Spirit Calling (Ghosts)

Spirit Calling is the incredibly dangerous and highly illegal branch of Soul Magic dedicated to interacting with, binding, and containing incorporeal souls and unruly spirits.
Classification: Specialization Parent School: Soul Magic

Technique Glyph Doctrine

Doctrine Pair: Kreis + Anker

Spirit Calling specializes in stable contact channels, bounded invocation, and controlled communion.

Fictional Permission

When you hold Spirit Calling in your Grimoire, you have specific fictional positioning.

Spirit Calling CAN:

• Perceive, communicate with, and bind incorporeal spirits and souls (Spuk, Sagt).
• Tear foreign souls out of host bodies (exorcism).
• Enslave a soul to power a physical construct or corpse.

Spirit Calling CANNOT:

• Be practiced legally. It carries an automatic death sentence in Altazia.
• Create a soul from nothing. Souls are eternal and indestructible; they can only be moved, bound, or damaged.

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): Chill wash as something passes. Sense passing spirit chill -> Soul Magic -> Faden+Hohl -> trivial effect, near range, aura tick, instant
• Regular (1 Tick): Coax imprint to whisper one secret. Coax corpse imprint to speak -> Soul Magic -> Hall+Hohl -> standard effect, touch range, single corpse, brief
• Hard (2 Ticks): Force hostile ghost to manifest and obey one order. Compel hostile ghost manifestation -> Soul Magic -> Band+Kreis -> hard effect, near range, single spirit, short
• Complex (2 Ticks): Bind spirit to drain a living target. Bind spirit to leech vitality -> Soul Magic -> Kreis+Band+Schleier -> complex effect, near range, two targets, instant, cruel
• Miracle (4+ Ticks): Shred a spirit and keep its essence. Shred powerful spirit for essence theft -> Soul Magic -> Kreis+Siegel+Spiegel -> miracle effect, near range, single spirit, permanent hook

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

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