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Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Jet, Obvious, Summoning

Description

A 10-yard beam of raw energy, emanating from your hand, scorches whatever it touches. This is a Burning Attack, delivered via Innate Attack (Beam), and it devastates with Surge (Arcing) and a chance of stunning the target. Further, it can parry thanks to its Melee-Capable and Reflexive nature, effectively using the Lattice to defend as well as attack.

Statistics

Burning Attack (Destructive Parry, +10%; Increased 1/2D, 2x, +5%; Jet, +0%; Melee-Capable, Reach 1, +15%; Nuisance Effect, Behaves erratically around conductors, -5%; Reflexive, +40%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [15/level]. Note: Melee-Capable and Reflexive allow a jet to parry in this particular combination despite a jet normally being unable to do so.

Archmagister's Counsel

This raw manipulation of the Lattice is a blunt instrument, but effective. Teach your mages this spell, my Lord, and they will carve a path through any opposition, literally stunning them into submission. It is less elegant than some, perhaps, but quite decisive.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Information, Missile, Obvious

Description

This manipulation of the Lattice creates a projectile of pure lightning from your fingertips, flying up to 20 yards. It ignores non-metallic obstacles, ripping through walls and windows to seek its target, then exploding on impact in a 4-yard area. Besides burning damage (1d per level), the surge arcs to secondary targets and has a chance to stun, making it a rather uncivilized application of power.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d (Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Cosmic, Passes through nonmetallic obstacles, +100%; Homing, +50%; Increased 1/2D, 2x, +5%; Reduced Range, x1/5, -20%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%; Triggered Delay, +50%) [26/level].

Archmagister's Counsel

If you're facing a Sorcerer who can whip up one of these, you'd best not hide behind a wooden door or a plaster wall. The Lattice doesn't care about such flimsy protections.

Keywords

Area, Control, Damage, Defense, Missile, Obvious, Summoning

Description

This 'Lattice-work' channels a burst of electrical energy, creating a 1d burning attack with a 4-yard radius that causes stunning. It's not an explosion, despite the common moniker, but still hits a large area. Aim using Innate Attack (Beam), applying range penalties but gaining a +4 bonus for area targeting. Be mindful: it behaves erratically near conductors.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d (Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Nuisance Effect, Behaves erratically around conductors, -5%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [16.5/level*]. * Calculate the total cost and then round up.

Archmagister's Counsel

This spell is crude, yet effective: why bother with pinpoint accuracy when sheer electrical force can stun and burn an entire enemy formation? It's the equivalent of a blunt instrument, but sometimes, a blunt instrument is precisely what wins a skirmish.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Obvious

Description

This spell projects a cone of lightning, inflicting 1d burning surge damage per level. Metallic armor offers only DR 1 protection, while non-metallic armor defends as usual. The raw power of the Lattice indifferent to your chosen method.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d (Cone 5, +100%; Increased 1/2D, x2, +5%; Reduced Range, 1/10, -30%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [15.5/level].

Archmagister's Counsel

If you're going to glass a section of a battlefield, you could do worse than using this. It's an efficient way to 'clear' an area before your cavalry charge through.

Keywords

Aura, Buff, Control, Damage, Defense, Melee, No-Signature

Description

The subject is surrounded by a crackling electrical field. Any metallic weapon striking the subject suffers 1d-1 burning surge damage, affecting the weapon and potentially stunning the attacker. The effect lasts for 3 minutes and can be initiated at a range of up to 100 yards, without a visible magical signature.

Statistics

Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Lightning Armor, +140%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, 15%) [26]. Note: “Lightning Armor” is Burning Attack 1d-1 (Aura, +80%; Cosmic, Conducting, +50%; Magical, -10%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [14].

Archmagister's Counsel

This isn't just a shock; it's a deterrent. Arm your guards with this, and watch as even the most armored thugs become hesitant to lay a hand on them. The Guild will call it 'uncivilized'; I call it efficient crowd control.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Jet, Obvious, Summoning

Description

This emanation of the Lattice projects a 10-yard jet of electrical energy from your eyes, inflicting 1d burning damage per level. It operates as an Innate Attack (Gaze) with the 'Increased 1/2D, 2x' and 'Surge, Arcing' modifiers, but be forewarned: it behaves erratically near conductors. Success with the attack also imposes a stunning side effect on the target.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d (Increased 1/2D, 2x, +5%; Jet, +0%; Nuisance Effect, Behaves erratically around conductors, -5%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [11.75/level*]. * Calculate the total cost and then round up.

Archmagister's Counsel

A direct application of the Lattice's raw power. Employ this to incapacitate, or at the very least, disorient any 'diplomatic' problems that arise in court. The Guild would call it 'crude'; I call it efficient.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Obvious

Description

This manipulation of the Lattice conjures a whip of pure lightning in the caster’s hand. It functions as a standard whip, but always readies in a single second. It cannot be used for parrying or entanglement, but carries the inherent destructive power of a surge of lightning.

