Band

Binds, constrains, or braids subjects together — rope, chain, oath-line, or pressure wrap.

How it works

Band is form as restraint. It wraps a shape around something that wants to move — limbs, doors, rumors, even two people who should not finish a handshake. In composition it turns loose force into held tension: an Anker without Band is a peg with no rope; a Stoss without Band is a shove that does not pin. Fictionally Band loves lines of contact and hates empty air — you need a subject to cinch.

Combines well with: Anker (fixed binds), Siegel (sealed wraps), Stoss (forced into the knot).

Function in Compositions

Form glyph. Use it when the fiction needs this verb at the center of the declaration, then dress it with school and scale.

Typical 7-9 Risk Signature

7-9: the bind lands, but you are caught in the same knot or left holding the loose end.

School Affinity Notes

Frequent in Abjuration and Alteration work, but any school may borrow it when the fiction fits.

Usage Examples

  • You Band a runaway scroll so it cannot unfurl mid-flight and spill the stolen roster.
  • Keep the scroll shut -> Alteration -> Band -> Soft -> document, contain
  • In the sparring yard you cinch an opponent's ankles just as they leap the rope.
  • Trip-bind the leap -> Projection -> Band -> Hard -> trip, duel
  • You braid a temporary suture Band across a friend's cut before the healer arrives.
  • Hold the wound closed -> Medical Magic -> Band -> Soft -> first-aid, pressure
  • During a riot you Band together three barricade boards so they act as one door.
  • Lash the boards into a gate -> Alteration -> Band -> Standard -> barricade, craft
  • You wrap a spirit's wrists in Band so the conjured guest cannot paw the chalk circle.
  • Bind the guest's reach -> Soul Magic -> Band -> Hard -> summon, restrain

See also