Humans and Magic

These students include the good-goody-two-shoes who focus on defense, healing, and purification. Those who are terrified of death, injury, or ghosts also tend to study abjuration. Those at the highest levels can lengthen their life spans using healing magic or convert their life energy into an indomitable spell in exchange for their lives. Some people simply study it because the healing arts are so convenient, especially for adventurers. Since people study it for a variety of reasons, there is a wide range of personalities for those who practice abjuration. A variety of jobs are available to the students, but this career would be lost in a world without injuries, illness, or fears.

Since there are no shortage of ill or injured individuals and people may demand the student’s help and claim it is the student’s duty to help them, abjurers can easily become overworked and burnt-out, leading them to consider studying other schools of magic. Those who study this magic with only themselves in mind do not face this concern.

Stress from serving the people may become severe enough that these students may be inclined to keep their professions to themselves.


Level 1. Neophyte.

• Neophytes can make a barrier strong enough to repel bugs, which makes becoming a level 1 abjuration neophyte a popular choice.
• Unfortunately, all of the other magic at this time requires more studying to be of any practical use.

Level 2. Accolyte.

• Accolytes can make weak barriers strong enough to hold some weight, but a capable punch could easily break through it.
• They can heal a papercut.

Level 3. Disciple.

• Disciples can make physical barriers complete enough to deprive a fire of oxygen. Students also begin to learn how to create magical barriers, which block magic from a lower level. The students are not yet capable of encompassing more than one person in a barrier.
• They may negate very low-level curses.
• They can heal bruises and help the body fight minor infections.

Level 4. Adept.

• Adepts may be able to protect a few people with a barrier.
• They have the ability to reflect very low-level curses.
• They can heal minor flesh wounds. They can cure a cold in only a day.
• They can perform weak protective spells to defend an area or person from low-level spirit.

Level 5. Scholar.

• Scholars can protect a small group of people with a barrier. Additionally, their magic barriers can now be made more specifically and specialized to their needs. They can even allow certain people and spells to pass through their barriers.
• They can heal serious flesh wounds and can help bones heal faster. They are skilled at healing less serious infections and diseases.
• They can banish low-level spirits.

Level 6. Visionary.

• Visionaries may easily protect a room full of people with a barrier.
• The magical barriers may even be created with the trait of deterring trespassers instead of making the trespassers walk straight into a solid wall.
• They can heal bones, although the patient will remain sore for a few weeks afterward.
• They can use protective spells to block an area from mid-level spirits.

Level 7. Luminary.

• Luminaries can protect an entire house with a barrier.
• They may negate or reflect mid-level curses.
• They can heal bones with only some faint aching as a reminder for a few days. They can relieve the symptoms of more serious illnesses for a brief while.
• They can banish mid-level spirits.

Level 8. Spellbinder.

• Spellbinders can protect an entire city with a barrier, but the barrier becomes weaker the larger it is.
• Spellbinders have enough experience to form a barrier inside their targets, effectively slicing them in two or at least stopping the blood flow of those with lower levels of skill, but this requires a lot of practice to be used effectively.
• They can heal or regrow broken bones and flesh. They can prolong the life of a person with terminal illness.
• They can protect areas or people from high-level spirits.

Level 9. Master.

• A master may comfortably put a barrier around an entire city.
• They may negate or reflect high-level curses.
• They can heal most serious illnesses, but they cannot prevent its recurrence.
• They can banish high-level spirits.

Level 10. Archmaster - Paladin.

• Barriers made by paladins are rumored to cover an entire continent. It is suspected that one once upon a time covered the entire continent of Avalon with a magical barrier, which is why fae are unable to step foot on the island even today.
• They may negate or reflect curses from anyone of a lower level than them.
• They can heal most serious illnesses to the point where there is never a recurrence. They may be hailed as holy and divine for this ability.
• Paladins have the option to sacrifice all of their life force in order to maximize their abilities and perform god-like spells, such as healing everyone in Avalon or erecting a permanent barrier. As long as the body is still warm, they are capable of doing this to return that person to life in exchange for theirs, but brain damage may alter the patient’s memories to the point where they no longer remember the paladin who died in his or her place.
• They can banish any spirit of a lower level.