Statistics

Natural Weapon (Burning; Cannot Parry, -40%; Destructive Parry, +40%; Extra Reach, 1-4, Ready maneuver necessary, +90%; Intangible, +50%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%; Single, -20%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Swing-Capable, +20%) [19].

Archmagister's Counsel

Why bother with a mundane whip when you can simply pluck a surge of the Lattice and brandish it for all to see? Let your enemies choke on the smell of ozone, and your allies know who is truly in command of the battlefield.

Keywords

Aura, Damage, Defense, Melee, Persistent, Utility

Description

This spell allows the caster to transform into a being of pure lightning, gaining the Body of Lightning meta-trait, which includes Immunity to Metabolic Hazards, Injury Tolerance (Diffuse), and a Burning Aura dealing 1d damage. The transformation also grants DR 10 against Electricity, though it removes your manipulative limbs and sets ST to 0. Clothing and gear up to your BL transform with you. The transformation is indefinite and costs 66 points.

Statistics

Alternate Form (Body of Lightning*; Can Carry Objects, No Encumbrance, +10%; Sorcery, -15%) [66].* A meta-trait from p. 198 of GURPS Basic Set: ST 0 [-100]; HP +10 [20]; Burning Attack 1d (Always On, -40%; Aura, +80%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%) [6]; Doesn’t Breathe [20]; DR 10 (Limited: Electricity, -40%) [30]; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30]; Injury Tolerance (Diffuse) [100]; No Manipulators [-50]; Feature (Affected by Energy Spells (GURPS Magic, p. 178) [0]; and Taboo Trait (Fixed ST) [0]. 56 points.

Archmagister's Counsel

A fine way to ensure your enemies can't get a grip on you, literally. Useful for strategic infiltration where the concept of 'structural integrity' is merely a suggestion, or for making a dramatic, rather shocking, escape.

Keywords

Aura, Control, Damage, Defense, Melee, Persistent, Utility

Description

This Persistent casting encases the Sorcerer in a 'Personal Lightning Armor' granting the user 1d-1 burning surge damage. Any metallic weapon striking the wearer transmits this damage along the weapon.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d-1 (Aura, +80%; Cosmic, Conducting, +50%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%) [14].

Archmagister's Counsel

Equip your elite guard with this. An opponent's metallic weapon becomes an extension of the Sorcerer's will, ensuring control of the melee, regardless of how 'civilized' an enemy thinks their armor and blades are.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Persistent, Utility

Description

This Lattice manipulation provides a continuous defense, reflecting any successful ranged electrical attack back to its originator, provided the attack's base damage is less than or equal to this spell's level in damage dice. Convert any flat damage into dice for this determination. This functions as DR 4 (All-or-Nothing, -10%; Force Field, +20%; Limited, Ranged Electrical Attacks, -60%; Reflection, +100%; Sorcery, -15%) per level, where each DR 4 is equivalent to 1d.

Statistics

Damage Resistance 4 (All-or-Nothing, -10%; Force Field, +20%; Limited, Ranged Electrical Attacks, -60%; Reflection, +100%; Sorcery, -15%) [27] with each DR 4 converted into 1d per p. B269. The ruling on Affliction and Binding is from p. 168 of GURPS Powers. Each additional level adds 4 more levels of Damage Resistance [+27].

Archmagister's Counsel

A fine defense for any lord who finds himself the target of electrical sorcery. One merely needs to outmaneuver the opponent with a superior understanding of the Lattice's tolerances, letting their own attack be their downfall.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Persistent, Utility

Description

This Lattice manipulation grants the caster and their equipment DR equal to (spell level)x10 against all electrical forces, including direct internal damage. It also provides complete immunity to electrical conduction, safeguarding implants, carried gear, and metallic armor from surges and degradation. The cost for level 1 is 52.5 points , with each additional level costing 37.5 points , providing indefinite protection.

Statistics

Damage Resistance 10 (Force Field, +20%; Limited, Electricity, -40%; Sorcery, -15%) [32.5] + Immunity to Electrical Conduction (Force Field, +20%; Magical, -10%) [6] + Immunity to Noxious Electrical Effects (Magical, -10%) [9] + Internal Damage Resistance 10 (Limited, Electricity, -40%; Magical, -10%) [5]. Further levels increase both DRs by 10 [+37.5]. “Immunity to Electrical Conduction” protects implants like cybernetics from being surged by electricity; adding Force Field extends this to carried gear and prevents metallic armor from being reduced to DR 1 against an electrical attack. See GURPS Sorcery: Protection and Warning Spells, p. 11 for internal defenses.

