Spells

Before the fighting, it calls Temptress fiend up out of the Deep to fight for the caster.

Lumen cultivators call it a kingdom's great ward folded small enough to fit one company.

It is among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more, fails more easily and lays a thinner skin.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Research presses the spell into a Seal-shard, and like every learned spell it perishes at the Unsealing.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Newcomers of that affinity say it is among the first spells they recover.

Cultivators of Reverie say a wall holds only while those who face it believe it is there.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields strikes harder.

Sometimes it gives nothing at all.

The gain grows as the caster's realm deepens toward full mastery of the spell, and the card shows how far.

Sealborn of Pyre call it the sister of Fire dart.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

This is a spell that belongs to its own affinity.

Like every battle spell, it must get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Bloom artisans say a made thing is only borrowed from the ground, and the ground always asks for it back.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Some already have it.

Lumen cultivators say the flash is pure order, too clear for the eye to find a mark through.

Umbra cultivators describe it from the inside.

Before the fighting, the spell rolls over a single company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is a battle spell, so it takes the side's one battle-spell place, and anything it does to an enemy must get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Its age grants no privilege.

Nor does all of it arrive.

In the Age of the Given Word, a broken alliance showed Flint D.

It shows one rival kingdom's army, and a kingdom's protections against scouting can turn it aside.

They carry no affinity of their own, so fire can ride their arrows without changing what they are.

Sealborn of Pyre call it Kindle grown large: the same spark, fed by a deeper core until it will not fit in a hand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

It is a costly spell to bring, and each side brings only one battle spell, so a Bloom lord saves it for a foe whose strength is in the air: winged hosts, wing-beasts, anything that means to strike from above before the line can close.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its ancient rank does not override the ring.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Umbra cultivators explain it simply.

Cast on another kingdom, it tears open a furrow through that kingdom's stores and drains its mana.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Cultivators of Reverie say the spell sends the enemy a brief dream of loving the soldiers in front of them, and it is hard to strike what you have dreamed of loving.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

While it stands, the lord raises their recruits faster.

The card prices it as research.

The card prices it as research.

On the ring of affinities, dreams die, so Reverie feeds Umbra.

Cultivators of Reverie say almost everyone knows this spell already, from the inside.

It does nothing for anyone but elves.

It is a battle spell, and each side brings only one.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the spell does a little more.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields takes life from the enemies it strikes.

Sealborn of Pyre say the Law of Equals binds this fire.

It is a spoken ill-wish.

A shard woken in Lumen mends a little even at its shallowest realm.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The old story is that small kingdoms used it during the devouring, in the Age of the First Sealborn, because a great army that cannot see fights no more effectively than a small one.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still magic, so it must pass the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Cultivators of Reverie say a dream can make a moment as long as the dreamer needs, and this spell lends a company that stretched moment.

Lumen cultivators say light is easiest to hold along an edge, and that it will not follow a thing once it leaves the hand.

Lumen cultivators say the spell was first pressed in the Age of Odrin.

Every raising answers Odrin Half-Core.

Umbra cultivators have an explanation.

These are not the bodies the dead once had.

It never comes back with a relic.

What breaks is lost for the Turning.

For all its reach, it never takes a relic.

Lumen cultivators call it the deeper form of Silver palm mending, pressed by those who wanted the light to reach further down.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators say the word commands only what has no right to stand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is a small spell and a low in cost one, among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more and fails more easily.

Lumen cultivators are careful about what this is.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Aefenna, the Lamplighter, who holds Reverie, also holds the Third Seal, which keeps back a night without ending.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Before the fighting starts, the spell falls on a single enemy company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still a simple spell, yet it asks for more turns than the smallest summonings of its affinity.

The bear-folk are proud that they carry Bloom.

Ordinary folk say these are the dead who learned to take their borrowed life by mouth, from enemies as well as from the kingdom that keeps them.

Umbra cultivators say these are the dead who kept the most of their old shape while they waited, and that something of what they knew in life comes up with them.

Cultivators find the gift odd.

Lumen cultivators tie these judges to the Law of Equals.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Summoned things are shapes a spell calls out of the Welter, and mana keeps them standing.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Before anything existed there was only the Welter, raw power with no lasting shape, until seven beings found shapes that held and became the gods.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples, native life where an affinity runs strong.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples: native life where an affinity runs strong.

They nest on bare crags where nothing seems to grow.

The blade-singers call themselves the Greenmother's pruning knife.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul, and every one remembers being somewhere else.

The Human lineages have a song about them.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power that can become anything but keep nothing.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, and elementals are among them.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

The Sealborn who cast it do not agree on what the warriors are, but the Human lineages have a song about them.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Lumen cultivators tell the high ones' story with care.

Deopa's creatures are not all the same kind of thing.

Lumen cultivators remember these steeds in the story of Ysme of Lumen.

Cultivators of Reverie say the Welter has no shape of its own, so it takes the one the summoner holds in mind.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

The noble lines believe they are older than the Scar, and that the Greenmother remembers her own.

The grove-folk say each maiden belongs to one tree, and that the great tree-wardens called by Summon tree guardian are her elders.

Umbra cultivators say the reapers are the Deep's answer to the Unmaker.

The price does not stop there.

Umbra cultivators have a story for it.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Bloom cultivators tell where the scream came from.

Cultivators of Reverie say this summoning is sung, not spoken, because the Welter answers a song more readily than a command.

Where Lumen runs strong, the Hallow has celestial peoples among its affinity-born life.

Newcomers are often surprised to find serpents answering a call of light.

Elves are among the affinity-born peoples, the native life of the Hallow that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Cultivators of Reverie say a great figure is slow to answer because it must be dreamed whole.

Farmers have their own name for them.

Ordinary folk tell a story about them.

Cultivators argue about whom these speakers speak for.

The Hallow's affinity-born life includes astral peoples, and Lumen cultivators count these casters among them.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

Bloom cultivators teach it beside the story of Odrin Half-Core.

A Sealborn reaches no further than the complex spells of neighbouring affinities, so this spell belongs to cores that woke in Lumen.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power beyond the Covenant.

The treefolk hold a proud belief.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Umbra cultivators say the shades are the thinnest of the stranded dead: remnants worn so far down that the spell can give them little more than a darkness to stand in.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Newcomers who fell through the Scar tell a story about these steeds.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The spell does a second thing, and many commanders value it more.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the bolt also breaks the strike of an enemy company for the battle.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Cast by anyone else, it does nothing at all.

Its reason is growth.

Undon, the Unmaker, who holds this affinity, sealed on one term: no sealing lasts.

In any other hands it does nothing at all.

Lumen cultivators explain it plainly.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its cultivators say a wound is only ground waiting to grow back over.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators count it the last of three spells for the fallen, after Silver palm mending and Restore fallen.