Defenders of the Forest - Liber Fanatica

Chapter IV: Wood Elf Magic
Forecast Danger
Casting Number: 29
Casting Time: 30 minutes
Ingredient: A pinch of powdered dreamleaf (+2)
Description: You enter a light trance and become attuned to
the natural environment. If the region is a normal forest or
plain, you can detect the approximate nature and location of
imminent threats (e.g. “fifty beastmen, 2 miles southeast”). In
magical forests like Athel Loren, you can see events that have
not yet come to pass by making a Very Hard (-30) Perception
test.
Aethyric Projection
Casting Number: 32
Casting Time: 3 full actions
Ingredient: A sprig of dreamroot (+3)
Description: You enter a light trance, projecting your spirit to
another location up to Magic x 100 miles distant. You needn’t
have visited the location previously, but it must be situated near
freshwater or woodlands, and you must know its name. You
may speak, move and pass through solid objects up to 5 feet
thick, but may not otherwise interact with the material world.
Your ethereal form is only affected by magical attacks. A single
spell may be cast from your ethereal form before returning to
your body. Aethyric Projection lasts for (Magic x minutes) or
until another spell is cast.
Th e Sh a d o w Wa l k
Contrary to popular belief, the northern Warp Gate is not the
source of all magic. There are an infinite number of locations
across the known world where the Warp realm transects the Material
realm. These “fulcrum” locations are potent arcane sites
where wizards build shrines and monuments to harness ambient
magic for powerful rituals. Arcane fulcrums are sometimes hard
to detect. In highly magical locations like the Loren Forest or
the Chaos Wastes, fulcrums can even shift and move at random.
Although magical fulcrums existed long before the Old Ones’
arrival, most of them have not been discovered.
Aethyric pathways that defy conventional laws of space, and can
be used to travel great distances in mere moments, interconnect
all magical fulcrums. Human wizards refer to this worldwide
aethyric network as the Shadow Walk, and the associated
mode of travel as “translocation”. Translocation is extremely
dangerous to all but the most strong-willed individuals. Mad
Chaos sorcerers sometimes access the Shadow Walk through
Warp portals. Skaven Grey Seers can translocate small forces of
Storm Vermin, but only after consuming prodigious amounts of
Warpstone dust. The Everqueen of Avelorn in the High Elven
Kingdoms uses ancient stone circles to traverse the Shadow
Walk along leylines, and it is also believed that Teclis, the Loremaster
of the White Tower of Hoeth, accesses portals once used
by the Old Ones.
Wood Elf mages are capable of travelling the Shadow Walk by
casting the Lore of Athel Loren spell, Path Between Worlds.
Entry fulcrums used by the Asrai are elementally linked to exit
fulcrums, which makes the intermediary Warp space more
stable. Trees are sympathetically connected to other trees, lakes
to other lakes, and so on. Some Elven scholars believe that the
Old Ones once used these sympathetic elemental connections
for their own purposes. Today, the Shadow Walk is vital to the
Asrai’s defence and intelligence capability.
El e m e n t a l Tr a n s l o c a t i o n Ru l e s
Wood Elves use the spell Path Between Worlds to open the
Shadow Walk through natural elements. Entrances typically
manifest as shimmering portals or mirrors. When the spell is
cast and the destination declared, the exit fulcrum element
must also be specified. Strong elemental connections between
fulcrums create safer routes through the Aethyr. If the desired
element is not present, the exit fulcrum counts as “Other”.
There must be a sufficient quantity of the element to create
a man-sized portal. In order for Air to be specified as either
the entry or exit fulcrum element, it must be present in large
quantities, such as a howling wind through a canyon or a gale
blowing over mountaintops.
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