4.1.3 Natures of magical effect available

There are many different natures of magical effect available:

• Detection, i.e. sensing specific substances;
• Illusion, i.e. creating images and/or sounds without physical substance;
• Concealment, i.e. becoming harder for others to sense;
• Deflection, i.e. making it harder for a weapon to strike a target;
• Resistance, i.e. making a target more resistant to damage;
• Attack, i.e. causing damage to other characters through magic;
• Entanglement, i.e. restricting another character's movement through magic;
• Healing, i.e. restoring a damaged character's health;
• Teleportation, i.e. instantly transporting from one place to another;
• Telekinesis, i.e. lifting, moving and/or manipulating objects at a distance;
• Telepathy, i.e. communicating with others and/or reading their thoughts;
• Suggestion, i.e. implanting a mental suggestion in another character's mind to influence or control his/her actions;
• Disorientation, i.e. creating confusion or amnesia in another character's mind or confusing or overloading his/her senses;
• Suppression, i.e. reducing the power of an existing magical enchantment;
• Enhancement, i.e. increasing the power of an existing magical enchantment;
• Transformation, i.e. changing the target character's form into that of a different creature, taking on its appearance and abilities;
• Sight, i.e. improving a character's senses (e.g. to enable him/her to see in darkness);
• Movement, i.e. being able to move more quickly than normal or in a way not normally possible (e.g. flight);
• Environmental change, i.e. changing the state of the environment (e.g. making it hotter, colder, brighter, darker, etc. ) for the duration of the enchantment;
• Barrier, i.e. creating a magical wall or barrier that stops other characters passing through it;
• Retrocognition, i.e. sensing what happened in the past (or in some cases what will happen in the future);
• Weapon enhancement, i.e. improving the effectiveness of a weapon;
• Transmutation, i.e. changing one substance into another;
• Characteristic boosting/draining, i.e. increasing or decreasing the value of one of the target's characteristic scores; and
• Life support, i.e. changing the nature of a character's talents/disabilities for the duration of the enchantment, e.g. so that the character is better able to survive in circumstances that would otherwise be dangerous (e.g. water breathing).

Certain magical skills are better than others at achieving particular effects (e.g. Truth magic skill is the best skill for casting detection magic) and there may be limitations in what can be achieved using a particular magical skill (e.g. Death magical skill cannot be used to heal, etc.).