“It’s a glorious day. The light inside you is radiant indeed.” – Deshmin, legendary spirit templar
Spirit templars harnesses spirit magics into offensive tools, attacking the very essence of opponents. Spirit templars favor two-weapon combat, often choosing the spear and whip as his tools of choice. Spirit templars are uniquely devoted to the forces of good and may be no other alignment. The magics of Spirit in general resonate with chaos, therefore preventing any who study them from being of lawful ethos.
The sudden arrival of the ch’taren during the War of Night brought with them unexpected fruit: the magics of Spirit. This included its more martial variation, the creed of the Spirit templar. Possessed of both divine and extraplanar power, these new weapons were devastatingly effective against both Void-mages and their demonic servitors. With the end of the War, these techniques spread rapidly throughout Avendar. Ch’taren remain the predominant practitioners of the art, but it has come to be heralded by virtually all mortal races for its immense power.
A uniquely ch’taren class, every Spirit templar stands alone, even when surrounded by friends and allies. They are trained to strike at the heart of the enemy, assaulting even the greatest of foes with relentless efficiency. Demons and shuddeni are common victims of the Spirit templar, as he is able to banish or slay them with devastating skill. Well practiced in defensive techniques especially tailored to their brash style, a Spirit templar rarely fears for his safety even in darkness. Spirit templars favor two-weapon combat, often choosing the spear and whip as his tools of choice.
Spirit templars are uniquely devoted to the forces of good and may be no other alignment. The magics of Spirit in general resonate with chaos, therefore preventing any who study them from being of lawful ethos. The ch’taren deities Rystaia, Calaera, and Vaialos are among the creed’s most venerated, with templars often calling upon their righteous fury to stab at the heart of darkness.
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Duration : Instantaneous Range : Self Only Reuse Delay: 6 Hours Syntax: Recover Adventurers all learn a basic technique to draw upon the divine threads of power that attune them to their altar and restore some lost hit points. Primary Attribute: wisdom
Syntax: Automatic
Bladed weapons with a typically short haft, axes are most often favoured by
barbarians, who enjoy their lack of subtlety and learn specific techniques for
them. Axes may be found in many sizes, for both one and two-handed use. They
typically deal slashing damage, and they are characteristically poor at
fending off blows, due to their balance and lack of finesse. The weighty
swings often required by axes make it suited against both shield blocking and
deflection, but much easier for opponents to fend off or stone phalanx.
Primary Attribute: strength
See also: PARRY
Syntax: Automatic
Small, bladed weapons, daggers are one of the simplest melee weapons, often
favoured by scholars for this reason, most other professions in Avendar also
receiving training in them. Rogues are more intimately trained in their usage,
learning techniques both flashy and subtle. Typically thrusting or slashing
weapons, due to their length, they are poor at warding off blows though it is
likewise difficult to parry against a dagger. Someone wielding a dagger will
have a harder time getting around a shield, a stone phalanx, or a fighter's
fending.
Primary Attribute: dexterity
See also: PARRY
Syntax: Automatic A flail is a weight attached by a chain or hinge to a handle, designed to penetrate armor through blunt or piercing force, though they are often used interchangably with the less flexible maces. Only gladiators recieve extensive training in the usage of flails, but other professions are taught the basics. Because of their flexibility and the somewhat awkward movements to wield them, they are not terribly suited to defend with, and will make it more difficult to parry when they are offhanded. Flails are particularly effective against foes who are dodging, deflecting, or shield blocking. Primary Attribute: strength, dexterity See also: PARRY
Syntax: Automatic One of the most commonly-produced and commonly-trained weapons in Avendar, swords are simple to learn the basics of, but may take decades to master. The only weapon with an entire profession dedicated solely to their usage, in the hands of most others, swords are a particularly average weapon. Typically slashing or piercing, they range from slender rapiers to massive two-handed claymores. Primary Attribute: strength, dexterity See also: PARRY
Syntax: Automatic
A whip is usually composed of a flexible cord or a chain attached to a handle,
the lash typically dealing slashing damage, though they are often enchanted,
as well. Gladiators and Void templars are the only professions that receive
dedicated training in this weapon, though many others learn the basics of
using this weapon, and they are often used in the off hand. Because of their
flexibility, they are notoriously poor at parrying with, but they are
similarly difficult for opponents to use any defense save dodge or evade
against. The length of this weapon makes it throw off one's parrying if a whip
is offhanded, as well.
