Arcane Knowledge is not achieved easily, nor is the specialized knowledge that one can learn after one has learned the secrets of the arcane. Both Arcane Knowledge and its specialization, known as Disciplines, requires much study and practice.

Arcane Knowledge itself requires 5 Skill Points (though some professions award this knowledge with no additional skill point cost). Arcane Knowledge itself awards the following basic abilities:

Unless otherwise specified, all of these Disciplines follow the Standard Effects of Degrees and Levels. That means that all of these disciplines, unlike basic knowledge, can continue to have dice added to increase their effectiveness.

The character can create acid as an attack, either against someone else or to melt through metal bars or other impediments. They can summon an acid elemental or defend against someone else trying to use acid against them or their party.

This is the ability to manipulate air into gusts of wind to attack, defend, or float objects including the caster themselves. Manipulating air can be used to push noxious vapors away from the caster and even toward enemies. They can also summon Air Elementals and can summon breathable air into confined spaces to allow for breathing.

Characters with this ability are naturally immune to cold weather. They can attack with cold touches, blasts of cold, or even snow storms depending on their degree and level.

Characters with this proficiency can manipulate the earth to attack, defend, or otherwise move the earth to their advantage. They can also summon earth elementals. They have the natural ability to detect precious metals and gemstones in nearby Earth and are in high demand by races who desire such.

Although this essentially has the same effect as illusions available under Psionics, Arcane Knowledge actually creates the illusion whereas Psionic Illusions are only in the minds of the “beholders”. The one real difference is that allies generally don't see Psionic Illusions but they would see Illusions created by Arcane Knowledge and could potentially be fooled by them along with the enemies.

Levitation is the ability to move without the normal aerodynamics of wings at play. Levitation just happens automatically unless conditions make it so that a standard skill check is required. As characters put more dice toward levitation, their aerodynamics increase to the point that the character can actually fly. Levitation can be cost on their character themselves or on any number of others as governed by Standard Effects of Degrees and Levels. When cast on another individual, they are the ones controlling how they move, not the caster.

Polymorph is the ability to change the character, an ally, or an opponent into a living shape of the user's choosing from the shapes pre-chosen by the character based on degree. The character is not limited to animal shapes; plants can be chosen as well. But a character couldn't change an opponent into a rock. A first degree polymorpher can pick two races at first degree, five races at second degree, and every degree thereafter, they can pick an additional five races to which they can transform themselves, allies, or opponents.

Like most spells, polymorphing is limited by degree to what can be transformed under the general rules (touch, point to point, area of effect, etc).

When polymorphing or being polymorphed, the creatures, to a certain degree, take on the instincts of such a creature. The character or the chosen ally or opponent becomes that race as far as flying, talons, thick hide, gills, etc, but does not gain any special abilities of that race unless they can perform those powers themselves or they are abilities related to the actual instincts and senses of the creature (e.g. heightened sense of smell).

A creature polymorphed becomes a typical form of that race. The polymorpher cannot morph an opponent into a wingless eagle or a legless troll to hinder them from being able to do what they would normally be able to do. They can polymorph someone to look like the guard they just passed, providing that guard is fairly normal for their race.

Because of the nature of polymorph and the need to have a lot of the instincts of the race into which a character or opponent is being morphed, they cannot use their own powers while in that shape unless the race might reasonably perform such powers. The one exception to this is that the polymorpher is able to return all creatures polymorphed back into their own shapes, including themselves before the time limit expires.

Example: If a character morphed into a sentient birdman to gain the ability of flight, they could likely perform the earth manipulation powers they possess because a sentient birdman might have such powers. If they morphed into an eagle, they would not because eagles aren't sentient enough to do magic.

The race morphed into must be of the same size as the one they came from, plus or minus one body size per degree after first.

If a character uses this power on others, the unwilling defenders a Win-Loss roll vs their personal defense. The effect duration is one hour or until the caster returns them to their normal form. For unwilling participants, it is one round per level of the caster up to a maximum of one hour.

Maintaining the effect costs a passive action, but multiple people polymorphed may be maintained using the same passive action though mana would be per person polymorphed.

One further note of warning, any creature polymorphed for more than a day's time must make a Skill-Check vs Personal Defense each hour of transformation or become that creature's mind personally, losing powers, gaining instincts that don't match the creature's actual body type, even after the spell wears off and they return to normal form.

Skill over space includes the ability to interact with other planes and dimensions including summoning from those planes (if the caster also has the summoning skill), teleporting, creating and navigating wormholes, creating pocket dimensions for storing things, and other abilities. The mana cost is per person or affected area and maintaining the effect costs a passive action as well as additional mana per person or affected area.

Because of the dangers inherent in the use of this skill, rolling no successes should cause something unwanted and dangerous, perhaps even life-threatening, to happen.

Summoning extraplanar entities (e.g. demons, imps, angels, genies, etc) requires a successful Skill roll and a degree sufficient for the number and size of desired demons. (See Summoning for more information.) In addition to general summoning rules, extraplanar entities must be dismissed before the summoner reaches zero mana or they will be loosed. Dismissing an extraplanar entity requires a successful Win-Loss roll vs the extraplanar entity’s Self. If an extraplanar entity is not dismissed, it turns against its summoner, then the party, then the rest of the world.

Telekinesis employs magical means to move an object from one place to another by applying momentum to it without force in the traditional sense. Weights that can be moved are shown in the table below:

Opponents being moved via telekinesis have three ways of countering being moved via a character's telekinesis. First, they can hold onto something immovable. If they attempt this, the character must make a successful Win-Loss roll versus their opponent's personal defense (with benefits from the opponent's brute strength). Second, they can attempt to fight it with a Personal defense roll. Third, they can attempt to block it with their own Levitation or Telekinesis (either Arcane or Psionic).