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• INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  • Publication History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  • About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
• 1. SEVEN SORCEROUS SOCIETIES . . . . . . . . 4
  • Style Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
  • THE FLUIDISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
    • Fluidism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
    • Design Notes: Fluidism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
  • THE GUILD OF IRON MAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
    • Iron Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
    • Design Notes: Iron Magic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
  • THE OLD SCHOOL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    • Underworld Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    • Design Notes: Underworld Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
  • THE ORDER OF THE SUN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
    • Thaumaturgetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
    • Design Notes: Thaumaturgetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
  • THE SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF ECHOES . . . . . . . . . . . 20
    • Way of Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
    • Design Notes: The Way of Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
  • THE TOWER OF PENTACLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
    • Pentaclism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
    • Design Notes: Pentaclism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
  • THE WIZARDS OF THE MIRRORED GAZE . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
    • The Mirrored Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
    • Design Notes: The Mirrored Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
• 2. CHARACTER TEMPLATES. . . . . . . . . . . . 33
  • Fluidist (Blue-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
  • Fatigue Points and Energy Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
  • Iron Mage (Red-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
  • Underworld Mage (Black-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
  • Arcane Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
  • Thaumaturgeticist (Yellow-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
  • Echoist (Green-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
  • Pentaclist (Orange-Robe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
  • Mirror-Mage (White-Robe). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
  • Power-Ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
• INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

The following information appears for each order of wizards:
Group Name: The formal name of the academy, guild,movement, sisterhood, etc.

Nicknames: Less-formal names, at a minimum including one that refers to the color of the group’s ceremonial robes.

Allies and Rivals: Other orders in Dungeon Magic that (if the GM is using them) would plausibly be on especially good or bad terms with the group.

Group Description: A brief summary of who these people are, how others see them, the reasons for alliances and rivalries, and their preferred wizardly regalia. In short, anything outsiders could easily find out about them.

Style Name: The formal name of the group’s magical style.

Style Cost: The cost to buy Magical School Familiarity and put 1 point n each required spell and skill. All styles in this supplement cost 13 points, to keep them on an even footing in campaigns where their adherents might be rivals.

Style Prerequisites: Non-spell prerequisites for the style’s required spells and skills.

Style Description: A detailed write-up of the style itself – how things are taught and why, plus deeper insights into the associated order (which often aren’t public knowledge!).

Required Skills and Spells: Skills and spells that must be bought at the 1-point level to gain access to the style’s advanced teachings.

Perks: Magic Perks available to stylists with Magical School Familiarity and all required skills and spells. Practitioners may buy one such perk per 10 points in the style’s spells. Every 20 points in spells further ntitles them to buy one perk from the style or from whatever list the GM deems “general” (just like other wizards).

Secret Spells: Spells available to stylists who’ve bought the style’s required elements and relevant Secret Spell perks.

Optional Traits: Advantages, disadvantages, skills, etc.that are likely but in no way required for stylists.

Spell List: The style’s spells for the purposes of Magical School Familiarity, Magic Perks, etc. All but secret spells can be learned in play simply by paying points. Alternative prerequisites replace standard ones.
Some differ enough from standard versions to justify a footnote.

Secrets: A secret material is a special “substance” the stylist can prepare if he has the associated Secret Material perk;some such things aren’t matter in the usual sense.
A secret spell is available only to full-fledged stylists who have the relevant Secret Spell perk and the correct prerequisites.

Design Notes: A box on the game-mechanical thinking behind the style.

THE FLUIDISTS
Nicknames: Blue-robes.
Allies: Order of the Sun (pp. 17-20); Sisters and Brothers of Echoes (pp. 20-24).
Rivals: Old School (pp. 13-17).
Fluidism is a thaumaturgical philosophy – “All things are in flux, catalyzed by mana” – and Fluidists are magic-users who subscribe to it.
Their magic concerns flow, freedom of movement, and constant change.
It encompasses water and air, refuting the classical view of these things as distinct “elements” and eschewing spells that deal with boringly static manifestations such as ice and sludgy poisonous gas (except to remove such crud).
Similar thinking is evident in blue-robes’ social views. Unified by a shared rejection of structure, they are about as loosely organized as a magical society can be without losing its identity, and stand willing to teach anything to anyone, “an it harm none.”
This movement attracts youthful magic-workers, particularly radical ones.
The blue-robes’ indifference to authority puts them on excellent terms with the Order of the Sun (pp. 17- 20), while their philosophical ideals stand them in good stead with the Sisters and Brothers of Echoes (pp. 20-24) – a situation that has led to an informal alliance centered on the Fluidists.
However, their dynamism and open-mindedness are at odds with the static, conservative views of the Old School (pp. 13-17).
While most blue-robes are satisfied with merely accusing the black-robes of being “a fossilized old-boys’ club,” enough of them actively seek to reveal the Old School as evil that a genuine enmity festers.
Fluidists favor blue robes, mostly as symbols of clear skies and ever-changing oceans.
They also adore wands and flowing garb, as these accessories emphasize fluid gestures.
They prefer jade for power items (Powerstones, in a campaign that doesn’t use GURPS Dungeon Fantasy), and especially prize blue jadeite and bits of jade found in rivers.

