Spell of the Day

Blaðamúr is a level six evocation spell with a range of ninety feet and a duration of up to ten minutes which requires concentration to maintain. 

Bladamur creates a wall of energy which is sharp to touch.  While there is not measure for sharpness, the energy from bladamur can score tempered steel. The approximate dimensions of the wall can be manipulated but the maximum volume is around ten thousand cubic feet.  That can be used to make a wall one hundred feet long, twenty feet high, and five feet thick or any combination there in.  

One researcher who studied the spell dubbed it a tornado of razor blades.  

Svarta tentacles is a level four conjuration spell with a range of ninety feet a duration of up to a minute an requires a piece of tentacle from either octopus or squid. 

If ever you find yourself being pursued and happen to have a tentacle in your pocket, you can summon a twenty square foot area of squirming, ebony tentacles which will ensnare but not crush.  When the spell ends, the appendages drift away as mist.   

The spell produces a random number of tentacles from four to as much as twenty, all about three feet in length.  The prehensile strength of each is over one hundred pounds.  The one thing they lack from a living octopus are ink sacks. 

Madichon is a level three necromancy spell requiring touch and concentration and has a duration of about a minute. 

Madichon clouds the mind, making thoughts and speech difficult.  It has a nasty bonus of causing superficial necrotic skin damage to both the castor and the target at the place where contact is made.  

Federal law prohibits this spell to be cast upon humans and there are currently twelve states including Texas and Ohio that ban all spells of this class.  Be sure to check local regulations before casting.   

Koorik is a second level transmutation spell with an hour duration which requires concentration to maintain and a handful of tree bark to cast. 

Koorik has an Estonian origin and is one of those spells which is more for fun than of any practical use.  It gives the target’s skin the appearance of the tree bark which the castor holds.  This would be useful for camouflage but for a few caveats.    It cannot be cast upon the self and the castor must be touching the target and maintain contact for it to work.  So, unless two people both use the spell on each other the illusion will be broken. 

Exilium is a level four abjuration spell with a range of sixty feet, a duration of up to a minute, and a material requirement of a piece of spoiled food. 

Exilium is used to temporarily send something or someone to what has been called the Void.  Upon casting the target vanishes, leaving a vaccum in their place which cools the air as it rushes in.  When the spell ends, the person is returned just as quickly but this time a rush of warm air is pushed outward and a faint popping sound can be heard.  While in the void the person is in stasis, unconscious and unchanged.  Scientists have studied the Void with probes but found there to be no light, no sound, and no measurable temperature nor pressure.  It should be noted that due to the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of momentum, should a person be sent to the void, say while in a moving car, they will exit the void at the same speed, direction, and location but the car will have moved on.  For this reason, exilium is illegal to use while moving except in an emergency. 

The Navy authorized the use of exilium for ejecting pilots in 1940, but the spell has a more common use in the sanitation industry.  Since the spell consumes what is in essence garbage, worker’s across the country use it to send objects in and out of the Void thousands of times a day to reduce waste.  The object, called a gopher, varies from place to place but is usually a ball signed by all who use it. 

Mea esebon is a level five abjuration spell with a minute duration that is cast upon the self. 

The next time you want to add some strength to your swing, cast mea esebon.  The spell provides an approximately twenty percent increase of force towards the next thing you touch either directly by the hand or indirectly by a tool already in hand.   

If you wish to drive a nail with a hammer in one blow mea esebon will aid you.  However, that task can become tedious as the spell would need to be cast for every strike.  The spell is most commonly used in the construction and demolition industries. 

 Boa burbulla is a fourth level abjuration spell that is cast upon the self and lasts for up to ten minutes and requires concentration to maintain. 

The discovery of boa burbulla gave a solid defense against the radiation of dark energy as it produces a nullifying effect at a radius of thirty feet from the castor.  The energy field moves with you and is centered around the wand.  It causes no other effect than to protect against possible necrotic damage. 

As with most spells concerned with dark energy, this one has little use outside of a battlefield.  Today it is strictly used as a protection for researchers studying the mysterious radiation. 

Evulekile is believed to have been discovered in Africa upon the Zulu people.  It is a ninth level necromancy spell which requires an hour to cast and a range of ten feet.  The spell does have a high cost, consuming both one hundred grams of gold and ten grams of silver.  In today’s money that is over four thousand US dollars.   

Before you judge this spell’s material requirement to be outlandish, first consider how powerful it is. 

Evulekile allows you and up to eight willing people within range to have your minds enter the astral plane.  The easiest way to understand this state is to think of yourself as a ghost now able to move through the world unbidden by physics.  You may fly across the globe or through it for that matter at the speed of thought.  The only limits to you in the astral plane would be a barrier to magical energy such as the one created by tuhinga Magi and an inability to interact with anything that is seen.   

While in the astral plane, you will see a silver cord that flows back to your physical body acting as a tether.  Should this cord somehow be cut death is instant. 

The spell ends when you actively dismiss it.  You do not need to return to your body before doing so.   

Special measures should be taken to protect your physical body while in the astral plane as you will be numb to its condition.   

The use of this spell for surveillance has been well documented in de-classified documents for decades.  But evulekile is invaluable for studies in geology and astronomy. 

There are currently twelve states including Texas and Ohio that ban all spell of this class.  Be sure to check local regulations before casting. 

 Gonosz polip is a first level conjuration spell cast upon the self with an instant casting time and duration. 

This spell with a Hungarian origin taps into dark energy releasing powerful tendrils around the castor for ten feet.  Anything within this radius will develop various forms of necrosis much like what occurs after frostbite or when bitten by a brown recluse spider.  The radiation emitted from the release of dark energy causes death on a cellular level usually no deeper than the epidermis of the skin.   

Conventional treatment of the damage requires minor surgery to remove the dead tissue; a procedure called debridement.  

Gonosz polip is currently banned in all state but Colorado and Illinois.