Death Rank 1

Playtest 3.2 / 4th Ed

Build Cost: 1 (Off-List: 3)

Purchase: Once

Tagged: No

Duration: Constant

Skill Type: Arcane

Prerequisites: 3 Power Points

Skill List: Mage Basic Career

Skill Rules & Full Description

Death magic tampers with the body. Removing senses and injuring it directly. Death magic has a Gray flash of light when cast.

Special Rules for the Death school:

If a Death spell does damage, it does so directly to a character’s Body Points. Death spells do not affect armor. Death spells that cause damage will heal undead; the undead adds to its Body Points the amount of damage that would normally be done by the spell, up to the character’s starting total. The Kill spell has a special effect on undead and is described below, but note that lesser undead dissolve into dust when they are slain and cannot be restored by these spells. The rest of the non-damaging spells will have no effect on undead.

Spells Granted by Death Rank 1

2 Spells Unlocked

Cause Harm

Variable (3 Body Pts of damage per 1 Power spent)

"I Call Upon Darkness to ...Cause Harm"

This spell does 3 points of magical direct body damage for every Power Point spent by the caster. When the spell is cast, the caster must state the amount of damage being done; for example, “ I Call Upon Darkness to Cause Harm... Fifteen Body Points ” cause 15 Magic Body Points and means that the caster spent 5 Power Points. This spell will heal undead (and some other characters) at the same rate as it damages non-undead.

Duration: InstantView Spell Details →

Feign Death

1 Power

"I Call Upon Darkness to ...Feign Death"

This spell will make the target character look pale; their skin will be cold to the touch and their pulse and breath will be unperceivable and to most observations, they will appear to be dead. A Detect Life spell, Assess Your Ailment spell or First Aid will not reveal that the character is alive. Feign Death will allow a character to impersonate an undead; the illusion of death is destroyed if the target character takes any offensive actions or engages in combat, but not if they are attacked.

Duration: 10 minutesView Spell Details →

Source Citations

Playtest 3.2, p. 59Primary Rulebook, p. 62

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Prerequisite & Progression Tree: Death Rank 1

Current Skill Skill Node General Requirement

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