How Magic Works (Arcane Understanding Trait)

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How Magic Works (Arcane Understanding Trait)

Magic in Warring Fronts has gone through many variations and changes. The current system is as simplified as possible but also designed in a way to maximize efficiency and flexibility. Here is the system.

Magic is only available through the Arcane Understanding Kingdom Civic. Once you have chosen that trait, you are allowed to choose up to two Specialization Schools. Here are the schools your kingdom may specialize in.

KINGDOMS MAY PICK TWO FOR 6 SPELLS A PIECE ; OR PICK 1 FOR 12 SPELLS IN THAT ONE SCHOOL

Major Magical Schools

Divination -- This school is focused on acquiring information. Divination has one subschool: scrying, spells within the scrying subschool create invisible magical sensors which provide the caster with information, these sensors can be detected and dispelled. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Diviners.

Primalism -- Primalism is the magic of nature, magic of the world. It contains spells like Summon Forest Creatures and Armor of Wood. Wizards who specialize in this class are known as Druids.

Evocation -- Evocation is focused on damaging energy-based spells such as Fireball, Lightning Bolt and Cone of Cold. It also includes conjurations of magical energy, such as Wall of Force, Darkness, Light, Leomund's Tiny Hut and the Bigby's Hand spells. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Evokers.

Necromancy -- Necromancy spells involve death, undeath and the manipulation of life energy. Necromancy can usually be divided into three or four categories: spells that help or create the Undead, like Animate Dead; spells that hurt the Undead, like Disrupt Undead; and spells that hurt other people, like Enervation or Vampiric Touch. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Necromancers.

Abjuration -- This school is focused on protective spells, as well as spells which cancel or interfere with other spells, magical effects or supernatural abilities, such as Break Enchantment, Dimensional Anchor, Dispel Magic or Remove Curse. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Abjurers.

Transmutation -- Spells in this school alter the properties of their targets. Examples include Bull's Strength, Fabricate, Polymorph, Plant Growth, Move Earth, Water Breathing. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Transmuters.

Conjuration -- This school, known as Conjuration, is focused on instantaneous transportation, conjuring manifestations of creatures, energy or objects and object creation. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Conjurers.

Enchantment -- This school, known as Enchantment involves Charm spells. Charm spells, such as Charm Person or Symbol of Persuasion, affect the targets' attitudes, usually making them act more favorably toward the caster. Compulsion spells such as Confusion, Dominate Monster, Feeblemind, Sleep, Suggestion or Zone of Truth, can force the targets' to act in a certain way or avoid certain actions, affect the targets' emotions or affect the targets' minds in other ways. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Enchanters.

Illusion -- This school is divided into five subschools: figment, glamer, pattern, phantasm and shadow. Figment spells create artificial sensations with no physical substance. Glamer spells alter the target's sensory properties, and can cause invisibility. Pattern spells create insubstantial images which affect the minds of the viewers, pattern spells can inflict harm. Phantasm spells create hallucinations which can be harmful. Shadow spells use magical shadows to create things with physical substance. Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Illusionists.

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Divination School Spells

Identify (Individual) - The spell determines all magic properties of a single magic item, including how to activate those functions (if appropriate), and how many charges are left (if any).
* Cost 1 Mana.

Detect Magic (Individual) - By means of read magic, you can decipher magical inscriptions on objects—books, scrolls, weapons, and the like—that would otherwise be unintelligible. This deciphering does not normally invoke the magic contained in the writing, although it may do so in the case of a cursed scroll. Furthermore, once the spell is cast and you have read the magical inscription, you are thereafter able to read that particular writing without recourse to the use of read magic.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Detect Thoughts (Individual) - You detect surface thoughts. The amount of information revealed depends on how long you study a particular area or subject. 1 Mana is the presence of certain thoughts ; malevolence, ambition, death, et cetera. 2 Mana elaborates on the thought, but not about where, or who. 3 Mana is the exact thought.
* Cost X Mana.

