Difference between revisions of "Sciomancy (skill)"

{{SkillTableRow |Channel | Inept | 0| Open conduits to the Elemental Realms. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Lash | Inept | 32| Send a scourging lash of Shadow energy. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Flood | Inept | 65| Flood your surroundings with magical darkness. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Reflection | Novice | 0| Create a distracting illusion of yourself. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Galeward | Novice | 66| Protect yourself from afflictions with Wind. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Nightsight | Novice | 75| See through the shadows with ease. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Stoneskin | Apprentice | 0| Create a protective but supple layer of stone around you. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Fortification | Apprentice | 33| Protect your open channels from attack. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Stonebrand | Apprentice | 66| Place the brand of the Earth upon your foe. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Meteoswarm | Capable | 0| Summon a cloud of meteorites to batter your enemies. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Mirage | Capable | 25| Place a shifting mirage over your location. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Tornado | Capable | 50| Call down a tornado to empty the skies. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Voidstaff | Adept | 0| Place the mark of the Void upon your staff. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Scry | Adept | 33| Peer through the shadows to find your target. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Drain | Skilled | 0| Crack open the earth to drain away water. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Illusion | Skilled | 33| Conjure forth an illusion. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Windbrand | Gifted | 0| Place the brand of the Air upon your foe. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Quake | Gifted | 33| Shake the very earth underfoot. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Erode | Gifted | 66| Destroy the defenses of your enemy. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Bloodleech | Expert | 0| Leech the afflictions out of your blood. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Ring | Expert | 50| Extend the life of a crystalline vibration. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Binding | Virtuoso | 0| The magic of channel binding. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Condensate | Virtuoso | 25| Condense the water out of the air. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Shadowbrand | Fabled | 0| Place the brand of the Shadow upon your foe. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Simultaneity | Fabled | 25| Parallel channeling. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Copy | Fabled | 50| Copy the last ability performed against you. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Tune | Fabled | 75| Slow the decay of your vibrations. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Transfix | Mythical | 0| Mesmerize your target into inaction. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Shadeling | Mythical | 33| Solidify the shadows into an elemental daemon. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Voidgaze | Mythical | 50| Give your victims a glimpse of the void. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Stormhammer | Mythical | 66| Call down the wrath of the storm upon multiple enemies. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Singularity | Transcendent | 0| Prepare an unstable point of singularity. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Fluxus | Transcendent | 0| Transmogrify your foe at the elemental level. }}

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|syntax = CHANNEL EARTH/AIR/SHADOW

|description =Using this ability, you may open a channel to one of the elemental realms to which you have access. Keeping these channels open has a cost in willpower. SEVER EARTH/AIR/SHADOW will close that channel. CHANNELS will list what channels you have open.

|skillname = Lash

|syntax = CAST LASH <target>

CAST LASH ICEWALL [<direction>]

|skillname = Reflection

|syntax = CAST REFLECTION [target]

|description =Elements: Air

Create an illusion of yourself or another that will protect you against certain attacks.

|description = See easily through the shadows that surround you.

|skillname = Stoneskin

|syntax = CAST STONESKIN

|description =Elements: Earth

Create a layer of supple stone about your frame to mitigate damage against your person

|skillname = Fortification

|syntax = FORTIFY <channel/ALL>

|description = Using this ability will provide you protection against abilities that may attack your open elemental channels. These abilities will first have to attack your fortification before destroying your channel. However, fortify does have a regular willpower cost associated with it.

|skillname = Stonebrand

|syntax = CAST STONEBRAND <target>

|description =Elements: Earth

Place the Brand of the Stone upon your foe, causing their endurance usage to double.

|description =Elements: Earth, Air

Call down meteorites from the sky to strike at your enemies.

|skillname = Tornado

|syntax = CAST TORNADO <target>

|description =Elements: Air

Summon a tornado to knock a foe in the sky or the trees down to the ground.

|description =Elements: Shadow, Air, Earth

The elemental staff is perhaps the sciomancer's strongest pure-damage

attack. Once you have summoned one, you may use the following attacks:

|skillname = Scry

|syntax = CAST SCRY AT <target>

|description =Elements: Shadow, Air

Peer through the realm of the Shadow to pinpoint your foe's location.

|skillname = Illusion

|syntax = CAST ILLUSION <illusion>

|description =Elements: Air

Note: You may use the $nl character to force a newline, however you may do so only once per illusion.

|skillname = Erode

|syntax = CAST ERODE <TARGET>

|description =Elements: Earth

With your grip on the elements, you can cast a spell of erosion at your foe, destroying a defence.

|description =Elements: Shadow

Call upon the Shadow to extend the life of your vibrations.

|syntax = CAST SHADOWBRAND <target>

|description =Elements: Shadow

Place the Brand of the Shadow upon your foe, increasing damage done to them by 5%.

|skillname = Simultaneity

|syntax = SIMULTANEITY

|description = Simultaneously channel the Shadow, Air, and Earth elemental channels.

|skillname = Copy

|syntax = CAST COPY

|description =Elements: Shadow, Air, Earth

Through the primal elements, you can replicate the last aggressive attack targeted at you, and dish it out back at your opponent. Due to the nature of the ability, you must witness the attack with your own eyes in order to do so.

You cannot replicate the attacks of those performed by a loyal servant, such as Angels or Golems.

|skillname = Tune

|syntax = CAST TUNE

|description =Elements: Shadow

Any vibrations that you own within the room will be set into a dormant state. They will no longer vibrate, but they will cease to decay. CAST RING will bring your vibrations out of this state along with focus in crystalism.

|skillname = Shadeling

|syntax = CAST SHADELING

|description =Elements: Shadow

Summon forth the shadeling, a being of elemental Shadow, to do your bidding. CALL ELEMENTALS will allow you to recall your shadeling should it be lost to you.

|description = If you have a target transfixed, you can create the image of a void before them, causing them to stare hopelessly into its depths.

|skillname = Singularity

|syntax = CAST SINGULARITY <timer>

|description =Elements: Shadow

Create an unstable singularity with a certain phase offset for safety. When the phase offset recorrects itself, the singularity will collapse violently.