Summon frost ape is a summoning of Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind. It calls Frost ape out of the Welter and into the caster's own kingdom: fewer at a time than the smaller summonings of the affinity, but each one a great deal more. Mana keeps them in shape; withdraw it, and a dismissible summoning comes apart.
Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else. Cultivators of Reverie say that many of those remembered worlds had winters, and that the fear of a long cold is one of the few dreams nearly every mage shares. This summoning, they say, is that fear given fur and weight, and pointed at the caster's enemies.
Casting it spends mana and turns. More answer a mage of a deeper realm; fewer answer a mage of another affinity, who also pays more and fails more often. A coreless lord cannot summon by casting. The spell needs a casting core, and shards scattered only at the Breaking, so no one cast it before the first Sealborn learned to cast.
Player-visible facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Base mana per cast | 35000 |
| Turns per cast | 3 |
| Type | summon |
Current costs and availability come from your legal actions. Affinity and active effects can change the base cost.