Arcane Sight (Individual) - This spell makes your eyes glow blue and allows you to see magical auras within 120 feet of you. The effect is similar to that of a detect magic spell, but arcane sight does not require concentration and discerns aura location and power more quickly. You know the location and power of all magical auras within your sight
* Cost 2 Mana.

See Invisibility (Individual/Mass) - You can see any objects or beings that are invisible within your range of vision, as well as any that are ethereal, as if they were normally visible. Such creatures are visible to you as translucent shapes, allowing you easily to discern the difference between visible, invisible, and ethereal creatures. The spell does not reveal the method used to obtain invisibility. It does not reveal illusions or enable you to see through opaque objects. It does not reveal creatures who are simply hiding, concealed, or otherwise hard to see.
* Cost 2 Mana.

Clairaudience/Clairvoyance (Individual) - Clairaudience/clairvoyance creates an invisible magical sensor at a specific location that enables you to hear or see (your choice) almost as if you were there. You don’t need line of sight or line of effect, but the locale must be known—a place familiar to you or an obvious one. Once you have selected the locale, the sensor doesn’t move, but you can rotate it in all directions to view the area as desired. Unlike other scrying spells, this spell does not allow magically or supernaturally enhanced senses to work through it. If the chosen locale is magically dark, you see nothing. If it is naturally pitch black, you can see in a 10- foot radius around the center of the spell’s effect. Clairaudience/clairvoyance functions only on the plane of existence you are currently occupying.
* Cost 3 Mana.

Minor Scrying (Individual/Mass) - You can see and hear some creature, which may be at any distance. As with all scrying effects, you have full visual accessibility, as if you were there.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Detect Scrying (Indivdual) - You immediately become aware of any attempt to observe you by means of a divination (scrying) spell or effect. The spell’s area radiates from you and moves as you move. You know the location of every magical sensor within the spell’s area.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Contact Other Plane (Individual) - You send your mind to another plane of existence (an Elemental Plane or some plane farther removed) in order to receive advice and information from powers there. The powers reply in a language you understand, but they resent such contact and give only brief answers to your questions. (All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or some other one-word answer.) Contacting these planes can be useful for finding new information, asking for help, et cetera.
The available planes are:
Elemental Plane - Four planes, Fire, Ice, Earth and Air are available.
Astral Plane - A secondary plane of existence where spirits and lost souls wander.
Demon Plane - A greater plane where demons and fiends are held.
* Cost 4 Mana.

Telepathic Bond (Individual) - You forge a telepathic bond among yourself and a number of willing creatures or other people.. Each creature included in the link is linked to all the others. The creatures can communicate telepathically through the bond regardless of language. No special power or influence is established as a result of the bond. Once the bond is formed, it works over any distance (although not from one plane to another).
* Cost 2 Mana.

True Seeing (Individual/Mass) - You confer on the subject the ability to see all things as they actually are. The subject sees through normal and magical darkness, notices secret doors hidden by magic, sees the exact locations of creatures or objects under blur or displacement effects, sees invisible creatures or objects normally, sees through illusions, and sees the true form of polymorphed, changed, or transmuted things.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Probe Thoughts (Individual) - All the subject’s memories and knowledge are accessible to you, ranging from memories deep below the surface to those still easily called to mind. You can learn the answer to three questions per casting, to the best of the subject’s knowledge.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Foresight (Individual) - This spell grants you a powerful sixth sense in relation to yourself or another. Once foresight is cast, you receive instantaneous warnings of impending danger or harm to the subject of the spell. You are never surprised or flat-footed. In addition, the spell gives you a general idea of what action you might take to best protect yourself.
* Cost 2 Mana.

Discern Location (Individual/Mass) - A discern location spell is among the most powerful means of locating creatures or objects. Nothing short of a mind blank spell or the direct intervention of a deity keeps you from learning the exact location of a single individual or object. Discern location circumvents normal means of protection from scrying or location. The spell reveals the name of the creature or object’s location (place, name, business name, building name, or the like), community, county (or similar political division), country, continent, and the plane of existence where the target lies.
* Cost 4 Mana.

