Seed: Compel

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Rank 1 - Charm

Area: 1 Target
Range: Sight
Duration: 10 Minutes
Casting: Mental
Roll: Resistance
Effect: Makes a humanoid creature view you favorably. Casting this spell requires eye contact with the target. If target fails to resist they treat you with Friendly disposition for the duration of the spell. Afterwards the target knows they have been magically influenced and may respond accordingly. If a target is already hostile or engaged in combat with the caster they gain +5 to their Resistance roll.
Push: +1 Duration


Rank 2 - Curse

Range: Sight
Duration: Special
Casting: Somatic
Roll: Resistance
Effect: Curse - With a gesture the caster inflicts a terrible curse on a target. Only one type of curse may be applied to any one target. Casting a new curse will end the effect of the old one. The following curses may be applied:
  • Curse of Fear - A single target failing a Magic Resistance roll is Shaken for Rank x 2 rounds. If the target is already under the influence of a Fear effect it increases by 1 level. (Shaken to Frightened, Frightened to Panicked)
  • Curse of Agony - A single target failing a Magic Resistance roll is overwhelmed with physical pain causing a penalty to all skill rolls equal to the number of successes rolled. Each round after the curse is applied the penalties reduce by 1 until they reach 0 at which time the spell ends. The spell may not be recast on a target already suffering from Curse of Agony. Curse of Agony does not inflict any actual damage to the target.
  • Curse of Pleasure - A single target failing a Magic Resistance roll is flooded with intense pleasure. The target suffers a Rank penalty to Speed and to Dodge for 3 rounds.
Push: +1 Potency, +1 Round Duration


Rank 3 - Dominate

Range: Sight
Duration: 1 Hour
Casting: Mental
Roll: Resistance
Effect: As Charm, except you utterly subjugate the mind of the target. Casting this spell requires eye contact with the target. If the target fails to resist they must perform whatever tasks or actions the caster orders. If an order goes against the target’s moral code or puts them at risk, they get a roll to break the compulsion. Only one attempt per duration increment may be attempted. The target must be able to hear the caster’s commands verbally (or telepathically if the caster has Seed: Contact). Only one target may be Dominated at a time.
Push: +1 Duration


Rank 4 - Mass Compulsion

Range: Sight
Duration: Special
Casting: Mental
Roll: Resistance
Effect: This spell allows a number of targets equal to Rank - 1 to be either Cursed or Dominated. Each cast must apply the same effect such as Curse of Agony or Domination to all targets.
Push: +1 Duration, +1 Target


Rank 5 - Geas

Area: 1 Target
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 Month
Casting: Verbal, Somatic
Roll: Resistance
Effect: This effect binds a single touched target with a powerful compulsion to perform a single task. This task must be described in a single sentence. The target of the geas will find the best way they know how to accomplish the effect desired. If they are forcibly prevented from performing the chosen task they begin to suffer from Curse of Agony with indefinite duration until they resume their task.
Push: +1 Potency