Humans who study divination practice the arts of predicting the future, finding lost objects, and seeing the past. They are far more capable of predicting futures they personally experience and require tools to predict the futures of others until they reach elite status. Their future sight makes them popular among farmers and gets them banned from casinos, lotteries, and other games of chance. Since they can find lost objects, they are often consulted for the whereabouts of missing children, lost pets, and sacred items. Their ability to see into the past generally makes many people feel violated or even fear them, but the justice system still takes advantage of this during criminal trials.

A diviner may gradually become jaded, and mental strength is important as they grow to live in a world without any surprises as the people around them use them time and time again but come to tread carefully around them as well.

Despite their abilities, more foolhardy folk may struggle day after day to prank them, which may annoy them to no end.


Level 1. Neophyte.

• These humans have only just begun to study divination and do not have any useful skill sets just yet. They may have an inkling of future events to come, but they are only correct about one-third of the time and only when they use tools to assist them, such as tea leaves, smoke, or dreams.
• Although they are only accurate one-third of the time, they can use this to repeatedly make predictions until one reoccurs with the highest probability. Doing this drastically increases their success rate, although someone at such a low level will become quite tired after only a few attempts.
• They are also only accurate at finding objects one-third of the time and are limited to the general vicinity of the object. The precision of their spell improves if they repeat the divination closer to the object.

Level 2. Accolyte.

• These humans have more stamina at making predictions than neophytes.
• They can find objects accurately 50% of the time.

Level 3. Disciple.

• Although these humans are only as accurate as accolytes while using tools, they can have random prophetic dreams a few times a month about future events. These dreams are highly accurate but mostly show mundane activities, such as eating or attending a lecture. Additionally, the disciple lacks the ability to distinguish a prophetic dream from a normal one.
• They can find objects accurately 75% of the time.

Level 4. Adept.

• The adept has acquired the ability to predict events up to one second in the future accurately without any tools, but this ability is limited to only what the adept personally experiences.
• Although this is merely one second, it can decide the difference between life and death when it comes to surprise attacks or a fight, and this ability is most useful when combined with skilled reflexes.

Level 5. Scholar.

• The scholar can see actions up to five seconds in the future at will. The scholar has prophetic dreams several times a month. Predictions made using tools are 50% accurate.
• Scholars can find lost objects correctly 90% of the time on first try.
• Scholars can now see events their subject experienced in the past twelve hours.

Level 6. Visionary.

• These humans can see events up to 30 seconds in the future directly concerning themselves.
• They have no difficulty locating objects on Avalon as long as they are not protected from divination.
• They can see the past of an individual going back a few days, which makes them a popular choice when determining the verdict of a criminal case. Even so, the trial will use other evidence to determine an individual’s guilt since relying on the visionary alone is too much power to be trusted to one person when it comes to another’s fate.

Level 7. Luminary.

• These humans can perceive events a few minutes in their direct future. Their predictions made using tools are 75% accurate. They have prophetic dreams nightly.
• Luminaries can even locate the whereabouts of items within Faerie itself.
• Luminaries may look back a few weeks into a person’s past.

Level 8. Spellbinder.

• Spellbinders may perceive their own near futures or the near futures of anyone they meet accurately without tools 90% of the time. With tools, they rumored to be 100% accurate.
• In order to tell the future of more than a few months from the present, they must use tools. However, they can see a few decades into the future.
• As spellbinders, they are no longer limited to the most likely future but can now perceive the most likely futures to occur. However, they do not yet have the wisdom to accurately change the future to what they desire.
• They may look several years into a person’s past.

Level 9. Master.

• Masters can easily see their own futures and the futures of those they have met at least once. They can perceive a few decades into the future without tools but will require tools in order to divine several decades or even centuries into the future.
• They can see the most likely futures to occur as well as the steps most likely to bring them to fruition.
• They can see the past events of an individual’s lifetime.

Level 10. Archmaster - Oracle.

