These spells are intended to be part of the Burlady universe in the Palimpsests campaign, but can be adapted for other high-magic universes. (For example, I use them if I'm running Aegis using CORPS.)

Sorcery

Sorcerors belong to colleges. (Not that they go to a specifi college; a college represents a body of knowledge and techniques.) For example, four of the great mages of old each specialized in one of the four elements (earth, air, fire, water). Any "earth" sorceror is therefore using spells somehow derived from that college's founder. Theough the details of the invocation may differ (different focus, different incantation), most of the restrictions stay the same.

Becoming a sorceror is very expensive in terms of SP: You need Sorcery skill, the appropriate secondary skill, and you must buy each spell.

I've identified seven colleges of sorcery, though of course there may be others, and there may be subschools within them. (For example, perhaps Ravinent the Prudent knew the secret of "preloading" his spells (+5 SP), and so his students also know this secret; but other teachers of the same college do not.)

The seven colleges are the four Elemental Colleges, The College of Forms, the College of Will, and the Necromancers.

The Elemental Colleges

Note that although each level of knowledge has similar spells, the effects of the spells are not identical. There are very distinct reasons for choosing one college over another. Earth sorcerors, for example, learn the El's Blood spell, which heals wounds, while Air sorcerors learn to fly.

Elemental spells have the following common limitations:

• Not near iron (-3)
• May only modify existing energy sources (-1)
• Power multiples may be limited to natural effect of source (-1)
• Requires a skill roll of difficulty 2xPOW used (-3)
• Incantations or gestures, depending upon the spell (-1)
• Spell is part of a college (-2)
• Concentration: cast at initiative 0 (-1)
• Backfires (-3)

GMs may choose to have all spells be Immutable, but this essentially has the effect of preventing the players from coming up with new spells.

The level of a spell is the minimum POW required to learn it. (The spell may be cast at a lower power, however.) The level is also a guide to the order in which a sorceror learns the spells. Usually this progression is:

GM's Note

If you require a character to learn all previous spells and skills, the characters will be heavily penalized for being sorcerors who want combat spells (level IV). (Cost: is 16 AP for POW, plus 36 SP for spells, plus at least 11 SP for skills-- 5 SP for Sorcery at level 3 (Aptitude 2), plus 6 points for the secondary skills.)

Earth Spells:

Air Spells

Fire Spells

Water Spells

The College of Forms

The College of Forms attempts to control the underlying pattern of things. By grasping that pattern, it may be manipulated and changed.

The College of Will

The College of Will specializes in meditative techniques that control the body. By so doing, they are capable of tremendous feats. (In an Aegis campaign, the Saegin monks form the College of Will.)

Necromancers

They raise the dead -- often for noble purposes (such as the resurrection of a loved one) but the path of necromancy is inherently evil and always twists its practitioners.

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