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D IGITAL E DITION V ERSION 1.0

March 2005

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Hidden Knowledge

What you will find in this book.

CHAPTER ONE

Alchemy

The Arcane Healer tends to the sick, while the Grand

Alchemist seeks immortality.

CHAPTER TWO

Astrology

Magic from the heavens; the Computer, the Astrologer,

the Solar Hierophant and the Lunar Mystagogue.

CHAPTER THREE

Elementalism

Earth, Air, Fire and Water; the Elementalist is their master.

CHAPTER FOUR

Geomancy

Learn to tap the currents of magic across the land itself.

CHAPTER FIVE

Herbalism

Secret powers of plants; the Wylderwitch and the Grand

Herbalist.

CHAPTER SIX

Magical Imagination

Magical disciplines of memory; the Heraldic Wanderer.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Oneiromancy

106

The Oneiromancer is master of the realm of dreams.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Rational Magic

134

The Skeptic’s disbelief is so passionate that it may

unravel the thread of other magicks.

CHAPTER NINE

Spirit Cultivation

143

The Gleaner harvests what the Grim Reaper leaves

behind.

CHAPTER TEN

Sympathetic Magic

156

Occult connections give the Sympathetic Mage an

extraordinary reach.

APPENDIX ONE

Byron B. Baird’s

171

A detailed exposition on the mundane and magical uses of

specific plants; illustrated.

APPENDIX TWO

The Grimoire of Occult Lore 214

A collection of new spells, more than one hundred in all.

INDEX

D20 Material

237

When tarot cards fail you, turn here to find the answer.

Bountiful Botanical

Hidden Knowledge

In a fantasy world, it’s dangerous to assume you’ve seen

it all. The most powerful occult lore is many times

underestimated ... too often complacent wizards, sorcer-

ers, and clerics believe they have a monopoly on mystical

might. This hubris can be their undoing when they ﬁnal-

ly come face to face with magic beyond their experience.

plants of the ﬁeld, when properly prepared, become

healing poultices and powders, magical concoctions that

can extend or shorten life, or even verdex that “bind”

spells for later use. In a special appendix, starting on

page 171, you’ll find Byron B. Baird’s Bountiful

Botanical, a treatise describing twenty mundane and

magical plants and the concoctions skilled herbalists can

distill from them.

Occult Lore opens the gates to a world of alternative

power for D20 System™ players, with in-depth rules for

ten new magical traditions. Whether you’re interested in

a prestige class that lets your character become a celes-

tial creature, or an entirely new system of magic to

dumbfound your players, Occult Lore offers an abun-

dance of secret knowledge.

Magical imagination gives heraldic wanderers the

ability to construct fabulous memory palaces from the

knowledge of the ages.

Oneiromancy grants access to the dream worlds where

id-hounds roam, lucid dreamers manipulate dream reality

to ﬁt their own deepest desires. There, secret knowledge

and transient magic items are the great treasures to pursue.

Alchemy allows the arcane healer to tend to his patients

in the absence of a cleric, and the grand alchemist to

pursue the immortality granted by just a drop of pure

philosopher’s gold.

Rational magic lets science and logic displace the

power of magic. Skeptics ts strip targets of their spells

and special abilities with well-reasoned argument, and

even cancel the effects of magical weapons and armor.

Astrology places the wisdom of the stars into the hands

of mortals; horoscopes can predict a character’s future,

the most auspicious time to explore a dungeon, or let an

astrologer control the subject of a nativity from afar.

Solar hierophants embody the sun itself, becoming celes-

tial creatures, while lunar mystagogues become the mas-

ters of magical secrecy, exerting their dark power over

creatures of the earth and underworld.

Spirit cultivation is the gleaner’s art of capturing the

ﬂeeting remnants of a soul, and slowly teaching it the

ways of power. Gleaners nurture these souls ﬁrst in a spir-

itstone, then transfer them into reliquaries to invoke the

skills and spells of the spirit, and ﬁnally use focal charms

to control spirits with the power of the gods themselves!

Elementalism turns the

forces of air, earth, ﬁre,

and water to the will of

the spellcaster, until ﬁnal-

ly the elementalist tran-

forms herself into one of

the elemental creatures

she commands!

Open Game Content

Sympathetic magic uses

ritual points to toss spells

across continents — all a

mage needs is a lock of

hair to curse an enemy for

a lifetime!

Occult Lore, like the rest of the Penumbra ™ line of

D20 System™ supplements, is published under the

Open Game License. We hereby identify as Open

Game Content any text that is printed inside parchment-

style boxes like this one. Note too that there are some-

times entire pages of OGC, identiﬁed by a full-page

parchment background (e.g., the Appendixes). Text not

on the parchment background and artwork are not

Open, and may not be reproduced without the publish-

er’s or artist’s express permission.

