Magic

This page will serve to explain how magic functions on Sanctuary. This is intended for role-play purposes only, and should not be taken as an indication of pending game magic functionality.

Game Mechanics

The following types of magic exist on Sanctuary, this is an excellent overview of the systems: Magic in Ultima Online

Alchemy Cooking makes food, inks, dyes, paints, and alchemy potions.Read More.. Chivalry Devotion is a melee support skill that provides improved tanking and parry abilities. Read More .. Imbuing Imbuing has been deactivated on Sanctuary for the time being. Inscription  This skill allows you to create incantation spell scrolls, paint pictures, make maps and weave baskets. Read More..

Magery Magery is the primary skill of the spell caster. Magery is not recommended to first time players as it is both difficult and costly to level up. Read More .. Meditation Meditation both passively and actively regenerates mana. Read More .. Mysticism This skill is being rewritten, its currently non-functional. Read More .. Necromancy Necromancy is the primary skill of the Necromancer. Necromancy has been significantly crippled by the implementation of Pre-AOS. Read More .. Resisting Spells Resisting spells reduces the effect/damage of incoming spells. Read more .. Spellweaving Druidry, which replaces Spellweaving, has been released for player testing. Druidry is the primary healing and buff skill of the new magic skills. Read More .. Spirit Speak Spirit Speak allows players to understand dead players as well as channel healing from monster corpses. Read More ..

Sources of Power & Skill

Words of Power

Magical words are obviously a necessary component of spell casting for most of the different magical system on Sanctuary. Magery uses magical words to cast spells.

Mana + Meditation

Mana is a spell casters personal well of power that they can draw on to cast magic. It functions much like a type of magical stamina. The more powerful the spell the more mana it takes. Meditation is the skill that is used to restore mana. Magery uses mana to cast spells.

Focus

Reagents, including Focus Crystals

Reagents are spell ingredients that are consumed when the spell is cast. They are assumed to be small amounts and easy to carry enough to cast a few hours of magic while hunting, a pinch per spell at most. Magery uses reagents.

Items

Magically crafted items such as scrolls and wands can be used to cast magic, sometimes without needing to have any magical skills. Magical items, such as scrolls may be consumed upon use, while wands may have multiple uses.

Spell Books

Spellbooks are considered magical objects in their own right, and while most spell books require other sources of power to cast the spells, such as mana, reagents, etc, the book itself is a necessary magical item.

Corpses

Tithing

Karma

Evaluating Intelligence

The ability to evaluate the intelligence of a target is a crucial skill to many of the magic system on Sanctuary. This skill directly effects the offensive power of Magery, but is not used in Mysticism.

Resisting Spells

Resisting spells can be thought of as the ability to shield or ward one's self from some offensive magic cast by Magery, Necromancy, Spellweaving and Mysticism