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 ====== ARCANE MAGIC SPELL LISTS ======
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 ===== ARCANE MAGIC OF THE LIGHT =====
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 ==== Banish Undead ====
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 Imps and demons if they are caught in the light,
 must retire immediately.
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 ===== ARCANE MAGIC OF THE EQUILIBRIUM =====
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 and force it to be revealed on the battlefield.
+==== Illusion: Refraction ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range 15 cm
+This spell lasts for one D4 turns and may be cast on
+any individual or monster within range. The
+recipient's image is immediately displaced so enemy
+observers see him in a slightly different place to his
+actual position. As a result the recipient is hard to hit
+in combat or with missile fire. Attackers suffer a -
+% modifier to their FCP or FFP when attacking
+this character.
+==== Illusion: Shimmer ====
+  * Casting Success: 65%
+  * Energy Cost: 7
+  * Range: 10 cm
+This spell can be cast on one unit and/or character in
+base-to-base contact, or on one character or
+monster. The target starts to shimmer for one D4
+turns, or until it attacks the enemy in combat —
+whichever comes soonest. While shimmering any
+missile fire directed at it suffers a -5 Firing Modifier.
+==== Levitate ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range 10 cm
+This spell allows the caster to levitate any one
+character including himself to Combat Height (ie
+out of Brigade Control). The spell lasts for one D4
+turns or until the caster wishes to stop it —
+whichever comes soonest. When the spell stops, the
+subject floats gently back to the ground.
+==== Mind Link ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 40 cm
+This spell may only be cast against one individual in
+sight of the caster and no other spells can be cast by
+the Magic-user while it is in use. The spell will make
+the subject fall under the control of the caster. The
+caster can command the character or individual to
+do something such as open a door, break a ring of
+Light or set fire to a building. If the victim is a
+character, in phase two the caster can tell the
+character which order counters (each counter
+counts as a separate command) to place by the units
+under his control. Each time a character or
+individual is commanded to do something, he stands
+a 20% chance plus his CF (if any), of rejecting the
+command and breaking the spell. Each time an order
+is given, roll one D100. If the score is under or equal
+to 20% plus the victim's CF if any, the
+character/individual has broken the caster's hold.
+This spell lasts until the victim breaks it, the caster is
+wounded or killed, or the caster dispels it through
+choice or because he casts another spell. The caster
+cannot ask the victim to commit suicide or attack his
+friends.
+==== Minor Earthquake ====
+  * Casting Success: 35%
+  * Energy Cost: 10
+  * Range: 40 cm
+This powerful spell creates a localised earthquake
+beneath the feet of any one unit, or under any one
+building in range and line of sight of the caster. All
+figures in the unit, and all those in base-to-base
+contact with it must roll one D100. On a roll of 40%
+or less they are swallowed up by the earth and killed,
+while characters receive one wound. The survivors
+are disordered and must take an immediate Morale
+Test with a -5 Morale Modifier.
+In addition all mounted units, swarms or animals
+within 15 cm of the affected unit must take an
+immediate Moral Test with a -3 Morale Modifier.
+Troops armed with missile weapons within 15 cm of
+the affected unit, that have orders to fire but have not
+yet done so, fire in phase eight with a -3 modifier for
+this turn. For the damage this spell causes to a
+building see page 89.
+==== Open ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 2
+  * Range: 5 cm
+This spell will open any door even if it is sealed but
+not if it is protected by a Door Ward.
+==== Polter-rage ====
+  * Casting Success: 65%
+  * Energy Cost: 6
+  * Range: 30 cm
+This spell may be cast at any one unit and/or
+character in base-to base contact, or at one character
+or monster within range. The spell causes a hail of
+stones and other brick-a-brack to rise up into the air
+and bombard the target (it is a Svarasti favourite).
+Treat this attack as if fifteen A class western goblins
+are firing slings at the victim from short range and
+ignore any cover benefits. This is a useful spell to use
+on troops sheltering inside buildings, as they will
+lose all cover advantages, and the subsequent Morale
+Test for being attacked by magic, may flush them out
+of the building.
