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Changes the physical world. Alteration spells can give units increased strength, resistance to fire, and the like. They can also change the weather. - Illwinter.
Alteration is a very handy school. It's best-known for its "buff" spells, which alter your teammates to make them significantly tougher to harm through conventional means. Barkskin, Stoneskin, and Ironskin are the trademark examples, but there are other options provided by other paths. There are also "debuff" spells, such as Blindness & Shrink, but not as many.
This school also provides a fair amount of attack spells, altering targets in ways that deal severe damage to them (such as Combustion and Incinerate). Deep in the school, you'll find methods of converting foes into useless forms, such as a pathetic animal (Curse of the Frog Prince, Polymorph) or a pile (Bone Melter, Liquify, Disintegrate).
Rituals also change the form of things; Pyromancers & Geomancers can use their Gems to transmute stuff into Gold, Nature Mages can change their own forms in an attempt to learn a different perspective of magic, and super-powerful Astral Mages will eventually be able to derive whatever they want from the universe (see Wish for more details). Earth Mages can also alter Fortress walls if they're skilled enough (Crumble, Iron Walls), and will even be able to raise forts in a single turn (Wizard's Tower), though these Rituals are deep in the school.
Alteration 0
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Air Shield | 1 | ||
Twist Fate | 1 | ||
Hand of Dust | 1 |
Alteration 1
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Charge Body | 1 | ||
Aim | 1 | ||
False Fetters | 2 | ||
Fists of Iron | 1 | ||
Earth Grip | 1 | ||
Earth Might | 2 | ||
Personal Luck | 1 | ||
Skeletal Body | 1 | ||
Hand of Death | 2 | ||
Eagle Eyes | 1 | ||
Poison Touch | 1 | ||
Resist Poison | 1 | ||
Barkskin | 1 |
Alteration 2
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Combustion | 1 | ||
Resist Cold | 1 | ||
Phantasmal Warrior | 1 | ||
Mirror Image | 1 | ||
Resist Fire | 1 | ||
Quicken Self | 1 | ||
Ice Shield | 1 | ||
Resist Lightning | 1 | ||
Stoneskin | 1 | ||
Armor of Achilles | 1 | ||
Earth Meld | 2 | ||
Cheat Fate | 1 | ||
Weakness | 1 | ||
Enlarge | 2 |
Alteration 3
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Immolation | 2 | ||
Mistform | 2 | ||
Ghost Wolves | 3 | ||
Numbness | 2 | ||
Ironskin | 1 | ||
Luck | 1 | ||
Protection | 1 | ||
Mossbody | 11 |
Alteration 4
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Wind Guide | 2 1 | ||
Liquid Body | 1 | ||
Quickness | 2 | ||
Slow | 2 | ||
Encase in Ice | 2 | ||
Temper Flesh | 1 | ||
Destruction | 3 | ||
Curse of Stones | 3 3 | ||
Body Ethereal | 1 | ||
Stygian Skin | 11 | ||
Elemental Fortitude | 1 | ||
Swarm | 1 1 | ||
Shrink | 2 |
Alteration 5
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Cold Resistance | 3 1 | ||
Incinerate | 3 | ||
Solar Eclipse | 31 1 | ||
Phantasmal Army | 4 1 | ||
Fire Resistance | 3 1 | ||
Bone Melter | 32 | ||
Iron Warriors | 2 | ||
Lightning Resistance | 3 1 | ||
Maws of the Earth | 3 1 | ||
Shatter | 3 | ||
Enfeeble | 2 1 | ||
Invulnerability | 3 | ||
Drain Life | 4 | ||
Wooden Warriors | 2 |
Alteration 6
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Blindness | 1 | ||
Boil | 31 | ||
False Horror | 3 | ||
Frozen Heart | 1 | ||
Wave Warriors | 3 1 | ||
Iron Bane | 3 1 | ||
Petrify | 5 | ||
Control | 3 1 | ||
Battle Fortune | 3 1 | ||
Soul Vortex | 3 | ||
Skeletal Legion | 4 1 | ||
Darkness | 4 4 | ||
Army of Giants | 3 1 |
Alteration 7
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Phoenix Pyre | 2 | ||
Fog Warriors | 5 3 | ||
Prison of Sedna | 3 1 | ||
Marble Warriors | 3 1 | ||
Doom | 4 1 | ||
Bone Grinding | 7 1 | ||
Curse of the Frog Prince | 2 | ||
Creeping Doom | 3 1 | ||
Mass Protection | 3 1 |
Alteration 8
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Conflagration | 2 | ||
Warriors of Muspelheim | 4 2 | ||
Quickening | 2 1 | ||
Liquify | 4 | ||
Warriors of Niefelheim | 4 2 | ||
Ground Army | 4 2 | ||
Will of the Fates | 4 4 | ||
Time Stop | 6 1 | ||
Disintegrate | 2 | ||
Polymorph | 3 2 |
Alteration 9
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Army of Gold | 5 3 | ||
Army of Lead | 5 3 | ||
Arcane Domination | 7 7 | ||
Army of Rats | 7 5 |
Alteration 1
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Distill Gold | 1 1 |
Alteration 2
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Alchemical Transmutation | 1 1 |
Alteration 3
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Inner Sun | 11 1 |
Alteration 4
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Wolven Winter | 3 5 | ||
Blight | 21 5 | ||
Arouse Hunger | 3 8 |
Alteration 5
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Transmute Fire | 2 1 | ||
Baleful Star | 3 7 | ||
Mother Oak | 5 50 |
Alteration 6
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Manifest Vitriol | 21 3 | ||
Earth Gem Alchemy | 2 1 | ||
Iron Pigs | 31 9 | ||
Crumble | 5 20 | ||
Transformation | 2 8 |
Alteration 7
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Phantasmal Attack | 4 8 | ||
Sea of Ice | 6 80 | ||
Iron Walls | 5 10 |
Alteration 8
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Fata Morgana | 7 90 | ||
Wizard's Tower | 4 50 |
Alteration 9
Spell | Paths | Description | Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Wish | 9 100 | ||
Utterdark | 9 100 |