Shamans feel an intense bond to nature and natural things. They believe that spirits can play important roles in human lives and in fact in the lives of the world itself. They believe that the gods are simply powerful Spirits. Spirits aren’t worshiped as gods by the Shamans, rather they are revered, but they can also be controlled or cooperated with for the community’s benefit. Animals play an important role to a Shaman, acting as omens and message-bearers, as well as representations of animal spirit guides. Shamans do not cast magic directly, rather they conjure the Spirits to work for them. In many ways, the Shaman is unique to the spell casting world. Their conjuration, however, is treated much like a spell roll.

The shamans’ primary skills are Astral Theory and Conjuration. Ceremony and Meditation are secondary and tertiary skills. Shamans do not learn Magical Theory. Rather, the Shaman works through interactions with the Spirit world. All “magic” that a Shaman casts are done via spirits that are conjured. Below are the steps for conjuring a Spirit:

# Determine the size and strength of a Spirit; identified as F
# Determine the range, radius, and intensity of the Conjuration as you would normally
## Typically range is 0, but could be farther away. the Shaman has a mental link with the Spirit so long as there is a service remaining.
## Typically Area of Effect will be 0.
## Power of the Conjuration is the Intensity of the spell time the caster’s Astral theory; P=I x AT
# Roll the spell casting dice normally.
# Drain is calculated normally and each success will reduce the drain taken by 1.
# The Spirit resists the Conjuration with it’s F.
# Finally, divide the remaining power (after resistance is removed) is divided by 10, rounding down to the next lowest whole number (1.9 rounds to 1).
## This number is the number of services that the Spirit will perform for the Shaman.

h2. Rolling 0 successes

If the shaman rolls 0 successes on their spell roll, then the spirit has refused them. the door is till open and the link to the spirit has still been made. The Spirit, now aware of the shaman, may decide to walk through. this is especially bad for evil spirits like demons and toxic spirits. Typically, good spirits simply ignore the request.

h2. Spirit Services

There are four types of services that a spirit can perform for a shaman. Shamans don’t have to announce all their services at the time of conjuration; however, at sunrise, the spirit will assume that hanging around waiting was one of the services. In other words, if the shaman was granted 3 services and used 2 on the first day, the spirit would leave at sunrise of that day–assuming that simply hanging around was enough. It’s important to note that the spirit is willingly performing these services. Spirits are intelligent and generally well informed. Their answers and actions can be trusted to be on the shaman’s best interests. The shaman can, before sunrise, ask for a physical service that would extend their service (see below):

# Cast Spell–The shaman may request that the spirit case a specific spell for the shaman. The most common use of this is conjuring a Healing Spirit.
# Information Service–the shaman may request knowledge of the spirit. The spirit will tell the caster all they know about the topic. Once the spirit’s knowledge is exhausted, the shaman may ask for a multiple information services that will each take up to 24 hours of investigation to perform. A week’s worth of investigation would take 8 services; one for the initial discussion and then 7 for each day of investigation. The spirit will tell the shaman all it knows and all it discovers relating to the question–it cannot hold back.
# Physical Service–The shaman may request that the spirit perform a physical service. Like detailed information services, each physical service is limited to 24 hours. Please note, that the shaman cannot stipulate how the spirit performs the service, on;y what needs to be done. This direction can be quite specific, e.g. “Protect me from any arrows fired by Gunther from 6pm to 9pm.” Potential physical services include the following:
## Attack someone to kill, maim, or capture
## Search an area
## Watch someone or something and report
## Carry the shaman
## Move something

h2. Spirit senses

Spirits do not view the world the same way as humans. They are an innate part of the natural element that forms them. They understand this element well, but others are confusing to them. For example, a hearth spirit will understand human motivations and objects of great emotional attachment well, but will be confused and will not understand the ideas and actions of a deer in the forest. Likewise, a forest spirit does not understand human language or objects. When a shaman has a link with the spirit they can attune themselves to the spirit’s senses and will experience the world as they do. They may be able to add some meaning to the scene, but the basic experience is that of the spirits.

Since spirits are astral beings, they can see physical objects, but these do not impede movement. And tough they can recognize one human from another, this is based more on astral persona than physical characteristics. For example, shamans are seen as representations of their totem, not their physical form. In addition, spirits recognize and can report on aura color. Depending on the Spirits, they may or may not be able to recognize and understand human speech. A spirit will only know common languages for that region, e.g. elvish in an elvish forest, or common and native language of a city for a hearth spirit, but since spoken language is a physical thing and not an astral one, spirit needs to be more experienced to understand it. The basic level that a spirit understand is their Force-3. Use the following table for modifications to this basic number:

|/3. _Spirits of Man_ | Hearth Spirit | +3 |
| City Spirit | +2 |
| Field Spirit | +1 |
|/3. _Spirits of Health_ | Possessing Spirit | +2 |
| Healing Spirit | +1 |
| Disease Spirit | +0 |
|/3. _Spirits of Celestial_ | Passion Spirit | +1 |
| Moon Spirit | -1 |
| Sun Spirit | -2 |
|/4. _Spirits of Land_ | Desert Spirit | +0 |
| Forest Spirit | +0 |
| Mountain Spirit | +0 |
| Prairie Spirit | +0 |
|/4. _Spirits of Water_ | Ocean Spirit | -1 |
| Lake Spirit | +0 |
| River Spirit | +0 |
| Swamp Spirit | -1 |
|/4. _Spirits of Sky_ | Sky Spirit | -1 |
| Mist Spirit | -1 |
| Storm Spirit | -1 |
| Wind Spirit | -1 |