+==== Preserve Wood ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range: 10 cm
+This spell may be used to harden wooden hafted
+weapons, shields, clubs, wooden doors and fences. A
+unit protected by this spell is immune to one Warp &
+Splinter spell. If it is cast on a unit that has suffered a
+Warp & Splinter spell it will restore that unit's
+weapons to their original standard. If cast on a door
+or fence that object will become immune to one
+Warp & Splinter spell, in addition the object will gain
+one D4 extra defence points.
+==== Rainbow ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 40 cm
+This spell will stop any one downpour within range
+and sight.
+==== Resist Cold ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 3
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell can be cast on any one unit and character
+in base-to-base contact with that unit or on one
+character or monster. The recipient(s) are then
+immune to cold and the effects of frostbite for one D4
+turns.
+==== Resist Fire ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell can be cast on any one unit and/or
+character in base-to-base contact with that unit or
+on one character or monster within range. The
+recipient(s) are then immune to all fire attacks for
+one D4 turns, except Dragon Fire. If the recipient is
+attacked by Dragon Fire, when testing to see if he is
+hit he may add 25% to his die roll. This spell may also
+be cast on a building to protect it from fire for one D4
+turns.
+==== Seal ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 2
+  * Range: 10 cm
+This spell seals all doors so they can only be opened
+by breaking them down or using an Open spell. The
+caster must be in sight of the door to cast this spell.
+==== Second Sight ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 3
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell can be cast on any one unit and character
+in base-to-base contact with that unit or on one
+character or monster within range of the caster.
+Second Sight lasts for three turns and allows the unit
+to see through all glamours and illusions.
+==== Shield ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell creates an invisible shield around one
+character that will deflect all missiles for two turns.
+==== Solidify ====
+  * Casting Success: 65%
+  * Energy Cost: 8
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell may be cast on any one unit and character,
+or on any one character or monster within range.
+The spell will last for one D4 turns and during that
+time the recipient will be able to move through bog
+or mire as if it were clear terrain, fen as if it were scrub
+and swamp as if it were wood (but for movement
+purposes only). While the spell lasts, the recipient is
+immune to the spell Sucking Doom.
+==== Sucking Doom ====
+  * Casting Success: 35%
+  * Energy Cost: 10
+  * Range: 30 cm
+This spell turns the ground beneath any one unit's
+feet, within range and sight of the caster, into
+quicksand. All figures in the unit, and all those in
+base-to-base contact with it must roll one D100 and
+consult the following table:
+^ Armour Type             ^ Killed        ^
+| Unarmoured or leather   | 40% or less   |
+| Mail / Mail & Plate     | 50% or less   |
+| Plate                   | 60% or less   |
+Figures which are killed are removed from play.
+Characters who are 'killed' in fact receive one
+wound.
+Survivors are disordered and must take a Morale Test
+with a -4 modifier. Especially as the ground, having
+swallowed up their friends then resolidifies as if
+nothing had happened!
+==== Supernatural Strength ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 3
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell can be cast on any one figure (including
+the caster). The recipient doubles his BCP for two
+turns.
+==== Tanglefoot ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 6
+  * Range: 45 cm
+This spell animates ground foliage, so it clings to feet
+and trips soldiers or their mounts up. It may be cast
+on any unit and character in base-to-base contact
+with the unit, or on one character or monster within
+range. The target's movement will then be halved for
+two turns and the unit will become disordered and
+may not reform until the spell has expired.
+==== Thaw ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 20 cm to centre of area
+This spell will instantly melt any ice in range over an
+area 15 cm in diameter (use Template One). It will
+annul the effects of Freeze Fresh Water if cast on an
+area effected by that spell. If the spell is used to melt
+ice on a river or lake, each figure caught on the ice as
+it melts, must roll one D100 and consult the
+following table to see if it drowns. Characters and
+Hill Trolls with the skill Swim, wearing chainmail or
+less roll with a + 30% modifier. If they are in plate and
+mail or full plate this modifier falls to +15%.
+^ Armour Type              ^ Drowned       ^
+| Unarmoured or leather    | 30% or less   |
+| Chainmail / Mail & Plate | 50% or less   |
+| Plate                    | 70% or less   |
+Soldiers who are drowned are removed from play,
+characters who are 'drowned' in fact receive two
+wounds.
+Survivors are placed on the nearest dry land, marked
+with a disordered counter and must take a Morale
+Test.
+==== Transport ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 7
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell allows a Magic-user to magically move
+objects over significant distances. It will not work on
+living creatures or plants, and if cast on a Rune Stone
+will automatically fail. The caster must be within
+range of the object he wishes to move. If he casts the
+spell successfully, the object will dematerialise and
+may then be reformed anywhere within 50 cm of its
+original position. The spell will work on any object of
+wagon or chariot size or smaller or on one tree. If the
+object contains any living creatures they will fall to
+the ground as it dematerialises beneath them. It may
+be used to move boulder to block a doorway, or boxes
+and barrels to barricade a street.
+==== Telekinesis ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 3
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell allows the caster to move non-living, static
+objects of man size or smaller up to 15 cm. It may be
+used to draw a bolt on a door, regain a weapon that
+has been dropped or to move a small boulder.
+==== Telepathy ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 80 cm
+This spell must be cast at the end of phase two. It
+allows the caster to examine one D6 enemy order
+counters within range, and the caster's side is then
+free to change the orders of any two of its units in
+reaction to the information acquired.
+==== Transparent Vision ====
+  * Casting Success: 75%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell may be cast on any one unit and/or
+character in base-to-base contact with that unit, or
+on any one character or monster. It allows the
+recipient(s) to look through walls, roofs and other
+solid obstacles up to 3 cm thick. In woods and
+swamps it increases the recipient(s) vision from 5 to
+cm and in jungle from 3 cm to 6 cm. The spell
+lasts for four turns.
+==== Walk on Water ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell allows any one character to walk on water
+for one D6 turns at normal speed. Should the spell
+fail while the character is still over the water, use the
+drowning rules featured in the Thaw Spell.
+==== Wall of Flame ====
+  * Casting Success: 50%
+  * Energy Cost: 7
+  * Range: 25 cm
+This spell creates a wall of flame, from the ground to
+Combat Height and 25 cm in length. The wall may
+be of any desired shape (use the template or a 25 cm
+length of red string to mark its position). The wall
+must be cast in a space that is unoccupied by any
+figures. It will last for one D4 turns. Any figures
+passing through the wall must roll to see if they are
+killed or in the case of characters and monsters
+wounded. Soldiers are killed and characters and
+monsters wounded on a roll of 30% or less.
+==== Warp and Splinter ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 6
+  * Range: 25 cm
+This spell may be used to destroy the specific items
+mentioned below. It will cause one D6 damage to a
+door or fence. If cast at a unit armed with spears,
+polearms or other wooden hafted weapons it will
+reduce their effectiveness, so the unit will fight from
+then on, as if it were armed with mixed weapons! If
+cast at a unit armed with bows or crossbows it will
+render those weapons useless.
+==== Wind ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 6
+  * Range: Battlefield
+This spell creates a wind that blows across the
+battlefield into the face of the enemy for one D3
+turns. During that time all smoke and mist are blown
+away (but not fog or clouds), and fires do double
+damage to buildings. While the wind lasts, all missile
+fire except from handguns, is conducted with a -2
+modifier. In addition the range of enemy missile fire
+is reduced by one quarter. The wind affects all areas
+from the ground to Combat Height.
+----
+===== ARCANE MAGIC OF THE DARK =====
+==== Blizzard ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 8
+  * Range: 40 cm
+This spell causes a localised blizzard to materialise
+around any one unit and character in base-to-base
+contact with that unit, or on one character or
+monster within range. The blizzard will last one D3
+turns, during which it will reduce the target's
+movement by - 3/4, make it impossible for the target
+to fire any missiles. In addition on each phase one the
+figures are caught in the blizzard, they must each
+roll one D100 to see if they suffer frostbite. Any
+figure rolling 10% or under is killed, while
+characters or monsters receive one wound.