Primary Attribute: dexterity
See also: PARRY
Syntax: Automatic The art of fisticuffs is taught by several of Avendar's martial guilds. Students will hit harder while unarmed than those who are untrained. If someone who is trained in both fighting unarmed and dual wielding has even a single free hand, he will use that as an off-hand attack. Having claws, both srryn and kankoran will do more damage with this skill than other races. However, this basic training only goes so far, and those who fight without a weapon in hand will find themselves unable to parry. Primary Attribute: strength, dexterity See also: PARRY
Duration : Instantaneous Cost: 3 mana
Range : Current Enemy
Syntax: Kick
Many guilds teach this basic martial manuver, allowing them to slightly
augment their damage in combat. Bandits receive further training in making
well-placed kicks.
Primary Attribute: strength, dexterity
See also: KNEE SHATTER
Syntax: Automatic Most of the non-scholarly guilds offer their students training in heightening the force of their blows. A higher skill will see better results at these techniques, as will a better weapon. Primary Attribute: strength See also: BRUTAL DAMAGE, PROWESS
Dual wielding is the ability to use an additional weapon in the character's offhand. Weapons being dual wielded will suffer a slight penalty in the amount of damage and have a lesser chance of iterative attacks. Weapon weight must be considered with this skill, as only weapons lighter then the one being wielded in the main hand are capable of being dual wielded. Swordmasters are exempt from this restriction, and can dual wield nearly any two swords they can hold. Certain unwieldy combinations of weapons will be more awkward to defend oneself with. Large-sized races, such as the chaja or alatharya, are able to hold certain kinds of two-handed weapons with one hand, and dual wield them. The balance of spears, staves, and polearms are such that this is not possible for these weapons. The ambidextrous trait, available upon creation and given to gladiators and swordmasters automatically, reduces but does not remove the weight restrictions (though swordmasters have none in either case). Primary Attribute: dexterity See also: PARRY, AMBIDEXTROUS
Syntax: Automatic With this skill, a spirit templar may call forth power to intercede between themself and melee attacks. A weapon is required to benefit from this skill-- any weapon. This skill does not function in places where magic cannot be used, and can be hampered by skills that also impact parry. Exceptions will be noted on those skills' helpfiles as needed. Primary Attribute: wisdom, dexterity See also: PARRY
Range : Inventory Item/As Original Spell
Syntax: Recite <scroll> <target>
Non-adventuring scholars have refined their arts to the point where it is
possible for some to transcribe spells onto scrolls, that they might be cast
at a later date. Spells scribed upon a scroll function exactly as they do when
cast ordinarily, except they have no mana cost. Appropriate targeting for a
given spell may be found in that spell's helpfile. Scrolls may be freely used
in combat, even if the spell scribed upon it ordinarily may not.
As scrolls must be read aloud, they cannot be used while gagged or taking on
the aspect of an animal, and deafness will make it harder to do so.
Once recited, successfully or otherwise, a scroll is consumed. It is not
possible to recite a scroll higher than your own level.
Primary Attribute: intelligence
See also: CAST, SCRIT OF KAAGN, SCRIPT MASTERY, individual spell helpfiles
Syntax: Automatic
Fast healing is a skill taught by most guilds, that their students might apply
their knowledge to quicker recovery of bodily injuries, increasing the rate at
which they gain hit points.
