For Magic Mondays this week we bring you an array that may have saved more lives than any other array in existence.
This week we give you the Saving Grace array.
Notation: Create and Sustain a Containment field in the shape of a Dome’s Edge that excludes Animals, Arsenic, Carbon, Copper, Fire, Gold, Iron, Lead, Mercury, Plants, Silver, Stone, Sulphur, Tin and Wood.
Description: At first glance the Saving Grace may seem like a supercharged Middelburg Standard array and that is because, from a certain standpoint, it is. However, where the Middelburg Standard is all about personal protection, the Saving Grace is about saving lots of people all at once. This was the array that saved Middelburg from the wrath of King Markus VI ‘the Incendiary’ during the Alfresian War of Independence. It was carved across the city so that the dome would encompass nearly everyone inside and once it was up, almost nothing could go in or out. The Alfresians sealed themselves off to protect themselves.
Of interest in this array is the use of the Shell rune (just to right of the central Contain rune). What this rune does is create a wall around the edge of the containment field and restricts the effects of the array to that wall. If this was not the case, the effects would happen inside the entire domed containment field, and seeing as it excludes almost everything, it would disintegrate everything inside it. With the Shell rune, you can stay safely inside the containment field without it harming you.
Of course, it can’t stop everything. By necessity air and water is allowed through, but all those things that the runes and array can’t target can come through, like bronze. As an alloy, the runes and arrays can’t target bronze and for this reason most of the musket and cannon balls fired during the war for Middelburg were made of bronze. However, this had to be done from a distance as the Saving Grace array excludes animals, and humans are animals.
To learn how to create your own array, go to our video about making arrays at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxKcGNjSpM4