Contents · Magic - Hermetic Projects

I. Wonders of the		The Heart That		Designing the Tower 35
		Could Move Stone18		Rate of Progress36
Hermetic World	6	Tower of Lava19		Workshops 37
The Hermetic Projects 6		Solidity of Stone19		Damage and Disrepair38
Using this Book 7		Effects to Live in		Fostering an Aura 38
Designing Your Own		the Volcanic Crater 19		The Presence of Angels,
Grand Project 7		Sculpt the Stone Machine19		Demons, and the Fair Folk39
Additional Project Ideas 8		Stone Harvester19		Enchantments 39
		The Thermal Bath		Construction Magic 39
II. The Burning City	9	of Good Humor22		Conjuring the Great Tower39
		Well Ever-full23		Heights of the Great Tower40
Why Build Volca no? 9 in a		Effects to Deal with		The Quarryman's Gift of (Stone)40
Volca noes in Mythic Europe 9		Volcanic Inhabitants 24		The Arms of Hercules40
The Greek Volcanic Islands 9		Basalt Cage24		True Falsework40
Italian Volcanoes 10		Commune with the Fire Soul25		The Stonemason's Art41
Volcanoes in Iceland 11		Ring of Protection Against		The Laborer's Rest41
Affecting Volcanoes		Magical Creatures of Fire25		The Water Wheel41
with Hermetic Magic 12		Sense the Hearts of Fire25		The Flying Buttress41
Effects to Help Find Volcanoes12		Sublimation of Flame26		The Tower's Environment 42
Scent of Ash12		The Entrapped Flame26		The Traveling Laboratory42
Scribe of All That I Can See12		Increasing the Lab Total 26		Wall Crawler42
Trail of Ember13		Shape and Material Bonuses 26		The Distant Council Chamber43
Vulcan's Glass13		Laboratory Customizations 26		Gargoyles and Grotesques44
Effects to Create Volcanoes 13		Features26		Capture the Wind45
Tear the Earth Asunder13		Dormant Volcano27		The Waterfall45
Awaken Sleeping Giant!13		Active Volcano27		The Endless Well45
Hazards of Volca noes 13		Mineral Bath27		Gardens and Orchards46
Lava 14		Volcanic Spirit Forge27		The Outside World 46
Boiling Mud and Water 14		Hell Portal27		Window on the World46
Heat 14		Experimentation 27		Story Magnitudes 47
Fumes 14				Minor Stories: Once Per Year 48
Eruptions 14		III. The Great Tower	29	Hermetic Visitors48
Effects to Protect Characters 14				Accidents49
Pitch Brush14		The Tower of Babel 29		Mundane Stories49
Cloven Hoofed Boots15		Medieval Buildings 30		Significant Stories:
Steed of Vesuvius15		Mundane Architecture 30		Once Per Decade 49
Dragon's Blood15		Construction Techniques 31		Beasts49
Covenant of the Dragon15		Raw Materials31		Crisis in the Region49
Fumarole Mask16		Falsework31		The Warping of the Tower49
Effects to Control Volcanoes 16		Craftsmen and Artists31		Life-Changing Stories:
Creeping Earth16		Style, Symbolism,		Once Per Generation 49
Flame Tongue16		and Hidden Messages 32		Hermetic Influence50
Scorn of Aphrodite's Tears16		Laying the Founda tions 32		The Tower Looking Inwards50
Vulcan's Warning Bell16		Selecting the Site 32		Cataclysmic Events:
Colonizing the Volca nic Crater 17		The Ruins of Babel32		Once In A Lifetime 50
Effects for Buildings 17		High in the Mountains33		Angelic Influence50
Cold Marble Slab17		A Secluded Island34		The End of the Tower51
Fumarole Vent17		Regiones and the Magic Realm34		Moral Temptation
Repulsion of Earth18		A Symbol of Mundane Power34		and Fortitude 51
Seed of Earth18		Gaining Political Backing 34		Faerie Stories 51
		Building the Tower 35		A Far-off Tower 51