• Oracles can perceive the past and possible futures of anyone they choose. The depth they can perceive is limited only by their endurance. Using magical tools, this ability is theoretically limitless.
• Since they can see the details of anyone’s or any place’s past and future and know how to manipulate events to bring forth the outcome they desire, they are both feared and respected as the enemy no one would like to have.
• As history often repeats itself, the human in question has typically become rather jaded by this point.

Evocation magic is a popular choice for children and entertainers since it is the flashiest of all magic. The lower levels are popular because they can be used to ease daily life and cooking. Fishermen in particular find manipulating the water under their boats to be quite helpful. Levels above that may be useful for overt combat since these spells are typically the most violent and explosive out of all of the schools of magic. Higher levels are generally only learned by those who admire elementalism. Some people have great potential for only one element and none for the others while some have only a little potential in each thing and are unlikely to reach a high level.

When it comes to evocation magic, almost all students use wands or other magical tools to help them focus their magic. Those who do not are either desperate or unconcerned if their fingers get blown off. If they dare to do it without a wand, they usually point one finger to help them direct their magic. Since fire requires something to burn and manipulating water actually requires water to be present, conjuration is often studied along with evocation to give the students the tools they need whenever they need them.

Since this “elementalism” is completely different from the periodic table of elements studied in transmutation, transmuters may find this art to be fraudulent and look down on its students.

Due to the destructive nature of these spells, those at higher levels are often feared. Those who study them may become self-righteous from the force of their power, and it is not so unlikely that they may eventually become criminals believing “might makes right.” Since they are looking down on the more subtle forms of magic and may underestimate their opponents, this does not always go well for them…


Level 1. Neophyte.

• A neophyte may use the most basic of techniques, although they are generally too weak to be of much use. Neophytes may generate small sparks, generate static shocks, generate a speck of light, or pull droplets of water together.

Level 2. Accolyte.

• Accolytes have had enough practice to set a very dry leaf on fire. They can manipulate small amounts of water. They can generate a faint light for looking in dim areas. They can generate a weak breeze.

Level 3. Disciple.

• Disciples may set a dry log on fire. They can generate weak electrical connections between their fingers, but this is too weak to do much other than slowly cook a hot dog. They can manipulate more water than before. They can generate a moderate degree of light for looking in different areas. They can now generate enough wind to ruffle their hair and light clothing.
• They can begin to move energy from one object to another, making one cold and the other warm. They often do this to adjust the temperature of their food or drink.

Level 4. Adept.

• Adepts can start a fire with a mildly moist log. They can generate more electricity between their fingers and manipulate more water than before. They can generate a bright flash of light that may temporarily blind those who look at it. They can manipulate the wind enough to make their hair fly around.
• They can move energy from one object to another, making one cold and the other hot.

Level 5. Scholar.

• Scholars can start a fire on a wet log. They can generate enough electricity to charge a battery and control more water than before. They may focus the light they create into a beam. They can manipulate the wind and direct it as a gust of air.
• Now that they are more skilled, they can even direct their combustion and zaps of electricity at a target, but they may not be very accurate at this stage.
• They can simmer or frost over liquids.

Level 6. Visionary.

• Visionaries can start a fire on a wet log but not one completely soaked in water. They can generate more electricity and manipulate more water than before. They may focus the light they create into different designs, but they will be quite rough and unstable at this stage. They can generate a strong gust of wind.
• They can create minor explosions and can cause more burns with electricity.
• With enough time, they can boil liquids or completely freeze them into ice.

Level 7. Luminary.

• Luminaries can set a moderately-soaked log on fire. They can generate enough electricity to satisfy a house, if the house is fortunate enough to have electric cables installed. They are extremely quick if on the lake or in the river. They may draw designs with the light they generate. The light is strong enough to have the strength of weak sunlight and may be slightly harmful to vampires. They can generate gust of wind powerful enough to knock people from their feet.
• They can generate larger explosions and direct their electricity more proficiently than before.
• They are much faster at boiling and freezing liquids. They are now able to freeze or melt some solid items. They can easily make an entire room hot or cold.

Level 8. Spellbinder.

