Conjuration

Conjuration type magic is a rare style. Practitioners usually specialize as builders or summoners.

Builders are capable of creating objects from pure mana, often into basic structures utilizing hard light. Hard light is pure mana made manifest into a glowing, glass-like material. Builders do not create permanent objects since their creations require focus to maintain. This focus is difficult to maintain when the structure is far away and/or out of sight. Hard light is very strong and resilient. Even better, the mana expenditure for conjuring it is fairly reasonable. Only the most grand walls drain the builder's reservoir to a dangerous degree.

Summoners make pacts with beings known as eidolons and call them forth when in need. These pacts are formed in many ways the most common of which is a binding. Binding requires a special object and a ritual. Some bindings are violent and require the summoner to first subdue the eidolon while others are more peaceful or businesslike with contracts or promises. Eidolons themselves range from meek pets to powerful guardians the size of a castle. Eidolons sap differing amounts of mana from a summoner while summoned. Skilled summoners can maintain and command multiple eidolons at once.