How magic works

Five schools: fire, water, air, earth, astral. Each has its own skill, growing by use like a weapon skill. A spell’s power grows with the school’s skill, not with the hero’s Body.

• A book teaches a spell for good. Only those with mana – mages – can read books.
• A scroll can be read by anyone, once; its power is written in it (as with skill 20). That is how a warrior gets an area blow, healing and walls.
• No cooldowns. A spell works the moment it is pressed and is ready again at once: only mana limits it.
• A mage picks a spell against enemies and fights with it instead of a weapon: an order to attack, and the hero strikes the target with the spell while the mana lasts. Out of mana – it closes in with whatever it holds.
• A spell cannot be dodged; only the target’s protection from the element cuts its damage.
• Helping spells (healing, blessing, haste) land on the chosen “friend”, else on whoever is under the mouse, else on yourself.

Return to town

Every hero has it (key H). 30 seconds of prayer out of combat – and the hero is at the nearest town of its side. A step, a blow, a fight starting or any order breaks the prayer.

Invisibility

The invisible are seen neither by enemies nor by other players: no body, no name, no marks on the map. The first blow or harmful spell makes them visible again. A blow on a place – wall of fire, cloud, lightning – still touches them, and someone invisible poisoned by a cloud gives themselves away with damage numbers.

All spells

Fire

Spell	Target	Mana	Power
Searing Spark	an enemy	80	30–52.5 (+3 per skill point)
Fire Ward	self	120	Fire Ward
Flame Burst	an enemy	180	37.5–67.5 (+3.75 per skill point)
Fire Wall	a place on the ground	280	Damage 37.5 (+3.75 per skill point) / 1 s

Water

Spell	Target	Mana	Power
Ice Needle	an enemy	80	22.5–45 (+3 per skill point)
Water Ward	self	120	Water Ward
Chill Mist	an enemy	160	15–30 (+2.25 per skill point)

Air

Spell	Target	Mana	Power
Shock	an enemy	80	15–67.5 (+3 per skill point)
Air Ward	self	120	Air Ward
Chain Spark	an enemy	160	22.5–75 (+3 per skill point)
Rainbow Lightning	self	320	30–67.5 (+3.38 per skill point)

Earth

Spell	Target	Mana	Power
Stone Shard	an enemy	100	37.5–60 (+3 per skill point)
Earth Ward	self	120	Earth Ward
Stone Wall	a place on the ground	240	A wall of stone, 5 s
Poison Cloud	a place on the ground	280	Damage 22.5 (+2.62 per skill point) / 1 s
Stone Curse	an enemy	280	Turned to Stone

Astral

Spell	Target	Mana	Power
Return to Town	self	0	Back to town
Bare Fists	an enemy	40	22.5–45 (+4.5 per skill point)
Mend	an ally or self	120	Healing 200 (+16 per skill point)
Swiftness	self	120	Swiftness
Blessing	an ally or self	160	Blessing
Unseen Shield	self	160	Unseen Shield
Curse	an enemy	160	Curse
Teleport	a place on the ground	200	Moves you where you look
Invisibility	self	300	Invisibility