Style Prerequisite: Magery 1 (not One College Only).

　While Fluidists aren’t fond of formality, they take philosophy seriously.
A blue-robe will teach spells to almost anybody who has sufficient magical aptitude . . . but only after ensuring that the junior mage has internalized the movement’s worldview.
The teacher-student relationship isn’t the “master-and-apprentice” arrangement favored by guilds, but the “guide-and-seeker” model common among mystics.
Early lessons impart the basics of thaumatology and the particulars of Fluidist thaumatology, which emphasizes magic’s place in nature (especially in the skies and oceans) and a wizard’s innate responsibilities as a tutor.

　Once the mentor is satisfied with his disciple’s philosophical growth, he passes along the key spells behind the rest of
the style’s magic, so that the learner isn’t straitjacketed later in his career.
After that, the sky’s the limit – often literally!
If the teacher knows a spell, the student is welcome to learn it.
Fluidist magic strives to keep prerequisite spells to the bare minimum that wizardry’s innate structure requires; they’re often inevitable, but they’re never intentional hurdles placed by snooty archmages or keepers of secrets.

　Fluidists consider it the instructor’s moral obligation to give lessons in any physical disciplines required to use magic safely.
Details vary by spell (e.g., the Aerobatics and Flight skills normally accompany the Flight spell).
As a consequence, bluerobes are on average more graceful than most wizards.
Some wholeheartedly embrace this element of their training, becoming adept at dance, prestidigitation, and other performance arts, and often claiming that this makes them better magicusers.
Such individuals are common enough to give blue-robes a reputation as “carnies” (and occasionally as tricksters and thieves) in certain areas.

　As Fluidists develop their art, they’re encouraged to dabble and improvise, to work magic flexibly and intuitively rather than by rote, and to weave casting into everyday tasks.
Many come to master magical “flow,” perfecting tricks like shaping jets and areas of effect in bizarre ways, and causing ritual garments to blend seamlessly with magical effects instead of being harmed by them.
Those who go adventuring often become adept at defending against magical attacks and beefing up the style’s offensive spells (“Fluid melts aside/Yet winds tear, waves crash”).
This frequently extends to using names that shift with winds and tides, blunting the power of True Name-seeking curses; Obscure True Name is common.

　Although Fluidism cares little for magical paraphernalia and materials, many Fluidists grow fascinated with magical fluids, and pursue ways to imbue ordinary liquids with the effects of their spells.
Some learn to brew alkahest (GURPS Magic, p. 220); a few master the trick of producing Essential Fluid.
This last accomplishment requires a Secret Material perk not because it’s kept hush-hush, but to represent the time and effort needed to master the slippery stuff.
Indeed, Fluidism has no deliberate secrets – merely a few spells and methods that make no sense to other schools of magic!
Cynics like to point out that secrecy through obscurity is still secrecy, however.

　Required Skills: Philosophy (Fluidism); Teaching; Thaumatology; Weather Sense; and any two of Acrobatics, Aerobatics, Aquabatics, Body Sense, Flight, or Swimming.

　Required Spells: Apportation; Create Fluid; Haste; Purify Fluid; Seek Fluid; Shape Fluid.

　Perks: Area Spell Mastery (any Area spell on list); Blocking Spell Mastery (Flow); Continuous Ritual (any spell on list);
Convenience Casting (Create Fluid); Fast Casting (any spell on list); Flexible Ritual (any spell on list); Improvised Magic (Fluidism); Intuitive Cantrip (Eye of the Storm, Filter, Mystic Gesture, or Rinse); Mighty Spell (Concussion or Winged Knife);
Missile Spell Mastery (Concussion); Mundane Magic (Apportation or Shape Fluid as Filch, Pickpocket, or Sleight of Hand);
No Gestures (any spell on list); No Incantations (any spell on list); Obscure True Name; Psychic Guidance (Concussion or Winged Knife); Rote Alchemy (Alkahest, Flight, Speed, Water Breathing, or Water-Walking); Secret Material (Essential Fluid); Secret Spell (Dissipate, Flow, or Infiltrate); Spell Hardiness 1-6 (any damaging spell on list); Spell Resistance (any Resisted spell on list); Spell Variation (Fluid Jet); Thaumatological Doublespeak; Wizardly Dabbler* ; Wizardly Garb.

