Most charms in this spellbook say what they do. The protection school says what ends them, and the four failure conditions are more instructive than the four effects. Step outside the circle and the barrier stops. Strike at anything outside it and the barrier stops. Miss one of six sides and that side is open. Lose the consecrated object and the working ends. Cross into the other hemisphere and it never started.1
So a protection here is a standing arrangement with terms, and every one of the four first-level charms tells you the term that voids it.
The circle charm is the school's most common working and it has the sharpest cancellation clause in the volume. What it stops: all forms of ghosts, lowly spirits and evil nature beings, plus low ranking fallen angels, plus all accidents and misfortunes brought about by these evil and dark beings. And separately, evil magic and dark spells, especially those which seek to harm the recipient physically or mentally.
Low ranking. The entry is careful about that — this is a barrier against the lesser end of the population, not against everything. How the area is set: the incantation goes over a place, a room or another such structure in which the Wizard is present, and the area of effect is determined by a magical circle which must be made with either salt or sand, or by tracing the circumference with a magical wand.
Three materials, one boundary. Salt, sand, or a traced line. Then the clause: the incantation will cease to function as soon as the Wizard leaves the area of effect, or attacks anything outside the area of effect.
Two conditions, and they are different in kind. The first is positional — the barrier holds while you are inside it, so it protects a place with you in it rather than protecting you. The second is about conduct. Strike outward and the wall comes down. Which makes this a purely defensive instrument by construction: the moment it is used as cover for an attack, it stops being cover.
⚠ Nothing states what counts as an attack, whether a spoken formula counts, or whether the barrier can be re-raised afterwards. What is clear is that the design forecloses the obvious tactic — standing safe and hitting out from inside. Psalm 72:28. Celestial: Harararon, Angel of the Second Heaven, who governs the protection of the devout, the good and the innocent.
The second charm builds a wall rather than a circle, and the geometry is the whole instruction. What it produces: a powerful and mystic wall which procures protection from negative attacks, noxious environment, and even from the attacks of dark magic users who seek to place misfortune and peril into the life of the recipients.
Where it goes: the mystic wall doesn't move, but it can be placed over larger structures like houses and small buildings — so this is the charm for a building, where the circle is for a room you are standing in. Then the rule that makes it laborious: the spell only confers protection from the side it was placed on, so the Wizard must cast the spell on all six sides — right, left, front, back, up and down — in order to be fully protected.
Six castings. One wall each, and a side not cast is a side not covered — including the ground and the sky, which are named explicitly. And each side takes a material: consecrated salt should be tossed on each side the magical wall is cast.
Then a specific use, which is the only place a class of being is named as an infestation rather than an attacker: the charm can be used to stop a place from being infected by Astral Larvae and other Ethereal Beings. ⚠ Astral larvae turn up here and in the second-level enchantment that lifts a low mood, where they are described as siphoning energy from a person. Here they infect a place. The two uses are consistent and the beings are never defined.
And the domestic use is the most human line in the school: many Wizards employ this spell in order to sleep well in haunted places or spaces which might be populated by nature spirits or ghosts. Psalm 108:31. Celestial: Auriel, Domain of the Second Heaven, who guards people from the attacks of others and who raises fortified walls against the wicked.
The third is protection placed on another person, and it carries the clearest consent condition in the spellbook. For this incantation to be effective, the recipient of the spell must ask for the protection.
Must ask. Not be told, not be willing — must ask, and the entry frames it as a condition of effectiveness rather than as a courtesy. ⚠ That is worth marking, because a great deal of this material acts on people who have not asked and in several cases cannot be told. This is the one working in the ranges read in this build where the recipient's request is stated as a load-bearing condition.
A second condition sits alongside it: the Wizard must cast it during the hours of the morning. What it protects against: physical assaults, strikes, and unsuspected attacks from belligerent people, plus minor accidents and falls. Bodily, ordinary, and specific.
The mechanism is a companion rather than a barrier: the incantation sends a celestial being after the person, who will guide the person intuitively away from harm and misfortune. Guided away, intuitively. So the protection is not a wall the danger hits — it is a nudge that keeps the person from being where the danger is.
And the object requirement has two halves that are easy to conflate. The protected person must carry at all times a consecrated item which will radiate the energy of the incantation. And the consecrated item must be present at the moment of casting, the Wizard holding it as he/she places the spell.
The wizard holds it while casting. The recipient carries it afterwards. So the object has to change hands, which means the two people have to meet — another way this charm requires the recipient's participation.
Psalm 105:47. Celestial: Rasarel, Power of the Second Heaven, who guards against evil and protects against unfortunate accidents.
The fourth is the most structurally complex working in the school and it is a binding rather than a spell in its own right. What it is for: bringing protection to someone else, especially when the Wizard cannot be present to help — sending energies and forces particularly when these people are not close by.