To inspire your GM, each

chapter includes adven-

ture seeds, to help intro-

duce each previously hid-

den tradition to the game

world. These story ideas

may inspire you as a play-

er as well, with character

concepts and motivations.

Geomancy gives magic-

users access to the power

of ley lines, dowsing, and

the innate magic of loca-

tions to enhance their mys-

tic abilities — sometimes

beyond their own control

— or even to create fear-

some zones of antimagic.

If you’re not a publisher, don’t worry about this stuff; you

may still ﬁnd it handy to notice that boxed text tends to

contain rules details. If you are curious about Open

Gaming, which allows publishers to reproduce and mod-

ify each others’ Open Game Content, we encourage you

to learn more at www.opengamingfoundation.org on

the web.

By picking up this book,

you’ve become the newest

initiate into the secrets of

Occult Lore. Welcome!

Herbalism is the craft of

the wylderwitch and the

grand herbalist — the

Written by Michelle Andromeda Brown Nephew

introduction

Alchemy

The young warrior lay stricken in his sickbed.

“Please,” he whispered to the strange doctor. “Please.

Send for a priest.”

The warrior’s eyes crossed watching the rock wobble.

The doctor slapped his knees and stood up. “Now.

Who’s next?”

The doctor scoffed. “Stop being so melancholy or you

really will need one.” He pulled a trundle full of odd

wares to the bedside. “Our hospice deals with camp

fever. I have attended a handful of recoveries. And I’ve

written a treatise,” he added with pride.

Arcane Healers

The society of arcane healers arose in an early age when

the gods disfavored the acts of mortals. According to leg-

end, the demigod Asclepius, half-mortal son of a solar

deity and a powerful oracle, refused the ways of heaven

and walked among mortal-kind. When the other gods

denied the prayers of clerics, Asclepius worked miracles

for the mortals he encountered on his travels. The gods

of fate and the underworld, angered with Asclepius’

interference with death, demanded that the high god of

heaven punish Asclepius. The high god declared that if

Asclepius ever accepted payment for his miracles, the

demigod would lose his powers forever. Many years later,

Asclepius forgot himself and accepted a golden laurel for

resurrecting a mortal king. The high god struck

Asclepius with a thunderbolt, burning away his immor-

tality. Now humbled, Asclepius spent the remainder of

his days dedicated to medicinal — rather than miracu-

lous — healing, refusing recompense except when neces-

sary to continue his practice and research.

As the doctor ﬁshed about the trundle, the warrior slow-

ly shook his head. “No, not for ﬁnal rites. Unction.

Healing … prayer … ”

“I know ﬁghting the heathens commands your full atten-

tion, boy,” the doctor said darkly, “but perhaps you have

noticed that when the Patriarchy declares holy war, mir-

acles are in short supply.”

The doctor produced a fat onion from the trundle, still

ﬂecked with fresh dirt. A blur of the doctor’s bone saw

split the ripe earth-fruit into ragged halves. He uncov-

ered the warrior’s feet. A scalpel appeared in the doctor’s

hand. Before the warrior could even blink in surprise,

blood streamed from the arch of his left foot.

The doctor bound one half of the onion to the left foot

before moving on to the right.

“What madness is this?” the warrior sobbed.

Asclepius became a patron saint of doctors, and suppos-

edly began the tradition of arcane healers. In some

lands, physicians of all sorts are called the “Children of

Asclepius,” and groups of doctors the “Asclepiads.”

Arcane healers organize into cults, colleges, hospices,

and secret societies all over the world, practicing their

strange “science” of alchemical medicine. They are most

prominent in lands lacking the protection of the gods,

and often come into conﬂict with clerics and religious

groups. While the whims and aides of the gods are ﬁck-

le, arcane healers argue, the science of alchemy remains

the constant protector against mortal injury and disease.

“Medicine,” the doctor grunted, working with some

twine. “Fundamental alchemy, really. Lice spontaneous-

ly generate from the human offal of a war camp. The

camp louse, therefore, is comprised entirely of excreta.

Lice burrow into the skin and reintroduce the expelled

waste back into the body. This imbalances the bodily

humours, which in turn slowly putreﬁes the blood. The

swiftest remedy is a rebalancing of your humours. Look,

your toes are already gangrenous.” The young patient

sobbed again. “You’re suffering from an obvious over-

abundance of black bile — the melan cholos. By leech-

ing excess melancholy from the blood, I will restore the

balance, and your body will heal. It’s all in my treatise.”

HEALER’S OATH

The doctor took a chunk of basalt rock from the trundle

and balanced it on his patient’s forehead. “There, now.

Boy,” he said, “if your black mood doesn’t lift by the end

of the day, let the attendant know and we’ll adjust your

treatment. Otherwise, see you in a few days.”

To learn their secret magic and knowledge, an appren-

tice arcane healer must swear the Healer’s Oath.

Written by Adam Bank • Illustrated by Michael Clarke

chapter one

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