Rex's Fire Manual

Spell Name: Lamp Unto My Feet
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: A fist-sized ball of fire and light appears hovering just above the floor in front of me. The fire does not move. The light is as powerful as a lantern.

Limitations: The fire does not move and cannot be expanded in size.

Cost: This is a pretty low-effort spell. As long as I'm just letting it burn, it only requires a bit of energy to keep it burning.

Activation: Quoting Psalm 119:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

Notes: If I scale the fire to burn brighter/hotter, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker.

Spell Name: Confirmation
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I can ask a simple yes/no question and get a feeling of confirmation or denial.

Limitations: This only works if I have enough information about a situation to make an educated decision myself. It seems to work as a quick fact-check, based on everything I know, even things I forgot or did not think were connected to the situation. It is also based on my subjective understanding. I can still be wrong about things especially if I'm given wrong information, I erroneously believe something, or I'm not aware of all the information, but this allows me to be confident in what I know. It's essentially getting a second opinion from someone who has experienced everything I have, allowing me a second analysis of a situation. For example, I can ask if someone is lying, and it might confirm a suspicion I have, but it doesn't mean the person actually is lying, just that I may be picking up on unconscious clues or vaguely remembering something that contradicts the story..

Cost: No more than the effort to verbalize a question.

Activation: I have to pray with intention, asking God a single yes/no question out loud.

Notes: This spell is useless if I don't ask the right questions or if I don't know anything about a situation. It still allows me to make bad decisions. Depending on how little I know about the situation, I'll get mixed feelings or simply no answer at all.

Spell Name: Firebreathing
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: For a period of several minutes, when I breathe out through my mouth I exhale streams of flame.

Limitations: Flames only last as long as I can exhale and only go as far as I can normally blow air.

Cost: Continued use of this spell leads to throat damage, dehydration, and smoke inhalation-related problems.

Activation: Quoting Job 41:21, “His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.”
Notes: Fire seems to burn in my throat and mouth and is visible whenever I open my mouth. I sometimes breathe smoke out through my nostrils.

Spell Name: Warming Touch
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: For several minutes, my hands, or the hands of one I touch, emit a gentle warmth.

Limitations: The warm only travels a few feet, like a hot lamp.

Cost: Very little effort or energy goes into this spell.

Activation: Praying a simple prayer to warm my hands is all it takes.

Notes: The spell loses effectiveness if temperatures get too cold and though it can turn hands into a source of warmth, it doesn't easily thaw genuinely frozen things.

Spell Name: Hear My Voice
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: I can project my voice directly into the ears of a single living creature, as if speaking to them over a headset. My voice sounds like me and is as loud as it would be if I was speaking to them from just a foot away. Only my target can hear me.

Limitations: Target must be in sight of me. Target must have the physical capacity to hear.

Cost: No more effort than it takes to speak, although extended use begins hurting my throat as if I breathed in too much smoke.

Activation: Quoting Isaiah 28:23, “Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.” Anything said after that goes only to my target.

Notes: I must physically say the words, so bystanders will be able to read my lips. Yelling during this spell is a good way to deafen someone. I must end the spell if I wish to speak to anyone else.

Spell Name: I Know Thee By Name
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I can learn the name of a person I don't already know, or learn an additional name of someone I do know.

Limitations: I must be able to see or touch the person. I can only learn names that the person calls themself / identifies with.

Cost: No more than the effort to verbalize a question.

Activation: I quote an excerpt from Exodus 3:13, specifically, "and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?" The pronoun does not have to match the person.

Notes: The person does not need to be alive.

Spell Name: Thy Word In Mine Heart
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I can instantly recall any selection from any version of the Bible that I have ever read.

Limitations: This only works for versions that I have read, even if they're in another language.

Cost: No more than the effort to quote a verse.

Activation: I quote Psalm 119: 11, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." and then speak the verse or selection that I want to remember.

Notes: I don't gain any context or footnotes or anything related to the verses.

Spell Name: Give Me A Word
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I pray for a bit of revelation about my current situation and I receive an applicable verse or selection of text from the Bible.

Limitations: I do not receive insight on how the verse applies to the situation. It could describe some aspect that already happened, is happening, or will happen. It might be literal or metaphorical and it might only give basic information that I already know. It might be specific or vague.

Cost: No more than the effort to make a verbal request.

Activation: I speak a prayer asking for insight and revelation into my situation or a specific target.

Notes: Using this ability again just gives the same verse unless the situation changes to the point the earlier one no longer applies. Otherwise I have to switch targets.

Spell Name: Check Pulse
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I ask in prayer what a person’s pulse rate is.

Limitations: This only works for someone I can currently detect via at least one sense.

Cost: Nothing more than the effort it takes to ask for status.

Activation: Simply asking God to tell me what a person’s pulse is.

