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Abjurmancy

Abilities #

Abjurmancers specialize in protecting and safeguarding locations, objects, and people. This is a very broad range, which makes abjurmancy commonplace. However, it has limitations which help keep a consistent definition. Abjurmancy focuses mainly on creating magical barriers that impede the movement, passage, or interaction of physical objects and arcane effects. These barriers may be used to:

Specialized applications of abjurmancy can also be used to alert the caster of the barrier being crossed, or strengthen a physical lock to make it harder to pick, for example. Manifestations of Abjurmancy are often accompanied by pale blue barriers of magic, and occasionally runic symbols to cause them to last a longer period of time. Protection magic may also have accompanying illusory effects to make the safeguards undetectable to those who the magic is being used against. These additional effects add a layer of difficulty to the spell. The larger, more complicated, or more long lasting the protection magic is, the more difficult it is to cast.

Education #

Most abjurmancers learn their magic through formal education and practice. However, there are some self-taught casters who hail from from a city's underbelly, where they have learned to crack this magic to be better thieves.

Detection #

If a spellcaster tries to focus on the flow of magic, they will notice a concentration of archons around the protected area, as a layer. Trained abjurmancers will attempt to make their barriers as thin as possible (decreasing the thickness from a shield to a thin veneer, for example), so they are less perceptible. When these archons are not being concentrated, they flow naturally. Some abjurers speculate that the magic naturally concentrates around valuable objects or important people, in something referred to as "plot armor", but this is just conjecture.

Societal Impact #

Abjurmancers are fairly common, but they are also in fairly high demand. The rich often try to hire abjurmancers to protect their goods. Thieves guilds also seek out less savoury spellcasters to teach them how to avoid or break these spells. Noble abjurmancers may find themselves in lines of work that focus on protecting the innocent.

Notable Practitioners of this Arcane Path #