Galdors

Galdors

The most basic form of magic taught by the Imperial Ministry of Thaumaturgical Education are called Galdors. These spells are taught at the earliest levels of education as teaching tools for more advanced techniques. While minor in ability, they can be very helpful in everyday life.

A character may know a maximum number of Galdors equal to their Wits + Occult. Casting a Galdor is a standard action that does not require the expenditure or Willpower or any other supernatural force. Learning a new Galdor costs 5 xp or 2 Freebie points. A character may not have any more spells active than they have dots in Wits.

A character with 4 or more dots in Knowledges starts with a number Galdors equal to their Intelligence as a sign of their education.

Balance Weapon

Dice Pool: Wits + Melee

This spell gives a melee weapon improved balance, making it easier to strike with. The ability only works on a weapon the caster can wield with one hand. The spell gives the caster +1D to all strike and parry rolls made with the weapon for 1 scene. The spell only works on one weapon at a time, if the caster drops or sheaths the weapon, they must recast the spell.

Bedding

Dice Pool: Wits + Survival

Simple bed gathers, loosens and flattens surrounding vegetation, dead leaves and loose soil in order to create a very comfortable bed, which gives the caster a pleasant, restful night. The caster regains an extra point of Willpower after sleeping. If a character possesses this spell, and is attempting to set up camp in the wild, it reduces all Survival difficulties by -1.

Cantrip

Dice Pool: Wits + Occult

Once cast, a cantrip spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 scene. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A cantrip can slowly lift 1 pound of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 1 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Cantrip can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a cantrip spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, cantrip lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour.

Cheater's Coin

Dice: Wits + Larceny

Cheater's Coin causes a coin you touch to always land with the same face up when flipped. You decide which face will land up at time of casting. You may only have one coin enchanted at one time, the spell lasts for 1 scene.

Cleanse

Dice Pool: Wits + Alertness

The character waves their hands in a circular motion over an object (or in the air to clean a room no larger than 10' by 10') and all dirt on the target immediately vanishes as though the object or room was just scrubbed thoroughly clean. The spell does not cleanse the room stains caused by blood, oil, or anything else that causes difficult stains.

Color

Dice Pool: Wits + Alertness

The spell temporarily changes the color of a worn garment. The color of the garment may be any color the caster wishes, and the spell may be set to shift colors either in swirls or solid shifts. The spell lasts for 8 hours or until the caster removes the garment.

Cram

Dice Pool: Wits + Investigation

This spell allows the caster to quickly summarize a text of up to 250 pages. If a text is over 250 pages, two or more castings of the spell are needed to summarize the entire text. The caster chooses the form of the summary at the time of casting: mental or audible. The summary, in the form of a short paragraph, is either mentally understood at the end of casting or audibly spoken at the end of the spell’s casting.

Dot

Dice Pool: Wits + Alertness

Pointer causes you to emit a beam of light from the index finger of your dominant hand. This light can be any color in the visible spectrum chosen at time of casting. Unless the air has a high density of particles (such as smoke or fog) the light appears only as a dot against whatever solid surface at which you are pointing.

If a feline with 1 intelligence sees the dot, it must succeed at a Willpower roll or have an overpowering urge to hunt the dot. It will do so as if it were stalking any other creature, and may chase it rapidly or lie in wait at its own discretion. If chasing the dot poses an obvious danger, or if the feline is threatened by other dangers, the Willpower roll automatically succeeds. Likewise, if the feline encounters a danger while chasing the light, the effect ends.

Ease Pain

Dice Pool: Wits + Medicine

This spell alleviates minor pain experienced by the caster or target. The spell removes 1D of die penalties to a target for 24 hours. A target may only receive the benefits from one application of this spell at a time. This spell may be used in a preventive way to avoid possible penalties.

Fortified Cloth

Dice Pool: Wits + Survival

With a word, the character causes bedding, draperies, unworn loose clothing, or tapestries to gird the character, forming an improvised suit of armor. The armor provides +1D protection against Lethal and Bashing damage. When removed, the armor collapses back into its constituent parts. The caster may only have one such spell active at one time, and must be wearing the clothing at the time of the casting.

Far Whisper

Dice Pool: Wits + Expression

Time: 10 min / Success (Diff. 6)

You can whisper messages and receive whispered replies. Those nearby can hear these messages with a a successful Awareness check (Diff. 8). You point your finger at the person you want to receive the message, the caster may only carry on one conversation at a time. When you whisper, the whispered message is audible to all targeted creatures within range. The target must be no further than 50 feet from the caster. The message requires a line of sight between the caster and target. The creatures that receive the message can whisper a reply that you hear. The spell transmits sound, not meaning; it doesn't transcend language barriers. To speak a message, you must mouth the words and whisper.

Motion Blur

Dice Pool: Wits + Athletics/Dodge

This spell creates a blur around the caster making them more difficult to hit with attacks. The spell provides +1D to defense rolls for 1 scene. Even if the character does not defend, the character still rolls the bonus die to reduce the number of successes the attacker achieves.

Open/Close

Dice Pool: Wits + Larceny

You can open or close (your choice) a door, chest, box, window, bag, pouch, bottle, barrel, or other container. If anything resists this activity (such as a bar on a door or a lock on a chest), the spell fails. In addition, the spell can only open and close things weighing 30 pounds or less. Thus, doors, chests, and similar objects sized for enormous creatures may be beyond this spell's ability to affect. You must be within line of sight of the object being opened/closed. If you have the key to the object you wish to open/close you may lock/unlock the object while opening/closing it.

Smack

Dice Pool: Wits + Athletics

This creates a hand about the size of a child's hand out of glowing energy that slaps a designated target. The hand materializes in front of the casters face and flies at an intended target within 15 feet. The activation roll acts as the attack roll if the target wishes to dodge. If the caster succeeds the spell inflicts 1 point of Bashing damage.

Sharpen

Dice Pool: Wits + Melee

The spell temporarily sharpens a knife, even beyond what is capable with mundane means. The spell lasts as long as the character holds the knife. The spell does not work on anything larger than a 5 inch blade. The character may only have one spell active at a time. The spell provides a +1D bonus to all damage rolls with the knife.

Shine

Dice Pool: Wits + Occult

This spell causes a touched object to glow like a torch, shedding normal light in a 20-foot radius from the point touched. The object may be no larger than a coin. The object continues to shed light as long as it remains in contact with the caster. The caster may only have one object subject to this spell at one time, any attempt to cast this spell on second touched object automatically fails.

Spark

Dice Pool: Wits + Survival

This spell creates a spark the equivalent to that created by flint and steel. The number of successes determines the number of time a character may snap their fingers to create a spark. If a character possesses this spell, and is attempting to set up camp in the wild, it reduces all Survival difficulties by -1.

Stitch in Time

Dice Pool: Wits + Relevant Craft Skill

This spell makes minor repairs to an item. The item may weight no more than 10 lbs, and could be repaired using mundane means. Objects cannot be repaired if it would be more feasible to replace the item (Ex: Cinderella's first dress, shattered coffee mug, burned book, etc...).

Veritas

Dice Pool: Wits + Empathy

This spell assists in trying to determine if the character is being lied to. The spell lasts for 1 scene and provides a +1D bonus to all Empathy rolls to determine if they are being lied to. The spell is tailored to an individual, which requires the caster to recast the spell when the caster wishes to use Empathy on another person.

Wake Up

Dice Pool: Wits + Alertness

Timer sounds an audible alarm after a set time, not to exceed 8 hours. You choose what type of alarm sound timer creates during casting and cannot thereafter change the sound’s basic character. Anyone within the area of the caster will hear the alarm sound clearly.