Primary Attribute: constitution
See also: hit points
Syntax: Automatic Characters with proficiency in this skill will attempt a second attack each round with both their main and any offhanded weapons. Mastery of this skill does not guarantee the attack will be attempted every round, but it does make it very likely. Primary Attribute: dexterity, strength See also: DUAL WIELD
Syntax: Automatic A basic technique for focusing one's thoughts, meditation is a skill taught by all guilds that their students may recover mana more quickly. Primary Attribute: intelligence, wisdom See also: TRANCE, mana
Syntax: Automatic Dodge is a melee defense skill focused on the avoidance of blows. It is particularly difficult to dodge flails and polearms, and easier to dodge whips. Dodge is the favored defense of rogues, but it is taught in many other schools as well. All aelin receive a bonus to this skill. Primary Attribute: dexterity
Syntax: Trip <Target> The trip command attempts to bring an opponent down by knocking their feet from under them. Tripping is most successfully Practiced by the quick and nimble, and fails on opponents who are flying or otherwise not tied to the ground. Trip can either be used to start a fight, or in combat, where the argument is optional. Primary Attribute: dexterity
Range : Inventory Item/Target Person or mob
Syntax: Zap <item> <target>
Non-adventuring scholars and alchemists are able to imbue wands with magical
spells, that they might be cast at a later date. Spells imbued within a wand
affect a specified target, and are typically offensive but not universally so.
Wands may be freely used in combat, even if the spell within ordinarily may
not.
Wands have a limited number of charges; should all charges be expended from
one, the item will be consumed.
Primary Attribute: intelligence, dexterity
See also: CAST, OVERCHARGE, individual spell helpfiles
Syntax: Automatic Characters with proficiency in this skill will attempt a second attack each round with both their main and any offhanded weapons. Mastery of this skill does not guarantee the attack will be attempted every round, but it does make it very likely. Primary Attribute: dexterity, strength See also: DUAL WIELD
Duration: Up to 3 Hours
Reuse Delay: 3 Hours
Syntax: Sortie
This spell allows the spirit templar to lead a lone sortie agains his foes.
Driving himself into his foes, the templar cries out his battlecry, and makes
an attack at each person attacking him. While still energized by his sortie,
the templar will deal markedly more damage with his attacks, though each round
of combat, there is a chance that the effect will fade.
A spirit templar may customize his battlecry with the 'battlecry' command.
Primary Attribute: charisma
See also: BATTLECRY
Syntax: Automatic Exceptionally in touch with their bodies, and through their connection with the magics of the spirit, templars of the sphere gain control over their own dreams. Through this control, they may attempt to stave off unnatural forms of sleep and awaken, or alleviate the effects of unnaturally-imposed nightmares. Primary Attribute: intelligence, wisdom See also: NIGHTFEARS
Syntax: Automatic A further refinement upon the more widely taught basic technique of meditation, trance is taught by the spellworking guilds and those focused on more meditative studies, in order to better recover their mana. Primary Attribute: intelligence, wisdom See also: MEDITATION, mana
Syntax: Automatic This skill causes any light-based spells one uses (eg, searing light, soul flare, radiance, or ray of light) to also weaken and dispel Void-based maledictions upon themself. Primary Attribute: wisdom, charisma
Syntax: Automatic This skill enhances the power of the unshackle spell. With this, when unshackle is cast upon a summoned-and-bound demon, it will be damaged or banished. Demons that are not under direct control of a caster will only be damaged. Primary Attribute: dexterity, charisma See also: UNSHACKLE
This is a short list of the more common wear-slots accessible to mortals. There are a few more, but are comparatively obscure. These should be most all that you'll deal with: -Left finger -Right finger -Neck (first) -Neck (second) -Torso -Head -Legs -Feet -Hands -Arms -Shield/Held/Dual Wielded/Light -About body -Waist -Left wrist -Right wrist -Wielded (weapons) -Floating -Branded (immortals' sigils and brands)
Duration : Instantaneous Minimum Cost: 15 mana
Range: Single PC or Mob
Syntax: cast 'searing light' <target>
From his early days as a novice, a student of the spirit sphere learns to
call forth a searing flare of light to damage his target. While more
advanced studies may later supplant most of its usefulness, even archmagi
have been known to fall back on this early training in times of need.
This spell restores a portion of mana spent when casting it.
