Daggerfall:Thaumaturgy

The school of Thaumaturgy is one of the six avenues of magical study. This school concentrates on exposing or manipulating known forces and objects within their natural laws. This is evident in spells like Levitate and Water Walking. Buying, creating, and casting spells of thaumaturgy are less expensive for mages skilled in this path.

Thaumaturgy's governing attribute is Willpower. The skill is checked whenever you cast a spell from the Thaumaturgy school of magic.

Description

"Thaumaturgy refers to the School of Thaumaturgy, one of the six avenues of magica [sic] study. A Thaumaturgical spell does not change the appearance or structure of a force or object, but can manipulate laws temporarily, as evident in such spells as Levitate and Detection."

Classes

The following classes have Thaumaturgy as a skill:

• Primary Skill
  • Mage
  • Sorcerer

• Major Skill
  • Battlemage
  • Healer
  • Nightblade

• Minor Skill
  • Spellsword

Factions

The following factions have Thaumaturgy as a required skill:

• Mages Guild
• The School of Julianos
• The Resolution of Zenithar

Training

Thaumaturgy training is offered by the following factions:

• Mages Guild
• The School of Julianos
• The Resolution of Zenithar

Thaumaturgy Spells

Spell	Element	Range	Magnitude	Chance of success (%)	Duration (in-game minutes)	Spell Effect(s)
Buoyancy	Frost	Caster only	-	-	1 + 1/per level	Faster speed in water
Calm Humanoid	Magic	On Touch	-	10 + 10/per level	5 + 5/per level	Pacify: Humanoid
Charm Mortal	Magic	On Touch	-	10 + 10/per level	5 + 5/per level	Charm
Levitate	Magic	Caster only	-	-	2 + 1/per level	Levitate
Quiet Undead	Magic	On Touch	-	10 + 10/per level	5 + 5/per level	Pacify: Undead
Shalidor's Mirror	Magic	Caster only	-	35 + 1/per level	1 + 1/per level	Spell Reflection
Spell Reflection	Magic	Caster only	-	10 + 5/per level	1 + 1/per level	Spell Reflection
Spell Resistance	Magic	Caster only	-	25 + 2/per level	1 + 1/per level	Spell Resistance
Spell Shield	Magic	Caster only	-	50 + 2/per level	1 + 1/per level	Spell Resistance
Tame	Magic	On Touch	-	10 + 10/per level	5 + 5/per level	Pacify: Animal
Water Walking	Magic	Caster only	-	-	5 + 2/per level	Faster speed in water

†The effect "Pacify: Humanoid" does not work on human enemies listed as "Humanoids" in the bestiary, which instead require application of the effect "Charm" in order to be pacified. "Pacify: Humanoid" instead applies to other humanoid enemies, including centaurs, gargoyles, giants, harpies, imps, nymphs, orcs, spriggans, wereboars, and werewolves. "Charm" applies to human enemies, but has no effect on non-hostile town NPCs.

‡You cannot climb any obstacles while Levitate is active.