[Thaumatology] Magical Styles

[Rasmus Wagner]

Here's one that's intended for bad guys in my campign setting:

The Path of Deception

8 points

Style prerequisite: IQ 11+, Magery 1 (can be Single College:Illusion), and the style is only taught by, and to, the Red Witch ratmen.

Among the Red Witches, the study of magic is mandatory, and those who can't keep up, are slain. One of the styles followed is the Path of Deception. Students are first taught basic spells of deception to aid their ratman brothers in battle, and the most talented are then taught techniques of infiltration, to blend into civilized society and weaken it from within.

Required skills: Artist (Illusion), Tactics, Camouflage.
Required Spells: Simple Illusion, Sound, Complex Illusion, Know Illusion.
Perks: Combat Ceremony (any), Limited Energy Reserve, Reduced Footprint (any), Secret Mage.

Optional Traits
Attributes: Improved IQ, Energy Reserve.
Advantages: Cultural Familiarity (Divine Races), Language (any contemporary civilized language), Spell Memorization. Single-Style Magery.
Skills: Fast-Talk, Acting, Stealth, Survival (Urban), Hold-out, Smuggling, Poisons.

Spell List
A student of the Path of Deception must learn all apprentice spells before learning the Deceiver spells, and all Deceiver spells before learning the Infiltrator spells.
Apprentice Spells: Simple Illusion, Sound, Complex Illusion, Know Illusion, Perfect Illusion, Illusion Shell.
Deceiver Spells: Control Illusion, Dispel Illusion, Independence, Silence, Voices, Hush, Darkness, Mage Stealth.
Infiltrator Spells: Illusion Disguise, Imitate Voice, Invisibility.