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If you use arcane magic, consider how you achieved Attunation, and be sure that you regularly practice maintaining your Attunation. If you do not, your MC may impose detrimental effects to your capability as an Arcane caster.

An arcane caster generally has a physical object on their person that acts as a mental focus for their Attunation. If this object is destroyed, you can recreate it given a week of downtime. This might be a spellbook, gem, crystal, instrument, tool, or some other meaningful or sentimental item.

Arcane magic operates through the intent of the caster directly and not through a proxy. The act of using arcane magic is an attempt to change reality to the benefit of the caster. For example, one caster may prefer their spellbook well-worn, with pages dog eared and bits highlighted, while another prefers a pristine, almost unused quality.

If you are unsure of the effects of a spell or cantrip, consider the caster’s intent. Arcane casters who attempt to use simple tricks to cause great effect or harm, fabricate actual intent disingenuously, (such as the mental trick of convincing oneself they consider a book “fixed” when it is clean, for the purpose of passing off a used book as new) or practice pedantry will likely be blocked from Attunation and the ability to do so, or at the MC’s discretion, may catch the eye of a planar being who thrives on such trickery.

Arcane magic drawn directly from the Fundamental Wellspring is inherently volatile. When you roll a 1 to hit when casting a spell or cantrip, the magic automatically fails and you take [[damage]] equal to its SPC (min 1). This damage immediately ends your turn, and you do not carry over any AP and as such cannot act reactively until the end of your next turn.

If you do not have your Focus when you cast arcane magic, you trigger backlash on a roll of 1 or 2 and take three times the damage (after accounting for your character level, if relevant).

If you crit (see p. 328) on a spell, then you reduce the SPC by 10. If the spell costs fewer than 10 SP, then you expend no SP.

In addition to spells, arcane magic gives you access to cantrips.

'''Cantrip.''' Cantrips cost no SP and you can use them as many times as you wish.

These tags are referenced in various arcane spells and cantrips.

Arcane Power is the total number of talent Points you have spent on arcane talents as a result of leveling up, as well as the number of talent points you have spent in certain classes and class stacks. Each class or stack will inform you if it contributes to arcane power.

If you know a Spell with the Arcane Ritual tag, you may scribe that spell into a book by spending at least one hour doing so. Spells recorded in this way can be cast without expending SP if the SPC does not exceed your maximum SP. This requires the spell’s full casting time + 10 minutes.

You can cast one arcane ritual per day in this way, regardless of how many arcane rituals you know.

Spells with the Fundamental tag can only be dispelled using the Unravel Magic spell from the arcane source.