[Magic] New IQ/A Spells

[AlexanderHowl]

Originally Posted by Anders

A Healing spell to induce labor would be useful for midwives.

Edit: Here's another one, from the Necromancy college:

Extricate Heart

This spell allows you to remove the heart of an opponent, killing him. Your opponent must be completely helpless - bound, drugged, unconscious, etc. - or the spell fails automatically. The spell takes ten minutes to extricate the heart and the subject is in Terrible Pain the whole time, and dies when the heart is removed. The heart seems to dig itself out of the victim's chest. It is in pristine condition and any ritual that uses it as a material component gets a +1 to the roll.

Casting Time: 1 second
Cost: 5.
Note: This may seem like too powerful for a Least spell, but it's really nothing more than you could with a sharp knife and ten minutes. The bonus is that the heart is in good condition, which may be a requirement for certain rituals.

I do not think that would be an IQ/A spell because it would substitute for high quality Surgery tools, time performing the required Surgery (it only takes 5 seconds, so a caster could cast it on 120 people before the first chest explodes), and a high level of Surgury. To make it an IQ/A spell, I would make the casting time 10 minutes, during which the victim experiences terrible pain and the spell immediately fails if they victim is unrestrained (even a drugged and/or unconscious person would flail around enough due to the pain), make the cost 10 FP, and require the caster to make a Surgery-5 roll to remove the heart intact and undamaged (otherwise, it is shredded by the rib shards as the chest explodes outwards).