Spellcasting

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The Spellcasting skill determines how proficient a character is at casting spells from memory. A higher Spellcasting level gives your character more spell levels and increases your max MP. It also has a minor effect on your spell power and spell success rate, but increasing skill in a spell's individual magic schools has a greater effect on both attributes.

Note that the max MP increase granted by Spellcasting is not cumulative with that of Invocations; only the highest of the two is used. For this purpose, Spellcasting is twice as effective.

Djinn

The Innate Casting of a Djinni gives Spellcasting a unique purpose: Spellcasting skill does not raise their MP or HP, but instead determines their spell power for all spell schools (equal effect to the other magic schools). While the -3 aptitude seems terrible at first, keep in mind that it counts as double (i.e. an effective +1 aptitude) for dual-school spells, and that every spell you get can run off a single skill.

Aptitudes

At	Ba	Co	DE	Dg	Ds	Dj	Dr	Fe	Fo	Gr	Gh	Gn	Hu	Ko	Mf	Mi	MD	Mu	Na	Op	On	Sp	Te	Tr	Vp	VS
-2	0	-2	3	-2	-1	11	-1	-1	0	-1	-2	8	-1	0	-1	-4	-2	2	-1	-1	1	2	-1	-5	-1	0

• Purple draconians get 1.

History

• Prior to 0.26, Spellcasting lowered your spell hunger.
• Prior to 0.12, this skill had a hidden cost in experience points of +30% XP; all species had their aptitudes adjusted down to account for this.