Soul Carving (Modification)

Soul Carving is the most invasive, agonizing, and universally reviled branch of Soul Magic. It focuses on directly modifying, damaging, or enforcing permanent magical effects upon a target's soul.
Classification: Specialization Parent School: Soul Magic

Technique Glyph Doctrine

Doctrine Pair: Kreis + Faden

Soul Carving specializes in precise identity edits and permanent metaphysical consequences.

Fictional Permission

When you hold Soul Carving in your Grimoire, you have specific fictional positioning.

Soul Carving CAN:

• Permanently link two souls together (Bind).
• Inflict permanent curses, compulsions (Geas), or metaphysical damage that bypasses physical healing (Mahl).
• Cripple a target's ability to generate or shape mana.

Soul Carving CANNOT:

• Truly destroy a soul. It can only be twisted, fragmented, or scarred.
• Be healed by Medical Magic. A severed arm can be regrown; a severed soul fragment is gone forever unless reattached by another Soul Mage.
• Be practiced without Soul Sight.

The Core Matrix

This specialization's live-casting access follows its Technique Glyph doctrine.

Geometric Scaling (Mana Track Box Costs)

When determining the cost of a spell, the GM uses this scale. Each example uses live notation: Intent -> School -> Glyph -> Scale -> Tags.

• Trivial (0 Ticks): Harmless soul surface scratch. Mark soul with harmless nick -> Soul Magic -> Faden+Hohl -> trivial effect, touch range, single target, fades
• Regular (1 Tick): Shallow bleed of focus and nerve. Open shallow soul bleed -> Soul Magic -> Hohl+Band -> standard effect, near range, single target, short
• Hard (2 Ticks): Graft minor affinity onto your own soul. Graft minor affinity to self -> Soul Magic -> Band+Kreis -> hard effect, self range, permanent hook, risky
• Complex (2 Ticks): Agonizing brand on another's soul. Brand slaver's mark on enemy soul -> Soul Magic -> Siegel+Band -> complex effect, touch range, single target, cruel
• Miracle (4+ Ticks): Tear a rival mage's soul and steal their power fiction. Rip rival soul and graft talent -> Soul Magic -> Siegel+Band+Spiegel -> miracle effect, touch range, single mage, permanent hook, forbidden

(For detailed sensory information and theoretical deep-dives, refer to Schools Lore)

Core-school glyph sets by training level: Soul Magic#The Core Matrix.