Kreis

Draws a circle of containment — keep in, keep out, or bound an effect to a rim.

How it works

Kreis is the classic rim. It declares an inside and an outside. In composition it bottles Stoss detonations, cages spirits, and keeps Fluss from flooding the room. Fictionally Kreis wants a closed path — chalk, salt, joined hands, a drawn blade tip. Break the rim and everything you promised stays-in becomes free.

Combines well with: Siegel (lock the rim), Anker (root the circle), Stoss (burst inside).

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 circle holds, but the rim cracks, the inside presses out, or you stand on the wrong side.

School Affinity Notes

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

Usage Examples

  • You Kreis a practice bolt so first-years learn Stoss without scorching the rafters.
  • Contain training bolts -> Projection -> Kreis -> Soft -> training, safety
  • In the infirmary you Kreis a contagious curse-mark until Medical Magic arrives.
  • Quarantine the mark -> Abjuration -> Kreis -> Hard -> quarantine, medical
  • You draw Kreis around a negotiation table — magic cast across it fizzles.
  • No spells across the table -> Negation -> Kreis -> Soft -> diplomacy, null
  • During a storm of wild mana you Kreis the dorm common room as a calm eye.
  • Hold a calm eye here -> Abjuration -> Kreis -> Standard -> shelter, storm
  • You Kreis a stolen coin so its tracking curse cannot leave the circle with it.
  • Trap the cursed coin -> Abjuration -> Kreis -> Soft -> curse, contain

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