Casting Arts Overview

Casting in any capacity has an inherent potential to be volatile due its reliance on both the conscious and subconscious thought processes of its user, as such various Spire Scholars have experimented with the best methods to teach the use of soul essence in a reliable, structured manner.

Casting arts, also known as casting schools, is a term used to describe specific specialisations relating to how soul essence is expended.

### **Physimancy**

Physimancy is the study and application of the elements found in the essence spectrum, when specialising in the study and application of a specific element, said element is prefixed to physimancy title, i.e. Fire physimancy.

Due to the adaptive nature of essence elements physimancy can use a number of casting flow techniques, with the most common being manifestation and projection.

### **Vigourmancy**

Vigourmancy is the study and application of essence to mend physical wounds, those studying vigourmancy may specialise further into either Astorian, Animal or Plant physiology to enhance their effectiveness mending within their chosen specialisation.

Life essence is the core element used in vigourmancy and requires a highly neutral mind-set for the greatest levels of success. The most common casting flow type with this art is stabilization, augmentation, and depletion.

### **Resomancy**

Resomancy is the study and application of essence to communicate with a living entity, those studying in resomancy may specialise further into either Astorian, Animal or Plant communication to enhance their effectiveness communing with their chosen specialisation.

This casting art requires knowledge of soul resonance, a unique form of casting flow, which can be done through both touch or over a distance.

### **Animancy**

Animancy is the study and application of essence to view memories from a living or non-living entity, those studying in animancy may specialise further into Astorian, Animal, Plant, Inanimate object, or Rune recall to enhance their effectiveness in viewing memories from their chosen specialisation.

Typically animancy relies heavily on the element of illusion to mentally reconstruct the specified memory, to produce a visible reconstruction of a memory emission, manifestation, and transformation casting flow types are commonly used.

### **Occumancy**

Occumancy is the study and application of essence to take temporary possession of a living or non-living entity, those studying occumancy may specialise further into Astorian, Animal, or Inanimate object to enhance their effectiveness in maintaining their connection with their chosen specialisation.

All forms of occumancy requires knowledge of resomancy beforehand as it heavily relies on the soul resonance type of casting flow.

### **Vestimancy**

Vestimancy is the study and application of temporarily separating one’s own soul vessel from their body, while this casting art does not require the expenditure of essence, and may potentially be learnt by a non-caster, it does instead require an in-depth understanding of oneself.

### **Mutamancy**

Mutamancy is the study and application of changing the physical form, or properties of a living or non-living entity, this field of study is largely theoretical as its application requires an extreme level of knowledge of the entity being changed, large amounts of continuous essence expenditure to maintain, and an in-depth knowledge of soul resonance.