Elemental Spells - Eschalon: Book III

Elemental spells focus on the elemental realms — air, earth, fire and water — and they tend to be offensive in nature. The Intelligence Attribute and the Arcane, Elemental Skill control which Elemental spells you can cast, and how well you can cast them.

The 23 Elemental spells are listed below.

Tier 1 Spells

These spells require Intelligence 15 and Arcane, Elemental 1.

The spells include:

Dazzling Flare: Creates a dazzling display of sparkling lights. While it causes no physical harm to the target creature, the display does give the illusion that the caster is a powerful mage casting a deadly spell, which fools many creatures into fleeing. Larger or more intelligent creatures require a higher casting level for the spell to be effective. The fear induced by the magical display lasts for 20 turns, but larger creatures are less affected by the spell.

Draw Water: Draws water from the humidity in the air and uses it to fill any water skins in the caster’s inventory. The spell draws 8 ounces (0.5 pounds) of water per casting level.

Element Armor: Gives the caster an increased level of protection from the elements (fire, cold, electricity). The effect of the spell is +10% resistance to elements per casting level. The duration is 75 turns.

Firetouch: Allows the caster to lay hands upon a target and inflict 3-5 points of fire damage per casting level to all living and inanimate objects.

Gravedigger’s Flame: Creates a magickal torch that floats above the caster’s head, illuminating the nearby darkness. The duration of the spell is 70 turns per casting level.

Predator Sight: Allows the caster to see the faint electromagnetic aura that all creatures emit, whether they are living, animated or extra-dimensional. In daylight this has practically no effect, but in darkness the caster is able to see all creatures glowing green, which clearly reveals their location. Using Predator Sight, a caster does not receive any penalty for attacking in low light conditions. The duration of the spell is 20 turns per casting level.

Reveal Map: Radiates a subsonic “ping” from the caster, mapping the surrounding area. The higher the casting level, the greater the size of the mapped area and the more detail that is included.

Sonic Blast: Creates an intense subsonic wave that temporarily stuns all nearby targets, lowering their offensive and defensive abilities. The casting level determines the overall power and range of the blast.

Spark: Causes an ionic charge of electricity to arc from the caster’s hands towards the target. The effect is 2-4 hit points of electric damage per casting level.

Tier 2 Spells

These spells require Intelligence 20 and Arcane, Elemental 5.

The spells include:

Chameleon: Causes the caster to blend in with the environment, making him or her harder to hit. The duration of the spell is 20 turns per casting level.

Compress Atmosphere: Creates a bubble of crushing air around several targets, inflicting 6-9 points of damage per casting level.

Dense Nimbus: Creates a bubble of dense, high-pressure air around the caster, which prevents most projectiles from striking him or her. The effectiveness of the spell is 40% projectile deflection at casting level 1, with 10% more protection for each additional casting level. The duration of the spell is 20 turns per casting level. Note: Dense Nimbus works only when the source of the projectile is more than one space away. It does not prevent damage from melee weapons, point-blank shots, or magickal projectiles.

Enkindled Weapon: Temporarily imbues any weapon held in the caster’s hand with bonus fire damage. The effect is 2 points of fire damage per casting level. The duration is 50 turns.

Fireball: Launches a fireball towards the target. The effect is 5-9 points of fire damage per casting level, affecting both living and non-living targets. The concussion of the fireball’s blast also produces collateral damage to surrounding creatures and objects.

Lock Melt: Concentrates heat onto the lock mechanism of a door or chest, softening the metal components of the lock and causing them to fail. Higher quality locks require a more powerful casting level as the quality of the metal and craftsmanship of the lock are less susceptible to heat damage.

Polarclaw: Turns the caster’s hands into jagged claws of subfreezing ice, which cause 8-12 cold damage per casting level to an enemy. The caster must be within melee range of the target, and the target must be made of living flesh.

Toxic Element: Sprays the target with a vaporous mist of toxic Polonium, drawn from the soil and stone around the caster. The target must save versus toxins or become horribly sickened. The casting level determines the potency of the toxic effect.

Trapkill: Causes waves of atmospheric pressure to compress nearby traps, forcing them into mechanical failure. Most traps, especially those of simpler design, are susceptible to these rapid fluxations of pressure and can fail through the casting of this spell. More advanced trap designs require a higher casting level to be disarmed. This is a touch-range spell; only traps immediately adjacent to the caster will be affected.

Tier 3 Spells

These spells require Intelligence 25 and Arcane, Elemental 11.

The spells include:

Abyssal Freeze: Blasts a single target with a sub-freezing sphere of cold, inflicting a massive 6-10 hit points of freeze damage per casting level. However, the extremely cold temperature generated by this spell has no effect on inanimate objects.

Ice Lance: Draws upon humidity in the air to form a massive, pointed shaft of ice that is hurled from the caster, inflicting 12-16 points of freeze damage per casting level on whatever it strikes.

Invisibility: Physically warps light around the caster, making him or her invisible and impossible to visually track by enemies. The duration of the spell is 3 turns per casting level.

Portal: Allows the caster to set an anchor point anywhere in the world, and then later recast the spell to open a portal back to that anchor point. Each casting level allows a different portal anchor point.

Supernova: Creates a fiery blast that emanates from the caster causing 5-7 points of fire damage per casting level on every object and creature in the area.