Space Magic

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

Gravity is, in the end, an expectation. Everything falls because everything has always fallen, and the mind accepts this so completely and so early in life that it stops being a thought and becomes simply the way things are. Dream is interested in the way things are. Specifically in how thoroughly the mind enforces it. The mentimancer, still learning how to affect and bend reality with thought, learns just what can happen if the mind believes it to be true.

Defy Gravity does not disable gravity. It does not alter the physical laws of Nor'Ova or call upon any element that governs weight or force. What it does is reach into every mind within the area through Dream and quietly remove the expectation. The certainty that things fall. The assumption that the ground is where everything ends up. Without that expectation anchoring them, the minds present stop enforcing gravity on themselves and everything around them - and without enforcement, gravity finds it has nothing to work with. Everything in the area begins to float, weightless and drifting, combat continuing in three dimensions as melee actions follow...

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

Language is, at its foundation, a pattern. Sounds or symbols arranged in a system that the mind has learned to decode into meaning. The mentimancer understands this - that meaning itself is not bound to any particular arrangement of sounds. What the mind actually wants is the meaning beneath the pattern, and that Dream is very good at finding what the mind actually wants.

Mind Comprehension reaches through Dream and opens the mentimancer's mind to the patterns of any language they encounter. This spell is not teaching them the language, not storing it for later, but translating in the moment, meaning arriving as naturally as if it had been spoken in their own tongue. Any language spoken or written within range is understood completely for the duration. The mentimancer cannot speak these languages in return - Dream has opened a door for reception, not transmission, and the mouth still knows only what it has been taught. But to hear someone speak and understand every word, regardless of what words they are, that alone is an extraordinary thing. 

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

Every mentimancer remembers their first illusion. Not because it was impressive, it wasn't, but because of what it felt like to reach into Dream and pull something out of it that hadn't existed a moment before. Thin, uncertain, a picture from the mind held in space by conviction that isn't quite strong enough yet. But there. Something where there had been nothing.

Weak Illusion is exactly what its name suggests. It is the first attempt, the learning spell, the proof of concept that Dream accepts and works with even when the belief behind it is still finding its footing. The image the mentimancer creates cannot move. It wavers at the edges even in good light, and anyone who comes within two spaces finds it impossible to mistake for reality - the illusion knowing it is doubted and responding accordingly, its edges softening, its details blurring, the conviction behind it insufficient to hold up under close scrutiny. It has no physical presence. It cannot be touched or interacted with. It simply exists in the space next to the caster for as long as the spell holds, a small imperfect thing made of belief. The...

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

Everyone carries something they would rather not look at. Guilt. Regret. The memory of something done or left undone that sits in the darkest corner of the mind and waits. The mentimancer does not need to know what it is. Nightmare does.

Angry Lashings reaches into the target through Nightmare and finds exactly what it is looking for - the thing the target has worked hardest to keep buried - and drags it forward. What follows is not an external attack. There is no whip, no conjured force. The damage of 2d20 comes entirely from within, the target's own guilt and nightmare striking outward with a ferocity that only something deeply personal can manage. Those standing nearby are not entirely spared. Nightmare's energy, once roused, does not confine itself neatly, and the psychic backlash damage of 1d20 bleeds outward catching anyone unfortunate enough to be close, ally, enemy, even the mentimancer. 

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

Nightmare knows what is buried. It has always known, the thing the target has been carrying without admitting they were carrying it, the anger that never found its outlet, the grief that became resentment, the fear that curdled into something harder and darker over time. Nightmare's Thirst finds that thing and opens the lid.

What follows is not the mentimancer's anger. It is entirely the target's own anger, pulled from somewhere deep in the subconscious and released all at once, unfiltered and undirected, a rage so old and so unresolved that the target cannot even name what it is aimed at. They simply need to destroy. They simply need to hit something, anything, with everything they have, because Nightmare has shown them the pressure that has been building behind that sealed door and the door is no longer sealed. Berserk takes hold - melee power tripling as the subconscious fury overflows - and nothing else is accessible. No spells. No skills. No items. Just the rage and the body carrying it. The target cannot be told what they are angry at. Nightmare doesn't work that way. It only opens the...

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

The difference between a weak illusion and a strong one is not complexity. It is conviction. The mentimancer who has practiced long enough begins to understand this - that the wobbling, the tell-tale waver at close range, the way a poorly constructed illusion seems to know it is being doubted - all of that comes from insufficient belief. Dream does not create half-heartedly. Neither should the mentimancer.

Strong Illusion is the same principle as what came before, but held with considerably more certainty. The image the mentimancer constructs through Dream is fine-tuned, detailed, committed to convincing even to those who approach and examine it closely. It does not waver. It does not reveal its seams under scrutiny. The only thing that gives it away is what it has always lacked - physical presence. Touch it and the hand passes through. But eyes alone will find nothing to question. The illusion can be whatever the mentimancer envisions, up to six feet in any direction, and it holds for as long as they choose to maintain it. The mentimancer is free to move, act, and cast other spells while Dream sustains the...

