Trickery (Cha)

You sow seeds of confusion in your target’s mind, causing their actions and thoughts to become clumsy. Make a Trickery spell attack roll against the target's Resolve defence.

Critical Success The target is clumsy 3, stupefied 3, and confused.
Success The target is clumsy 2 and stupefied 2.
Failure The target is clumsy 1 and stupefied 1.
Critical Failure The target is unaffected.

Command

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: until the end of the target's next turn

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Resolve

You shout a command that's hard to ignore. Make a Trickery attack roll against the target's Resolve defence. If you succeed, you can command the target to approach you, run away (as if it had the fleeing condition), release what it's holding, drop prone, or stand in place. It can't Delay or take any reactions until it has obeyed your command.

Success The target must use all its actions on its next turn to obey your command.
Failure For the first action on its next turn, the creature must use a single action to do as you command.
Critical Failure The creature is unaffected.

Heightened: For every level you heighten this spell by, you increase the number of creatures you can target by 1.

Conceal Thoughts

Range: Self

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 hour

Target: Self

You protect your thoughts from analysis. While the duration lasts, you gain a +10 bonus to your Composure defense against those attempting to discern your true intentions with Sense Motive actions. You also gain a +4 bonus to your Composure and Willpower defences against any spells that attempt to read your mind (such as detect thoughts or mind probe).

Draw Ire

Range: 4 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Composure

You cause mental distress to a creature, goading it to strike back at you. Make a Trickery spell attack check against the target's Composure defence. You deal 1d10 psychic damage to the creature and cause it to take a –1 status penalty to attack rolls against creatures other than you.

Critical Success The target takes double damage, and the status penalty is –2.Success The target takes full damage and the penalty.Failure The target takes half damage and ignores the penalty. Critical Failure The target is unaffected.

Heightened: For every level you heighten this spell by, you increase the damage by 1d10.

Faerie Dust

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Round

Target: Close-range burst

Defence: Composure

You sprinkle magical dust in the spell's area, making those within easier to trick. Make a Trickery spell attack check against the targets' Composure defence.

Critical Success As success, and the creature also takes a –1 status penalty to Awareness and Composure defence for 1 minute. Success The creature can't use reactions and takes a –2 status penalty to Awareness and Composure defence.Failure The creature is unaffected.

Schadenfreude

Range: Close

Rote Casting: 1 Reaction

Duration: Instantaneous

Target: Triggering foe

Defence: Composure

When you critically fail a Saving Throw against a foe's attack or effect, or your foe lands a critical hit on you, you can trigger Schadenfreude. You distract your foe with smug arrogance at seeing you fail so spectacularly.

You make a Trickery attack against the target's Composure defence.

Critical Success The creature is lost in its amusement and is stupefied 2 for 1 round and stunned 1.
Success The creature is overcome by its amusement and is stupefied 1 for 1 round.
Failure The creature is distracted by its amusement and takes a –1 status penalty on Perception checks and Will saves for 1 round.
Critical Failure The creature is unaffected.

Sudden Shift

Range: Self

Rote Casting: 1 Reaction

Duration: until the end of your next turn

Target: Self

If a foe misses you with an attack, you can vanish momentarily. You become invisible until the end of your next turn.

Level 2

Hideous Laughter

Range: 1 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Composure

Make a Trickery spell attack check against the target's Composure defence. If you succeed, the target is wracked with uncontrollable laughter.

Critical Success The target falls prone and can't use actions or reactions for 1 round. It then suffers the failure effects.
Success The target is slowed 1 and can't use reactions.
Failure The target is plagued with uncontrollable laugher. It can't use reactions.
Critical Failure The target is unaffected.

Mind Games

Range: 1 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 Minute

Target: 1 creature

Defence: Resolve

You lock minds with the target, trying to mentally subdue them. Make a Trickery check against the target's Willpower defence. Each time you Concentrate to maintain this Spell, make another Trickery check.

Critical Success The target is stunned 2
Success The target is stunned 1.
Failure The target is unaffected.
Critical Failure. You are stunned 1 and the spell ends.

Silence

Range: Touch

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

Target: 1 creature

The target makes no sound, preventing creatures from noticing it using hearing or other senses alone. The target can't use sonic attacks, nor can it use actions that require it to make a sound. This prevents it from casting spells.

Heightened: You can heighten this spell to 4th level. If you do so, it becomes an emanation that effects all creatures in Melee range of the creature, and preventing any auditory and sonic effects in the affected area. While within the radius, creatures are subject to the same effects as the target. Depending upon the position of the effect, a creature might notice the lack of sound reaching it (blocking off the noise coming from a busy city street, for example).

Level 3

Levitate

Range: Touch

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Scene

Targets: 1 unattended object or willing creature

Level 4

Usurp Spell

Range: 5 Range

Rote Casting: 1 Reaction

Duration: Instantaneous

Target: 1 spellcaster in range

Defence: Willpower

You override the will of another spellcaster, taking control of their spell. As a reaction when you observe a spell being cast within range, you can cast this spell to make a Trickery spell attack against the other caster. The DC of this check is equal to 11+the other caster's ranks in the sphere of magic+1 per the level of the spell.

If you succeed, you determine the spell's targets as if you had cast it.

Level 5

Form of Air

Range: Self

Rote Casting: 1 Action

Duration: 1 Minute

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