Daybreak:Spelllist

Personal notes, for consistency tracking's sake... I'll put up an explanation eventually lol.

Arcane Schools

All magic, spells, and effects are classified into six schools:

• Alchemy - manipulation of the physical; as the most explored school of magic, alchemy is broken down into Biological, spells that affect life, and non-Bio for everything else.
• Enchantment - manipulation of the mental
• Conjuration - creation of physical phenomenons
• Evocation - creation of mental phenomenons
• Divination - accessing of information
• Illusion - hiding or forging information

Rank 1 - Elementary Spells

Basic magic that skirts the laws of physics, taught starting from earliest age of magical control. The easiest of these are used daily and are often referred as cantrips.

Alchemy

• Fabricate (Effect): Basic spell for shaping and crafting materials. Concentration required; duration dependent on complexity and hardness.
• First Aid (Effect)[Bio]: Quick wound-closure healing spell.
• Flourish (Effect)[Bio]: Plant matter thrives and grows at exponential rate.
• Heat/Cool (Effect): Alters temperature of entity.
• Ignition (Effect): Ignites combustible object.
• Invigorate (Effect)[Bio]: Slow, long-duration healing spells that soothes wounds.
• Lock/Unlock (Effect): Open/closes a mechanical lock; magical locks require either matching ether signature or far superior spellpower to overcome a lock.
• Refreshen (Effect)[Bio][Healing]: Half-cosmetic half-healing spell used to adjust one's looks in the morning.

Enchantment

• Telepathy (Effect): Sends a mental message or create a telepathic bond. Unless grounded by a deeper bond, telepathy is interferes by local spell auras and therefore unreliable over distances of high magic concentration.

Conjuration

• Air Glide/Cushion (Effect): Surround entity with either air buffets to slow descent, or layers of decompressing air to reduce impact.
• Cyclone (Effect): Creates a gust of wind. Blast intensifies it.
• Dismiss (Effect): Ends a conjuration-creation spell cast by the same person.
• Repulsion (Effect): Counter-pushes objects attempting to get closer to target; weak and only effective against smaller objects unless cast by mage of exceptional power.

Evocation

• Alarm (Effect): Wards an area to alert the entrance of intruders, either through noise [illusion] or mental alert to the attuned. May be specified to ignore individuals.
• Armor (Effect): Creates a layer of invisible, weightless armor composed of pure magic.
• Sigil (Effect): Leaves a visible mark of hardened ether for identification.

Divination

• Detect (Effect:Suffix)[Divination]: Detect the presence of an entity and discern available details. The most common being Aura Detection which serves for magical effects.

Illusion

• Mirage (Effect): Creates an illusion based on the caster's imagination, starting with only visual components but increases to audio, thermal, olfactory, etc with higher spellpower/control.

Universal

• Barrier (Form): Spell effect takes the form of a barrier that protects one object or creature.
• Boost (Effect:Suffix): Augmentation effect, striking a balance between moderate power and duration.

Rank 2 - Intermediate Spells

Intermediate magic that breaks physical laws in reasonable manners, taught starting from early teens (Middle School).

Alchemy

• Animate (Effect): Non-sentient object moves as directed, even if it cannot exert force. Animate has numerous variants: Entangle orders it to bind and constrict creatures; Assault increases force and speed.
• Enlarge/Shrink (Effect): Increase or reduce size of item.
• Metabolic (Effect:Prefix)[Bio]: Modifies physical energy output and natural healing by several folds. Side-effect include burning through reserve energy faster, resulting in fatigue and hunger.
• Sensory Blackout (Effect)[Bio]: Cuts off nerve senses; may be localized to specific region as a healer's spell.

Enchantment

• Sensory Clarity (Effect): Sharpens sensory processing and clears mental pathways; this does not actually boost the senses themselves, and an exception is made for pain sensory.

Conjuration

• Brambles (Effect): Creates thick, spiky vines and other plant undergrowth.
• Conjure (Effect): Conjures specified entity from nearest source instead of magically simulating them with limited duration.
• Binding Bands (Effect): Creates steel shackles to bind an opponent.
• Shift Impulse (Effect): Accelerates motion by manipulating target momentum.

Evocation

• Ether Seeker (Effect)[Antimagic]: Evokes self-guided counter-missiles that disrupt shaped ether; producible in quantity even with advanced magic.
• Guard (Effect): Creates a layer of translucent magic that wards against hostile magic and resists antimagic.
• Negation (Effect)[Antimagic]: Gives an entity limited ability to reduce the effectiveness of defensive barriers. This is the main penetrator aide of spellsword combat. May not be combined with any other spellwords except Boost/Surge suffix.