Archmagister's Counsel

Even a King’s most dedicated enforcers tend to be useless when they resemble a smoking pile of ash. Equip them with this, and they’ll march through lightning bolts as though they were mere drizzle. Useful for raiding the laboratories of mad wizards, for instance.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Melee, Obvious, Touch

Description

This working infuses your touch with a potent electrical discharge, dealing Burning Attack 1d per level. It requires a successful unarmed attack, but bypasses defenses, delivering a stunning shock upon impact. It's rather unsubtle, like a drunken master applying a cattle prod.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d (Melee Attack, Reach C, Cannot Parry, -35%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [10/level].

Archmagister's Counsel

Equip your finest guardsmen with this rather crude but effective lattice-work. It subdues without lethal force, a useful tool for maintaining decorum among the public, or ensuring a captive remains… compliant while being led away.

Keywords

Area, Control, Damage, Leveled, Persistent

Description

This spell conjures a persistent, drifting cloud of electrical sparks that occupies an area. It causes 1d-2 burning surge damage per turn to anyone within its bounds. While it won't obscure vision, metallic armor offers only DR 1 against its effects, though other armor functions normally. Anyone struck must make an HT roll, penalized by -1 per 2 points of penetrating damage, or be stunned. Subsequent turns allow an HT roll to recover.

Statistics

Burning Attack 1d-2 (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Drifting, +20%; Persistent, +40%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%; Variable, Area, +5%) [7]. Further levels add Area Effect (+50%) to the advantage [+1].

Archmagister's Counsel

This 'spark cloud' is rather useful for area denial or as a persistent harassment tool against tightly packed formations. A lesser mind might call it 'Sorcery,' but the Lattice simply cares that it 'shocks enemies' not 'how it shocks enemies'.

Keywords

Area, Control, Damage, Leveled, Persistent

Description

This manipulation of The Lattice generates a circular windstorm with a calm 'eye' at its center, where the caster can stand, up to half the storm's radius. The storm lasts 10 seconds and can be moved at Move 1. Within the storm, targets suffer 4d crushing damage for knockback, which is then doubled and moves them sideways (clockwise or anticlockwise, determined at activation) without causing actual damage or blunt trauma, merely displacement. Projectile attacks against anyone within the storm face a +2 Dodge penalty. Furthermore, each second, a random creature in the storm is struck by a 2d burning surge lightning bolt, with an effective skill of 12 (modified by target SM), requiring an HT roll at -1 per 2 points of penetrating damage to avoid stunning. Metallic armor provides DR 1 against this, while nonmetallic armor functions normally.

Statistics

Burning Attack 2d (HT; Accessibility, Only one bolt per second at a random target, -30%; Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Bombardment, Skill-12, -10%; Environmental, Air, -5%; Link, +10%; Magical, -10%; Mobile 1, +40%; Overhead, +30%; Persistent, +40%; Selective Area, Only to create an “eye”, +10%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%) [38] + Crushing Attack 4d (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Double Knockback, +20%; Environmental, Air, -5%; Link, +10%; Magical, -10%; Mobile 1, +40%; No Blunt Trauma, -20%; No Wounding, -50%; Persistent, +40%; Selective Area, Only to create an “eye”, +10%) [37] + Enhanced Dodge 2 (Affects Others 1, +50%; Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Environmental, Air, -5%; Force Field, +20%; Limited, Projectiles, -40%; Link, +10%; Magical, -10%; Mobile 1, +40%; Persistent, +40%; Ranged, +50%) [89]. Additional levels add further levels of Area Effect (+50%) to all advantages [+30].

Archmagister's Counsel

While the Guild frets over 'proper' weather magic, this Sorcerous manipulation of the self-same Lattice clears battlefields and delivers targeted strikes with brutal efficiency. Use it to scatter enemy formations, deny archer lines, and ensure your own forces can advance unhindered.

Keywords

Control, Damage, Defense, Information, Obvious, Persistent

Description

This working creates a persistent, transparent wall of lightning at up to 100 yards, which inflicts 2d burning damage upon contact, with a —5 to —9 Fright Check for those witnessing it and a chance of stunning those who touch it. Each level after the first increases the wall's area, costing an additional 5 points. It lasts for five minutes once conjured. The spell doesn't require concentration; once formed, it operates on its own.

Statistics

Burning Attack 2d (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Extended Duration, 30x, +60%; Persistent, +40%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Stunning, +50%; Variable, Area, +5%; Wall, Shapeable, +60%) [45]. Additional levels increase Area Effect (+50%) [+5].

Archmagister's Counsel

A Wall of Lightning is a superb tactical tool. Place it to funnel enemy forces, deny access to vital chokepoints, or simply to make a statement. The Guild will call it 'crude,' but the enemy will call it 'painful.'