Mirror Shape

Mirror Shape fuses the elements you hold into a mirror that floats before you and follows your gaze. Any projectile that strikes it on its way to you goes back where it came from — a little faster, and now yours. Arrows, tridents, another caster's elements: the mirror does not pick and choose.

The incantation

System Call. Generate Crystal Element. Generate Crystal Element. Form Element, Mirror Shape. Discharge.

• Hold at least one element (or core): with nothing to shape, the command is refused.
• Any element works; the most common one colours the mirror. Crystalline is accepted just like Crystal.
• Form Element may be left out: Mirror Shape alone is enough.
• Discharge raises the mirror and closes the incantation. No authority is required.

Duration

Every held element adds one second, cores included.

What the mirror does

• It floats a block and a half in front of your eyes, facing where you look: turn your head, it turns with you. It is a disc 1.6 blocks in radius.
• A projectile passing through it on its way towards you is reflected like in a real mirror: the angle of arrival gives the angle of departure. Face the shooter to send the shot right back at them.
• The projectile leaves 20 % faster and belongs to you: you count as the one who fired it, for damage and everything else.
• One reflection per projectile: a shot that has already been sent back passes through any further mirror (no ping-pong between two casters).
• Your own projectiles pass through it undeflected: you can fire through it.

Limits

• The mirror stops neither sword blows, nor creatures, nor explosions: only what flies.
• Whatever comes from the side or from behind misses it: it only covers what is in front of you.
• It vanishes at the end of its duration, or if you die.

See also: System spells.