Strands of Arcane Power

[Loren]

It randomly searches provinces which you own and which have at least one candle. They will not be searched all at once but in time they end up searched. You can only search paths that you have, I've never seen a province searched to more than level 3 by this spell.

Since I've seen provinces searched to level 1 or 2 but later at 3 with the same mage I think what's going on is that it randomly applies one level of searching.

I have never cast it with a mage with one or two levels of a path so I don't know what happens in this case.

Generally you fry or kill enemy mages in provinces you have a candle in, although I have been feebleminded by it when I hit a powerful enemy mage. Note that the spell does *NOT* go down if you're feebleminded, but you will not be able to feeblemind any other mages until your mind is restored.

I suspect that the number of candles you have has an effect on how fast you search a province, it seems the borders don't search as fast as the inner areas. It's also possible I'm seeing some sort of range effect. I've never tried to map it carefully, that's just my observation.