The Shadow Warrior ninja is able to learn some wizard spells. The following spells are known only by members of ninja clans. The Shadow Warrior knows most spells of illusion. Ninja spells are unlike most other types of spells because the only componets they require are kuji-kiri finger excercises. These stylized hand manipulations, used by the ninja to enhance meditation, are usually performed from a kneeling position.
Face-Blur (illusion): The ninja casts this spell on him or herself or upon another. Its may be cast only on a willing target.
The spell alters the target's features slightly, making them unmarkable-neither handsome nor ugly. The gaze of any witness slides right off the features of a ninja affected by this spell.
A person who is keenly and alertly looking at the faces of everyone he or she sees-such as a dedicated guard scanning a crowd to find someone who has just disappeared into it-has the effect of the spell,seeing the nondescript face.
This spell's success depends on the ninja's maintaining a mental attitude of dullness and bordom. When a ninja deliberately does something interesting while wearing this spell-as if attacking someone, saves a life, or robs-the spell ends and every witness can see his or her true features.
This spell can be cancealed by a dispel magic spell.
False Tracks (Illusion): For the duration of this spell, the ninja leaves tracks appropriate to a common normal animal. (herd beast, deer, fox, etc.) The ninja chooses the species when the spell is cast. His or her footprints will be those of an animal, moving at whatever pace the ninja maintains. (If the ninja is running, he or she leaves behind the running footprints of the animal.) If bits of the ninja's clothing become snagged on underbrush, they will appear to be bits of animal hide. However, if the ninja drops an item of equipment or a garment, this spell will not conceal its nature.
This spell can be removed by casting a dispel magic spell. If such a spell is cast on any part of the ninja has left behind, the entire spell is canceled and all tracks revert to normal.
The effects of this spell are entirely illusory. When the spell duration ends, all affected footprints revert to normal. Ninja use this spell to elude pursuers. When someone a ninja wishes to ambush is hunting a specific type of animal, the ninja will leave tracks of that animal for the quarry to follow.
Find Direction (Divination): By performing kuji-kiri finger excercises, the ninja obtains a momentary understanding of his or her current direction. This can be very helpful when he or she has become lost.
The ninja understands the actual direction in relation to true north, south, east, and west; the presence lodestones will not affect the spell. The spell works underground, in darkness, when the ninja is upside down, and in any sort of disorienting circumstance.
Lesser Distraction (Illusion): With this spell, the caster causes the victim to hear faint noise or see something indistinct out of the corner of his or her eye. The caster must decide if the illusion will be auditory or visual but cannot choose to further define the distraction. This will be a sound, but not a footstep or a low moan. Or it will be a glimpse of something, but not of a person.
The victim believes the sight or sound to originate from a direction of the spellcaster's choice. (The spellcaster cannot choose distance. A victim can be made to believe that he or she heard a sound behind them, but not that it was something moving 30 feet behind them. He or she can be made to think that they saw motion off to their right, but not that it was something moving at the top of a wall 50 feet from them.)
The victim is free to act as he chooses on the illusion. He or she may ignore it or may be moved by duty or curiousity to investigate.
Because the illusion is quick and not detailed. The spell is used by a ninja attempting an escape or infiltration. It is designed to encourage a guard to leave his post for a movement.