Notes: This works on anything with a pulse. Multiple recasts are required in order to detect changes in pulse over time, such as catching someone in a lie.

Spell Name: Ye Shall Not Shout
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: Neutralizes all sound that comes out of a person’s mouth for the next minute, preventing them from speaking, yelling, singing, etc.

Limitations: This only works for someone I can see or touch.

Cost: Nothing more than the effort it takes to quote part of a Bible verse.

Activation: Quoting part of an excerpt from Joshua 6:10, “And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth..."

Notes: Multiple recasts are required to keep the target silenced for longer than a minute, or to silence several people.

Spell Name: Be Not Deceived
School: Asceision
Level: Initium

Effect: I create a small flickering flame in my hand that determines if the person I’m talking to is sincere in what they say or not. The flame dances wildly at a knowing lie or total lack of sincerity in what they say, or stands perfectly still if the person truly means what they say. If the person has mixed feelings or is only somewhat sincere, the flame acts no differently than normal.

Limitations: I must be able to hear the person speaking to me. The spell lasts for a minute and must be recast if I target someone else. This doesn’t determine if what is said is objectively true, but only determines if a person believes what they say.

Cost: Nothing more than the effort it takes to quote a verse.

Activation: Quoting 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”

Notes: The flame can be blown out. The flame comes from casual magic, but larger flames can be made with evocation magic.

Spell Name: Sound Of The Trumpet
School: Evocation
Level: Initium

Effect: I create the sound of a trumpet or horn as if I was actually playing one.

Limitations: I cannot produce any sound I cannot clearly imagine.

Cost: I must have at least one hand free and be able to blow air as if through an actual horn.

Activation: I hold one or both hands up and blow as if I’m actually playing a brass instrument while imagining the sound(s) I want to produce.

Notes: This spell is less effective if I’m out of breath.

Spell Name: Light Unto My Path
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: A fist-sized ball of fire and light appears hovering above the floor in front of me. This provides firelight equivalent to a lantern. With effort I can adjust its height and positioning and even cause it to remain at a fixed point in space relative to me. The light is as powerful as a lantern.

Limitations: I lose control if I make the light go higher than my waist or move it in any direction but in front of me. It might explode or just land on something and start a fire. Or just snuff out. It requires attention in order to make it move, otherwise it just stays in one spot. I fell asleep once with it on and it wasn't there when I woke up. I believe it goes away if I lose consciousness.

Cost: This is a pretty low-effort spell. As long as I'm just letting it burn, it only requires a bit of energy to keep it burning.

Activation: Quoting Psalm 119: 105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

Notes: This is an enhanced and more versatile version of my "Lamp Unto My Feet" spell, allowing me to move the firelight with me. If I scale the fire to burn brighter/hotter, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker.

Spell Name: Burning Bush
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: Generates a bush-like construct of solid fire that burns brightly and hotly.

Limitations: After three or four consecutive uses, incipient heat exhaustion signs began developing. HIGHLY likely that heat stroke is a possibility of extended use. Each recitation is draining. Bush cannot be moved or altered once manifested.

Cost: After three or four consecutive uses, or maintaining a bush for more than half an hour, incipient heat exhaustion signs began developing. HIGHLY likely that heat stroke is a possibility of extended use.

Activation: Quoting a full or partial verse that relates to the burning bush of Exodus, such as Exodus 3:2, “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”

Notes: If I scale the fire to burn brighter/hotter, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker. The bush does not ignite the ground it stands on, nor does it drop any sparks or create any smoke.

Spell Name: Coals Of Fire Kindled
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: A cloud of light forms in front of me and then morphs into seven hovering fist-sized fireballs. With sharp motions of my hands, I can propel them individually or en masse at targets like someone throwing burning rocks.

Limitations: The spell ends if I turn or move away from the fireballs. The fireballs hit with the force of a thrown rock. I need at least one free hand to project the fireballs.

Cost: Summoning the fireballs takes the same physical toll as picking up and throwing fist-sized rocks a good distance.

Activation: Quoting 2 Samuel 22:13, "Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.”

Notes: The fireballs still require me to aim and their trajectory doesn’t alter after I propel them.

Spell Name: Hand Filled With Fire
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: I make a fist as if grabbing a burning coal and a fireball forms around my fist without burning me.

Limitations: The spell lasts until I open my fist or throw the fireball as a projectile. Until then, I cannot hold anything and I cannot touch something without burning it.

Cost: After a few minutes, I begin showing signs of heat exhaustion.

Activation: Quoting an excerpt from Ezekiel 10:2, specifically, “Go in between the wheels.”

Notes: If I scale the fire to burn brighter/hotter, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker. I can choose to apply this spell to only one hand or both.

