So what is magic?

Magic in the World of Arl works from a fuel called "mana". Mana is measured in "Kams", written as a superscript capital "K". It is a measure of mana in the same way that Litres can be used to measure a quantity of fuel. Mages take this mana and create spells from it. All Chosen Ones are mages. To write ^K, write [sup]K[/sup].

What makes a mage?

Training, that's all. You do not need to be born on a certain day of the week or stand on one leg for two Sundays a year, you just need to train. This means that anybody can become a mage. Mages learn how to build up a store of mana and to use that mana. The ability of a mage is measured in "tiers", low tier mages are the weakest, mid tiers the next most powerful and high tier mages the most powerful of them all. Spells are also placed in tiers and mages can only cast spells from their tier and the tiers below them.

The different tiers of mage have varying amounts of mana storage (how much they have normally) and mana recharge (how fast they recover).

• Low tier mages can hold 40^K and regain 10^K every hour or 1^K every 6 minutes
• Mid tier mages can hold 70^K and regain 15^K every hour or 1^K every 4 minutes and 30 seconds
• High tier mages can hold 100^K and regain 20^K every hour or 1^K every 3 minutes

Buying Mages

To get mages you must buy mages out of your population. All mages are bought in at low tier, the next turn you can upgrade them to mid tier and then the turn after that they can be made high tier. Mages are bought and upgraded in 10s and are taken out of your population count.

• 10 Low tier mages cost 1.5 materials
• 10 Mid tier mages cost 2.5 materials
• 10 High tier mages cost 3.5 materials

Chosen

Chosen can become mages in a similar way to normal people. A Chosen that has been raised from the dead by a deity will need to re-buy their levels in magery before they are a mage again. A Chosen One counts as 5 people for the purposes of costing to be a mage but can upgrade their level as fast as they like and thus become a high tier mage in the same turn that they are brought back to life.

Getting spells

There are many different spell lists, as a nation you can research spells from one or more lists at which point all mages in your nation can use that spell. Each spell costs both materials and research points, research points are generated by magical academies. Every academy generates 50 magical research points for that turn, the points are lost at the end of each turn so you cannot store them up. Below is a table to show the pricing of spells for research, the red text is the equation used to add on the price per level, the "L" is the level of the spell you are researching (you start with level 0 so at first L will be 1).

Tier	Materials cost	Research cost
Low	1 + L x 1	10 + L x 5
Mid	2 + L x 1.5	10 + L x 15
High	5 + L x 2	60 + L x 40

Tidbits

• All spells with a range require that the caster can see the target point.
• Recharges and Cooldowns begin from the moment that the spell ends, not the moment it is cast
• If a spell is not successfully cast then the cooldown does not start and the caster can attempt again to cast the spell straight away, mana will however be used up.