The party’s magic · a living codex
Ways to
persuade reality.
Tavian remembers and rebuilds. Ert’s stone protection can be undone. Rurik discovers what happens when touched rock begins to vibrate.
Tavian’s working doctrine
Knowledge shapes it.
Effort pays for it.
Tavian’s memorized spells can be used repeatedly when time, knowledge, and conditions favor him, while their assigned stamina costs still apply. Rituals exchange speed and resources for reliability. Reckless speed, resistance, distance, or inadequate understanding do not merely stop the magic—they invite consequences.
- Practice
- Repeated use within known limits
- Ritual
- Slower, safer, more exact
- Backlash
- Resistance turns failure wild
Known magic & recovered lore
Practice meets consequence.
October adds Rurik’s improvised stoneburst and new examples of resistance, negation, and the boundary between an echo and a physical wall. The possession ward remains untested.