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Check out page 78 of The Enemy in Shadows Companion, because the full effects of casting spells with Dhar also includes all living souls within Willpower yards suffering the effects of a Minor Corrupting Influence and a Minor Miscast (single result applies to all) when any Channelling or Language (Magick) test result contains an 8 on one of the dice, increase that to Moderate if its a double 88. I assume if the character is making multiple Channelling rolls, then this is double plus good for everyone because it may result in a lot more Corruption as they suffer from multiple Corrupting Influences. And since the caster themselves is likely to also be included in ”all living souls”, more Corruption for them.

This is actually a point against it being Earth , since it is rather improbable that, for example, a country rather similar to Austria would arise twice in essentially the same way. Perhaps you are then supposed to refer to page 182 under Corrupting Influences and choose whether it counts as a minor, moderate or major exposure moderate mentions brief exposure to Dhar, so perhaps its a moderate corrupting influence.

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(Warhammer Fantasy 4e) Question About Dark Magic and Corruption (1 Viewer)

So I've got a player who lucked into the Witch career. She wants to study the Witchcraft Lore and the Demonology Lore. The other Dark Magic Lores are explicitly listed as causing Corruption exposure, what about those two (which aren't mentioned as far as I can see)? I mean, I think messing around with demon summoning and banishing is a fast lane to becoming a Chaos Sorcerer, but does it say that somewhere in the rules? Should I be slapping this character with a bunch of potential Corruption points?

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Page 255 - The Lore of Witchcraft

I am surprised I cannot find anything in the core rulebook related to the use of Dhar and gaining corruption, even though Dark Magic mentions using Dhar is a corrupting influence. Perhaps you are then supposed to refer to page 182 under Corrupting Influences and choose whether it counts as a minor, moderate or major exposure (moderate mentions brief exposure to Dhar, so perhaps its a moderate corrupting influence).

Shining Dragon

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I did a little more searching. The Enemy in Shadows Companion, page 78, has information about casting spells with Dhar.

Among other effects, rolling a double on any associated Channeling or Language (Magick) test counts as a Minor Corrupting Influence, so off to page 182 to roll to resist, failure means gaining 1 Corruption point. So yes, you will be slapping the character with Corruption points If they use Witchcraft or Dhar.

As for why this isn’t in the core book, I can only say that in the core book its expected that Dark Magic and Chaos Magic is used by NPCs only (the number of spells is small after all) so such rules were likely seen as not required.

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Follow up question from my player:

Reading about Corruption and Malignant Influences on the subway just now, I see that exposure to "dark magic used by Necromancers and Chaos sorcerers" is considered a moderately corrupting influence. Now, the book also explicitly states that casters using their own Dark Lores aren't impacted by this (phew).
So, two questions:
1) Demonology isn't listed alongside Necromancy as one of the dark magics that yields moderate corruption with exposure. Should that be read as an oversight? Or intentional?
2) If the former, does that mean if I learn any of those spells from that book of Dark Magic, I'm exposing my friends to Corruption every time I cast?

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The core Rulebook specifically calls out Dark Magic as using Dhar (The Black Wind). So what I mentioned above applies to Demonology as well as Necromancy, and also the following:

Check out page 78 of The Enemy in Shadows Companion, because the full effects of casting spells with Dhar also includes all living souls within Willpower yards suffering the effects of a Minor Corrupting Influence and a Minor Miscast (single result applies to all) when any Channelling or Language (Magick) test result contains an 8 on one of the dice, increase that to Moderate if its a double 88. I assume if the character is making multiple Channelling rolls, then this is double plus good for everyone because it may result in a lot more Corruption as they suffer from multiple Corrupting Influences. And since the caster themselves is likely to also be included in ”all living souls”, more Corruption for them.

And if a Demon is summoned, then those bystanders (and caster I assume) are witnessing a Demon which is also a Corrupting Influence.

As I said before, the core book assumes Dark Magic and Chaos Magic are only used by NPCs so the mentions of using Demonology and Necromancy assume characters only encounter Dark Magic. The rules in the Enemy in Shadows Companion are for the users of Dark Magic, and the Companion is the first book that includes a Career of a chaos sorcerer, Cult Magus of Tzeentch, so more detailed rules are required to show how a user of Dark/Chaos magic falls into corruption (and pulls their companions down with them).

Finding himself in the midst of a conflict that later became known as the Great War Against Chaos, Magnus the Pious chose to use the destructive abilities of Human spellcasters. Lifting the unspoken ban upon Wizardy, he accept the aid of the High Elf Archmage Teclis in founding the Colleges of Magic in Altdorf. Using the effective, if unpredictable powers of the first official Wizards, he was able to turn the tide, winning the war, and changing the Empire forever.

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