Herald of Winter

Advancement

Herald of Winter Advancement

Level	Proficiency

Winter Domain

• Save Proficiency: Agility

• Passive: Sense Winter. Location and details of cold auras, cold weather, winter servitors, winter Integral magic. Location and size of summer equivalents.
  • Level 2 upgrade: Read minds in winter moods.
  • Level 5 upgrade: Scrying into winter weather.
  • Level 7 upgrade: Commune with winter servitors.
• Passive: Ignore mundane cold.
• Passive: Your stuff doesn't rot, corrode, or otherwise degrade.

• Spells
  • Power 0:
    • Ephemeral Ward: Ice Barrier
    • Lesser Arcane Strike: Frost + (Bolt, Spray, Grasp)
    • Shape Ice: Like Earth, parts of Shape Water, and a "Still Wind" like effect
    • Shape Flame: Extinguishing Power
    • Lull Emotions: Minor, brief, attention lapse
    • Minor preservation: Like the passive, but more stuff
    • Dangerous crystal growth 0: Cloud of daggers
  • Power 1:
    • Friction Control: Adhesion as Ice stuck + Grease as Ice Slick?
    • Arcane Strike: Like Lesser, but better
    • Sadness: Like Aversion, but specifically debilitating sadness
    • Command/Hold Person: Halt only? Freeze?
    • Cure Winter/Summer Malady: Improved Lull emotions?
    • Endure Cold/Heat
    • Slow Fall: Feather Fall
    • Fog Cloud: Wintery themed, adds chill effect?
    • Acute Calmness: Bane of War + Calm emotions (normally power 2)
    • Ice Rebuke: Painful rebuke
    • Ice Armor: Like Sorcerous armor
    • Ice Grasp: Like tangled growth, could it be part of friction control?
    • Ice Aura: Thermal aura, cold only
    • Ice Minion: Unseen servant, but scalable to handle other spells, like conjure messenger
    • Conjure Ice Object: Tiny, extra power adds to size
  • Power 2:
    • Frost Blade: Blade of flame and shadow
    • Frost Breath: Elemental breath, frost
    • Icy Grasp: As Web (combinable with tangled growth?)
    • Hold Medium Target: Extension of command? Frosty theme (higher power is larger targets)
    • Silence: Treating sound as movement!
    • Dangerous crystal growth 2: Spike growth, ice
    • Ice Minion 2: Spiritual Weapon
  • Power 3:
    • Frost Blast: Elemental blast
    • Frost Stroke: Elemental stroke
    • Hail: Elemental Barrage
    • Winter Ward: Glyph of warding, frost
    • Slow: Make chilly! (Similar to web?)
    • Protection from Fire/Ice: Both, but no other choices?
    • Hibernate: Willing or helpless
    • Ice Minion 3: Large default, mount!
    • Ice Field: Hurts you too?

Power 4:

• • • Stoneskin: As ice
    • Cause winter malady
    • Ice minion 4: Huge, or multiple mediums?
    • Ice Conjure 4: sphere, thorns, "creation"

Power 5:

• • • Power word stun: Mega command to freeze?
    • Dangerous crystal growth 5: blade barrier
    • Control Weather: Summon Blizzard, play Diablo
    • Time Stop: Everything slows
    • Imprisonment? Make a ritual?
    • Flesh to Ice?