Spell Name: Shield Of Faith
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: An invisible field of energy in the approximate shape of a heater shield forms on my arm and negates elemental or energy-based attacks that strike it. Whenever energy strikes it, a brief flash of light in the shape of a cross can be seen at the point of contact.

Limitations: While this spell can block fire, energy bolts, many types of nonphysical spell blasts, and even light and sound, it doesn't stop psychic powers, bullets, or fists.

Cost: I must constantly focus at least a little of my attention to keep the shield active. The more attacks the shield absorbs, the more mental stress I take. Too much damage can start causing migraines or force me to give the shield my full attention.

Activation: Quoting from Ephesians 6:16, “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

Notes: I can make the shield bigger or smaller as needed, and can make it a round shield or a dome even.

Spell Name: Be At Rest
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: By suppressing alpha waves and inducing delta and theta waves in the target’s brain, I can rapidly force them into a state of deep, magical sleep for ten minutes, after which they transition to a mundane sleep. My hand glows with red light during this.

Limitations: I must touch a person to put them to sleep. Strong stimuli can temporarily arouse the target from the magical sleep or break the spell if stimulated for over a minute. Extreme stimuli can immediately shatter the spell. Target must have a brain and the capacity for sleep.

Cost: I get a migraine for the next ten minutes.

Activation: Quoting Job 3:17, “There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.” My hand must be on the person the whole time.

Notes: Strong stimulants can dampen the effect of the spell, simply causing drowsiness or lethargy instead.

Spell Name: Fire-Quenching Prayer
School: Evocation
Level: Muetadi

Effect: I can pray over a fire and it will be extinguished.

Limitations: This only works on fire. I must be able to sense and detect the fire.

Cost: Energy drains from me depending on the size of the fire. A simple campfire is effortless, a bonfire is noticeable, a building on fire requires scaling up to Praeditus levels and putting out a house fire will leave me drained and exhausted.

Activation: I pray to God for the flames to be put out.

Notes: The more power I put into the prayer, the faster flames are extinguished. If I’m surrounded in flames, the specific flames I focus on are the ones that are quenched first.

Spell Name: See Fire
School: Asceision
Level: Intermediate

Effect: I see the thermal spectrum instead of the typical sight spectrum, as if looking through a thermal camera.

Limitations: The spell ends if I lose consciousness. I can't distinguish fine details like writing or facial features.

Cost: I lose the ability to see normally as long as the spell is active. My eyes start drying out after five minutes. Otherwise it doesn’t take much energy.

Activation: Quoting the “I saw as it were the appearance of fire” part of Ezekiel 1:27, “And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.”

Notes: Closing my eyes does not impede my sight. I can be blinded by intense heat signatures, like looking into a bright light with regular sight.

Spell Name: Pillar Of Fire
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus (Snapping Spell)

Effect: A personal vortex of red, orange, and yellow flames surround me, yet I'm untouched by them, nor do I feel their heat. Adjacent fires can be snuffed out and absorbed by my greater flame.

Limitations: The flames extend from an inch past my skin and clothes to about a foot beyond my arm's reach and they're constantly swirling and spiraling upward. Each casting of the spell only last 2-3 minutes.

Cost: After three or four consecutive uses, incipient heat exhaustion signs began developing. HIGHLY likely that heat stroke is a possibility of extended use. Each recitation and accompanying beginning or renewal is draining. It seems the fire runs off my stored energy?

Activation: This seems to only happen after I quote a Bible verse related to the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel by night toward the Promised Land. Repeating the same verse each time seems to have diminishing effects. Mixing up the verses has the best effects, or just waiting a long time into between bursts to reuse a verse.

Notes: If I scale the fire to burn hotter, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker.

Spell Name: Sword of the Spirit
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: A sword of pure white light appears in my hand. It is made of pure energy and destroys any spell or psychic ability that it passes through. Constructs or objects remotely controlled by mind or magic have their metaphysical strings cut when slashed by the sword. Leaving the sword buried in a person prevents them from using mental or magical abilities or falling under the influence of magic or mentalism. The sword can shift in size from a shortsword all the way to a greatsword. It has no weight and passes through all physical, non-energy people or objects with no harm, other than a feeling of warmth and tingling in the area impacted.

Limitations: The spell ends if I lose consciousness or if I let go of the sword, meaning I’m limited on anything else I can do with my hands. To destroy an enchantment or the effect of a psychic power, I must physically pass the sword through it. To prevent a person from using magic or a mental power, the sword must be stabbing them. The sword has no bearing on other energy sources such as fire or lightning, and would not be able to dispel a fireball lobbed by a pyrokinetic or a combat wizard.

Cost: The sword may have no physical weight, but its metaphysical cost is the same as the effort taken to swing an actual sword. The longer I manifest the sword and the higher the quantity or quality of spells and psychic powers I cut, the more energy it takes out of me.