IV. The Hermetic Shipyard 53	Travel to the Magic Realm74	Licking the Blade87
	The Sailor's Grimoire 74	Division According to Blood88
Medieval Ships and Shipbuilding 53	Spells to Aid Sailing 74	Breath of the Glassworker88
The Medieval Shipwright 55	Sail With the Tide74	The Shattered Goblet88
Ship Construction 55 Centers of Shipbuilding 56	Lifting the Storm74	The Thirsty Dagger88
	Ships Made From	Miniaturist of Venice89
Founding the Shipyard 56 Finding the Location 56	Unusual Materials 74	Crystal Rain89
A Season's Inning56	The Houseboat74	Glass Broom89
Follow the Route I Command57	The Sandship75	The Prodigal Returns90
A Mightier Channel57	Support from Other Trad itions 75	Books and Laboratory Texts 90
Remote Shipyards 57		Pages of the Unfinished Story90
The Distant Slipway58	V. The Intangible Assassin	Blood Relative 91 77
The Distant Drydock59	Why Invent These Effects? 77	Blood of My Enemy91
Recruiting and Training a Team59	What is Wizard's War? 77	Certamen 91
Building Out the Laboratory 59	Tunnel Spells 78	Wizard's Breath Stolen91
Establish the Basic Laboratory60	What is an Intangible	Horoscopes 91
Equipping the Shipyard60	Tunnel Effect? 78	Convergence of Birth91
Improving the	Tunnel Variants 80	Convergence of Place92
Working Conditions61	The Minute of Reckoning80	Simulacrum of the Spheres92
Setting the Focus61	The Cursèd Day80	Names 93
Tools of the Trade61	Wizard's Siege80	Signature 93 Dance of the Spidery Ink93
Adding the Gallery62	The Evil Eye80	Symbolic Representation 93
The Hermetic Shipwright 62	The Master's Message81	Mirror of the Frozen Scene93
Mundane Craftsmen 63	Manipulating the Tunnel 81	Increasing the Casting Total 93
Craft Magic 63	Arcane Seal81	Vis 93
The Hands of Phereclus63	Break the Siege81	A War Party of Magi 94
The Unseen Shipwright64	Defending Against	The Problem of the
The Conscientious Carpenter64	Intangible Tunnels 82	Aegis of the Hearth 94
Creo Rituals 64	Assassin's Bell82	Absent Mind of the Scholar94
Conjuration of the	Listen to the Bells83	Guttering of the Home-Fires94
Seaworthy Cog65	Eyes for the Lurking Assassin83	Removing the Hearth's Keystone94
Reparation of the	Flesh Crawls at the
Wounded Vessel65	Intangible Touch83
Running Repairs65	See the Light of Magic83	VI. The Living Corpse
The Mechanics of	Wizard's War Tunnel Effects 83	Creating a Living Corpse 96
Enchantment 65	First-Magnitude Effects 83	A Living Corpse Using Spells 97
Enchanted Items that	Sense of the Lodestone84	Imprison a Ghost in a Vessel97
Act Upon the Ship67	Befuddled Speaker84	Animate the Slumbering Corpse97
Building The Hermes 67	Searing Touch84	Passing the Reins of Corpus97
Constructing and	Chill Touch of Exposure84	A Living Corpse Using
Preparing the Vessel 67	Fingers for Eyes84	Magical Enchantments 98
Enchanting The Hull 68	Breath of the Sleeper84	Lesser Enchantments:
Shape of the Coastal Buss68	Nails of Iron84	The Walking Centurion98
Magical Ballast68 Aids to Navigation 69	Second-Magnitude Effects 84	Charged Items:
The Unerring Navigator69	Sulfurous Membrane84	The Necromancer's Blades100
Follow the Coast69	Claw of the Gladiator85	Invested Device:
Into the Wind 70	Close the Black Gate85	An Orb and a Crown101
The Tillerman70	Snatched Voice85 Slap of Absent Magic85	Invested Device: The Necromancer's Grimoire102
Man the Sails70	Touch of Falling Feathers85	Invested Device: The Lesser
Outfitting the Ship 70	Break the Shield85	Necromantic Manuals104
Gather the Wind70	Third-Magnitude Effects 85	Talismans104
Cutting the Waves71	Trap of Amber85	A Personal Living Corpse 106
The Ship's Hearth71	Curse of the Blasted Heath86	The Living Corpse 107
False Fire71	Fading Star of Evening86	On Ghosts and Spirits 107
The Finished Ship 71	Fourth-Magnitude Effects 86	The Type of Ghost
Outlandish Vessels 71	Lungs of Drowning86	a Spirit Becomes107
Submarine Vessels 71	Face of Molded Clay86	Magic Realm Living Corpse 108
Poseidon's Chariot72	Fist of Crippling86	Magic Might108
The Mermaid's Kiss72	Kiss of Aging86	Virtues and Flaws109
Catching the Tidal Winds72	Paralysis of The Gift86	Characteristics109
Ships of the Sky 73	Gathering Connections 86	Abilities110
The Sky is My Ocean73	Blood 86	Magical Qualities
Sailing the Void 73	Eyes of the Hawk87	and Inferiorities111

