Charms (Cha)

Agitate

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: Varies

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Composure

Make a Charm spell attack roll against the target's Composure defence. If you succeed, you send the target's mind and body into overdrive, forcing it to become restless and hyperactive. During the duration, the target must make a move action each turn or take 2d8 psychic damage that turn; this movement can be walking, flying, swimming or another form of movement od the GM's discretion for creatures who possess only a more unusual form of movement. The duration of this spell is dependent on the degree of your Charm spell attack roll. 

• Critical Success The duration is 4 rounds
• Success  The duration is 2 rounds
• Failure The duration is 1 round
• Critical Failure The target is unaffected 

Heighten: For every level you heighten this spell, you can increase the psychic damage dealt by 2d8

Build Trust

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Day

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Composure

Make a Charm spell attack roll against the target's Composure defence. If you succeed, you gain a glimpse into the target's mind, and, with it, a sense of the best way to interact with the target to encourage positive regard toward you. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Charisma checks, Charisma-based skill checks, and Sense Motive checks you attempt when interacting with the target. In addition, when you fail a Charisma check or Charisma-based skill check when interacting with the target, you can reroll the check as a reaction. However, if you attempt the reroll, the target receives a Composure saving throw to end the spell early. Taking hostile action against the target automatically ends the spell.

Charm

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Hour

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Resolve

To the target, your words are honey and your visage seems bathed in a dreamy haze. Make a Charm spell attack roll against the target's Resolve defence, with a +4 circumstance bonus if you or your allies recently threatened it or used hostile actions against it.

You can Dismiss the spell. If you use hostile actions against the target, the spell ends. When the spell ends, the target doesn't necessarily realize it was charmed unless its friendship with you or the actions you convinced it to take clash with its expectations, meaning you could potentially convince the target to continue being your friend via mundane means.

• Critical Success The target's attitude becomes helpful toward you, and it can't use hostile actions against you.
• Success  The target's attitude becomes friendly toward you. If it was friendly, it becomes helpful. It can't use hostile actions against you.
• Failure The target is unaffected but thinks your spell was something harmless instead of charm, unless it identifies the spell 
• Critical Failure The target is unaffected and aware you tried to charm it.

Heighten: For every level you heighten this spell, you can increase the number of targets by 1

Charming Touch

Range: Touch

Rote Casting: 1 Reaction

Duration: 1 Scene

Target: 1 creature who you failed a charisma check against

Defence: Composure

You quickly reach out with magic to befuddle your target's senses, causing it to ignore your flub. Make a Charm spell attack roll against target's Composure defence. It gains a +4 circumstance bonus to its defences if you or your allies recently threatened or were hostile to it.

• Critical Success The target is helpful and can't use hostile actions against you.
• Success  The target's attitude becomes friendly toward you. If it was friendly, it becomes helpful. It can't use hostile actions against you.
• Failure The target is unaffected but thinks your spell was something harmless instead of charming touch, unless it identifies the spell 
• Critical Failure The target is unaffected and aware you tried to charm it.

You can Dismiss the spell. If you use hostile actions against the target, the spell ends. After the spell ends, the target doesn't necessarily realize it was charmed unless its friendship with you or the actions you convinced it to take clash with its expectations, which could potentially allow you to convince the target to continue being your friend via mundane means.

Charming Words

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: until the start of your next turn

Target: 1 creature 

Defence: Composure

You whisper enchanting words to deflect your foe's ire. You make a Charm spell attack roll against the target's Composure defence.

• Critical Success The target is stunned 1 and can't use hostile actions against you.
• Success  The target can't use hostile actions against you.
• Failure The target takes a –1 circumstance penalty to attack rolls and damage rolls against you.
• Critical Failure The target is unaffected.

Sleep

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: see below

Area: Melee range

Defence: Resolve

Each creature in the area becomes drowsy and might fall asleep. Make a Charm spell attack roll against the targets' Resolve defence. 

A creature that falls unconscious from this spell doesn't fall prone or release what it's holding. This spell doesn't prevent creatures from waking up due to a successful Awareness check, limiting its utility in combat.

Heightened: If you heighten this spell to 4th level, you deepen the sleep the targets fall into. The creatures fall unconscious for 1 round if you succeed against them, or 1 minute on a critical success. They fall prone and release what they're holding, and they can't attempt Awareness checks to wake up, even in combat. When the duration ends, the creature is sleeping normally instead of automatically waking up.

Stoke the Heart

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 Minute

Target: 1 willing creature

Intense fervor and passion fills the target creature, empowering their blows. The target gains a +2 status bonus to damage rolls. Once this spell ends, the target becomes temporarily immune to it 1 minute.

Heightened: For every 1 level you heighten this spell by, increase the damage bonus by +1

Calm Emotions

Range: 4 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 Minute

Area: Close-range burst

Defence: Resolve

You forcibly calm creatures in the area, soothing them into a nonviolent state; make a Charm spell attack check against the targets' Resolve.

• Critical Success As Success, but hostility doesn't end the effect.
• Success  Any emotion effects that would affect the creature are suppressed and the creature can't use hostile actions. If the target is subject to hostility from any other creature, it ceases to be affected by calm emotions.
• Failure Calming urges impose a –1 status penalty to the creature's attack rolls.
• Critical Failure The creature is unaffected.

Charitable Urge

Range: 1 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: Variable

Target: 1 Creature

Defence: Resolve

You speak on the virtue of charity, compelling the target to give away its possessions. Make a Charm spell attack against the target's Resolve defence. If the target has no items on its person, the spell fails.

• Critical Success As Success, except the duration is 4 rounds, and the target must repeat the effects of failure on each of its turns. At the end of each of its turns, the target can attempt a new Resolve save to reduce the remaining duration by 1 round, ending it entirely on a critical success.
• Success On its next turn, before it does anything else, the target must present the nearest creature with an item in its possession; the target chooses which item to give, and if the only item it has is one that it's currently using to defend itself, such as a weapon during a combat encounter, it can choose to be stunned for 1 round instead of giving up the item. This might require the target to Interact to retrieve an item or move to reach the nearest creature, and handing the item to the target always requires an Interact action.
• Failure The target is stunned 1 as it wrestles with the urge.
• Critical Failure  The target is unaffected.

Ego Whip

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

Target: 1 Creature

Defence: Resolve

You overwhelm your opponent’s ego, diminishing its sense of self, hope, and confidence. Make a Charm spell attack roll against the target's Resolve. If you succeed, the A successful initial Resolve save reduces the duration to 1 round.

• Critical Success As success, the penalty is -4, and the target gains 2 applications of Slowed
• Success The target takes a –2 penalty to Intelligence-, Wisdom-, Charisma-, and Spirit-based checks; and its Resolve, Composure and Willpower defences. In addition, it is Slowed for the duration. 
• Failure The target takes a –2 penalty to Intelligence-, Wisdom-, Charisma-, and Spirit-based checks; and its Resolve, Composure and Willpower defences for 1 Round
• Critical Failure  The target is unaffected.

Vicious Jealousy

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

Target: 1 Creature

Defence: Composure

The target is overcome with a deep sense of jealousy against all those around them.

• Critical Success As success, but also the creature must spend the first action of each round berating its erstwhile allies.
• Success The target no longer treat anyone as its ally; it cannot flank nor can it use the aid action to boost their ally's checks.
• Failure As success, but only for 1 round.
• Critical Failure  The target is unaffected.

Levitate

Range: Touch

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Scene

Targets: 1 unattended object or willing creature

Air Walk

Range: Touch

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Scene

Target: 1 Willing Creature

Form of Air

Range: Self

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute