Arcane Imbibing

Arcane Imbibing:

Is a spell of enchanting major arcane energies into an object. It is the quintessential, base, spell needed in order to create a properly functioning Arcane Engine.

It can enchant armor with added Armor Class and for every 2 spell slot levels the AC added increases.

• using a 3rd level spell slot will give a +1 to AC
• 5th level spell slot will give a +2 to AC
• 7th level spell slot will give a +3 to AC
• etc

Light Armor cannot exceed +5 AC

Medium Armor cannot exceed +4 AC

Heavy Armor cannot exceed +3 AC

Shields cannot exceeding +4 AC, so max bonus a shield can give with the enchantment is +6 AC

It can also enchant weapons with added arcane damage on successful attacks.

For every 2 spell slot levels the damage added increases:

• using a 3rd level spell slot will give +4 arcane damage
• 5th level spell slot will give +8 arcane damage
• 7th level spell slot will give +12 arcane damage
• etc

Only items that are lightly enchanted or non-enchanted items may be enchanted.

"lightly enchanted" refers to items with only base additions, example: a +1 short sword