Forge auraculum [3130]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.23.1: Forge auraculum [3130]

      Usage:  USE 3130 <aura-level> "Name"
      Time to learn: 28 days.
      Time to use: 14 days.
      Requires: 100 gold [1]
      Requires: five mithril [82]

Forge a magical auraculum, giving it the specified name.

An auraculum is a magical artifact which concentrates and amplifies a mage's power. A permanent investment of maximum aura is made when constructing the auraculum. The artifact doubles the invested aura. However, since a portion of the mage's pneuma has been bound in the auraculum, it is important to safeguard it from being lost or stolen.

In addition to depleting the caster's current aura level, the specified aura amount will be permanently removed from the magician's maximum aura rating. The new object, while possessed by its maker, will augment the mage's maximum aura rating by twice the amount of aura invested in its creation.

Possession of an auraculum doubles the amount of aura a mage naturally recovers each month, from two points to four.

This spell cannot be learned until the magician has learned all the other schools of magic, i.e., [2800] Magic, [2900] Scrying, [3000] Gatecraft, [3100] Artifact construction and [3200] Necromancy.

Creation of an auraculum also grants knowledge of the Advanced sorcery magical skill category. Advanced sorcery may not be learned in any other way. Learning Advanced Sorcery is exempt from the normal NP costs of learning a skill.

Example:

         A mage of current aura level 10, maximum aura 10 who issues
         USE 3130 5 "Ring of power" will be reduced to current aura level 5,
         maximum aura level 5.  However, the new artifact will add 10 points
         to the maximum aura rating of its creator, but only while it is in
         his possession.

             Current aura:   10
             Maximum aura:   10

          1: > use 3130 5 "Ring of power"
          1: Attempt to forge an auraculum.
             ...
         14: Created Ring of power [js80].
         14: Learned Advanced sorcery [166].

             Current aura:   5
             Maximum aura:   15 (5+10)

Characters other than the auraculum's creator do not receive an aura bonus from possession of the object.

Since the mage has bound a portion of his aura into the artifact, its destruction would deal him an instant, fatal blow. Thus, the creator of such an object should use all means to prevent it from being lost or stolen. However, magical items of such power are hard to destroy. An auraculum may only be destroyed in the province in which it was created.

This spell may only be used once. A magician may only create one auraculum during his lifetime.

The creator of the artifact may change its name later with the NAME order. The object must be possessed in order to rename it.

> name js80 "Wooden staff" Ring of power [js80] will now be known as Wooden staff [js80].