Wonders of the Hermetic World The Hermetic Projects Using Other Supplements Using this Book Designing Your Own Grand Project Additional Project Ideas Chapter Two The Burning City Why Build in a Volcano? Volcanoes in Mythic Europe The Greek Volcanic Islands Italian Volcanoes Volcanoes in Iceland Affecting Volcanoes with Hermetic Magic Effects to Help Find Volcanoes Volcanic Rock as an Arcane Connection Effects to Create Volcanoes Hazards of Volcanoes Lava Boiling Mud and Water Heat Fumes Eruptions Effects to Protect Characters Effects to Control Volcanoes Colonizing the Volcanic Crater Effects for Buildings New Virtue: Volcanic Minerals Effects to Live in the Volcanic Crater Story Seed: Tophet's Gate Story Seed: Tophet's Gate (cont'd) Story Seed: Vulcan's Forge Effects to Deal with Volcanic Inhabitants Story Seed: Eternal Spirit of Flame Story Seed: Eternal Spirit of Flame (cont'd) Increasing the Lab Total Shape and Material Bonuses Laboratory Customizations Experimentation Chapter Three The Great Tower The Tower of Babel Medieval Buildings Mundane Architecture Construction Techniques Story Seeds for Medieval Buildings Style, Symbolism, and Hidden Messages Selecting the Site Babel: Infernal or Divine? Site Story Seeds Seneca's Folly Gaining Political Backing Building the Tower Designing the Tower Political Story Seeds Covenant Boons and Hooks Workshops De Architectura Fostering an Aura Hermetic Architecture The Presence of Angels, Demons, and the Fair Folk Enchantments Construction Magic The Tower's Environment Tower Environment Story Seeds The Outside World Story Magnitudes Minor Story Seeds Minor Stories: Once Per Year Significant Story Seed: Where Angels Fear to Tread Significant Stories: Once Per Decade Life-Changing Stories: Once Per Generation Cataclysmic Events: Once In A Lifetime Moral Temptation and Fortitude Faerie Stories Faerie Story Seed: Out of the Shadows A Far-off Tower Story Seeds of Moral Temptation Chapter Four The Hermetic Shipyard Medieval Ships and Shipbuilding Ship Damage Ship Sizes and Capacity The Medieval Shipwright Ship Construction Suggested Shipwright Virtues and Abilities Story Seed: Vendetta Centers of Shipbuilding Founding the Shipyard Finding the Location Story Seeds for Finding a Shipyard Location Recruiting and Training a Team Building Out the Laboratory The Resting Place of Noah's Ark Team Training Story Seed: Suspicious Minds Laboratory Story Seeds: Far and Wide More on Laboratories The Hermetic Shipwright The Shipyard as Mundane Workshop Mundane Craftsmen Craft Magic Creo Rituals Shipbuilding Story Seeds Support for Mysteries The Mechanics of Enchantment Building The Hermes Constructing and Preparing the Vessel Story Seeds for Enchanting the Hull Enchanting The Hull Using Ptolemaic Coordinates Aids to Navigation Interaction Between Navigational Effects Into the Wind Outfitting the Ship The Finished Ship Outlandish Vessels Submarine Vessels Ships of the Sky The Art of Binding Story Seed: The Sorcerer's Apprentice Story Seed: The Home of the Winds Sailing the Void Story Seed: The White Whale The Sailor's Grimoire Spells to Aid Sailing Ships Made From Unusual Materials Support from Other Traditions Story Seed: The Ship of the Damned Chapter Five The Intangible Assassin Why Invent These Effects? What is Wizard's War? What is an Intangible Tunnel Effect? Story Seed: The Demon that Stared Back Required Laboratory Totals Tunnel Variants Manipulating the Tunnel Story Seed: Bridge to the Magic Realm Defending Against Intangible Tunnels Wizard's War Tunnel Effects First-Magnitude Effects Second-Magnitude Effects Third-Magnitude Effects Fourth-Magnitude Effects Gathering Connections Blood Story Seed: Foot-Soldiers of the Master Story Seed: School of Assassins Books and Laboratory Texts Story Seed: House of the Assassin Blood Relative Certamen Horoscopes Signature Story Seed: Vandals in the Library Symbolic Representation Increasing the Casting Total Vis A War Party of Magi The Problem of the Aegis of the Hearth Chapter Six The Living Corpse Creating a Living Corpse The Fleshy Vessel Exempli Gratia: Bonding a Ghostly Warder to a Corpse A Living Corpse Using Spells An Innocent Introduction Story Seeds A Living Corpse Using Magical Enchantments Lesser Enchantments: The Walking Centurion Muto Vim Spells and Enchanted Devices Amulets, Phylacteries, and Tefillin Charged Items: The Necromancer's Blades Invested Device: An Orb and a Crown Invested Device: The Necromancer's Grimoire Spells to Make and Shape a Bone Book Cover Story Seeds: In the Graveyard Story Seeds: In the Graveyard (cont'd) A Personal Living Corpse The Third Method On Ghosts and Spirits Rate of Decomposition Magic Realm Living Corpse Darius as a Living Corpse Other Realm Ghosts Life as a Living Corpse Hermetic Interactions Destroying the Enchanted Device Created Corpse Animated Custos A Necromantic Miscellany Creating and Animating Corpses A Walking Colossus Created Revenant Grave Hounds Grave Hound Chapter Seven The Menagerie of Magical Beasts Location and Establishment The Building Site Can I Make a Magic Lore Roll? Story Seed: A Grisly Find The Buildings The Backers Integrating Covenants Livestock Integrating Covenants (cont'd) Insects Finding Magical Creatures Bees, a Preferred Stock Creating Magical Creatures Story Seeds for Finding Magical Creatures Capturing Magical Creatures Optional Grappling Rule Unicorns Transporting and Containing Story Seed: A Curiously Common Bait Feeding Healing Mystical Branding Reproduction Types of Animals Modern vs. Medieval Terminology Original Research: Creating Inheritable Magical Traits Birthing and Weaning Magic Might and Maturity Taming and Training Powers as Tricks Staffing a Menagerie Integrating Lords of Men An Animal-Keeper's Library An Animal-Keeper's Library (cont'd) Story Seed: An Illicit Love Affair Story Seed: Never the Twain Should Meet Hermetic Relations Interactions Reactions Shape & Material Bonuses of Magical Creatures Optional Rules for Breeding Producing Offspring Inherited Traits of Offspring Story Seed: Enchanting a Live Egg

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