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Primalism School Spells

Detect Poison (Individual) - You determine whether a creature, object, or area has been poisoned or is poisonous. You can determine the exact type of poison as well.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Charm Animals (Individual) - This charm makes a small group of animals regard you as a trusted friend and ally (treat the target’s attitude as friendly). If the animals are currently being threatened or attacked by you or your allies, the spell may fail.
* Cost 1 Mana.

Endure Elements (Individual/Mass)

Summon Nature's Ally (Minor) (Individual/Mass)

Summon Swarm ((Individual/Mass)

Contagion ((Individual/Mass)

Heal Minor Wounds (Individual/Mass)

Commune with Nature (Individual/Mass)

Wall of Thorns ((Individual/Mass)

Blight (Individual/Mass)

Dispel Minor Magic (Individual/Mass)

Animate Plants (Individual/Mass)

Summon Nature's Greater Ally (Individual/Mass)

Shapechange (Individual)

Regenate (Individual/Mass)

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Evocation School Spells

Ray of Frost (Individual/Mass)

Shocking Grasp (Individual)

Magic Bolt (Individual/Mass)

Scorching Ray ((Individual/Mass)

Flaming Sphere (Individual/Mass)

Lightning Bolt (Individual/Mass)

Fireball (Individual/Mass)

Wall of Fire (Individual/Mass)

Wall of Ice (Individual/Mass)

Ice Storm (Individual/Mass)

Cone of Cold (Individual/Mass)

Chain Lightning (Individual/Mass)

Mage's Sword (Individual/Mass)

Greater Shout (Individual/Mass)

Meteor Swarm (Individual/Mass)

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Necromancy School Spells

Cause Fear (Individual/Mass)

Ray of Enfeeblement (Individual/Mass)

Vampiric Touch (Individual/Mass)

Animate Dead: Zombies (Individual/Mass)

Animate Dead: Skeletons (Individual/Mass)

Contagion (Individual/Mass)

Blight (Individual/Mass)

Symbol of Pain (Individual/Mass)

Circle of Death (Individual)

Create Undead: Ghoul (Individual/Mass

Finger of Death (Individual)

Create Greater Undead: Devourer (Individual/Mass)

Wail of the Banshee (Individual)

Lichdom (Individual)

Create Greater Undead: Shadow (Individual)

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Abjuration School Spells

Hold Portal (Individual - This spell magically holds shut a door, gate, window, or shutter of wood, metal, or stone. The magic affects the portal just as if it were securely closed and normally locked. A knock spell or a successful dispel magic spell can negate a hold portal spell.
* Costs 1 Mana.

Shield: Minor (Individual/Mass) - Shield creates an invisible, tower shield-sized mobile disk of force that hovers in front of the caster. It negates magic missile based attacks directed at the caster.
* Costs 2 Mana.

Obscure Object (Individual) - This spell hides an object from location by divination (scrying) effects, such as the scrying spell or a crystal ball.
* Costs 1 Mana.

Resist Energy (Individual/Mass) - This abjuration grants a creature limited protection from damage of whichever one of five energy types the caster selects: acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic. The subject gains energy resistance for two attacks against the selected type.

Dispel Magic (Individual/Mass) -

Nondetection (Individual/Mass)

Lesser Globe of Invulnerability (Individual/Mass)

Remove Curse (Individual/Mass)

Break Enchantment (Individual)

Private Sanctum (Individual)

Dispel Greater Magic (Individual)

Antimagic Field (Individual/Mass)

Spell Turning (Individual)

Mind Blank (Individual)

Magical Imprisonment (Individual)

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Transmutation School Spells

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Conjuration School Spells

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Echantment School Spells

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Charm Person (Individual) - This charm makes a humanoid creature regard you as its trusted friend and ally (treat the target’s attitude as friendly). If the creature is currently being threatened or attacked by you or your allies, however, the spell may not be successful,

Heroism (Individual/) - This spell imbues a single creature or person, or a group of people with great bravery and morale in battle.

