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MAGEWRIGHTS form their magic takes. A locksmith can perform
knock as a ritual. But they don’t just snap their
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In Khorvaire, magic is a tool that’s incorporated
tracing patterns around the lock they’re dealing
into many jobs. There are entirely magical
with while murmuring incantations. An oracle
careers, such as the medium or the oracle. But
might work with cards or dice, or study charts of
much of the time, mundane skill and magic are
planar conjunctions. The magewright performs
combined together. A lamplighter can work with
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to create and maintain the everbright lanterns that
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cast lesser restoration, and not every oracle can cast
with a cantrip.
divination—these are general guidelines.
A magewright knows one to four cantrips or
• Chef. Prestidigitation (food only), purify food &
spells. Magewrights don’t use spell slots. Cantrips
drink (ritual), gentle repose (ritual, food only).
can be used casually, but their spells are usually
Familiar with cook’s tools.
cast as rituals—even if the spell doesn’t normally
have the ritual tag. When converting a spell • Healer. 8ZWÅKQMV\ _Q\P 5MLQKQVM IVL
to a magewright ritual, it can have a casting herbalism kits. Spare the dying, detect poison &
time of up to one hour. It’s also common for disease (ritual), lesser restoration (1-hour ritual,
a magewright’s ritual to have an additional 40 gp component cost).
component cost in dragonshards, the fuel of the • Launderer. Mending, prestidigitation; both
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for each level of the ritual, but this is only a basic
• Lamplighter. 4QOP\ KWV\QV]IT ÆIUM (1-hour
guideline. The point is that the limitations on a
ritual, 90 gp component cost); uses tinker’s
magewright are time and money. A locksmith
tools to create and repair lanterns.
can cast more than one arcane lock in a day; but it
takes an hour and 65 gp for each lock they want • Locksmith. Arcane lock (1-hour ritual, 65
to create. gp component cost), knock (ritual, 40 gp
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for magewright spells, you can modify these spells tools and tinker’s tools.
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quite versatile. Prestidigitation can heat or chill component cost). Some mediums use a
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lamplighter and the chef may know prestidigitation, of the deceased. A medium might be
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food, while the lamplighter can only light or with grief—or in Deception.
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• Oracle. Augury (ritual, 65 gp cost); divination
of thaumaturgy that helps project their voice but
(1-hour ritual, 105 gp cost).
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often know a version of guidance that only helps The term magewright [XMKQÅKITTa ZMNMZ[ \W IV
with their particular art. This could also result arcane spellcaster. In religious communities (such
in a magewright having a spell that’s superior to I[ \PW[M QV <PZIVM IL^MV\]ZMZ[ UIa ÅVL LQ^QVM
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focus. An oracle’s version of augury might be able divine caster is called an adept. Divine magic is
to predict outcomes up to a week in advance, a gift instead of a science, and adepts typically
as it’s hard to make a business out of predicting work on behalf of their faith rather than selling
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In dealing with a magewright, think about the
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