Life's Warding

This spell is a part of the Essence Bolt spell chain and is found in the Essence Bolt rune stone.

It has been centuries since the awakening of runic souls and the ability for living, sentient beings to cast magic, centuries since the fallout of the Great Magic War that brought about this awakening. In that time many have come to know and learn magic, and while some have used it correctly others have bent magic to fit their dark needs and darker goals. This has been true for all magic, even for life magic despite the general caring nature of the navitamancer - some have through history come to twist even the sacred power of Life. It is for this reason that the Seraphim have developed a potent defense against life magic in its totality. When the navitamancer faces a dangerous magic casting foe, they call upon the Seraphim to protect their friend. The Seraphim agrees to do so, knowing well the risks, and offers to extend the protection to the navitamancer. The navitamancer declines, but the Seraphim ignore it, and decide to protect the caster anyways. Pouring their energy over both the navitamancer and the protected ally, they now have double the natural runic immunity to both Life Magic and Death Magic. The protection does not end there however, as the energy protects against all magic indiscriminate, granting a 20% chance of immunity to all other magic. The perhaps unfortunate side effect of this protection is it is against all magic, the chance for immunity must be checked even if the spell is beneficial in nature. It simply protects. When the spell ends the protection fades from both.