====== Earth ======

The element of Earth symbolizes inertia, nourishment, and static strength.

Please note that the divisions among the elemental magic subjects are more
in terms of the type of effects than the material affected.

Earth is not the moving of dirt, nor is Air simply concerned with summoning
winds, Fire with producing heat, or Water with controlling waves.

The ideas behind the elements determine the way the spells are divided.

Earth, then, deals with creation.

Personality traits associated with Earth magic, and common among mages
who prefer Earth, are emotional stability, resolu- tion, and strength
of character.

===== Armor =====
| **Armor** | 5 + STR | 6 Stack | 2 Minutes |

This spell raises the Armor Class of
the target.

Each casting increases the Armor Class by one step;

unarmored (NO) goes to leather (LT), leather to mail (ML), etc., up to a
maximum of plate (PL).

===== Barricade =====
| **Barricade** | 10 | 20 Stack | 1 Hour |

This spell makes a door or gate harder to open.

Each casting adds 5 to the breaking strength of the door and the lock
(see [[Breaking Down Doors and Walls|section 9.7]]).

===== Cold =====
| **Cold** | 3/4/30 + STR | Inf Stack | - |

Cold lowers the temperature of the target.

Stacking either decreases temperature further or cools more material.

The costs above are to:

freeze a cup of water/lower room (12' x 12') temperature 10 degrees F/lower
a man's body temperature by 10 degrees.

Lowering a man's body temperature by 10 degrees brings on shaking fits
and halves his combat skill level.

Lowering it 30 degrees produces paralysis, 60 degrees death.

===== Create Earth, Air, Water =====
| **Create Earth, Air, Water** | 30/40 | Inf Stack | 4 Hours |

Applying 30 MF creates one pound of the
desired substance.

Earth here means soil.

For 40 MF one pound of food may be created.

Stacking creates additional material.

===== Create Fire =====
| **Create Fire** | 5/30 | Inf Stack | 1 Minute |

5 MF creates a torch sized flame,
30 MF a one hex blaze.

These flames will ignite combustible material and will burn anywhere
(except under water) without fuel.

Larger flames are created by stacking.

===== Create Metal =====
| **Create Metal** | 40/45/50/55/60 | Inf Stack | 4 Hours |

This creates various metals
in any imaginable shape.

The costs above are for one pound of: lead/bronze/iron/silver/gold.

===== Create Sound =====
| **Create Sound** | 1/4/20/100 | Inf Stack | 10 Phases |

This spell allows the caster
to project sounds to any point he could normally cast a spell to.

The costs are for sound levels of a: whisper/normal voice/shout/rolling thunder.

<box>
"**Well, to make a long story short we were disarmed and de-feeted.**" \\
Fred \\
The Human Doorstop
</box>

===== Death =====
| **Death** | 60 + KV | 1 Stack | - |

This spell is meant to affect human size targets.

If the target fails his Resist Roll, he falls unconscious and all body
functions cease in 8 phases.

The effects of this spell can be negated by the Revive spell.

The referee should vary the cost for larger or smaller targets.

===== Earthsense =====
| **Earthsense** | 12 | 10 Stack | 2 Minutes |

This ability allows the mage to 'see'
through the ground as if it were air.

Tunnels, caves, underground water, rock formations, earthquake faults, and
regions of volcanic activity can all be detected for a range of one mile.

===== Extinguish Fire =====
| **Extinguish Fire** | 1/4/15 | Inf Stack | - |

The above costs extinguish a:

candle/torch/one hex size fire.

Stacking increases the amount offire put out (see [[Fires|section 9.6]]).

===== Flash =====
| **Flash** | 6/24 | 1 | Stack | - |

Flash causes temporary blindness.

It covers a 60 degree cone (one hex side), projected outwards from
the caster.

The 6 MF version blinds targets out to 15 hexes for 2 phases.

The 24 MF version blinds targets out to 15 hexes for 6 phases and targets
out to 30 hexes for 2 phases.

Targets must be facing the caster (within 60 degrees) to be affected.

Targets get no Resist Roll.

Instead, they make a Perception roll with Base Odds 05 (see [[Action Reaction Table|section 3.3]]).

If successful they are not blinded.

If they fail, they are.

Blinding halves combat skill level and makes the casting of magic impossible
until sight returns.

Any mage blinded is immediately Distracted (see [[Use of Magic|section 8.2]]).

If cast at night, the duration of blindness is doubled, for any successive
Flash spells use a Base Odds of 25 for the target's Perception roll.

<box>
"**That's Unreasonable!**" \\
Vykron
</box>

===== Freeze Muscles =====
| **Freeze Muscles** | 12 + STR | 2 Stack | 2 Minutes |

This spell stiffens a target's
muscles and slows their movement.

Anyone affected has .5 subtracted from his BAT, CS, and DB.

===== Grounding =====
| **Grounding** | 2 | Inf Stack | 8 Hours |

Grounding reduces the effects of an incoming
spell by shunting its energies to ground, absorbing them.

