Healing • Circle 3
Return Your Spirit
6 Power Points Permanent
Spoken Incantation Verbal
"I Draw Upon the Earth to Aid Me and ...Return Your Spirit"
Magic School: Healing
Circle / Rank: Circle 3
Power Cost: 6 Power Points
Duration: Permanent
Granted by Rank Skill: Healing Rank 3
Spell Effects & Mechanics
- This spell will resurrect a character and restore all their Body Points. A substantial portion of the character’s body must be available and the head must be attached; the character’s spirit must be willing to be resurrected. For the Return Spirit spell to work, the caster must be in contact with the body for a full 10 minutes. The Death System must be used to determine whether Return Spirit is successful, and therefore the death must be recorded on the player’s Character Card. Players who cast a Return Spirit spell must use the Power Point tags used in casting the spell to replace any Body Point tags of the target character.
- To cast this spell, you must keep your hand on the target character’s torso for the full 10 minutes. If you are attacked or are forced to run away during the time it takes to cast this spell, then the Power Points are lost and the spell does not work. Out-of-game, you may remove your hand to help the player pick a stone from the resurrection bag, write on Power Point tags, etc.
- Characters restored by Return Spirit suffer the normal consequences of the Death System.
- A character healed by a Return Spirit is restored to the state of health they had when last alive: broken limbs, diseases, amnesia, insanity, intoxication, etc. The Return Spirit spell is not a substitute for any other spell of the Healing school.
- Return Spirit has no effect on an undead. If a character has been turned into a lesser undead and then killed, Return Spirit will not resurrect the character; the player must go to the Healers Guild to be resurrected.
- The difference between this spell and Heal Life is that Return Spirit will work on a body no matter how long the character has been dead, restores the character to full Body Points, and requires use of the death system; Heal Life only works within a limited amount of time, restores the character to 1 Body Point, and does not use the Death System.
Canonical Source: Base Rulebook (3rd Edition) ← Back to All Spells