Cantrips

What are Cantrips?

Cantrips are helpful, daily spells that are as advantageous as they are simple.

Perhaps you've forgotten to fill your lamp with oil and night is fast approaching: simply snap your fingers and watch the flame dance in the palm of your hand.

Or maybe you're surrounded by hungry predators without a weapon or a friend? Spread your arms wide,cast your Will into the stone in your left pocket, and watch the hounds run in fear of what appears to be a giant shadow three stories tall.

Are They Dangerous?

Cantrips are a moderately dangerous discipline that are knowledge based. Many cantrips that seem basic actually require months of studying to make sure they don't overexert the Disciple. If that small little lamp fire in your hand grows to the size of a bonfire and your Will is still attached to it, it's easy to faint from lack of power. You're body would be burnt to a crisp before anyone knew there was something wrong.

Or that shadow that you cast to scare away the dogs, but didn't adequately establish the limits of how far you'd stretch yourself? Soon the whole town is cloaked in a thin fog and your soul is trapped somewhere in the nebulous, unable to be retrieved.

Cantrips are, without a doubt, the most useful of Will applications in everyday life. However, without proper education, they can be just as deadly as Summoning.