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If the caster accumulates 1,000 souls,<br />

it has been rumored that the caster may acquire<br />

immortality at the Aedile’s discretion.<br />

The outcome depends on what the Aedile<br />

deems most appropriate, but it has been<br />

rumored that others have become demons<br />

in the employ of powers of the lower planes.<br />

Moral casters may acquire only a soul<br />

from a victim with a disposition that is immoral<br />

or neutral. If a moral caster collects a<br />

moral soul, the acquired soul will not count<br />

toward the 1,000 stated above and the caster<br />

must randomly acquire a mental illness (see<br />

Chap. 5: Mind).<br />

Neutral casters may acquire only a<br />

soul from a victim with a disposition that is<br />

moral or immoral. If a neutral caster collects<br />

a neutral soul, the acquired soul will not<br />

count toward the 1,000 stated above and the<br />

caster must randomly acquire a mental illness<br />

(see Chap. 5: Mind).<br />

Immoral casters may acquire any<br />

soul without penalty.<br />

677<br />

Spell for Causing Talk while Asleep<br />

Level: 3<br />

Magic Points: 24<br />

Discipline: Ether<br />

Range: Touch<br />

Area: 1 female<br />

Duration: 2 minutes per level of the caster<br />

Reference: PGM VII. 411-16.<br />

Chant: None<br />

Ingredients: A heart, ink, and hieratic papyrus<br />

Ritual: Take a heart and place it in ink. Write on a<br />

strip of hieratic papyrus and place it upon<br />

her pudenda and ask your questions. She<br />

will confess everything to you. Write:<br />

“DARYGKO IAU IAU.”<br />

Description: Casting this spell causes a female to<br />

answer truthfully any question asked.<br />

Spell for Questioning Corpses<br />

Level: 3<br />

Magic Points: 24<br />

Discipline: Air<br />

Range: Touch<br />

Area: 1 corpse<br />

Duration: 2 minutes per level of the caster<br />

Reference: PGM IV. 2140-44.<br />

Chant: None.<br />

Ingredients: red ochre, burnt ink, juice of fresh<br />

wormwood, evergreen, and flax.<br />

Ritual: Make an ink from the ingredients, and also<br />

take an additional flax leaf and write “AZEL<br />

BALEMACHO” on the leaf. Put it in the<br />

mouth of the corpse.<br />

Description: This spell enables a caster to ask questions<br />

of a corpse by summoning the spirit<br />

of the deceased. One complication is that a<br />

different spirit may answer instead, or no<br />

spirit may answer at all. The Aedile must<br />

roll 3d10:<br />

Roll Result<br />

< 14<br />

No<br />

answer<br />

14-17Malevolent, lying<br />

spirit<br />

18Randombuthonestspirit > 18<br />

Correct<br />

spirit<br />

replies<br />

Chapter 12: Spells

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