Mind Fog (Individual/Mass) - Mind fog produces a bank of thin mist that weakens the mental resistance of those caught in it. The fog is visible but not extremely thick. Being in the fog will weaken the mental resistance of those in it.

Symbol of Sleep (Individual) - This spell functions like symbol of death, except that all creatures of a weak will or less within 60 feet of the symbol of sleep instead fall into a catatonic slumber for twenty or thirty minutes. Unlike with the sleep spell, sleeping creatures cannot be awakened by nonmagical means before this time expires.

Dominate Person (Individual) - You can control the actions of any humanoid creature through a telepathic link that you establish with the subject’s mind. If you and the subject have a common language, you can generally force the subject to perform as you desire, within the limits of its abilities. If no common language exists, you can communicate only basic commands, such as “Come here,” “Go there,” “Fight,” and “Stand still.” You know what the subject is experiencing, but you do not receive direct sensory input from it, nor can it communicate with you telepathically.

Geas (Individual) - A geas places a magical command on a creature to carry out some service or to refrain from some action or course of activity, as desired by you. The creature must be able to understand you. While a geas cannot compel a creature to kill itself or perform acts that would result in certain death, it can cause almost any other course of activity. The geased creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes.

Mass Suggestion (Individual/Mass) - You influence the actions of the target creature(s) by suggesting a course of activity (limited to a sentence or two). The suggestion must be worded in such a manner as to make the activity sound reasonable. Asking the creature to do some obviously harmful act automatically negates the effect of the spell. The same suggestion applies to all these creatures. The suggested course of activity can continue for the entire duration. If the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends when the subject finishes what it was asked to do. You can instead specify conditions that will trigger a special activity during the duration. If the condition is not met before the spell duration expires, the activity is not performed.

Hold Person: Mass (Individual/Mass) - The subject or subjects becomes paralyzed and freezes in place. It is aware and breathes normally but cannot take any actions, even speech.

Binding (Individual) - A binding spell creates a magical restraint to hold a creature. You can’t dispel a binding spell with dispel magic or a similar effect, though an antimagic field or Mage’s disjunction affects it normally. A bound extraplanar creature cannot be sent back to its home plane due to dismissal, banishment, or a similar effect.

Maddening Scream (Individual) - The subject cannot keep him or herself from behaving as though completely mad. This spell makes it impossible for the victim to do anything other than race about caterwauling.

Power Word Stun (Individual/Mass) - You utter a single word of power that instantly causes one creature of your choice to become stunned, whether the creature can hear the word or not.

Symbol of Insanity (Individual/Mass) - This spell functions like symbol of death, except that all creatures within the radius of the symbol of insanity instead become permanently insane.


Sympathy (Individual) - You cause an object or location to emanate magical vibrations that attract either a specific kind of intelligent creature or creatures of a particular alignment, as defined by you. The particular kind of creature to be affected must be named specifically. A creature subtype is not specific enough. Likewise, the specific alignment must be named. Creatures of the specified kind or alignment feel elated and pleased to be in the area or desire to touch or to possess the object. The compulsion to stay in the area or touch the object is overpowering.


Dominate Monster(s) (Individual/Mass) - You can control the actions of any creature through a telepathic link that you establish with the subject’s mind. If you and the subject have a common language, you can generally force the subject to perform as you desire, within the limits of its abilities. If no common language exists, you can communicate only basic commands, such as “Come here,” “Go there,” “Fight,” and “Stand still.” You know what the subject is experiencing, but you do not receive direct sensory input from it, nor can it communicate with you telepathically.

Power Word: Kill (Individual) - You utter a single word of power that instantly kills one creature of your choice, whether the creature can hear the word or not.