• [li]Spellbinders can set a thoroughly-soaked log on fire. They can generate enough electricity to satisfy a mansion, if the mansion is fortunate enough to have electric cables installed. They are extremely quick if on the lake or in the river. They may draw designs with the light they generate quickly enough to make it look like their art is animated. The light is strong enough to have the strength of moderate sunlight and may be harmful to vampires. They can generate gust of wind powerful enough to knock people from their feet and damage some roofs.
• They can generate larger explosions and direct their electricity more proficiently than before.
• They can freeze or melt most items. They can make an entire house hot or cold.

Level 9. Master.

• [li]Masters can set just about anything flammable on fire. They can generate enough electricity to satisfy a city block. Their speed in water is nearly unmatched. They are now skilled enough at manipulating light to produce shows and make acts happen that would even impress an illusionist. The light is strong enough to have the strength of strong sunlight and quite harmful to vampires. They can generate small tornadoes.
• They can generate great explosions that make buildings crumble. They can easily electrocute their opponents to death.
• They can freeze or boil a person to death if they so choose. They can make the temperature of an area cold enough to cause frostbite or sweltering enough to make someone pass out from heatstroke.

Level 10. Archmaster - Thaumaturge.

• [li]They can generate enough electricity to satisfy all of Arcadia if had electric cables installed throughout. They can create tsunamis, so long as enough water is available. Their power with light is intense enough to focus it into laser beams to burn their targets, vampire, human, or otherwise. They can generate multiple tornadoes.
• They can generate great explosions that destroy a city block. Their skill with electricity is strong enough to direct bolts of lightning from the sky to their targets.
• They can freeze or boil or melt nearly anything they please. They can manipulate temperature freely. Given this and their ability with air, they could even manipulate the weather.

The art of necromancy has been outlawed by the humans on Avalon, and it is so heavily scorned that a school does not exist for it. Publicly, at least. Books on the subject are kept secret and locked away or else or kept secret in codes or disguised with an illusion. Even without a textbook or a teacher, those talented in necromancy may learn secrets from the dead. Due to its nature, necromancy is general self-taught in secret. Although there are a few useful skills and applications for necromancy, none of them are legal.

Considering the secrecy required to learn this skill, its practitioners may live isolated from everyone else. If they live in a city, they may disguise their nature by being outspoken against necromancy and pledging their allegiance to a separate school of magic. Even so, they perceive a different world from everyone else and may act quirky.

Those who study necromancy accept death as just another stage of life and have difficulty understanding those who cry or feel pity for the dead. They may come to see life and death as equal.

The ghosts and spirits they work with are only the residue of the people they once were. Those who died with great regret or swearing revenge may have some willpower, but they generally have very little will of their own. Necromancers themselves are prone to becoming spirits after death, but they will not have their own will unless they achieve the high levels of necromancy first. Students of abjuration magic are often hired to purify areas where a ghost or necromancer is suspected to have been, whether there were really any spirits there or not.


Level 1. Neophyte.

• Neophytes can hear the voices of the dead, although they speak in garbled tones and may be difficult to understand.
• They have the unfortunate tendency to become possessed.

Level 2. Acolyte.

• Acolytes can hear the voices of the dead much more clearly. They may also speak with the dead, although they may have to repeat themselves multiple times.
• If a ghost gives off a strong scent from when it was alive, the acolyte can smell it.

Level 3. Disciple.

• Disciples can hear and speak to the dead clearly. As such, they now have the ability to command weak spirits.
• They vaguely see the form of spirits, but they appear blurry, faded, unclear, and quite transparent.
• They may briefly reanimate the corpses of non-mammalian creatures, such as insects, fish, or crabs.
• They can resist being possessed by most low-level ghosts.

Level 4. Adept.

• Adepts are able to see spirits more clearly than disciples.
• They can feel the strongest emotions of the dead.
• They can sense the souls of living creatures and influence it enough to make their victim uncomfortable.
• They can briefly reanimate the corpses of small birds.

Level 5. Scholar.

