanent item used to associate
the fire source with Arikel may become the token.

REALISATION OF THE MIND'S EYE: you may create any device that you can conceive
(as long as you could draw out detailed plans
for it) out of the whole cloth. If the device would normally take turnsheet
actions to construct it still takes at least one,
but you do not need tools, materials, or even soundness of body. It just
appears, as you imagine it, piece by piece. Sorcerers
must assemble dead body parts, treated in various rare oils, from people with
all the necessary skills to perform the work;
this must include the head of a cult leader of Arikel. The body parts are placed
in one of the diagrams for the ritual.
TOKEN: the head (which can be reused).

MECHANICAL DREAMS: cast the spell then go to sleep. Your consciousness is
disembodied and can wander through the local area.
Most of the world is dim and difficult to make out, but tools and machines are
precise and well defined. Your consciousness
can enter into them and fully explore their workings, and control them with a
very great degree of precision (as though they
were your own body). If anything else is already supernaturally dominating the
machine, things could get real exciting.
The dreams last for six hours. Sorcerers must have a steamwork machine custom
made for them (grey engineering or steam proper);
it must be at least big enough (and appropriately constructed) for them to lie
within it. It must incorporate some part that
has previously been ina device constructed by an avatar of Arikel. The sorcerer
performs a few extra rites, then must sleep within
it while it is running. TOKEN: the engine.

HARNESS THE ANIMALS: in times long gone by, Arikel harnessed the raw Powers and
forced them to do the bidding of the Gods.
Now you can too. Take something with a strong power affinity; it will now have
an effect/function/purpose that is defined
by you, as long as it is basically within the remit of the Power. So for example
a sample of coarse Ocean essence would now have
whatever effect you wanted it to, as long as (i) it was still a basically Ocean
related effect, and (ii) it isn't too powerful
(since we are discussing a coarse essence). You can try to use this to control
Daemons and those with Power affinities of

>>11, but be warned that conscious creatures are much harder to control in this

way. Sorcerers don't get to use this spell -
they just steal magic direct from the Powers.

MUTILATED ONE

The Mutilated One, on the other hand, is rather more free about giving out
spells. He is generous in his patronage of his
children. There are references throughout to the Children of the Mutilated Lord;
these are not just those who worship
him, but all those he thinks of his children (the physically and mentally
incomplete, the very poor and long term vulnerable,
the dispossessed). In order to maintain their secrecy, the Beggars of Horizon
advise their members not to use overt magic
too much.

The generous tendencies of the Mutilated One are such that sorcery of his spells
becomes an uneasy mix of theft and persuasion.
Sorcerers are unwilling to admit that spells are not always gloriously ripped
from the Gods, and don't discuss this much. Any
spell marked (*) below can be cast easily by a sorcerer who is considered a
child by the Mutilated One; others can do so
if they have given away significant amounts of money to Children (or done the
Children favours in some other way). Children
who are allies of the character do not count. This is a class A purchase.
Sorcery involving the Mutilated One typically
does not require tokens.

CANTRIPS

STREET HEARTH: when cast on some piece of rubbish, this spell causes it to begin
burning with a strange flame that appears
weak and only consumes the item slowly, but produces a localised pocket of
comfortably warm, dry air. The spell persists
for up to four hours (*).

ENDURANCE: you, or a chosen individual who must be well known to you (and
present at casting) gains some protection from the
extremes of the environment. You are more resistant to heat, cold, hunger, and
disease, although by no means immune. The
spell lasts for a week, and can be renewed. A sorcerer must live without food
for three days, then perform a simple ritual.

WOUNDS OF THE BODY: once you have cast this spell, you must select a subject and
spend time examining them. this need not be
a medical - depth examination; you just need to watch how they move, talk, work,
and so on. From this examination, you gain
insight into any meaningful impefections in their body - past or present. The
longer you are able to spend in uninterrupted
examination of them, the more you will find out. A brief glance might be enough
to pick up on a barely - healed fracture
that would be immediately obvious to a doctor; an hour or more might allow you
to discover a slight weakening of one lung
resulting from a childhood infection (*).

WOUNDS OF THE SPIRIT: after casting this spell, you need to engage the chosen
subject in conversation. As you converse, any
significant emotional or mental problems (this includes actual brain damage,
which is not covered by Wounds of the Body)
will be revealed to you. Again, the longer you are able to hold them in
conversation, the more and in more depth you will
find out. A single exchange of words might reveal the fact that someone is
living entirely in a fantasy world; a long conversation
might reveal a deeply buried and long repressed hatred of their mother. It is
possible that a conversation would reveal either
of these by mundane means, but this spell removes the element of doubt (*).

