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Spells fall into two main skill categories: Wizardry spells and Prayers.
Casting wizardry spells requires spell points and the applicable skill for each spell.
Casting prayers requires grace from a god and the praying skill .

Most spells also belong to a Path ;
and players may be attuned, repelled, or denied a particular path
by their race , class , or god .

Spell details and more information about the skills needed are at the following links.

• Wizardry spells
  • evocation
  • pyromancy
  • sorcery
  • summoning
• Prayers
• Index of all spells
• Spells that are not used by players but by devices

To learn spells, players must posses both the applicable skill - being at least same skill level as the spell,
and the literacy skill .
A characters skill level in literacy must be no less than 10 levels lower than the desired spell
(e.g. a level 20 spell requires at least level 10 literacy to learn).
Blessed spellbooks can be learnt 5 levels earlier than regular books.
Cursed books remove spell points or grace and unlucky players can actually forget a spell.

Characters aren't guaranteed success in learning a spell, rather a character's chance to learn a spell is:

% chance to learn = (base chance + (2 * level))/1.5

Base chance is based on your Intelligence (INT) for wizardry and Wisdom (WIS) for praying .
Each stat point has the following impact on the base learn chance:

- While being blinded, learning a spell will always fail, except for a DM .
- While being confused, learning a spell will always fail, even for a DM.
- Spellbooks received by Character Creation as starting equipment
will not fail to be learnt but will not give experience points points.

Functions:

• Old: apply_spellbook() in server/server/apply.c
• New: spellbook_type_apply() in server/types/spellbook/spellbook.c

• All information retrieved from the archetype files in the SVN repository, or from the Spells section of the main Crossfire site.