+==== Battle Fury ====
+  * Casting Success: 60%
+  * Energy Cost: 6
+  * Range: 20 cm
+This spell will fill any one unit in range of the caster,
+with battle fury. The spell will last for two turns from
+the time it is cast. During that time, the unit will
+become immune to the need for Morale Tests and its
+BCP doubles.
+==== Choking Fog ====
+  * Casting Success: 45%
+  * Energy Cost: 9
+  * Range: 30 cm
+This spell envelopes any one unit and character in
+base-to-base contact with the unit, or any one
+character or monster, in range and sight of the
+caster, in a cloud of Choking Fog. The fog boils up
+from the ground and lasts for one turn. While in the
+fog, the affected unit is unable to move or fire and is
+disordered. In addition, each figure in the fog must
+roll one D100. On a roll of 25% or less the figure is
+killed, while characters and monsters suffer two
+wounds. When the fog passes, the unit must take a
+Morale Test, even if it is an elven unit. Any other unit,
+character or monster that is in base-to-base contact
+with the affected unit, while the fog is present, also
+suffers the fogs adverse affects and may in turn pass it
+on to other units, characters or monsters in base-to-
+base contact with it etcetera.
+==== Cloud of Darkness ====
+  * Casting Success: 80%
+  * Energy Cost: 2
+  * Range: 30 cm to centre of area
+This spell creates a Cloud of Darkness 20 cm in
+diameter, that rises up to Combat Height(use
+Template Two). The cloud will last for the duration of
+the battle, unless dispelled or blown away by a gale.
+Any unit, character or monster that enters the cloud,
+will find itself in a twilight world of intense gloom.
+Figures that do not owe their allegiance to Darkness,
+which are forced to take a Morale Test while in a
+Cloud of Darkness, do so with a -2 morale modifier.
+The spell Dark Vision halves this morale modifier.
+Cave Trolls while in the open can operate in Clouds of
+Darkness without fear of being harmed by sunlight.
+==== Extinguish Light ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 4
+  * Range: 25 cm
+Cast successfully, this spell will extinguish one
+Spiral or one Ring of Light. In the case of a Spiral of
+Light, the spell will only dispel the spiral if the caster
+is of a higher or equal level to the level of the Magic-
+user that created it. In the case of a Ring of Light, this
+spell will only dispel the ring if the caster is of a
+higher level than the Magic-user who created it. This
+spell has no effect on a Pillar or Sphere of Light.
+==== Freezing Fog ====
+  * Casting Success: 40%
+  * Energy Cost: 7
+  * Range: 30 cm
+For this spell to work the caster must be in range of a
+lake, marsh, river, canal or the sea. As the caster
+chants in the cursed tongue, a yellow fog will swirl up
+from the water. This fog will form itself into a cloud
+cm in diameter, that rises from the ground to
+combat height (use Template One). The cloud will last for one D4 turns and during that time the caster
+can move it up to 15 cm in phase one of each turn,
+anywhere on the battlefield. Any figure caught in the
+cloud must roll one D100. On a score of 20% or less
+the figure is killed, while characters or monsters
+receive one wound. This roll must be made each turn
+a figure is caught. All movement in the fog is -1/4.
+Missiles cannot be fired by units caught in the fog,
+and missiles fired into the fog suffer a - 4 Firing
+Modifier. Units in combat that are caught by the fog
+are immediately disordered. On a turn the caster
+moves the fog he may not cast any other spells. The
+fog will obscure the vision of anyone attempting to
+look through it and cannot be fired over.
+==== Frostbite ====
+  * Casting Success: 70%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 30 cm
+This spell can be cast on any one unit and character
+in base-to-base contact with that unit, or one
+character or monster. The spell instantly lowers the
+temperature around the target and may cause injury
+through frostbite. Each figure affected must roll one
+D100. On a roll of 20% or less the figure is killed, or in
+the case of characters and monsters it receives one
+wound. Saurians affected by this spell are killed or in
+the case of characters wounded on a roll of 25% or
+less.
