spell name:
DISGUISE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
1		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F		duration:
10 minutes / level		range:
10'		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes applied make-up/disguises to be undetectable as applied make-up/disguises by normal means.

spell name:
SHADOW		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
2		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F		duration:
10 minutes / level		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
10' R/lvl		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes natural shadows to extend and cover more area. If done subtly, this spell is unlikely to be noted, however, in an empty field a shadowed area would likely be noticed.

spell name:
DISTORT		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
3		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
1 minute / level		range:
10'		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Distorts appearance to attackers subtracting 10 from all attacks. This spell may be cast upon objects or people.

spell name:
CONCEAL		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
4		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F		duration:
10 minutes / level		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 object		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes a hidden object to be less noticeable. This translates to -50 to all perception rolls to find hidden object.

spell name:
SKULK		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
5		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
1 minute / level		range:
10'		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Target and possessions are silenced and hidden. This adds +50 to Stalking skill.

spell name:
CLOUD PERCEPTION		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
6		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
M		duration:
1 minute / level		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes target to be preoccupied thereby lowering perceptivity (-30 to perception rolls).

spell name:
SILENCE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
7		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F		duration:
10 minutes / level		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: All sound within a 10' radius of the target is silenced.

spell name:
INFLUENCE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
8		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
M		duration:
-		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes target to be favorably disposed to your point of view if it is not totally alien to him. For example, Councilor Basel influences Councilor Morex, who was previously undecided, to vote Yea on the Regicide Issue.

spell name:
TRACE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
9		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
P*		duration:
1 hour / level		range:
100'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Keeps caster aware of the position of traced object/ being. Information provided consists of direction and distance. If object/being goes out of range, the spell is canceled. Target gets two RRs, if first is missed then trace is in effect, if second is missed target is unaware of trace.

spell name:
RUSE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
10		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F		duration:
-		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes target to believe that a spell has been cast on him. Caster may specify any spell that can be cast upon a person and the Ruse spell will mimic the 'feeling/aura' that the actual spell causes the person to perceive. No real effects will occur. For example Meik the Malevolent is asked to heal Evro the Farmer, who had been injured in a sowing accident, of 10 hits. Meik cast a Ruse spell and, for the duration, Evro believes he has been healed though of course he has not.

spell name:
CONVINCE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
11		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
M		duration:
-		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Caster causes target to change beliefs regarding one topic. Target will continue to hold those beliefs until they are seriously challenged, endanger him, or another convince spell has been cast.

spell name:
TRUST		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
12		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
M		duration:
1 day / 5 failure		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Spell causes target to trust caster fully. Anything totally alien to target will allow an additional RR. However, convincing target to stand against overwhelming odds may not be totally alien to him.

spell name:
SPY		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
13		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
I		duration:
1 minute / level		range:
100'/lvl		area of effect:
1 area		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Allows caster to do one of two things: 1 - Place his perceptions in the location of an active Trace spell. 2 - Place his perceptions in a location within range of his perceptions. For example, caster is watching two men talk in the marketplace but is unable to make out what is said over the noise in his vicinity. He casts this spell and moves his hearing next to the men speaking and can now hear what they are saying.

spell name:
LIE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
14		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
M*		duration:
-		range:
self		area of effect:
self		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Allows caster to tell an undetectable lie, and although the spell itself is detectable, the lie is not. The target will believe the lie until presented with irrefutable proof to the contrary.

spell name:
IMPOSTER		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
15		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
U		duration:
1 minute / level		range:
10'		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Allows caster to perfectly mimic an individual or race-type including personal habits, foibles, quirks, speech patterns, tics, bearing, etc.

spell name:
DISTRACTION		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
16		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
1 round / level		range:
10' R/lvl		area of effect:
10' R/lvl		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes a distraction using materials and situations at hand. For example, in a china shop a good distraction would be breaking china; in the night woods a good distraction would be rustling leaves or bushes. The spell can create distractions but is better at using situational props.

spell name:
MISPERCEPTION		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
17		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
MF		duration:
1 round / level		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 target		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes target to misperceive event. This spell disrupts or changes the stimuli between sensory organ and brain. The spell caster should decide whether the target will see nothing, something different from actual, or a vague, distorted something that he can't name. The spell cannot make obviously incongruous events seem normal, for example, if a house is on fire one cannot be made to see it as if it were normal.

spell name:
MASQUERADE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
18		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
-		range:
-		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes one spell's aura to exactly resemble that of a different spell, e.g., the feeling/aura of a charm spell can be made to seem as if it were a healing spell, thus the recipient of the spell will think he has been healed when he's really been charmed.

spell name:
SUPPRESS		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
19		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
-		range:
-		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes the feeling/aura of a spell to be undetectable. Thus a mage can cast a spell and not have it felt or read by any informational/detection spells. Obvious effects like the fire of a fireball would be detectable.

spell name:
PERVERT		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
20		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
-		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes the target spell (if a RR is missed) cast by another within range to become exactly the opposite of that intended, hence a haste would become a slow, a heal would become a harm, fireball would become an iceball etc. The final say is up to the GM.

spell name:
HIDE SPELL		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
25		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
-		range:
-		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes one spell to be cast within and along with another spell, e.g., a Fireball within a Rune of Healing. The feeling/ aura of the hidden spell will be undetectable beneath that of the overt spell. For example Meik the Healer casts the requested heal spell upon Evro the farmer but along with it he casts a curse of silence.

spell name:
SUBVERT		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
30		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
-		range:
10'/lvl		area of effect:
1 spell		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes the target spell (if a RR is failed) to be changed into the effect of a different spell (caster's option) or simply absorbed as straight PPs.

spell name:
ECLIPSE		list name:
Devious Ways		level:
50		realm:
Arcane		type:
closed arcane		spell class:
F*		duration:
1 round / level		range:
self		area of effect:
self		sourcebook:
spell user's companion
description: Causes all caster's spells to be undetectable. This would allow the caster to cast any number of spells and have all the spell energies remain undetectable. Obvious effects like hand gestures, mouthings, spell components etc. would be detectable.