　Secret Spells: Dissipate; Flow; Infiltrate.

　* Fluidists can and often do select spells from outside their spell list, favorites being Climbing, Detect Magic, Find Direction, Scryguard, Shield, Simple Illusion, and Sound.

ssential Fluid isn’t the product of a polymorphic replacement for the Essential Air and Essential Water spells, but a creation described as “fluid without material identity.”
Preparation begins with a Fluidist who knows the Secret Material (Essential Fluid) perk casting Essential Water to conjure up a one-gallon lot.

Immediately afterward, the same wizard must dedicate one workday to bubbling magical energy through the liquid.
This process requires a roll against the lower of Thaumatology or Essential Air, at -3. Success produces Essential Fluid, while any failure dissipates the sample, wasting the effort.

The resulting gallon of Essential Fluid weighs 8 lbs.

It tends to flow uphill, fountain from unsealed containers, and otherwise behave in unintuitive ways. Thus, it has to be carried in a closed jug, wineskin, or other vessel, which has its own weight.

To use Essential Fluid, the blue-robe opens its container (a Ready maneuver) and lets it escape.

A second later, he begins a spell, weaving the silvery stream into his gestures (which are always required to benefit from the material).

Immediately before he rolls for the spell, he must roll against DX – or Sleight of Hand, if better.

Success supplies the spell with energy points equal to margin of success (minimum 1 point), which are always consumed before energy from other sources.

Any failure causes the spell to fail.

Either way, the attempt expends the Essential Fluid. Only one batch of Essential Fluid can be used per casting.

Essential Fluid instantly loses its magical energy if mixed with other liquids – wine, stomach contents, the ocean, or even other batches of Essential Fluid created by the same wizard.

Its power also runs out if it’s separated from a mage’s person (any kind of Magery will do) for more than a minute.

Most users carry around one-gallon “doses” in skins, which can serve as pillows when resting.

Only magic-users who have the Secret Material (Essential Fluid) perk can employ the stuff, limiting use to advanced Fluidists.

A blue-robe who’s loaded down with it might give some away, but the order is philosophically opposed to selling it.

Essential Fluid is safe to drink, though it isn’t water anymore and won’t quench thirst.

It’s an amusing addition to cocktails, however!

　As befits Fluidism, this spell list is less “hierarchical” than the standard one, its fewer prerequisites allowing wizards to learn powerful spells quickly.
This is accomplished in part by merging nine pairs of classic Air and Water spells into nine spells that Fluidists term polymorphic: Body of Fluid, Create Fluid, Earth to Fluid, Fluid Jet, Fluid Vision, Purify Fluid, Seek Fluid, Shape Fluid, and Walk on Fluid. Each can be cast in two ways.
The wizard’s player must declare whether he’s replacing the word “Fluid” with “Air” or “Water” when he starts casting, after which the magic has the usual casting time, energy cost, duration, effects, etc. of the standard spell with that name.
The catch is that these double-duty spells are Very Hard, meaning that Fluidists function at an effective -1 to IQ+Magery when working much of their most fundamental magic.

　When learning non-Fluidist magic, a polymorphic spell can stand in as either an Air spell or a Water spell for prerequisite
purposes, and can fill the slot of both of the spells it replaces if specific prerequisites are named. However, it still counts as only one spell.
For instance, Shape Fluid replaces Shape Air and Shape Water for spells that depend on either, and can count as an Air spell or a Water spell – but for a spell that requires “four Air spells and four Water spells,” it would count just once, leaving the need for seven other spells.

　Fluidists have yet to merge Essential Air with Essential Water, or to discover unified rituals for dealing with air and water elementals.
Coming up with polymorphic solutions to these puzzles is an important goal for the movement.
Cutting such a knot would be a reasonable Obsession for a high-powered blue-robe PC.

Secret Spell: Dissipate (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT
　Causes any subject made mostly of water or air to lose structural integrity, melting to goo (if mainly water) or diffusing (if gaseous). Living beings that require water (humans, elves, tigers, trees, fungi, etc.) are definitely affected, as are flesh golems, air and water elementals, and rotting undead.
Creatures of earth, fire, or metal definitely aren’t; neither are immaterial spirits. The GM settles corner cases; e.g., he might rule that robots made of “wet nanotech” or “liquid metal” are affected, while classic metal men aren’t.

　Dissipate amounts to a death spell on anyone it affects.
However, Remove Curse can reverse it if the victim’s goo or vapor is collected first (tiny traces excepted). Shape Fluid is valuable here.

Duration: Permanent, unless reversed by Remove Curse.
Cost: 12. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 2 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Body of Fluid, Earth to Fluid, and Secret Spell (Dissipate).