Primary Attribute: Intelligence
See also: MAGIC APTITUDE
Duration : Level/2 hours Minimum Cost: 5 mana Range : Caster Only Syntax: Cast 'Detect Invis' This spell allows the caster to see all players, mobiles, and objects that are invisible. Primary Attribute: Intelligence See also: INVISIBILITY
Syntax: Automatic Named for the first known Flameheart scholar, before she rejected Kyez-Ralin's gifts, Yesa's radiance is an outpouring of the sheer burning force of the fire devil's influence. Whenever the scholar is attacked in melee, there is a chance their foe will be burned in retaliation. Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Duration : (6+Level)/2 Hours Minimum Cost: 5 mana Range : Target PC, Mob, or Object Syntax: cast 'bless' <target> This spell invokes a blessing upon its target. A person so blessed will gain a bonus to hitroll and saves for a time. Furthermore, all of their equipped items will be blessed. An object so blessed will be stripped of most superficial evil taints, and will be considered as blessed for the duration; blessed objects gain a small measure of resistance to item-damaging spells such as shatter. Furthermore, blessed weapons will strike with slightly greater facility against demons, reducing the demon's ability to parry or dodge against it. Primary Attributes: Intelligence, Wisdom See Also: SAVES, HITROLL, SHATTER, DEMONIC POSSESSION
Duration : Level + 12 Half-hours Minimum Cost: 5 mana Range : Target PC, Mob or Inventory Item Syntax: Cast 'Invisibility' <target> Using the energies of the caster's sphere, this spell shrouds its target from ordinary vision. It is impossible to see anyone or anything who is so hidden without some means of specifically detecting the invisible. It is impossible to disarm, steal, or loot a weapon that you are unable to see. Invisibility is not a perfect disguise: it does not conceal entry or exit from a room, muffle the sounds of speech, or shroud any actions; all who are present and awake in the room will be aware that someone has acted, if not who. Primary Attribute: Intelligence See also: DETECT INVIS, SIXTH SENSE, MASS INVIS
Duration : Level/2 Hours Minimum Cost: 75 mana
Range : Caster or Target Item
Syntax: Cast 'Frozen Shield' <target>
This spell enchants a shield with a frigid chill; this causes it to grant
additional hitroll, damroll, and resistance to fire. When cast upon a blessed
item, the duration will be extended. One may place this spell upon a held
shield by casting it upon oneself. This spell does not coexist with Rotheld's
Bulwark; one may use one or the other, but not both.
Primary Attributes: Intelligence, Charisma
See also: HITROLL, DAMROLL, DAMAGE REDUCTION
Duration : Level*10 Hours Minimum Cost: 75 mana Range : Caster Only Recast Delay: 12.5 Hours Syntax: Cast 'Blade of Light' This spell forges a sword of pure light for the templar to use for a time. If anyone who is not a spirit templar attempts to wield one of these blades, it will reject their touch; they may not wield them. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Wisdom
Duration : Level/4 Hours Minimum Cost: 25 mana Range : Caster Only Syntax: Cast 'Seraphic Wings' This spell creates a pair of gleaming white angel-wings for its caster, imbuing him with magical flight. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Charisma
Duration : Level/16 Hours Minimum Cost: 40 mana Range : Target PC or Mob Syntax: Cast 'Visions' <target> This spell forces horrifying visions of the past upon the target, filling their sight. This will vastly increase the target's chances of missing attacks due to armour class. The blindfighting skill can mitigate this. One so afflicted will see nothing else when using the look, scan, where, or exits commands, and will also be unable to use archery. It is easier to inflict visions upon those with a redder aura, and harder upon those more to the gold. Primary Attribute: Wisdom See also: LOOK, WHERE, WHITEOUT, KARMA
Duration : Level/6 Hours Minimum Cost: 50 mana
Range : Target Weapon
Syntax: Cast 'Consecrate Weapon' <target>
This spell suffuses a given weapon with holy power, changing its damage type
accordingly. This spell cannot be cast on weapons which innately deal holy
damage or those which deal negative damage. Similarly, weapons which are
considered evil or reject the touch of the good-aligned will not accept this
spell, either. The duration will be extended when cast upon glowing or blessed
weapons. One may place this spell upon a wielded weapon by casting it upon
oneself.
