Daggerfall:Illusion

The school of Illusion is one of the six avenues of magical study. This school works with magicka in its capacity to camouflage, illuminate, or obscure without changing an object's structure. Invisibility and Light are two of the school's most basic spells. Buying, creating, and casting spells of illusion are less expensive for mages skilled in this path.

This skill is increased at 2x rate.

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

Description

"Illusion refers to the School of Illusion, one of the six avenues of magical study. Illusion spells are capable of camouflaging, illuminating, or obscuring objects, as the spells Invisibility and Light demonstrate."

Classes

The following classes have Illusion as a skill:

• Primary Skill
  • Nightblade

• Major Skill
  • Mage
  • Sorcerer
  • Spellsword

• Minor Skill
  • Bard
  • Battlemage
  • Healer

Factions

The following factions have Illusion as a required skill:

• Mages Guild
• The House of Dibella
• The Temple of Kynareth
• The Benevolence of Mara

Training

Illusion training is offered by the following factions:

• Mages Guild
• The House of Dibella
• The Temple of Kynareth
• The Benevolence of Mara

Illusion Spells

Spell	Element	Range	Magnitude	Chance of success (%)	Duration (in-game minutes)	Spell Effect(s)
Chameleon	Magic	Caster only	-	-	3 + 1/per level	Chameleon: Normal (dispelled when attacking)
Invisibility	Magic	Caster only	-	-	3 + 2/per level	Invisibility: Normal (dispelled when attacking)
Light	Magic	Caster only	-	-	1 + 4/per level	Light (in front of caster for duration of spell)
Shadow Form	Magic	Caster only	-	-	1 + 1/per level	Shadow: Normal (dispelled when attacking)

†Chameleon and Shadow Form are cheap versions of Invisibility. Chameleon only works when you are not moving, and Shadow Form only works indoors.

‡Invisibility is only dispelled when you attack an enemy physically, with weapons or hand-to-hand. If you instead attack an enemy with magic, the invisibility effect will not be dispelled; the enemy you just attacked with magic will now find and attack you, but additional enemies in the vicinity will not attack, as they will still be unable to detect you.

§One hour game time is 5 minutes real time, which corresponds to 5 seconds real time for each unit (in-game minute) of duration. E.g., a level 2 character's Light spell would last (1 + 2x4) x 5 = 45 seconds real time.