Arcane
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Arcane is a Intelligence skill.
What it covers
Understand, identify, analyze, decipher, and recall magic — magical theory, enchantments, runes, planes, and arcane creatures; and imbue lasting enchantments into a held item over time at a workspace.
Progression
| Level | Unlock | Feat | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Novice feat choice (pick one) | You can determine whether the magic is beneficial, harmful, or neutral, receiving a general emotional impression (warmth for healing, cold dread for curses, electric excitement for enhancement). Cursed items taste hungry. | |
| By studying magic's effects on matter and flesh, you can identify what type of magic caused the damage, discerning its spell school, damage type, and approximate power level. | |||
| You gain a +2 bonus to the declared Arcane check to break, corrupt, or redirect existing magic. Success doesn't dispel cleanly but causes unpredictable and often spectacular magical failure. | |||
| 3 | Passive bonus | Storm resistance bonus | |
| 4 | Mastery bonus | +1 to Arcane rolls | |
| 6 | Adept feat choice (pick one) | Identify an enemy's spell as it's being cast and shout its weakness to allies, naming the school, the trigger, and how to brace against it. Allies who hear the warning are braced against the named effect: blunted, resisted, or shrugged off. | |
| Automatically sense the presence, location, and nature of all active magical effects within 30 feet. Focus on a specific source to learn its school and likely trigger. | |||
| Touch an afflicted ally and work at the magical effect gripping them. Make an Arcane check against the effect; on a success the knot comes apart and one such mind-affecting magical effect on them ends. Out of combat, touch range, one effect at a time. | |||
| 7 | Passive bonus | Fire resistance bonus | |
| 8 | Mastery bonus | +1 to Arcane rolls | |
| 10 | Expert feat choice | Pool not yet released | |
| 11 | Passive bonus | Frost resistance bonus | |
| 12 | Mastery bonus | +1 to Arcane rolls | |
| 14 | Master feat choice | Pool not yet released | |
| 15 | Passive bonus | Dark resistance bonus | |
| 16 | Mastery bonus | +1 to Arcane rolls | |
| 18 | Legendary feat choice | Pool not yet released | |
| 20 | Mythic feat choice | Pool not yet released | |