Summon psi ravager is a summoning of Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind. It calls Mindmaw into the caster's own kingdom, and it is not a spell to cast lightly. Casting it spends a great deal of mana and many turns.
The price does not stop there. Mindmaw consumes minds to sustain its thought, and the minds it eats are the caster's own folk. It costs population to keep, and it cannot be dismissed. It is no corpse. Yet a kingdom that keeps one learns the lesson of the Age of Odrin, when Odrin Half-Core raised the dead on borrowed life and watched his living folk fade. The restless dead borrow life; this creature eats thought. Either way, the people pay. Cultivators of Reverie say it cannot be sent away because an eaten mind cannot be given back.
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 | 65700 |
| Turns per cast | 6 |
| Type | summon |
Current costs and availability come from your legal actions. Affinity and active effects can change the base cost.