+==== Glamour: Despair ====
+  * Casting Success: 65%
+  * Energy Cost: 5
+  * Range: 40 cm
+This spell creates an aura of despair around any one
+unit in sight of the Magic-user for one D4 turns. As a
+result, during the duration of the spell, they suffer a
++20 modifier in Order and Reaction Tests, and a - 3
+modifier in Morale Tests.
+==== Severed Hand ====
+  * Casting Success: 40%
+  * Energy Cost: 9
+  * Range: 15 cm
+This spell summons a giant severed hand, that
+appears within 15 cm of the caster and then stalks
+across the battlefield under his control. The hand
+may be used to attack individuals, units or buildings.
+For movement and combat the hand is treated as if it
+were an unarmoured A class troll armed with a
+double-handed mace. The hand is immune to Morale
+Tests and lasts for one D6 turns, or until it has
+received 6 wounds — at which time it disappears. If
+the caster of this spell is wounded or killed while the
+hand is in existence, the hand will start to move in a
+random direction attacking anything in its path.
+==== Summon Skeletons ====
+  * Casting Success: 50%
+  * Energy Cost: 9
+  * Range: 10 cm
+Cast successfully, this necromantic spell will at the
+caster's choice either summon:
+  - Two D10 unarmoured skeletons armed with mixed weapons
+  - One D10 skeletons in Chainmail armed with either sword, axes, maces or spears.
+The skeletons will either be human or of the caster's
+race. They will materialise within range of the
+summoner (but not in the middle of a unit of living
+creatures) and fight and move at his telepathic
+command, anywhere on the battlefield. The
+skeletons will remain in existence, obeying the
+caster's every command, until destroyed, banished
+back to the Shadowlands, or terminated by the
+summoner. To terminate the skeletons, the
+summoner simply removes them from the field of
+battle. The skeletons are automatically terminated if
+the caster casts another spell or is wounded.
+Skeletons fight and move like the race to which they
+originally belonged and as if they were B class troops.
+They are immune to Morale Tests and missile fire
+against them has its FFP halved after any division for
+range has been accounted for. On the other hand,
+weapons that involve fire have their BFP and BCP
+doubled. Skeletons cannot take Reaction Tests.
+==== Tornado ====
+  * Casting Success: 50%
+  * Energy Cost: 9
+  * Range: 20 cm
+Tornadoes are funnel shaped columns of wind with
+lightning playing over the surface. They swirl up
+from the ground to Combat Height. They are highly
+destructive and once unleashed, impossible to
+control. A Magic-user who summons a tornado can
+place it anywhere on the battlefield that is clear of
+figures, at least 5 cm from the nearest enemy unit
+and within 20 cm of the caster's position.
+The tornado will last for one D4 turns. During that
+time it will move 15 cm in a random direction in
+phases 4 and 7 of each turn. Tornadoes are unaffected
+by normal terrain, and only cliffs or fortifications
+halt their progress. The Tornado's base size is
+equivalent to a Fireball template. Tornadoes
+automatically destroy any buildings (but not
+fortifications), they contact. If a tornado passes
+through a wall, fence, or hedge it will clear a path
+equal to its base size. Tornadoes that pass through
+woods also clear a path equal to their base size.
+If a tornado hits a ground unit, each figure caught
+either wholly or partly under its template must roll
+one D100. On a roll of 50% or less they are killed,
+while characters and monsters receive one wound.
+Figures within 5 cm of the template must also roll
+and on a roll of 30% or less suffer a similar fate. Units
+caught by a tornado are automatically disordered.
+If the tornado hits a flying unit or creature at
+Combat Height one D6 must be rolled. On a one or
+two the victim is hurled to the ground (see the rules
+for wounded fliers crashing on page 80) and
+disordered. On a three or four, the victim is hurled up
+to Flight Height and disordered. On any other result
+the victim is hurled 15 cm through the air in a
+random direction and disordered. If this causes the
+unit or creature to crash into an object it should
+normally have flown round, refer to the crash rules
+for wounded flyers to assess the damage.
+----
+[[failed-arcane-magic-table|FAILED ARCANE MAGIC TABLE]]