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Magic
From Sanctuary Shard
This page will serve to explain how magic functions on Sanctuary. This is intended for role-play purposes only, and should not be taken as an indication of pending game magic functionality.
Game Mechanics
The following types of magic exist on Sanctuary, this is an excellent overview of the systems: Magic in Ultima Online
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Scope of Magic
We can make the following statements about magic as being generally true:
- Relatively Immediate
- Always Local, line of sight
- Of limited duration, instant or minutes, not hours or days
- Usually solo, except spell weaving
- Primarily offensive or healing with some protective spells
- Requires some form of personal power or discipline
- Usually consumes ingredients upon spell casting, except Chivalry.
Types of Magic
Sanctuary appears to have:
- 5 major schools of magic; Magery, Mysticism, Necromancy and Spell Weaving, and Chivalry
- 2-4 magical crafting forms; Inscription, Alchemy, and ??? Tinkering, ??? Imbuing
- 5 lesser magical talents such as; Spirit Speak and the barding skills of Discordance, Musicianship, Peacemaking and Provocation.
- 4 magical disciplines such as; Meditation, Evaluating Intelligence, Resisting Spells, Focus
Supporting Skills
- Evaluating Intelligence
- The ability to evaluate the intelligence of a target is a crucial skill to many of the magic system on Sanctuary. This skill directly effects the offensive power of Magery, but is not used in Mysticism.
- Focus
- Focus, which is defined as a warrior's meditation skill. Focus effects a mystic's spell power.
- Inscription
- Inscription which is the skill used to inscribe magical scrolls effects the damage of some mystic spells.
- Meditation
- Meditation is the skill that is used to restore mana. Magery uses mana to cast spells.
- Resisting Spells
- Resisting spells can be thought of as the ability to shield or ward one's self from some offensive magic cast by Magery, Necromancy, Spellweaving and Mysticism
Sources of Powers
- Corpses
- Items
- Magically crafted items such as scrolls and wands can be used to cast magic, sometimes without needing to have any magical skills. Magical items, such as scrolls may be consumed upon use, while wands may have multiple uses.
- Mana
- Mana is a spell casters personal well of power that they can draw on to cast magic. It functions much like a type of magical stamina. The more powerful the spell the more mana it takes.
- Karma
- Reagents, including Focus Crystals
- Reagents are spell ingredients that are consumed when the spell is cast. They are assumed to be small amounts and easy to carry enough to cast a few hours of magic while hunting, a pinch per spell at most. Magery uses reagents.
- Spell Books
- Spellbooks are considered magical objects in their own right, and while most spell books require other sources of power to cast the spells, such as mana, reagents, etc, the book itself is a necessary magical item.
- Tithing
- Words of Power
- Magical words are obviously a necessary component of spell casting for most of the different magical system on Sanctuary. Magery uses magical words to cast spells.