Introduction,

Sorcery is not simply a profession to be learned, it is a power that demands a vessel. The sorcerer does not truly command it, but instead, the sorcerer serves the power, paying for every gift through sacrifice, corruption, knowledge, or consequence.

To preserve rarity and reflect the server’s peak population, only two characters of each Sorcery Class may exist at any given time. When one of these sorcerers dies permanently, the power they carried is considered released. In time, it may seek a new vessel, allowing another character to inherit that place through appropriate roleplay.

Sorcery must always remain grounded in Conan lore. A character chosen for a class must make sense culturally, racially, spiritually, and through their established beliefs and story. Not every form of sorcery belongs to every culture, and gaining a class should never require a character to abandon established lore simply to obtain its abilities.

Sorcery is therefore more than a collection of skills. It is a story path, one that grants extraordinary possibilities, but inevitably asks something from those willing to follow it.

The Awakening

Sorcery is not granted simply because a player wants access to it. A character must earn their Awakening through sustained, lore-appropriate RP. This may involve prayers and offerings to their deity, recruiting or influencing followers, studying ancient scripts and forbidden texts, investigating ruins and relics, performing rituals, seeking out mentors or occult knowledge, making sacrifices, surviving spiritual trials, and gradually showing a believable obsession with the path they wish to follow.

The Awakening should feel like the result of a character’s story, not a sudden mechanical upgrade. Their culture, race, beliefs, previous RP, and chosen Sorcery Class must all make sense together. Once enough meaningful RP has been demonstrated, staff may recognize that the power has found a suitable vessel and grant the character Sorcery status.

Development

Every Sorcery Class begins with access to only two basic skills. As the character develops through meaningful, consistent, and lore-appropriate roleplay, the staff team may recognize that progression and reward them with an Advanced Skill, followed later by an even more powerful Ultimate Skill. Mastery should feel earned through story, consequence, and dedication rather than simple time played.

Once a sorcerer has truly mastered their class, they may introduce an Acolyte.
A new character who follows them, learns their practices, and grows under their guidance, with the potential to eventually inherit that sorcerous path upon their mentor’s death.

Classes

Diviner — Seer of Omens
The Diviner interprets omens, dreams, bones, and signs to uncover hidden truths, glimpses of the past, and possible futures.

✶ Skill 1: Read the Signs
Reads bones, blood, flame, entrails, or runes to receive a vague omen.
Price: Small ritual offering.
Consequence: Headache, fatigue, and brief disorientation.

✶ Skill 2: Dream Sight
Attempts to receive information through sleep or trance.
Price: Incense or herbs + several minutes of uninterrupted RP.
Consequence: Nightmares and poor rest.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Sight Beyond the Veil
Receives a clearer vision concerning a person, place, or event.
Price: Blood from the caster + a meaningful personal object.
Consequence: Temporary blindness, trembling, and moderate corruption.

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: Revelation of Fate
Receives a powerful, staff-provided vision revealing something genuinely important.
Price: Rare ritual components + sacrifice.
Consequence: Collapse, severe corruption, and possible temporary weakness or partial blindness.

Hexer — Weaver of Curses

The Hexer uses curses, bindings, blood, and personal belongings to inflict misfortune, fear, pain, or lingering supernatural afflictions upon others.

✶ Skill 1: Evil Eye
Places minor misfortune or unease upon a target, reducing their stats.
Price: Something belonging to the victim.
Consequence: Mild corruption.

✶ Skill 2: Witch’s Mark
Secretly marks a person or object, allowing later ritual interaction with them.
Price: Blood, ash, and a personal token.
Consequence: The caster becomes spiritually connected to the target.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Lingering Hex
Inflicts nightmares, weakness, sickness, fear, or similar RP symptoms.
Price: The victim’s hair, blood, or personal object + a lengthy ritual.
Consequence: The caster experiences weaker versions of the same symptoms.

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: Doom Curse
Places a major, long-term curse upon a consenting or staff-approved target.
Price: Human sacrifice or an exceptionally rare reagent.
Consequence: Heavy corruption; breaking the curse may injure the caster as well.

Shaman — Speaker with Spirits

The Shaman communes with spirits and ancestors, using ritual, offerings, and sacred rites to bless, cleanse, guide, or protect others.