The image comes first: the wizard must visualize the recipient of the incantation and see how many celestial beings circulate around his/her form providing protection and various magical aids. How many — a count, seen rather than chosen. Then the construction, and the order is explicit. The wizard can place a general protective barrier against evil, a healing incantation, and a blessing over the recipient. And: the three other incantations should be cast first, and then tied together by casting the Prodo Protevirus.
Three separate workings, then a fourth that binds them into one. Which makes this charm an assembly rather than an effect — the same operation the Artificium chapter describes as weaving, arriving here as a single named formula. Then two conditions, and both can end it.
The Wizard and the recipient of the spell must both carry a consecrated item as a symbol of the protection. Should the items be lost the incantation will end.
Both of them. Two objects, one working, and losing either ends it — which means the caster remains part of the arrangement rather than handing it over. This incantation will not work if the recipient of the spell is in another hemisphere.
⚠ A geographical limit, stated without explanation, and the only one of its kind in the volume. It sits oddly against a charm whose entire purpose is protecting somebody who is far away. Psalm 66:2. Celestial: Sarfagel, Host of the Third Heaven, who rules over protection and defense of the weak.
Read the four together and none of them is the same kind of thing, which is what makes the school usable. A circle — a bounded place, holding while you stay in it and do not strike out. A wall — six of them, cast one at a time, over a building that does not move. A companion — a being sent after a person who nudges them away from harm. A binding — three workings tied into one and anchored by two objects.
Two are places, two are people. And the two aimed at people are the two with the heaviest conditions: one requires being asked and a morning casting and a handed-over object; the other requires two objects, three prior castings, and the same hemisphere. ⚠ Which is a consistent pattern rather than an accident. Protecting a room is cheap here. Protecting a person is expensive, conditional, and revocable — and only one of the two requires the person to want it.
The celestials here sit at the Second, Second, Second and Third Heavens — the tightest clustering in any school read in this build — and the ranks are Angel, Domain, Power and Host. Harararon governs the protection of the devout, the good and the innocent. Three categories, and none of them is anyone.
Auriel both guards people from the attacks of others and raises fortified walls against the wicked — an office in two halves, matching a charm that is a wall. Rasarel guards against evil and against unfortunate accidents, which is the same split the charm makes between belligerent people and minor falls.
Sarfagel rules protection and defense of the weak. ⚠ Auriel is a real and standard name in the Western angelic tradition, usually one of the four cardinal archangels. Here it is a Domain of the Second Heaven and is given a wall-building office.
For a room you are in: Aegis Deux. Lay the circle in salt or sand, or trace it with the wand. Stay inside it, and do not strike at anything outside it — either one ends the working.
For a house or small building: Munio Munimentum, cast six separate times — right, left, front, back, up and down — with consecrated salt tossed on each side. A side you skip is a side that is open. For another person's body: Patronus Custam, and only if they have asked. Cast in the morning, holding the consecrated item they will then carry at all times. Expect a celestial companion steering them away from trouble rather than a barrier stopping it.
For somebody far away: cast the barrier, the healing and the blessing first, then tie them with Prodo Protevirus. Both of you carry a consecrated item; if either is lost the working ends. And it does not reach across hemispheres.
The four incantations, their conditions, psalms and celestials are all in the First Level Protections section of the spellbook. This is the Eldest Tradition warrant on the source stub. 🚩 SINGLE SOURCE.
⚠ Patronus Custam's requirement that the recipient of the spell must ask for the protection is the clearest consent condition in the ranges read in this build. It was carried in this build's earlier working notes as unlocated; it is here. ⚠ The hemisphere limit on Prodo Protevirus is stated with no reason and no workaround, on the charm whose purpose is reaching somebody distant.
⚠ Astral Larvae appear here as something that infects a place and elsewhere as something that drains a person. Neither passage defines them. Unresolved: Aegis Deux ends if the wizard attacks anything outside the circle, and nothing states what counts as an attack — whether a spoken formula aimed outward breaks it, or only a physical one.
Follow Patronus Custam and this school will not act on somebody uninvited. The recipient must ask, the casting is in the morning, and an object has to pass between two people who therefore have to meet. Follow Prodo Protevirus and the same school protects a person who may know nothing about it. The wizard visualises them, casts three workings over them, ties the three together, and the only stated requirements are two objects and a hemisphere.
Both are in the same four, one entry apart. The school that produces the volume's clearest consent condition also produces its most elaborate working performed at a distance on somebody who was never asked.
Zero handshakes on this page. The material is four printed formulas with their conditions, texts and celestials, and the connection that would earn its place — the weaving of several workings into one — is carried inside this build by the page that treats the four forms of Artificium directly.
Sharpest implication. The circle has two ways to fail and the second is about conduct: it will cease to function as soon as the Wizard leaves the area of effect, or attacks anything outside the area of effect. The most common protection in this practice is built so that it cannot be used as cover for a strike — the moment you hit out, the wall is gone.
Generative questions.