	Licking the Blade87
	Division According to Blood88
	Breath of the Glassworker88
	The Shattered Goblet88
	The Thirsty Dagger88
	Miniaturist of Venice89
	Crystal Rain89
	Glass Broom89
	The Prodigal Returns90
	Books and Laboratory Texts 90
	Pages of the Unfinished Story90
	Blood Relative 91
	Blood of My Enemy91
	Certamen 91
	Wizard's Breath Stolen91
	Horoscopes 91
	Convergence of Birth91
	Convergence of Place92
	Simulacrum of the Spheres92
	Names 93
	Signature 93
	Dance of the Spidery Ink93
	Symbolic Representation 93
	Mirror of the Frozen Scene93
Increasing the Casting Total 93
	Vis 93
	A War Party of Magi 94
The Problem of the
	Aegis of the Hearth 94
	Absent Mind of the Scholar94
	Guttering of the Home-Fires94
	Removing the Hearth's Keystone94

VI. The Living Corpse 96

Creating a Living Corpse 96
A Living Corpse Using Spells 97
Imprison a Ghost in a Vessel97
Animate the Slumbering Corpse97
Passing the Reins of Corpus97
A Living Corpse Using
Magical Enchantments 98
Lesser Enchantments:
The Walking Centurion98
Charged Items:
The Necromancer's Blades100
Invested Device:
An Orb and a Crown101
Invested Device:
The Necromancer's Grimoire102
Invested Device: The Lesser
Necromantic Manuals104
Talismans104
A Personal Living Corpse 106
The Living Corpse 107
On Ghosts and Spirits 107
The Type of Ghost
a Spirit Becomes107
Magic Realm Living Corpse 108
Magic Might108
Virtues and Flaws109
Characteristics109
Abilities110
Magical Qualities

Personality Traits111
Other Realm Ghosts 111
Divine Ghosts111
Infernal Ghosts112
Faerie Ghosts112
Life as a Living Corpse 113
Advantages114
Disadvantages114
A Necromantic Miscellany 115
Creating and
Animating Corpses 115
Create a Human Corpse116
Create a Dead Turb116
Control the Dead Turb116
Conjure a Dead Army116
Control the Dead Army116
Conjure the Horde of the Dead116
Control the Dead Army117
Conjure the Walking Dead117
Conjure the Colossus117

Awaken the Colossus117
Grave Hounds 118
The Collar of Charon118
The Wand of Commanding
Charon's Pack118

VII. The Menagerie
ofMagical Beasts	119
Loca Establishment 119 tion and
Surveying the Lands for Magic 120
The Building Site 120
The Wand to Produce
a Forest Overnight121
The Buildings 121
Conjure the Mighty Barn122
The Backers 122
Livestock 123
Finding Magical Creatures 124 The Chorus of the
Distressed Hare125
Creating Magical Creatures 126
Conjuring the Magical Wolf126
Fashion the Ancient Worm127
Capturing Magical Creatures. 127 A Ring to Approach
Animals Undetected128
A Net of Immobilization128
Trap of the Humane Hunter128
Transporting and Containing128
The Saddle of Settling
the Wild Stallion129
Instantaneous Transportation

of the Captured Beast129
The Staff of
Convenient Shipping129
Feeding 129
Healing 130
The Breath of Life Returned130
Common Creature Diseases130
Mystical Branding 130
The Brand of Ownership130
The Brand of the
Aroused Stallion131
The Brand to Ward off Rustlers 131
Reproduction 131
Breeding in the Menagerie132
Breeding Strategies132
Horn of Hearing the
Cow Laden with Child134
Birthing and Weaning 134
Ease of Birthing134
Taming and Training 135
Staffing a Menagerie 135
Hermetic Relations 138
Interactions 138
Reactions 138
Optional Rules for Breeding 140
Producing Offspring 140
Inherited Traits of Offspring 141