Magic is a driving force in Aventurian history. It is used by rulers to fight wars, research projects are dedicated to its power, injured people can be healed with it, even dead people can be brought back to life. Even superlatives like indestructibility and immortality or travelling through time are not impossible for magic. The Grimorum Cantiones presents all these and hundreds of other varieties of magic collected together:
All the magic tricks, spells and rituals of the 5th edition of The Black Eye have been revised and expanded in this over 500-page, handy B5-format work in in-game look.
Numerous full- and half-page colour illustrations by Katharina Niko (known for the illustrations of the Inrah card set and the Heroes’ Breviary series) as well as ancient initials and decorative frames give the book an immersive fantasy look.
All spells and rituals now have 5 spell expansions, 2 of which are new and have never been published before.The point Gesture and Formula has been added to all spells and rituals. Here you will find a description of the magic gesture to be performed for each tradition that can learn the spell (as a spell of their own tradition). For the guild magic tradition, this also includes traditional formulas in alternative languages (Bosparano, Tulamidya, Thorwalsch).
An overview of the classical rhyming formulas for all spells and rituals as well as alternative formulas in the demonic language Zhayad can be found in the appendix.General notes on spell gestures in the game, rules for dealing with the performance of gestures of foreign spells as well as spells transferred into one’s own tradition are collected in a guide for the game table.
A note on the interaction with the special skill Reversalis contained in the book has been added to every spell and ritual. With the help of this skill, newly described for DSA5 rules, spell effects can be neutralised or reversed, depending on the spell.The distribution of spells has been revised and supplemented. In the appendix you will find all spell traditions as a special skill, which can learn at least 1 spell trick, spell or ritual. New for DSA5 are the Borbaradians, Goblin Sorceresses and Crystallomancers.All magic tricks, spells and rituals can also be found in the appendix in overview tables sorted by characteristic and distribution.The volume is completed by the values of the summoned creatures mentioned in the spells.
Caution! Not suitable for children under 36 months.

– Language: German