Illusion

• Mislead (Effect): Creates a mirror image capable of independent action, starting with only visual components but increases to audio, thermal, olfactory, etc with higher spellpower/control.

Universal

• Beam (Form): Spell effect repeatedly hammer all in its path with a steady stream.
• Fragmentation (Meta): Spell effect breaks apart into multiple pieces after meeting target, each carrying a piece of the original's power. Chain/tiered fragmentation may occur with cascading spells.
• Screen (Form): Spell effect takes the form of a geometric surface.
• Surge (Effect:Suffix): Augmentation effect with high power but low duration measurable in seconds.

Rank 3 - Advanced Spells

Advanced magic that requires finesse, control, and understanding, taught starting from late teens (High School).

Alchemy

• Elemental Body (Effect)[Bio]: Blesses the body with spirits of a classical element. Air grants swiftness and improved senses; Earth reinforces structure and strength; Fire increases metabolic output and fire resistance; Water offers minor regeneration and aquatic capacities.
• Neutralize (Effect)[Bio]: Neutralizes poison, either by itself or from a creature.

Conjuration

• Astral Leap (Effect)[Conj+Evoc]: Short-range teleportation spell with line-of-sight range up to 500paces.
• Vanish (Effect): General-purpose cleaning spell by dematerializing messes as though a low-powered disintegrate with precision control.

Evocation

• Dispel (Effect)[Antimagic]: Counter magical effects by forcibly unraveling ether from a shaped spell effect.
• Spellshield (Effect): Creates a shimmering shield of pure magic that automatically deflect attacks. Fortress add-on word boosts this into multiple shields with self-coordinated control.

Divination

• Sight (Effect:Suffix): Enables either the viewing of non-material element (i.e. Aura Sight visualize magical effects) or clarity to see through a physical entity (i.e. Stone Sight can see through natural rock).

Illusion

• Veil (Effect): Hide entity through disinformation, beginning with visual and/or audio component but not limited.

Universal

• Field (Form): Spell effect forms a constant area-of-effect emanation. Field spells do not need refreshing but constantly drain ether from source.
• Sanctum (Form): Spell effect wards an enclosed region from all outside region.

Rank 4 - Collegiate Spells

Professional magic that blatantly ignores physical laws, taught to career or higher education mages.

Alchemy

• Disintegrate (Effect): Breaks down physical entity to a granular level; exact process unknown but results in dust and heated, particle-heavy air. Highly effective versus objects and nonmagical creatures, it can only brute force its way through magical defenses.
• Rejuvenate (Effect)[Bio]: Healing spell with built-in nerve shock to wake fatigued or unconscious individuals up.

Enchantment

• Farspeak (Effect): Long-range telepathy spell allowing communication over long distances. Farspeak's burst transmissions allow it to overcome magical interference, but at the cost of requiring concentration to maintain even a 1-on-1 link.

Conjuration

• Astral Teleport (Effect)[Conj+Evoc]: Long-range teleportation spell with maximum standard safety range of 10 kilopaces; Wayfarer training increases this to 25 kilopaces.

Evocation

• 'Cancellation (Effect)[Antimagic]: Suppresses magical effect. Commonly used for wardbreaking, this spell takes minutes if not hours of time to properly cast and attune.
• Scorch-Ether (Effect)[Antimagic]: Forcibly convert ether into volatile mana. Conversion of free ether works significantly faster than shaped ether.
• Lockdown (Effect): Wards the area by bouncing teleportation to either the nearest unwarded or a designated area.

Universal

• Catalyst (Meta): Spell effects that create either magical or physical energy may begin a cascading chain reaction.

Rank 5 - Graduate Spells

Powerful magic used only by experienced specialists; usually result in horrible accidents when used by someone not practiced.

Alchemy

• Stonemeld (Effect): Meld object or creature into stone to hide for a limited time; does not actually combine.

Conjuration

• Banishment (Effect)[Conj+Evoc]: Banishes non-native creature back to its world of origin.

Universal

• Phalanx (Meta): Spellshaping is duplicated quickly for quantitative spellcasting.

Common Aura Magic Modes

• Aura Bombardment: Improves control and output for large-scale spellcasting, but lacking individual precision in shaping spells.
• Aura Boost: Enhances physical functions by coursing ether through the body, but reduces spell acceleration (spellshaping time).
• Aura Burst: Greatly boost spell acceleration for the fastest casting time in all known styles, but with the side-effect of numbness from overwhelmed nerve conduits; prolonged use may lead to temporary and permanent paralysis.
• Aura Condense: Compacts ether density which results in higher spell penetration and focal power, but reduces spell acceleration.
• Aura Field: Basic aura mode with a minor boost to spell acceleration.