Primary Attribute: Wisdom, Charisma
Duration : Level/8 Hours Minimum Cost: 35 mana
Range : Target PC or Mob
Syntax: Cast 'Zeal' <target>
Suffusing the target with a fanatic fervor, zeal is a close cousin of the
fire spell frenzy. Like that spell, the target will be able to hit both harder
and more accurately, though his armor class will suffer. Unlike frenzy, one
held by this zeal will fight even beyond the limits of his mortal frame,
allowing his hit points to fall into the negatives. However, the body can only
be pushed so far, and taking too much damage, or if the spell expires while
the target is in such a state will both prove fatal.
It is not possible to cast this spell on someone who is already in a berserker
rage. Those imbued with the fervor of this spell will find themselves unable
to either retreat or cower away from battle.
Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Charisma
See also: FRENZY, HITROLL, DAMROLL, RETREAT, COWER
Duration : Level/7 Half-hours Minimum Cost: 5 mana Range : Caster Only Syntax: Cast 'Truesight' This spell grants spirit templars an expanded vision of the world around them, helping them to guide their blows more accurately, and staving off the effects of blindness. It also grants them the ability to see the surface of the souls of those around them, allowing them to detect when people are markedly either good or evil. One so affected will also be able to detect those who walk on the fringes of the Void, though they still will be unable to touch them. Primary Attribute: Wisdom See also: VOIDWALK, HITROLL
Cost: 1 train Some individuals sleep particularly lightly, and are particularly sensitive to activity taking place around them even while asleep. Light sleepers will be informed when anyone they are able to detect enters or leaves the room, or when someone speaks.
Duration : (2*Level)/10 Hours Minimum Cost: 45 mana Range : Caster Only Syntax: Cast 'Astral Form' This spell allows the caster to partially exist within the spirit plane. While in this state, the caster will be able to pass through doors, and have a chance to evade bashes, pummeling, and grapples, though it offers no protection against shield bashes. Being in this state also imparts a slight weakness against magical effects. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Wisdom See also: BASH, PUMMEL, GRAPPLE
Duration : Instantaneous Minimum Cost: 65 mana
Range : Target Charmed PC or Mob
Syntax: Cast 'Unshackle' <target>
This spell attempts to dissolve bonds and charms that bind beings to a master,
whether the servitude be willing or no. If the spell succeeds, the once-bound
being may attack its old master, though this is markedly less likely if the
master is of good alignment. Certain creatures will resist this more than
others, in particular specific breeds of drakes which are known for their
loyalty. Additionally, this will disrupt the invocations of a Nightfall
scholar to their symbols, and break a single one of their bonds.
Primary Attribute: Wisdom, Charisma
See also: INVOCATION OF CONVERU
Duration : Level/12 Hours Minimum Cost: 40 mana Range : All Ungrouped PCs or Mobs in Room Syntax: Cast 'Soul Flare' This spell was formulated for usage in battle against large groups of shuddeni: when powerful light formed by this spell strikes one of them, they take a substantial amount of damage. A member of any other race who is struck by this spell has a chance to be blinded. This may be cured with the standard spell of cure blindness. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Charisma See also: CURE BLINDNESS
Duration: 18 hours Minimum Cost: 30 mana Range: Caster Only Syntax: cast 'ward of grace' This lesser version of the scholar's spell "Aegis of Grace" also enshrouds the caster in protective magics, shielding him from negative influences. The only distinction between this working and that of a full mage is that this will ward only the caster, not including his group; similarly, he may not refresh the spell before its natural termination. Primary Attributes: Intelligence, Charisma See Also: AEGIS OF GRACE
Duration : Instantaneous Minimum Cost: 40 mana Range : Single PC, Mob, or Inventory Item Syntax: Cast 'Exorcism' <target> Spirit templars may exorcise demons and haunting spirits from both people and items by utilizing this ritual. They may attempt to purge a Void templar's bound demons from equipment or the possessing demon from the templar himself. Similarly, this spell will attempt to break all symbolic bonds presently held by a Nightfall scholar. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Wisdom See also: DEMONIC POSSESSION, HUNGER OF GRMLARLOTH, et al
