Grimore of Open Sourcery

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Version 0.0.6

Editors Notes: Several spells have been prepared as master (half-cast) versions. Lines marked in bold are used in the master version and the original. Lines marked in Italics are only used in the master version.

Version Notes: Added Ice Storm.

Mage Spells

Mage Bolt

Tall green tree and dirt below
Waves that crash and things that flow
Burnt wood crack and fire spout
Airy gust and thunder shout

Elements so called and raised
Bless this stone to never graze
With your power and your might
Make this throw a lethal strike.

Death-stone held, a mighty thing
Strong enough to end a being
In my hand be still and wait
When released you’ll end their fate.

I, {Caster} invoke Mage Bolt.

Mending

All you’ve broken, shall be fixed.
Bent and fractured, mend and knit
Steel and Leather, Wood and Iron
Each shall bow before my power.

Repeat 4 more times

Repeat 2 more times

I, {Caster} invoke Mending

Detect Traps

Cunning fall and hidden snare
spike lined pit and poisoned air
show yourself and call to me
let my steps be blunder free.

Repeat 3 more times

I invoke Detect Traps!

Burning Hands

You, a spark so small and frail,
Draw in might without compare.
Smolder, smoke and turn alight,
Crackle, burn and soul ignite

You, a tiny fickle flame,
In my aura be sustained
With my breath, rise and grow.
In my palms, burning glow.

Heat and raze, scorch and burn.
Smoke and fire, bind your turn.
Crackle-flame, now burning bright
Blazing fire, magic might

Mana form and power raise
Hands bore out, and now a blaze
Born in fire, sun at noon
Dancing flame will spell their doom.

I {Caster} invoke burning hands!

Comprehend Languages

Secrets written and stories told
Lore once fresh now grows old
Words are spoke, written down
wisdom lost and turned around

We forget our mother's tongue
Heads get muddied, full of dung
Meaning mixed and poems lost
Years and time have such great cost.

But in these letters, there's meaning still
Forget the words and talk we will
Words and letters, lost with age
Reveal your wisdom on this page.

I {Caster} invoke Comprehend Languages

Lightning Bolt

Oh great North Wind, cold and strong,
Bearing Winter, old and long
Head you child’s beck and call
Answer now this thunderous song.

Oh great East wind, Mountain blown
Through the trees quake and moan
Heed your child’s Beck and call
Answer now this Thunderous song

Oh great South wind, Bold and warm
Tropic tempests, Surging storms
Heed your child’s Beck and Call
Answer now this thunderous song.

Oh great west wind, Who stirs the sea
Rouse your waves, Hear my pleas
Head your child’s beck and call
Answer now this thunderous song.

All you great winds, gathered round
Bring in darkness – thunder: sound
Summon Thunder, lightning crack
Rolling darkness, sky: turn black
Arching power, roaring clouds
Breaking thunder, make them bow!

Shocking power well foretold,

I, {Caster} Invoke Lightning Bolt!

Hold Portal

Grounding deep and rooting strong
growing fast with power drawn
bearing stone and weight and load
stay ye still now portal close.

A lock of air and will it clasped
their riddled minds in logic trapped.
This line of power, through air and ground
will keep this fortress whole and sound.

A ward of Fire's raised baking heat
burn their flesh and force retreat.
A hand when scorched will draw away
Fire's burn will make them pay.

Water's tides shall keep at bay
slow and catch what's rained this way
with supple blue and yielding strength
water's ward will stay some length

I {caster} Invoke Hold Portal!

Dispel Magic

Counter twist and pull apart
Drafted mana spun with art,
A yarn of power, roving, willed
Of ill-intent is often pilled.

Magic forged and tempered spells
Quenched in hatred often fail.
Brittle power, Hard and sharp
Now you crack and fall apart.

Will dries up, and parched it bolts
Magic sheds, and crinkled, molts.
Fires smolder, cough and smoke
This enchantment shall be broke.

Repeat

I {Caster}, invoke Dispel Magic

Pouch

First, take breath and listen.
Ground and center true
Send your roots dark and deep
and bind them in like glue

These roots that hold and base me
Grow warm in her embrace
the molten core of star-death
still turning in it's place.