• Scholars can see spirits quite well and can command mid-level spirits, which are capable of following moderately complex orders.
• They can perceive the last moments of a ghost’s life.
• They become able to touch spirits to a limited degree.
• Scholars can slightly increase the power of a ghost.
• They can influence the soul of a living creature enough to make it ill. If a source of infection is already present, it is easier to spread disease.
• They have more control over reanimating creatures from the dead and begin to practice with small cats and dogs.
• They can resist being possessed by most mid-level ghosts. They may choose to be possessed by a spirit to temporarily gain non-magical abilities, such as artistic skill, but they risk losing control and will feel drained afterward. Since their bodies are the same regardless of who is in control, using an athlete's ghost usually does not fare well for the scholar.

Level 6. Visionary.

• Visionaries may perceive the most emotional points of a ghost’s life.
• Visionaries are capable of tasting a spirit, if they so choose.
• They can maintain physical contact with a ghost.
• They can empower a ghost enough to make it visible to even non-necromancers.
• They can take some of the life force of a soul and transfer it to themselves or another living creature. They can also do this with plants. This increases their energy, increases their healing rate, and recharges their magic to a limited degree.
• If someone near them is about to die, they can force the soul back into the body and help maintain that person’s life for a little longer.
• Visionaries are capable of reanimating dead animals, even if they are the size of a horse. They can also reanimate human or abomination infants.

Level 7. Luminary.

• Luminaries may command high-level spirits. Not only are these spirits strong, but they can think and act more independently. Like other spirits, they do not necessarily have a will of their own but may act on the will of their necromancer.
• Luminaries can interact with ghosts as though they have corporeal bodies.
• Now that ghosts feel completely solid to them (when they choose to feel them), luminaries may let their own spirits leave their bodies for a short period of time. Since this puts their body at risk to getting hijacked by a powerful spirit or rival necromancy, they typically do not stray far. While in this astral projection form, they may possess another individual as though they were a ghost.
• They can bring a living creature near death by draining its life force. This life force may then be transferred to another.
• Quite skilled at animated animals, luminaries have had enough practice to begin reanimating human and abomination corpses. The corpses are much stronger than a standard human, but they are clumsy and have poor sensation. In other words, they trip and stumble often, have terrible aim, and struggle to see their targets under poor lighting.
• They can resist being possessed by most high-level ghosts. If they use a ghost's abilities to do a modified possession on themselves, they are less likely to lose control.
• If a necromancer at this level dies, he or she is almost guaranteed to remain as an intelligent spirit of varying strength.

Level 8. Spellbinder.

• They may leave their bodies safely for greater distances than before.
• Spellbinders may completely drain an organism of life, but it will take them some time to do so depending on the subject they are using.
• The reanimated corpses are at a much higher level than before and have overcome their incoordination. Their senses are now equivalent to a human’s.
• Necromancers who die at this level almost invariably become high-ranking spirits.

Level 9. Master.

• Masters may completely drain an individual of life through mere touch alone. If someone’s heart only stopped beating a few minutes ago, they can then force this life into that person and return them to their living state. However, brain damage cannot be undone, and they cannot recover after the body begins to undergo rigor mortis.
• Masters are capable of bringing the high-level spirits and reanimated corpses together like they were in life, only deader. This high level of body and spirit fusion allows the spirit to move the body freely. The corpse will have the same abilities as it did in life, but it will be restricted by the limits of its necromancer’s magic.
• Necromancers who die at this level remain powerful, quite possibly even more powerful, after death. However, it takes them quite awhile to get used to their new forms. They retain their own willpower and intelligence, and they may choose to be reborn by possessing a fetus.

Level 10. Archmaster – Occultist/Shaman.

• The necromancers can now revive the dead and leave them to an assignment for several months at a time. Even so, the body shall continue to rot. The necromancer may attempt to disguise this by making the spirit’s form as tangible and visible as possible, but it is impossible to truly return the dead to life.
• Archmasters may continue acting as they did when they were alive. If they choose to appear fully corporeal, those they meet may not realize the necromancers are already deceased. They may continue as they are or possess a fetus. Only a skilled practitioner of abjuration can grant them eternal death. If they become trapped this way for centuries and want to end it all, they may attempt to raise a paladin themselves.