✶ Skill 1: Cleansing Rite
The Shaman uses smoke, herbs, chanting, and sacred markings to cleanse a person, object, or small area of minor spiritual afflictions, lingering corruption, nightmares, or malicious spiritual influence.
Price: Herbs, incense, or a culturally appropriate offering.
Consequence: The Shaman absorbs part of the spiritual burden, suffering temporary fatigue, nausea, chills, or disturbing whispers.

✶ Skill 2: Ancestor’s Blessing
Performs a ritual blessing for courage, hunting, battle, or travel.
Price: Food, blood, alcohol, or a culturally appropriate offering.
Consequence: Mild exhaustion.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Commune with the Dead
Attempts to contact the spirit of a deceased person or a local spiritual entity.
Price: Remains or a personal possession + ritual offering.
Consequence: There is a risk of contacting something else instead.

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: Walk the Spirit World
The Shaman enters a deep trance and spiritually travels beyond the physical world.
Price: Major ritual + sacrifice or totem.
Consequence: The Shaman’s body becomes completely helpless, with a SERIOUS risk of possession, corruption, or becoming spiritually lost.

Demonologist — Binder of the Outer Dark

The Demonologist channels and manipulates demonic forces, using possession and the Outer Dark to dominate, escape, and banish others.

✶ skill 1: Demonic Possession

The Demonologist forces a lesser demonic presence into another person, allowing it to temporarily influence their voice, behaviour, emotions, or physical actions.

Price: Blood from the victim + demonic sigil + uninterrupted ritual. Consequence: The Demonologist forms a temporary connection with the possessing entity, suffering whispers, nightmares, minor corruption, and the risk of drawing the demon’s attention afterward. Player targets require consent.

✶ skill 2: Become the Vessel

The Demonologist willingly allows a demonic entity to possess their body, granting temporary supernatural strength, resistance to pain, and limited levitation.

Price: Blood offering + demonic invocation + ritual focus. Consequence: Significant corruption, physical exhaustion, memory gaps, violent impulses, and the risk that the entity resists relinquishing control.

✶✶ Advanced skill: Outer Dark Escape

The Demonologist tears open a brief passage into the Outer Dark, disappearing from the physical world and escaping immediate danger before returning elsewhere. Price: Blood sacrifice + prepared demonic sigil or ritual component. Consequence: Severe disorientation, temporary weakness, moderate corruption, and the possibility of returning injured, disturbed, or carrying something unwanted back with them.

✶✶✶ Ultimate skill: Outer Dark Prison

The Demonologist opens a passage beneath another person and banishes them temporarily into the Outer Dark, removing them completely from the physical world until the ritual ends or they find a way back.

Price: Major ritual + victim's blood or personal possession + rare components + significant sacrifice.

Consequence: SERIOUS corruption, severe physical exhaustion, and the Demonologist risks being pulled into the Outer Dark alongside the victim. The imprisoned character may experience visions, entities, madness, or corruption while trapped. Requires player consent or staff/event approval.

Blood Sorcerer — Master of Sacrifice

The Blood Sorcerer twists blood and sacrifice into power, using life force to curse, dominate, strengthen themselves, and fuel dangerous rituals.

✶ Skill 1: Crimson Hunger
The Blood Sorcerer consumes or ritually uses fresh blood to suppress pain, regain strength, and push their body beyond normal exhaustion for a short period.
Price: A meaningful quantity of fresh blood from another living person, such as a blood sample.
Consequence: Growing blood dependency, aggression, nausea, and minor corruption once the effect fades.

✶ Skill 2: Blood Curse
Using a victim’s fresh blood, the sorcerer inflicts supernatural pain, weakness, trembling, or recurring wounds upon them from a distance.
Price: Fresh blood belonging to the victim + a short ritual.
Consequence: The caster experiences brief echoes of the victim’s pain and gains corruption. Effects against players require consent or staff arbitration.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Blood Dominion
The sorcerer exploits the blood inside a wounded victim, temporarily forcing spasms, locking a limb, bringing them to their knees, or compelling a brief physical movement.
Price: The target must already be bleeding + the caster sacrifices some of their own blood.
Consequence: Severe migraines, nosebleeds, physical weakness, and significant corruption. This cannot be used to force complex actions or bypass player consent.

