Fire
Escalation, risk and destructive pressure.
Mastery title: Pyreborn
- The most damage-focused of the ten schools
- Rewards escalation, and carries the risk that comes with it
- Interacts with the environment (in development)
Magic
Ten schools. Each changes something different.
EOSTRA's schools aren't ten colours of damage. Water changes what a target is. Lightning follows electrical opportunities. Frost controls how reliably things move. Veilcraft attacks what you can see. They work on each other, and on the world.
Learning magic
Learn broadly, or go deep
There is no class to pick and no school chosen at character creation. Any character can learn any school. But magical effectiveness is shared between what you know: learning broadly spreads it thin, while specialising deeply makes a character substantially more potent within that school.
Interactions
Schools change each other
Water → Wet → Lightning
- Water Any successful Water effect on a character.
- Wet Applies to allies and enemies. Fades gradually.
- Lightning Drawn to Wet targets; they shape its arcs.
Water → Wet → Frost
- Water The target becomes Wet.
- Wet The target holds the cold.
- Chill Frost’s central status bites harder.
The schools
The ten schools
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Water
Flow, displacement, stamina pressure — and Wet.
Mastery title: Tidecaller
- Every successful Water effect on a character applies Wet
- Moves targets and pressures stamina
- Changes how Lightning and Frost behave against its targets
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Earth
Armour, fortification and isolation.
Mastery title: Worldshaper
- Spells that leave physical structures on the battlefield
- Earthspike can stand as cover until combat ends
- Crushing Tomb encloses a target entirely
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Nature
Healing, support and growth.
Mastery title: Wildspeaker
- The strongest direct healing and support in the game
- Living growth that protects and restores
- Healing that can be delayed, reactive or shared
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Lightning
Conductivity, pathfinding and volatile electricity.
Mastery title: Storm Herald
- Arcs toward Wet targets
- Directional Lightning (in development)
- The environment's conductivity matters
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Frost
Control, movement and physical reliability.
Mastery title: Winterborn
- Chill is Frost's central status
- Slip disrupts movement and control
- Brittle weakens armour
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Wind
Projectiles, movement and Air Pressure.
Mastery title: Skyweaver
- Pushes, steers and turns aside anything in flight
- Mobility and offensive support for allies
- Powered by Air Pressure, which comes from movement
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Veilcraft
Deception, concealment and perception.
Mastery title: Veilwalker
- Attacks what opponents can see and know
- Works with darkness, light levels and field of vision
- Vestige reveals traces of movement
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Blood
Risk, sustain and delayed consequences.
Mastery title: Bloodbound
- Sustain with a cost attached
- Hemorrhage heals — up to a point
- Consequences can arrive late
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Chronos
Time manipulation, kept local.
Mastery title: Chronomancer
- Retraces lagged movement
- Slows and manipulates projectiles
- Time shadows and fractures — some can harm the attacker
Everything here describes EOSTRA's current design. Spell names, effects and balance will change during development.