Activation: Quoting Hebrews 4:12, "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” If a single word is mispronounced or left out (depending on the language) the spell does not work.

Notes: A construct created by a psychic or magic ability will wink out of existence when cut. An object animated by such a power will no longer be animated.

Spell Name: A Sun And Shield
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: I manifest a round shield of solid fire and blazing sunlight that will burn anyone that touches it, blind anyone that looks in its direction, warm everything around me, light up everything around me, and block anything that strikes it with the toughness of titanium. The shield appears on my arm and can expand in size and even be warped from a convex shield all the way into a dome.

Limitations: Turning the shield into a dome or sphere or expanding its size increases the cost and upkeep of the spell. It also blinds and burns allies who aren’t careful around it.

Cost: After about half an hour, I begin showing signs of heat exhaustion. This happens quicker the more abuse the shield suffers.

Activation: Quoting an excerpt from Psalm 84:11, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield.”

Notes: If I scale the fire to burn brighter/hotter or make it bigger than a standard personal shield, heat exhaustion/stroke symptoms occur far more rapidly and I tire out far quicker. I am immune to the heat and blinding nature of the shield.

Spell Name: Healing Hands
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: I lay my hand on a person and pleasant warmth spreads through their body as healing energy begins healing any and all wounds.

Limitations: The spell has no impact on diseases, genetic defects, or infections, although the healing energy can offset the weariness such things inflict on a person. If broken bones aren’t set correctly or things are left in the wound, they won’t heal correctly. This spell affects the entire person’s body in general and can't be focused on just a single wound.

Cost: The more severe the wounds, the more energy it takes. Minor injuries aren’t too strenuous, severe injuries can be equivalent to an intense full-body workout.

Activation: I lay my hand on the person and quote, Acts 4:28-29, “And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.” Continued prayers for healing also seem to help after the recitation.

Notes: It’s usually better to pace myself, not healing the entirety of wounds all at once, but focusing on stabilizing the person, especially if they have severe or lethal injuries. A slow and steady healing over time is easier to deal with than a rapid near-miraculous healing.

Spell Name: Cut Off Witchcrafts
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: I lay my hand on a person and an uncomfortable heat spreads through their body as they are imbued with disruptive energy that prevents them from channeling, using, being enchanted by, or otherwise having any connection to magic for an hour.

Limitations: I must touch the person in order to lay this curse on them. This has no impact on inanimate objects. Magical items can still be used as long as they require no magic to use.

Cost: This spell takes as much energy out of me as a good, solid workout does.

Activation: I lay my hand on the person and quote Micah 5:12, “And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers.”

Notes: The person feels hot for the duration of the spell. When they start cooling down, they may realize the spell is wearing off.

Spell Name: Right Hand Of Power
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: I build up a store of kinetic force in an inscribed leather glove and release it upon contact with another physical surface. With this, I can shatter concrete with a touch and punch through steel.

Limitations: I must be wearing the inscribed glove to use it. Damage to the glove can ruin the spell and make it work incorrectly or not at all. I can’t get this to work on gloves for left hands.

Cost: The more kinetic force I store, or the quicker I store it, the more energy it takes. Minor kinetic strikes aren’t too strenuous, concrete-and-rebar-busting punches can be equivalent to an intense full-body workout. Forcing too much energy into the glove too quickly or too frequently can start leading to heat exhaustion or burning through the glove.

Activation: I must focus on the glove and channel power into it. Once it’s charged up, touching it to a solid surface is enough to release the force. When the glove is charged, an inscription of Exodus 15:6 (“Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.”) begins glowing with golden-white light. The glow’s intensity increases based on how much energy is in it.

Notes: Once charged, touching ANY solid object will set off the spell, including myself, so I have to be very careful while the glove is charged. As for burnout, It’s usually better to pace myself. A slow and steady power buildup is easier to deal with than an instantaneous charge.

Spell Name: Armor Of Light
School: Evocation
Level: Praeditus

Effect: I generate an inch-thick suit of plate armor constructed out of solid light all around me. The appearance is generically Medieval and shines as bright as a light bulb, so it’s hard to look at it for long anyways. The armor is as tough as steel but light as a feather.

Limitations: Once I manifest the armor, I can’t alter it. I can’t remove the helmet or any other part unless I deactivate the spell. I also can’t strengthen or repair the spell - I must recast it.

Cost: The armor may have no physical weight, but its metaphysical cost is the same as the effort taken to wear actual armor. The longer I manifest the armor and the higher the quantity or quality of damage it takes, the more energy it takes out of me. Damaged armor requires my active concentration to maintain, otherwise the spell will fall apart.

Activation: I hold my arms up in the shape of a cross (and not the letter X).

Notes: The armor is made of light and does not share the physical properties of steel plate (doesn’t conduct energy well at all, for example).