Duration : Level/24 Hours Minimum Cost: 40 mana Range : Single PC or Mob Syntax: Cast 'Wrath of Kyana' <target> Named for Kyana, the ancient goddess of the stars, this spell calls down Her wrath on its target. Anyone so stricken will be damaged for each physical attack they make against anyone of good alignment. This spell stacks with itself, intensifying the effect. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Wisdom
Duration : See Text Minimum Cost: 50 mana Range : Caster Only Syntax: Cast 'Positive Channel' Open/Close This spell opens up a conduit to the plane of positive energy, grounding out through the very being of the caster. While this channel is open, both the caster's hitroll and damroll are substantially increased, as are their hit points. While channeling this energy, the caster cannot enter a desecrated room, and loses mana every half-hour. Spells such as searing light will not restore any mana. This spell ends either when the caster elects to close the channel, or they run out of mana. The force of the channel closing has a chance to drive the caster into sleep, and both their hit points and mana will be reduced proportionally to how long they held the channel open. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Constitution
Duration : Instantaneous Minimum Cost: 25 mana Range : Target Evil PC or Mob Syntax: Cast 'Spiritwrack' <target> This spell calls torment down onto the soul of its target, harming those without any gold aura. Against other player characters, this spell is most effective against those whose actions have caused a visible taint on their soul, regardless of their actual alignment, but even with none visible, it will hurt. If used while wielding a light-damage weapon, the damage will be both holy and light-aligned; otherwise it is holy alone. Primary Attribute: Intelligence, Dexterity
Duration: (level) hours Minimum Cost: 75 mana
Range: Caster Only
Syntax: cast 'thanatopsis'
where ghost
assesssoul <target>
With this spell, the caster's awareness of the flows of life and death in
the world increases. Such a one will immediately sense the death of any
adventurer in the world, and may locate any such ghosts with the 'where
ghost' command, regardless of distance from the ghost. Furthermore, she may
use the 'assesssoul' command on herself or another adventurer in the same
room to gain an understanding of how far away the target is from final
death.
Primary Attribute: WISDOM
Duration : Instantaneous Minimum Cost: 35 mana Range: Inventory Object / Single PC Syntax: cast 'unseen servant' <item> <target> With this spell, a spirit templar may call forth an astral being which may transport objects to another character. This being will however be stymied by rooms that cannot be teleported into, and those targets who have 'nosummon' toggled on will have a chance to resist being handed anything. If the object is marked with a rune of spirit, the save is automatic; thus, such objects may only be sent in this fashion to those with 'nosummon' toggled off. If the recipient has 'accept' toggled off, the spirit will simply drop the item on the ground at his feet. Should the servant be unable to deliver the item for any reason, it will return it to the caster. Primary Attributes: Intelligence, Wisdom See Also: NOSUMMON, ACCEPT
Duration : Level/50 Hours + 2.5 Hours Minimum Cost: 80 mana Range : Caster's Group Recast Delay: 50 Hours Syntax: Cast 'Spirit Sanctuary' This spell creates a magical sanctuary where the caster and his group may rest their wounds safely. No one within may be located or summoned, and they are safe from the inclement effects of weather. When the spell expires, all within will be returned to the spot where they stood when the spell was cast. Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Duration : Level Hours Minimum Cost: 140 mana Cooldown : 6 - 8.5 hours, varies by skill Range : Caster's Room or Inventory Item Using this spell, a worker of spirit magics may mark either an item in his possession, or the room where he currently stands with a hidden rune of the spirits. This spell cannot be cast in a place that cannot be teleported from, nor can it be cast while the caster has an extant rune of spirit. While the rune is in existence, the caster will suffer a significant penalty to his maximum mana. The caster may activate his rune of spirit by using the 'spiritrecall' command at most any time when he is neither sleeping nor resting. All circumstances which would prevent ordinary usage of the word of recall command will block an attempt to spiritrecall. The caster's rune must not have been moved into a place which would prevent teleportation, either to or from it. Once a rune has been recalled to, it dissipates, and the caster must place another to be able to spiritrecall again. However, he will be unable to do so for a short time after using it. Primary Attributes: Intelligence, Wisdom See also: WORD OF RECALL, TELEPORT
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