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Viasyni is your block vs attacks. Technically, you can't do athletics boosts with evocation. That's the realm of thaumaturgy or evothaum. In any case, a block replaces your dodge (if your dodge is lower than the block), so it's the same thing.
boosting it to 5 makes it more powerful, and you could use that for duration (a block that lasts 2 exchanges, or armour 2 for 2 exchanges).
Constaint is your block on movement...isn't it? Did I read it wrong? I thought it created a 5 shift zone border.
Or, you could cast it on someone (surrounding them with an ice wall) to prevent them from moving.
Other useful (offensive) maneuvers that might be useful for a rote: blind, knocked over, levitated, disarmed. Maybe make them more generic. Instead of Knocked over or disarmed, you could just call it 'buffeted'. You could invoke it to either knock someone down or disarm them. And then you can use if for other stuff too...like knocking snow off a roof, knocking down a flying creature, making objects go flying all over the room, dry your clothes, or make your hair blow dramatically
I like the idea of the fog rote. It could also be used like a zone-wide veil, possibly.Gah this gives me an idea now.. Veil... Veil...
I mean which Power: thaumaturgy? Evocation? Unseelie Magic?AH Sorry! The Ice Magic would be an Evocation Rote. (No Unseelie, too dangerous... Also sponsored)
They work like any focus item boosting Power or control, except with crafting foci, it boost Power or Frequency.Oh hey cool i understood you.
I'm too lazy to look, sorry. I check it out later, though.You're okay dude!
I would do it like this: make a ward with a base Power of your Lore +2 (to represent a FP spent in the past) +2 for each of your APEX skills (so another +2 to 4).
take that total power and do whatever you want with it and assume it's always up. Maybe you refresh it once a week or something.
After that, have goals and milestone where you can upgrade your ward. Add a divination spell to it at the next significant milestone, add an evocation spell at the next Major etc...
This way you're being fair to the one other player in the game.
In fact, you can do opposed rolls with the other player at each milestone to see if they can prevent you from boosting it.
You have Evocation and Thaumaturgy, which gives you four focus slots. That Refinement can give you two more, if you choose to spend it that way.
You can save some shifts by making the wind, water, and lightning all one attack. Putting three attacks on one ward seems pretty excessive to me. And I figure a single thaumaturgical attack with three elements in it is kosher.
You have to do it again. Much more efficient just to put more shifts into duration, avoiding the whole issue.
The book does suggest handwaving basic ward creation, because redoing spells isn't very interesting, but this is obviously not a basic ward.
You have Evocation and Thaumaturgy, which gives you four focus slots. That Refinement can give you two more, if you choose to spend it that way.
It would be helpful to know what spellcasting powers you have but most powers come with 2 focus slots. Evocation, for instance.
Lastly, you could use your second Focus slot to take a Crafting focus. This will add +1 frequency to ALL your items or it will add +1 Strength to ALL your items. Very handy if you choose to use Option 2 and go with multiple items.
- 37 shift ward so far. Now, remember, this ward only lasts until sunrise so, you need to add enough shifts to boost it up the time chart. Add 3 or 4 shifts and it'll last a month. So, about 40 shifts.