MOVE THE VEIL: many of those in the overworld secretly fear the children of the
Mutilated Lord; partly for their appearance
and the possibility of disease, but mostly because of what they represent; what
bad luck or failure could have and might
still bring to the prosperous. They try to pretend the Beggars and others aren't
there; and when forced to acknowledge them,
see them only as a hideous threat or warning. This is the Veil, behind which the
children are hidden. For one target, the Veil
is removed, and if the caster so wishes transfered to something else. The first
effect causes the target to see Beggars - and
others - on the same level as they would anyone else (though this is not
necessarily in a positive light). The second effect
causes the target to see something else, which might be a single object or a
whole class of objects, with the same fear and
loathing they normally would the Beggars. They will react appropriately, whether
ignoring the thing in question, avoiding it
or attacking it. After a coupe of hours, the veil will be restored, unless
something has genuinely succeeded in altering
the target's world view in that time. Any target who normally thinks of the
children of the Lord as normal people is essentially
unaffected. Sorcerers can cast this spell easily, but first they must attach the
same stigma to themselves as would attach
to one of the Children of the Lord.



ENCHANTMENTS

CURSE OF AGUE: the target of the spell is afflicted with a disease that is
either physically disfiguring, lingering and
highly debilitating, or capable of leaving some other long term physical
problem. The disease is never fatal in itself,
though there may be outside complications. The target must have committed some
crime against the children of the Lord, although
this may be interpreted broadly; also, the caster must briefly come into close
contact with the target. A sorcerer must
lacerate himself then rub filth into the wounds so that he is covered in weeping
sores; the spell can then easily be cast.
This is likely to have long term health effects for the caster.


CURSE OF MUTILATION: again,the target must have committed some crime against the
Children of the Lord and must come into brief
physical contact with the caster. Small circumstances begin to twist around the
target, and within a week they will be involved
in a seemingly random accident that severely injures them and leaves them with a
permanent scar of some sort. It is possible
although difficult to prevent the 'accident' occuring; alternatively appropriate
Fire or Star magic can be used. Sorcerers
must inflict a serious wound upon themselves.

DEEPEN THE VEIL: the Veil is deepened around you (or a chosen individual who
must be well known to you (and present at
casting)), so that anyone and everyone ignores them utterly. It will take
something quite dramatic to make anyone pay
attention to you. The spell lasts for an hour. Sorcerers must not only find a
way of putting on the aura of the Children,
they must arrange matters so that an acquaintance publicly and earnestly rejects
them. The spell can then be cast at will.

CALL THE LITTLE BROTHERS: the vermin of Horizon, living off the refuse of
society, are thought of by the Mutilated Lord
as smaller children of his. With this spell you call a number of them in the
local area to you; you may speak with them,
and they will do you bidding. This spell also facilitates communication, so any
commands will be understood as well as
is possible by the animals. Possible animals include rats, mice, bats, pigeons,
and crows. Other more exotic specimens
may be possible if you pick the right spot (the sewers can be interesting). In
Horizon, dogs of any kind are specifically
excluded, although stray (not wild) dogs are possible in other cities. You can
communicate with stray cats in this way, but
cannot command them in any way (there seems to be some sort of agreement between
the Lord and Lady Illaria). You can also
cast this as a grand ritual. If you do, all vermin of a given type in the entire
city district are yours to command. A sorcerer
must destroy or irrevocably give away something he deeply cares about - if there
is nothing else, a body part will do.
For the Grand Ritual, this must be something of immense significance in the
character's life - most of their assets, for
example.

PROTECTION: you (or another, as previously discussed) are put under the
protection of the Mutilated Lord. As well as gaining
the benefits of Endurance, circumstances subtly bend around you to protect you
from random mischance, and keep you out of
trouble (this even has a limited element of warning to it, so you may find
something minor goes wrong as you are trying
to perform an action that would put you in unexpected danger). This lasts for a
week. Sorcerers must go without food for ten
days before casting this.



THE LOYAL OATH: The target of this spell must swear an oath to be true to the
Mutilated Lord and to join with his children
as brother and sisters. From that time on, unless somehow released by powerful
magic, the target is enforced to do nothing
that would directly or by one degree of removal reveal the cults of the
Mutilated Lord. So no going to the authorities and
saying 'guess what I've found!' And no saying 'you might want to check the
Darwell abbatoir's storeroom on the third of the
month'. This spell is one reason why generations of secret agents have failed to
reveal the true nature of the Beggars.
Sorcerers cannot cast this.

GRAND RITUALS

NO WAY DOWN: there is no way the life of a Beggar can get worse. With this
spell, the Mutilated Lord makes this the literal
truth. The target (caster or close associate) is absolutely protected from
direct harm. Gangs of thugs attempting to beat you
up achieve nothing more than tiring themselves out. Your clothes will refuse to
take light. Accidents happen to other people.
Mobs part around you without realising why. The only exceptions to this are self
- harm and seriously high - powered
magic. This lasts for one day. A sorcerer must take on the aura of the children,
and arrange matters so that several of his
acquaintances publicly assault or otherwise mistreat him, and in earnest.

THE FALL: this must be cast on someone who is not already one of the Children of
the Lord; they must have committed some crime
against the Children, and must be in brief physical contact with the caster.
Events begin to twist around the target, such
that over the course of a month they are utterly ruined; this may be as simple
as losing all their money, but might include
complete social humiliation and major mutilation or disfigurment. Steps can be
taken to prevent the Fall by those who know
it is in progress, but this is difficult. Sorcerers act as for the grand ritual
'Call the Little Brothers'.

DARK CITY: this requires at least six worshippers of the Mutilated Lord, who
spend a significant amount of time in the
affected area on a regular basis, to aid the caster. Select a city district
(Horizon or elsewhwere); this must be a district
with significant social problems (so in the Lower City, in Horizon). For one
night, the district as a whole comes to terrible
life and works against those designated by the caster as threats. Streets will
change the way they connect up, buildings
will report the quarry's position back to the caster, sewers will yawn open
beneath their feet, even residents will feel
unaccountably hostile towards the quarry. Although all this is non - obvious on
a mundane level, anyone with the slightest
supernatural sensitvity will realise that something big is happening. The spell
is therefore saved for special occasions;
the last time it was used was in the days immediately before the Last Treaty,
when a group of the Imperial Army began to burn
Horizon to cheat the Alliance of their prize. Instead, the Slums swallowed the
Imperialists.
Reliable rumour among the Beggars has it that the Lord has granted a very
similar spell to his favored in Vegdabarra that
makes use of the deep forest.
Sorcerers may cast this, but they must still have the assisstance of the six
worshippers, and moreover must explain exactly
what they are doing and why to all involved.

SACRED VESSEL: the caster is immediately possessed by the Mutilated Lord. This
spell is very rarely granted to anyone but
the Beggar King. Multiple possessions tend to erode the mind of the subject.
Sorcerers can cast this at no extra cost, but
success is not guarenteed.

DREAM SENDING: the Mutilated Lord has the ability to enter the dreams of
unbelievers, and with this spell he consents to
do so on your behalf. Something, anything you like, gets put into the dreams of
your target. Sorcerers can do this when they
want, but the Mutilated Lord notices them and it (and any selected worshippers)
have access to the sorcerer's dreams for a
month.

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Cantrips:

Despair: A little niggle, a slight worry in the back of the mind
becomes all consuming. The fear that usually only haunts you in the
darkest of nights now stalks you during the day as well. This can be
cast on anyone and lasts for 1 week.

Cause doubt: With this spell you can plant the seeds of doubt into
someone's mind about anything you wish. This will not gurantee that
they will change their course of action but it might make them waiver
at a key moment.

Caught in hindsight: This forces a person to think back over all the
times things have gone wrong for them and berate themselves for what
they should have done. This is not as distracting as 'Waking dream'
This lasts for 1 day

Perserverance: This allows one person to withstand a degree of
suffering for far longer than they thought they were able to. This
does not give them relief from the pain just means they are able to
live with it for that much longer. This can be cast on anyone. It
allows a tortured person hold out far longer until they break, it will
give a terminally ill person the ability to survive that little bit
longer. This lasts for a day and can be recast on the same person
consecutively to maintain their perseverance. This can also be looked
at as making someone suffer for longer (which is more in keeping
really)


Enchantments:

Remove Joy: With this spell you remove all sense of happiness a person
has for a period of one week. All good things in their life don't give
them happiness and they do not know how to obtain it. They cannot find
comfort in anything and act and respond appropriately.

Barren: This renders the target of the spell barren and unable to bear
or father children. This is possibly reversible with land intervention
but there are no gurantees.

Waking dream: This forces a person to relive, as if they were there,
their greatest regret able to see what they should have done but
unable to change anything about it. This is, arguably, very
distracting and can be debilitating. This occurs over a period of
about 5 minutes.

Weakness: When cast upon someone this brings out their greatest
weakness and intensifies it so that it becomes crippling to them. If
they are an addict then they will become totally dependent upon their
drug of choice and unable to function at all without it, if they are
afraid of anything then even the mere mention of it will make them
freeze in fear. Sight of it/ experience of it will give them a sense
of paralysing terror and they will be unable to react to it. This
lasts for 1 day.

Grand rituals:

Twist of fate: This spell allows you to thwart the plans of one person
for one day so that all that would go well for them instead falls to
ruin. The son they were expecting is stillborn, a friend doesn't make
it through the night due to a fever, a close family member is lost
while away and never makes it home.

Hide pain: With this spell you may remove the bitter pain that someone
else is feeling due to a certain specific event indefinitely – this
can be physical pain from a terminal disease or emotional pain from
the loss of a loved one. However you take on that pain yourself. You
can break the spell and restore the natural order of things if so
desired but although they will regain the pain you will not entirely
lose it and a residue of it will forever remain with you.

Find the weak point: When cast with a certain system or person in mind
you will find out what exactly it is that will cause that thing to
crumble. Remove that lynchpin somehow and the rest of the body will
come crashing down around it. In relation to a person this could be
significant other, a job position, a prized object; in a system it
could be a key figure or a secret that must not be exposed (this spell
doesn't give you the secret but tells you that there is one to be
found and perhaps a hint as to how to find it). To cast this you must
have good cause to do so such as the target causing you great pain in
some way – you are trying to make them feel what they made you feel.