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: The Red Harvest
The Blood Sorcerer sacrifices a living victim and draws their remaining vitality into themselves, becoming temporarily empowered, unnaturally resilient, and capable of sustaining otherwise impossible sorcery.
Price: Living sacrifice + major blood ritual + rare components.
Consequence: SERIOUS corruption, visible physical mutation or deterioration, violent bloodlust, and the possibility of attracting something that has noticed the sacrifice.

Dreamwalker — Between Sleep and Reality

The Dreamwalker enters dreams and altered states of consciousness, using visions, nightmares, and the dream realm to influence minds, uncover truths, and cross beyond waking reality.

✶ Skill 1: Dream Whisper
The Dreamwalker enters a light trance and sends a brief symbol, warning, image, or message into the sleep of a chosen target.
Price: Incense, a quiet trance, and a personal token or strong knowledge of the target.
Consequence: Lingering fatigue, vivid dreams, and mild disorientation after the trance.

✶ Skill 2: Nightmare Touch
The Dreamwalker burdens a sleeping target with fear, restless sleep, or repeating visions, leaving them shaken, distracted, or sleep-deprived.
Price: A personal object, true name, or hair from the target + a ritual focus.
Consequence: The Dreamwalker shares fragments of the nightmare, suffering poor rest, headaches, and minor corruption.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Dream Walk
The Dreamwalker leaves their body in a deep trance and enters the dreamscape to observe symbolic visions, speak with sleeping minds, or search for hidden truths.
Price: Protected resting place + ritual components + uninterrupted trance.
Consequence: The body becomes completely helpless, and the Dreamwalker returns exhausted, confused, and at risk of attracting unwanted spiritual attention.
(( This RP would be staff-supervised through a ticket. ))

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: Open the Dreamgate
The Dreamwalker opens a passage into the deeper dream-realm, allowing a major shared dream scene, spiritual crossing, or the drawing of another mind into the dreamscape.
Price: Major ritual + rare components + meaningful sacrifice.
Consequence: SERIOUS risk of severe corruption, memory loss, becoming trapped in the dream, or returning with part of the dream still clinging to the mind or soul.
(( This RP may be staff-supervised either through a ticket or within a designated RP channel. ))

Thaumaturge — Scholar of Forbidden Knowledge
The Thaumaturge studies forbidden knowledge, ancient relics, wards, and enchantments, bending occult laws to alter luck, break curses, protect places, and twist reality itself.

✶ Skill 1: Coin of Luck
The Thaumaturge enchants a golden coin with unnatural fortune. Whoever carries it gains increased stats or a server-approved beneficial buff until the coin’s luck is exhausted, at which point the coin mysteriously disappearas or is inevitably lost.
Price: One Gold Coin + incense, ritual markings, and a short enchantment ritual.
Consequence: The Thaumaturge suffers a period of bad luck after creating the coin, represented through RP mishaps, failed attempts, or minor penalties.
(( An Unlucky Coin may also exist as a subskill. Its owner rolls for luck and suffers misfortune until the effect eventually ends, revealing the unlucky Silver Coin within their inventory. ))

✶ Skill 2: Dismantle Curse
The Thaumaturge studies and breaks a curse, enchantment, ward, or other sorcerous effect created by another practitioner. Stronger magic requires greater preparation and knowledge of how the original spell was created.
Price: Appropriate counter-reagents + access to the cursed person, object, or location.
Consequence: Magical backlash may cause exhaustion, pain, temporary corruption, or transfer part of the curse onto the Thaumaturge.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Veil of Forgetting
The Thaumaturge places an enchantment over a building, chamber, camp, or small area. Anyone attempting to enter gradually forgets why they came, becomes distracted, and feels compelled to turn around and leave.
Price: Ritual markings placed around the area’s boundaries + incense + a valuable offering buried or hidden within the protected location.
Consequence: The Thaumaturge suffers memory lapses while the enchantment remains active and may temporarily forget names, conversations, or why they entered certain places themselves.
(( This functions as an Anti-Raid spell. ))