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

In a dream, distance is a suggestion. You do not walk to where you need to be. You simply need to be there, and you are. The space between one place and another folds away as though it was never relevant, because in the space where Dream operates, it isn't.

Teleportation is the mentimancer applying this principle to the waking world. They choose a point on the battlefield - anywhere within sight, anywhere they have decided they need to be - and Dream handles the rest. No movement through space. No traversing the distance between. Simply present in one location and then present in another, the transition instantaneous and complete. The battlefield has not changed. The mentimancer has simply stopped accepting that they had to cross it.

It works only on the mentimancer themselves - Dream moving another person requires considerably more than this - and only within the confines of the immediate battlefield. The principle that distance is negotiable has limits in the waking world, limits that the mentimancer has yet to stretch....

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

The mind, at its fullest expression, does not accept limitations. This is what Nightmare understands that most do not - that the boundaries between elements, between strong and weak, between what can and cannot be harmed - these are not laws. They are assumptions. And the mind, when truly awakened, does not share the assumptions of the world around it.

Awakened Mind does not enhance the mentimancer's power so much as it removes the filters through which that power was being constrained. Every target becomes equally vulnerable. The elemental protections they carry, the resistances built into their very nature, rendered irrelevant by a mind that has simply decided not to acknowledge them. Space energy bleeds into every physical strike, the mentimancer's (or empowered ally) runic soul expressing itself through muscle and movement as readily as through magic. And the Runic Power behind every attack, physical or magical, doubles - not because the mentimancer or empowered has grown stronger, but because they have stopped holding themselves back. It does not last. The mind cannot sustain this state...

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

Dream has always known something that most people spend their lives trying to learn - that the distance between who you are and who you are capable of becoming is largely a matter of belief. Dream's Message is Dream leaning down and whispering that belief directly into someone's ear.

The mentimancer calls upon Dream and directs it toward the target - themselves or an ally - and Dream obliges with characteristic generosity. It does not give power. It gives possibility. A message of quiet certainty that settles into the target's mind like the feeling of waking from a dream where everything went right. Within that certainty, a skill or spell chain of the target's choice awakens fully - Dream showing them not what they are, but what they could be, and making that vision real enough to act on for the duration. They move through the spell's duration with skills or spells they have not yet earned, borrowing from a future version of themselves that Dream has briefly made present. 

When the spell ends Dream does not simply...

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

The mind does not always distinguish between what is real and what is believed to be real. Dream understands this perfectly. It has always known that reality, at its edges, is more negotiable than most people are comfortable admitting. A thing believed in completely enough begins to behave as though it exists. And a thing that behaves as though it exists - that pushes back when pushed, that refuses to be passed through, that stands where it was placed without wavering is, for all meaningful purposes, real.

Barrier is Dream's most straightforward expression of this principle. The mentimancer constructs a wall in their mind - smooth, solid, immovable - and holds it with complete conviction. There is nothing there. And yet whatever comes into contact with it finds itself stopped, pushed back with exactly the force it brought to bear, unable to pass or climb. The barrier does not need to be made of anything. It only needs to be believed in. And the mentimancer believes in it completely. What the mind insists is real, becomes real. That is the quiet, extraordinary power at the heart of Dream.

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

The mind processes an extraordinary amount of information every moment - sensory input, movement, intention, memory, all of it running simultaneously beneath conscious thought without effort or interruption. Nightmare knows exactly what happens when that processing is suddenly, violently overwhelmed.

Mind Spike is precisely what its name describes - a sharp, concentrated spike of mental energy driven directly into the target's consciousness through Nightmare, arriving all at once with no warning and no gradual escalation. The target's brain receives more than it can handle in a single instant. Everything slows. Movement drops to half as the body waits for a mind that is suddenly struggling to keep up, overwhelmed processing cascading through every system that depends on it. If you roll a natural 20 when casting the spell the spike is severe enough to stun entirely - the mind shutting down non-essential functions for 1d6 rounds as it attempts to recover from something it was never designed to withstand. The spike does not linger. It arrives, it overwhelms,...

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

I first knew I was dreaming when I went to speak, and behold no sound came rushing out. It is a common occurrence, whether it be in a pleasant dream or a terrifying nightmare, that the dreamer cannot speak nor produce any sound. It is like the space within their dream is silent. Space, in its truest sense, is silent. The vast emptiness between things carries nothing - no sound, no signal, no noise of any kind. This is the nature of space that the mentimancer understands most intimately, the inner silence that Dream has always known how to find and how to extend.

Silence of Space reaches through Dream and imposes that fundamental quiet on the area surrounding the caster, not blocking sound so much as convincing the space itself that sound is not something that happens here. Within the radius nothing makes noise. No footstep, no clash of weapons, no voice. Those inside the silence can move and act with complete acoustic invisibility, undetectable by sound though still visible to any eye that looks their direction. Spells can still be cast for runic elements do not require sound to work, but no verbal component, no warning cry, no called order can pass through the boundary in either...