For every 2 MF in Grounding, 1 MF is removed from an incoming spell.

For each MF grounded, 2 MF in the Grounding spell are used up.

As an example, with 100 MF in Grounding, an incoming spell of 30 MF would
be completely canceled, but only 40 MF would remain in the Grounding spell.

Grounding, and all other protective abilities, occur before the Resist
Roll is made.

===== Growth =====
| **Growth** | 5 | 10 Stack | - |

This spell causes plants to grow, even if already
full grown.

For every 5 MF the target will permanently add one pound to its mass during
the course of one day.

===== Illusion -- Tactile =====
| ** Illusion -- Tactile** | 5 | Inf Stack | 2 Hours |

With this ability any inanimate object
the mage can visualize may be created.

For every 5 MF, one pound of illusory mass is created.

The object looks and feels real, but if dropped or hit with a sharp impact
it disappears.

Use a Perception Roll each hour with a Base Odds of 02 to determine if an
opponent sees through the Illusion (see [[Action Reaction Table|section 3.3]]).

===== Illusion -- Visual =====
| **Illusion -- Visual** | 5/25/40 | 1 Stack | 10 Phases |

A visual illusion is an image
only -- it has no mass or substance.

It moves under the direction of the mage.

While directing an illusion the mage cannot cast any other magic except
Create Sound.

The costs above are for an image which is: cat/man/horse size.

Larger illusions are subject to the referee's discretion.

Use a Perception Roll every 10 phases with a Base Odds of 10 to determine
if an opponent sees through the illusion (see [[Action Reaction Table|section 3.3]]).

===== Leadfoot =====
| **Leadfoot** | 25 | 3 Stack | 2 Minutes | 

Each time this spell is cast with effect,
it reduces the target's Combat Speed by 1.

The Combat Speed can never be lowered below 1.

===== Mass Increase =====
| **Mass Increase** | 2 | Inf Stack | 2 Hours |

Every 2 MF adds one pound of effective
weight to an inanimate object.

No object may be made more than 5 times its normal weight.

===== Mending =====
| **Mending** | 4/25/80/120/400 | 1 Stack | Permanent |

Mending Permanently repairs
inanimate objects.

The costs are for: cloth, glass, or rope/spear haft/dagger or spear head/sword blade/one foot
width of a ship's hull.

Toughened objects require' double standard costs.

<box>
"**This is almost as much fun as looking for the illusion in the china shop.**" \\
Axly Suregrip
</box>

===== Prevent Fire =====
| **Prevent Fire** | 2/5/10/80 | 3 Stack | 6 Hours |

Any inanimate object that has
Prevent Fire cast on it will not burn under normal circumstances.

A Start Fire spell cancels the effects of this spell one for one.

The costs are for a: torch/wood shield or table/door/one room hut or small tree.

===== Sleep =====
| **Sleep** | KV | 1 Stack | 10 Minutes |

This spell causes the target to fall into a
deep sleep from which he will be difficult to awaken.

===== Start Fire =====
| **Start Fire** | 1/4/15 | 1 Stack | - |

This spell causes a flammable object to burst
into flame.

The costs above are for a: candle/torch/one hex fire.

With damp fuel 10 times the MF is required.

If wet, 20 times the MF (see section 9.6).

===== Stasis =====
| **Stasis** | 30 + 2 x STR | 1 Stack | 12 Hours |

Stasis keeps the seriously injured
alive until medical aid arrives.

If this spell is cast before the subject dies (see [[Recovery Roll|section 7.4]]), it
preserves him unchanged for 12 hours.

===== Stop Quake =====
| **Stop Quake** | 100 | 8 Stack | - |

An earthquake may be reduced or completely stopped
using this spell.

Each casting reduces the earthquake's Scale by 1 (see [[Earthquakes|section 9.9]]).

===== Strength =====
| **Strength** | 10 + STR | 4 Stack | 5 Minutes |

The Strength spell adds .5 to the
target's Combat Speed, Damage Bonus, and Base Action Time.

For breaking down doors, each casting adds 2 to STR (see [[Breaking Down Doors and Walls|section 9.7]]).

===== Thicken Blood =====
| **Thicken Blood** | 15 + STR | 4 Stack | - |

This spell slows bleeding from wounds.

Each time it is cast (up to three times) it doubles the Critical Time Period
(see [[Recovery Roll|section 7.4]]).

If stacked four times it causes death.

===== Thicken Water =====
| **Thicken Water** | 1/4/10/100 | 2 Stack | 10 Minutes |

Thicken Water may be cast on
any liquid but not on living creatures.

When cast, watery fluids behave as thick syrup, thick syrups as putty.

This spell cannot create solids.

The costs given are for a: cup/quart/gallon/50 gallons.

===== Wizard Light =====
| **Wizard Light** | 2/6/10 | 1 Stack | 3 Minutes |

When cast it creates a diffuse light
source whose position is controlled by the mage.

The costs given are for light equivalent to a: candle/torch/2 torches.

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