Templars receive a number of spell grants per day, limited as follows:
Spells are limited in power to the available grant energy of the character, the exact cost calculated as per the charts in the SAGA gamebox. Further, dependent upon the templar's rank, training and beaurau (as well as the whim of the Sorcerer King (or Queen)), they have access to only a handful of available effects.

The effects are as follows, with general indications as to whom the respective abilities would be granted to:

Commanding
This forces a being to act in a particular fashion by either physically or mentally controlling them through magic. Templars can force another to dance, beat themselves or merely hold still.
These abilities are granted to those templars who enforce the Sorcerer King's edicts and oversee slaves. However, most branches of the templarate can call upon these abilities.

Shaping
This allows the templar the ability to shape existing material into a new form, even a new material (which is more difficult). This is often used to strike fear into the populace and has led to the bedtime tale used to scare children that an angry templar can turn them into a kank if they do not go to sleep. It is more often used to shape walls or fountains.
Templars who are members of the civil and construction beauraus are most often the recipients of this ability.

Invoking
Invocation brings energy directly from the Sorcerer King and unleashes it in a brilliant and usually violent display of pyrotecnics. Water can be boiled away or a lightning bolt or swords of flame summoned to smite down one's foes.
These abilities are usually possessed by those templars who oversee the the physical enforcement of the Sorcerer King's laws and those who are members of the war beaurau.

Divining
The discovery of hidden information, the revelation of thoughts or occurences in the past as well as the possible outcome of current situations are all granted by this ability.
Those most often in possession of this are templars who are judges, interrogators and spies.

Branding
Branding is the ability to bestow an enchantment, granted by the Sorcerer King, upon an object or person. It can be used to mark someone as a known enemy of the city state, as a protected favorite of the Sorcerer King, grant a person additional strength, or cause a weapon's blade to burst into magical flame on command.
Many defilers working for the Sorcerer Kings are granted this ability, and most others can call upon it in need.

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It is the Templar Devotion skill which gives a character the knowledge of how to draw the attention of their Sorceror King (or Queen) patron and petition them for a specific effect.
The maximum grant allowed for a petition is equal to the individual's Presence score plus their Social Status doubled. There is no limit on the number of times a character may call upon their Sorcerer King patron per day, but each time they do, they face scrutiny from their master for the request. Few templars are willing to risk raising the ire of their master for overuse of their granted magic, and there is always the chance that their Sorcerer King will refuse the petition (successful or not).

A templar may also combine the grant available to them with the grant available to another templar who serves the same Socerer King, increasing the difficulty of casting by one rank. Adding the pool of grant energy from other templars beyond a second does not increase this difficulty further, though it brings closer scrutiny by the Sorcerer King upon those involved.

A petition's cost has nothing to do with its difficulty. Instead, the Templar Devotion skill also gives the character the knowledge of calling their patron and serving as a channel for the desired effects through the processes of magic and the bond they share with their master. This is a much more demanding part of the petition, and the difficulty of success is based entirely upon the ability and training of the templar as per their skill rank in Templar Devotion.

Ability Code	Petition Difficulty
A	Average (8)
B	Challenging (12)
C	Daunting (16)
D	Desperate (20)
X	Impossible (24)

The difficulty of a petition is always increased by the appropriate ability score of the opponent(s), which is by default, Spirit. However, other scores are also used, dependent upon the nature of the spell.
For example, Endurance may be the opposing score if the templar attempts to freeze their enemy in place.

 

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