WATER
SPELLS:
FROST
SHIELD (LEVEL
III) |
Spell Effect. This
spell creates a shield of frozen ice to protect the mage from harm or to block
off a corridor from advancing troops. The shield is a wall of cold, hard ice
that the mage can create up to two fores in front of him. It is approximately 4
peds high and 5 peds long. If created in a narrow corridor, it will mold to fit
and block off the passage. The wall is about 1.5 fore thick.
Once created, the mage has no more control over it, and if he wants to cross the
area, he must use some other spell to destroy the wall.
Water Extraction is the
most common, as it absorbs the energy used to make the wall back into caster.
Besides just creating a wall, some mages have grown quite creative with the use
of this spell, sometimes using it to make a bridge of ice over a small gap or
chasm. Of
course, the mage should watch his step as he crosses it, for pure ice usually is
a bit
slippery.
Casting Procedure.
The mage places a few fingers to his forehead, while holding a wet aquamarine
stone in that hand. He then speaks the formula, throws his hand down to his hip
and then up to above his shoulder on the opposite side of this body, and then
tosses the stone to where he wants the wall to appear. The stone will disappear
as soon as it hits the ground; it will not bounce.
To create a bridge instead of a wall, the mage must do the very same procedure,
but instead of throwing the stone, he must place it carefully at the end of the
cliff on his side, release his hands, and let it slide down the cliff and into
the gap. A bridge of ice will form reaching from both sides of the gap. The
stone must touch the side of the cliff in order to work.
Magical Formula.
Exhonaiá liánn fá evathonís, (Styrásh:
Exhonaiá liánn fá evathonís),
translated: "Freeze, fragment of ice!"
Target. An area on the
ground or a gap.
Reagents. A wet
aquamarine stone.
Magical School.
Elemental Magic, Water School.
Spell Class. Not
decided yet.
Range. 2 Fores.
Casting Time.
11 seconds.
Duration.
Approximately half an hour. Twice as long if the mage is at a level past 8.
Counter Measures/Enhancing Measures.
To counter the spell, one may extract the frozen water forming the wall,
incinerate it with fire, use a gust of wind powerful enough to shatter it,
magically hurl a rock at it with enough force to shatter it, or constantly hit
it with a hard object.
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