My root grows tall and upward
my base is strong and full
a core of power bidden
for magic is my tool

Dappled moon and starlight,
that basks and bathes my skin,
Your swirling power beckons,
with each breath I call you in.

Fiery sun, who breaks the day,
You hold us from the vast
We dance around your greatness
lend power to this task.

Ocean’s pull still moonward
In flowing ebbing waves
move my heart-blood further
And fill me with your grace.

Loamy rot and punk wood
In fugal darkness spread
Your eating roots consume us.
You’re nourishment in death.

Willful wind, and fleeting thought
In breath I draw you in
With blade and nock and sharpened rock
With spindle we’ll begin.

Mana, force and power
all words for aether's strings
the bonds of life between us
that attraction always brings

These cords which run between us
Can twisted hold some weight
like as fabric tightly woven and
stitched into it's place.

To craft a spell is willful
To hold a twist so strong
For mana flows like water
and won't be held for long

So for this act of weaving,
We'll need a double ply
Grounding from our dark roots
and power from the sky.

Twisting down and moon-wise
With rooting power set
in soil with all the dead ones
Who's names we still forget.

Pulled taunt and spinning sun-ward
Drawing sweetness from the stars
The fiery pulse of sunlight
Still burning in our hearts

Twist and pull together
Each power hold and bay
All fibers being woven
Betwixt each other stay.

With weight we warp each thread now
Plucked taunt each silver strand
Vibrations ring and wave now
Stay fabric wove by hand.

Between this runs a new weft
Of temperance, earth and will
In salt and soil and moss and oil
In darkness cold and still.

Enchanted be and stay complete
A pouch of perfect will.

I {caster} Invoke Pouch

Ice Storm

100 / 200 Syllables

Icy wind, of winter's heart, Heed this spell, your chill impart. Let it flow with polar might, To Freeze my foes and end the fight.

Let them shiver, tremble, quake Let the frostbite permeate.

Rime-frost sparkle, cold embrace Arctic night and dark of space. Freezing snow: heap and mound, Crystals: set, and ice: surround.

Frost and snow, my force to wield, Encase my foes, entrap and seal. No escape from icy tomb Glacial walls shall cause your doom.

I {caster} invoke ICE STORM!

Stoneskin / Steelskin

200 /500 Syllables (Repeat once for Stoneskin, Repeat four times for Steelskin)

Bedrock held of solid stone
Unmoving rock of mountain home
Push the land at glacier’s pace,
Repelling rain and snow and hate.

Granite power of fire born
Obsid-yan flakes to ward off scorn
Sandstone forged as land repeats
Limestone made of forgotten sea

Skin protects ‘gainst chill and rain
Stone shall guard ‘gainst hurt and pain
Cobbled stone encased and shield
A guard of rock that never yields.

As earthbound stone holds still an age,
So called art thee to protect this sage.

I {caster} Invoke Stoneskin!

Incinerate

All Fire’s born in starlight
Through gravity pulled and held
Pressure built so strong and hot
All elements fuse and meld.

Feel burning through your feet now
Sun’s fire roars beneath, with
Boiling rock, who’s blisters pop
To make mountains raised by heat.

This swirling ball of iron
from pressure molten still
From star’s untold and eon’s old
A model for this spell.

Born in this ring of earth now
Flows rising whipping air
To hold and spin and draw it in
To feed this fire’s lair

Water, come now bidden
Quench this magma’s shell
Give it space, but keep me safe
This home where fire’s dwell

Spindle twirl fast now,
Block stay locked and well
Bow rolls back and forth now
Smokes smolder brought by spell

Sulfur, potash, brimstone
Charcoal, tar and pitch
Kindle fire, smoke and power
Breathe and grow and lick

Heat and rayze, scorch and burn.
Smoke and fire, bind your turn.
Crackle-flame, now burning bright
Blazing fire, magic might

Fire summoned, listen
Blister not, just burn.
When you’re released your soul will feast
Bound now wait your turn.

My foes will fall before me
Devoured up by flames
In burning screams their pain complete
Left ash in all but name.

I {Caster} Invoke Incinerate!