School of Magic - Dark

The School of Dark Magic is an underground school that is not officially taught at wizarding schools. They are mostly taught by student clubs outside of school. Most of these spells are considered to be of a questionable nature or straight-up illegal.

List of Spells

Grade	Name	Description	Casting time	Range	Duration	Focus	Voice	Meditate	Focusing	Heavy
1	Curse	Inflicts the target with one of the following curses for 10 turns unless they succeed in a Willpower 8 check. Curse of the Snail: Reduces the movement speed of the target to 2 meters per turn Curse of the Slow Voice: Reduces the number of Spell-Actions the target can take to one per turn. Curse of the Slow Muscles: Reduces the number of Attack-Actions the target can take to one per turn. Curse of the Moment: The target cannot receive Temporary hitpoints. Current Temporary hitpoints will dissappear. Curse of the Absent-Minded: The target can not make any Preparations. Curse of the Frail Minded: The target can not focus on any spells. It can still cast those spells. However, the focus will automatically break at the beginning of its next turn.	Spell-Action	20 Meter	10 Turns	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
2	Charm	The target will become more friendly towards you unless they succeed in a Charm 10 check. Charisma checks against a charmed creature you make can be made twice, and you may choose the better result. If the target succeeds in the check, he will know that you tried to charm him and act accordingly.	Spell-Action	10 Meter	1 Minute	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2	Souldrain	Drain the target's soul to enhance your own capabilities. You can choose one of the Soul Attributes, and the target must succeed an Attribute 10 check of that Attribute or have his chosen attribute value reduced by 8 (but not below zero). If the target fails his check, your chosen attribute's value will increase by the amount reduced. You can only use one such effect at once.	Spell-Action	Touch	1 Minute	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
3	Stasis	Allows you to put a humanoid creature or medium beasts into stasis, causing them to not be able to act or move anymore unless they succeed a Wisdom 10 check. The creature's defensive value will be 1. The creature can use any Action to make another Wisdom check to see if it can free itself from the stasis (the DC will go down by 1 after each failed attempt). Another creature can use a Help-Action to put the target out of the stasis.	Spell-Action	10 Meter	1 Minute	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
4	Soulpain	Causes the target to feel insufferable pain. If they have less than half of their hitpoints left, they will be inflicted with the Writhering status effect for 2 Turns unless they succeed a Constitution 12 check.	Spell-Action	10 Meter	2 Turns	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
5	Greater Stasis	Allows you to put a humanoid creature or large beasts into stasis, causing them to not be able to act or move anymore unless they succeed a Wisdom 10 check. The creature's defensive value will be 1. The creature can use any Action to make another Wisdom check to see if it can free itself from the stasis (the DC will go down by 1 after each failed attempt). Another creature can use a Help-Action to put the target out of the stasis.	Spell-Action	10 Meter	1 Minute	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
5	Possession	Posses a creature to temporary control it for 3 turns unless it succeeds a Wisdom 10 check. A possessed creature's defensive will be 10 if its defense is based on Dodge.	Spell-Action	20 Meter	3 Turns	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
6	Alter Memory	Overwrites a specific memory of the target by a special memory of your choice unless the target succeeds a Wisdom 18 check. The Memory overwritten must not be older than one day. Can be upcast to increase the maximum age of the memory by one day per grade.	Spell-Action	1 Meter	Permanent	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
8	Soulscrambler	Reduces the targets Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma Value of the target to 1 unless they succeed a Willpower 8 check.	Spell-Action	10 Meter	1 Day	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
8	Create Phylactery	Split your soul in half and infuse an item with it. When you die, your soul will be able to seek out that item to restore your soul back to its full power. If your body has not been destroyed, you can return your soul to it to be resurrected. Otherwise, you will have to find an alternative host body elsewhere. Splitting your soul in half will cause great strain on you, and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma values will be halved for one month. If the Phylactery should be destroyed at any point, you will also feel the effects of the soul splitting for one week. Additionally, the destroyed Phylactery can no longer be used to resurrect yourself. You can create up to a number of Phylacteries equal to your Willpower Modifier in your life, due to permanent strains on your soul.	1 Month	1 Meter	Permanent	Yes	Yes	No	No	No