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: The World Turned Upside Down
The Thaumaturge temporarily reverses one fundamental truth within a target’s mind or behaviour. An attacker may become compelled to defend the Thaumaturge, a skilled swimmer may forget how to swim, courage may become fear, loyalty may become hostility, or another clearly defined ability or instinct may become its opposite.
Price: Major ritual + a personal possession or blood from the target + rare sorcerous components.
Consequence: SERIOUS mental backlash. The Thaumaturge suffers a reversed truth of their own for a period afterward, alongside severe confusion, memory loss, and corruption.
(( Only one clearly defined reversal may exist at a time. Effects against players require consent or staff arbitration. ))

Necromancer — Binder of the Dead
The Necromancer manipulates death itself, using corpses, grave magic, and lingering spirits to inflict terror, command the dead, and bind souls beyond the grave.

✶ Skill 1: Deathly Grasp
The Necromancer channels the chill of the grave through physical contact, causing a living target’s limb to become painfully cold, numb, stiff, or temporarily difficult to move.
Price: Grave soil, bone dust, or ash from a corpse + physical contact.
Consequence: The caster’s own hand or arm becomes corpse-cold and partially numb for a short period. Repeated use causes minor corruption.

✶ Skill 2: Death’s Echo
The Necromancer uses a fragment of human remains to overwhelm a living target with sensations associated with death, such as grave-cold, suffocation, phantom pain, whispers, or the feeling of being buried alive.
Price: Human bone, grave soil, or ashes + a short ritual.
Consequence: The Necromancer experiences a weaker echo of the same sensation and gains minor corruption.

✶✶ Advanced Skill: Raise the Dead
The Necromancer performs a lengthy ritual to create a true undead thrall capable of following commands, guarding locations, and fighting on behalf of its master.
Price: Complete corpse or remains + significant ritual components + blood or Soul Essence.
Consequence: Heavy corruption, severe exhaustion, and visible signs of necromantic decay such as pallid skin, darkened veins, or corpse-like coldness.
(( This skill allows the use of a Zombie Thrall in combat. ))

✶✶✶ Ultimate Skill: Call the Revenant
The Necromancer binds a powerful dead spirit back into its remains, creating an intelligent and exceptionally dangerous undead being. This is not true resurrection; the Revenant may retain fragments of its memories and personality, but death has changed it.
Price: Significant remains belonging to the deceased + Soul Essence + rare ritual components + major sacrifice.
Consequence: SERIOUS corruption, risk of possession or spiritual backlash, and the Revenant may eventually resist or turn against the Necromancer.
(( A player or administrator must RP as the Revenant. It may turn against its creator, but it cannot be permanently set free, as the caster remains the source sustaining its unnatural life. ))

THE BAD ENDING

A sorcerer who repeatedly ignores the cost of their craft and allows corruption to consume them will eventually lose control of the power they once wielded. At that point, the sorcerer ceases to command the darkness and becomes its vessel, transforming into a Blighted Sorcerer—a dangerous, unstable force whose existence marks the final chapter of that character’s story.

The Blighted

The Blighted is a sorcerer consumed by corruption, transformed into a catastrophic threat whose power marks the violent end of their story.

SKILLS:

✶ Soul Collapse
The Blighted focuses corrupted power on a single nearby target, overwhelming both mind and body and causing them to immediately lose consciousness. (( 1 target knockout — may be used once per day. ))

✶ Wave of Ruin
The Blighted releases a violent burst of corruption around themselves, causing everyone within a short radius to collapse unconscious. (( AOE knockout — may be used once every three days. ))

✶ Voice of the Blight
The Blighted unleashes a supernatural scream that echoes across the entire Exiled Lands. Every character, no matter the distance, hears the sorcerer’s voice as though it were whispered directly beside them. The Blighted may use this to issue a threat, challenge the server, reveal their presence, or deliver a final message.
(( May be used once every 6 hours. The message must be approved by the staff team. This serves as a lure, drawing players to hunt down and exterminate the corrupted sorcerer. ))

When a sorcerer crosses the line and loses control of their power, they become an imminent threat that must be eradicated. From that point on, being knocked out results in the character’s permanent death (CK).

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Introduction,Sorcery is not simply a profession to be learned, it is a power that demands a vessel. The sorcerer does not truly command it, but instead, the sorcerer serves the power, paying for every gift through sacrifice, corruption, knowledge, or consequence.