Class Information
Curses, bargains, broomsticks and a familiar with claws.
Witches are the most folklore-rich caster path: hexes, wards, blood price, familiars, flying and small cruel workings. They are magical, but not clean or academic.
Choose Witch if you like systems with personality: a cat at your heels, a broomstick above the map, and magic that feels personal rather than scholarly.
Trainable class skills from the live mudlib. Start is the class starting level; Max is the long-term class cap.
| Skill | Start | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Conjuring | 8 | 100 |
| Magic attack | 6 | 100 |
| Magic defence | 2 | 90 |
| Craft | 4 | 85 |
| Bargaining | 1 | 85 |
| Faith | 3 | 70 |
| Knife | 4 | 65 |
| Stealth | 2 | 55 |
| Defence | 1 | 55 |
| Melee | 1 | 55 |
| Blunt | 2 | 50 |
| Polearm | 1 | 40 |
| Attack | 0 | 40 |
| Equine | 1 | 35 |
| Healing | 1 | 35 |
| Blade | 0 | 25 |
| Locks | 0 | 25 |
| Projectile | 0 | 20 |
| Stealing | 0 | 15 |
| Dual wield | 0 | 10 |
| Murder | 0 | 10 |
Core class commands parsed from the live class command files. SP physical abilities spend stamina; MP magical/healing abilities spend magic.
| Ability | Lvl | Type | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athame | 1 | SP physical | A ritual knife-strike guided by whispered intent rather than brute force. |
| Candleward | 1 | MP magical | Light a warding candle and wrap yourself in a small hedge-hex of protection. |
| Thornsprite | 1 | MP magical | Conjure a tiny hedge sprite from thorns, ash and spite. For a short while it harasses whatever you fight, giving you extra attacking opportunities without replacing your later black-cat familiar. |
| Witchbolt | 2 | MP magical | Point a finger and snap a blue-white stitch of hedge lightning at a living foe: the Witch's first reliable ranged magic attack, leading into evileye and heavier hexes beyond. |
| Bloodprice | 3 | MP magical | Buy back a measure of your own strength through a draining little sacrifice. |
| Familiar | 3 | MP magical | Summon a witch's black cat familiar to follow you and help in combat. |
| Evileye | 4 | MP magical | Lay the evil eye on a foe, stinging them with bad luck and a spiteful little curse. |
| Greenbalm | 4 | MP healing | Work a green witch's balm over yourself or another living creature, closing wounds with hedge-lore rather than holy grace. It is gentler than a cleric's true healing prayers. |
| Blackpin | 5 | MP magical | A binding hex: drive a black pin through a foe's luck and leave them momentarily fixed in place. |
| Broomstick | 5 | MP magical | Conjure a witch's broomstick and fly toward a player, monster, or place you have already discovered on your map. Flight drains magic every coordinate and ends wherever your power runs out. |
| Winterward | 5 | MP magical | Syntax: winterward. Witch only. Tie a personal hedge-hex which moderates harmful cold but never heat. Potency equals your Conjuring skill, capped by 40 plus three times your level and never above 100%. Thus a level 20+ Witch with 100 Conjuring receives 100% cold moderation. Duration is 120 seconds plus eight seconds per Wisdom and four per Intelligence. The hex costs 27 mp and uses the normal two-round magical recovery. Recasting replaces and refreshes your existing personal climate ward; wards do not stack and announce their expiry. It affects only you, not the room or other players. It moderates cold exposure, freezing-weather damage, movement fatigue, and cold's effect on healing. It gives no heat protection and does not prevent wind, lightning, hail impact, or other non-temperature hazards. Example: winterward. |
| Sableveil | 6 | MP magical | Draw a sable veil about yourself: half glamour, half omission, sharpening wit and concealment. |
| Gravechill | 7 | MP magical | Call up the cold of the grave to numb a foe with pain and stiffness. |
| Witchlight | 8 | MP magical | Kindle a wandering witchlight to follow you, bringing eerie light and a little protective glamour. |
| Covenant | 9 | MP magical | Seal yourself into a brief covenant with the old powers, deepening presence, will and witchcraft at a cost of stillness. |
| Souljar | 10 | MP magical | Rake the last warmth from a corpse and trap it as soul-embers that can be consumed for stolen strength. |