Enchantment

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Overview

An enchantment is a persistent, beneficial magical effect, usually produced by a ritual.

Any given target may only be under a single enchantment. If a new enchantment is created on a target, it completely removes the earlier enchantment.

The most common examples of targets for enchantments include (but are not limited to):

• A character Splendid Panoply of Knighthood and Fan the Flame of New Life are both enchantments that affect a character
• A resource Rampant Growth and Streams of Silver are both enchantments that affect a resource
• An item
• A region, territory, nation or empire

Enchantment Duration

The majority of enchantments are either 'encounter' - a duration that lasts for a single quest, skirmish or battle or 'season' - expiring at the start of the next Empire event that Profound Decisions runs.

Rituals that last for an encounter expire after the end of the next quest, skirmish, or battle the character goes on - or at the end of the current quest, skirmish or battle if cast during an encounter. They automatically expire at the end of the current event if they have not been used beforehand. Occasionally a quest may not involve any combat and our plot writers will chose to specify that the anyone who goes on the quest has not expended the use of any encounter enchantments they are under. If a ref informs you that a quest did not expend your encounter duration rituals, (and only if directly informed by a referee), then they were not expended, even if used during that quest.

Rituals that least for a season expires immediately before the start of the next Empire event run by Profound Decisions. The intent is that effect of rituals performed at an event can be used at any sanctioned events that take place before the next event. It also means that any season or encounter rituals that are cast at player events will end before the start of the next Profound Decisions Empire event.

It is also possible to make an enchantment permanent through the use of ilium; further details can be found here.

Identifying Enchantments

The detect magic incantation will tell the caster what if a target is under an enchantment; the Realm that enchantment comes from; and the magnitude of the enchantment. Further information is a matter of deduction or using certain rituals that analyse enchantments.

Removing Enchantments

In almost all cases, the most recent enchantment is the only one that applies. A magnitude 50 enchantment affecting a target is removed by a magnitude 2 enchantment that affects the same target.