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

Dream does not require an invitation. This is something the mentimancer learns - that Dream, at its most assertive, does not wait to be welcomed into a mind. It simply arrives. And arriving uninvited into a waking mind with the full unfiltered intensity of deep sleep is not a gentle experience.

Dream's Assault is Dream unleashed simultaneously across the entire battlefield. For allies and the mentimancer it arrives as it should - as clarity, as heightened awareness, as the lucid dreamer's calm certainty that they understand what is happening around them. Their Perceive and Insight are bolstered by the mentimancer's Arcana as Dream sharpens everything it touches. For enemies it arrives the same way - with the same sudden overwhelming force - except a waking mind receiving Dream without preparation cannot process it. The sensation is of something vast and loud and sourceless detonating just behind the eyes. No pain. No nightmare. Just Dream, enormous and immediate and completely inescapable, leaving every enemy Dazed for 1d6 rounds and their Soul...

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

The body is rarely the limiting factor. This is something Dream understands, and something the mentimancer learns early. What most people call their limits are not physical truths but mental ones. Beliefs about what they can lift, what they can endure, what they are capable of, worn so long they have started to feel like facts.

Illusionary Strength does not add muscle. It does not alter the target's body in any measurable way. What it does is reach into the mind through Dream and quietly remove the ceiling, replacing the target's belief in their own limitations with something considerably more generous. The strength that follows is, technically, an illusion. It works anyway. Because the body was always capable of it. The mind simply needed to be convinced. Strength Traits rise by the mentimancer's Arcana, physical power represented by their Strength Stat surges by their Runic Power, and the target moves through the world for the duration as though they have always been this strong. When the spell ends and Dream retreats, the ceiling returns. The...

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

The unresolved nightmare is the heavy weight chosen to be carried. Such is the truth of Nightmare and nightmares in general. As a prominent side of mentimancy, the sphere of spatiumancy that deals most with the mind itself, Nightmare is the lesson of unresolved fears. To not face these fears and resolve them is to burden oneself. Nightmare knows this well. Nightmare does not pursue those who face it. It pursues those who run.

Every living thing carries unresolved things - fears left unexamined, stresses never processed, the accumulated weight of everything the waking mind refused to sit with and hand off to sleep to deal with. Nightmare knows where all of it is. It has always known. Nightmare's Pull is the mentimancer reaching through Nightmare and making that weight suddenly, viscerally present.  Every unresolved thing the target has been carrying rising to the surface simultaneously, pressing down on them with the full accumulated gravity of avoidance.

The target does not fall. They slow. Movement halves...

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

Every place the mentimancer has ever been still exists somewhere in their mind perfectly preserved, accessible, held with the kind of clarity that Dream encourages in everything it touches. Physical Transference is Dream taking that clarity and doing what Dream does best with it: making it real. Convincing the mind that it is real, and obtainable. 

The mentimancer reaches through Dream, finds the memory of wherever they wish to go - any place visited during their travels, held in the mind with enough detail for Dream to work with - and simply decides that the distance between here and there is a matter of belief rather than physics. Dream agrees. The mentimancer, and anyone holding onto them at the moment of casting, is instantly present at the remembered location, the space between having been collapsed by Dream's absolute conviction that the memory and the destination are the same thing.

The limitation is the mind itself. Dream cannot build a destination from nothing. It needs the memory to work from, the lived...

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

Dream takes pleasure in giving. This is simply its nature. But what Dream's Message set in motion - the borrowed potential, the achieved victory, the peaceful sleep that followed - this brought Dream something rarer than simple satisfaction. Something closer to joy. And Dream's Pleasure is what that joy looks like when Dream decides to express it.

While the dreamer sleeps wrapped in Dream's protection, Dream turns its full attention to them - not as a guardian now but as a benefactor experiencing genuine delight at what it made possible. Every point of Vitality, Soul, and Power is restored to its maximum as Dream pours that joy directly into the dreamer's body and spirit, filling every empty space with the warmth of its pleasure. The dreamer does not merely rest. They are made whole, more completely than sleep alone could ever manage.

And Dream is possessive of this moment. Anyone who attempts to approach the dreamer finds themselves turned back - pushed away at double the speed they traveled to reach...

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

Not all nightmares mean harm and not all dreams should become reality. This is a profound truth that the mentimancer has learned over the course of their study. Nightmares can teach and help others to confront and handle their situations. Dreams.... Dreams if granted permission can break reality itself.  Dream has spent an entire practice asking questions about the nature of reality. Whether gravity needed to be obeyed. Whether barriers needed to be physical to be real. Whether distance needed to be crossed or simply dismissed. Whether the mind needed a body to move something. Each answer came back the same - that reality, examined closely enough, is more negotiable than it appears. That reality can be broken and the Dream can become reality. But what happens when Dream tries has only been documented under the obscure name - Terenatus.

At the apex of the Transference chain, the mentimancer reaches through Dream and does not bend reality or reframe it or find a gap in its assumptions. They tear it. The fabric of space itself - the medium through which all physical things exist and interact - is seized...