Imagine sacrificing your friend to cast magic missiles with a level 10 spell slot.

The way he explained it as a ‘workaround’ kept making me think “THE TRICK THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW, GODS HATE IT! Only 99 gold!”

Last time I was this early, you could cast 11th level spells

How to cast a 10th level spell: Step 1: Find a generous DM.

Casting tenth level spells sounds like trying to understand your code the next day

Me: 10th level pls? Mystra: no you nearly screwed up my entire lineage Friend: pls Mystra: alr but you gotta try it at least twice, and your gonna be hella weak every time Me: thanks Mystra: but you gotta do the fusion dance, and I'm not gonna let you guys do stupid stuff neither Me: you could've just said no

Mystra as she sees someone's trying to cast a 10th lv spell: feeblemind with a dc of haha haha.

Me: shows my dm this video Me: “so can I-“ Dm: “no you can not lift a mountain”

Mystra, the best example of a terrible DM

You should do a "what they don't tell you about [insert god here]" series

The truth? Up to the DM.

*Sends this video to my gm Call 5 minutes later turns around in my chair for no reason* "I believe the time has come for a new age to dawn"

I just wanna take a moment to appreciate your videos. I personally have never played D&D, but the way you bring your lore videos makes it so that doesn't matter. You throw in a huge amount of knowledge with a lot of research, which you then elaborate in an interesting way which is easy to follow. Thanks for making your videos and I hope you keep enjoying and making them :D

I had actually figured this out through various different wiki's and ruled for my own campaign that because she was so fresh in activity, she was less savvy at repairing the weave after so much damage had been done to it through the spellplague and wild magic that transformed entire continents. Which allowed those old enough to remember, or have stolen such knowledge, to cast these spells nearly freely. Which was perfect for my Arch-lich BBEG.

So sacrafise your friend for a 10th level spell then revive him

“ to humans.....”. I see the work around right there!

Wizards of the coast love killing Mistra so much.

10th level fireball here I come!!!

stupid question: could a genius wizard use a simulacrum as their helper for casting a 10th level spell?

Mystra sets a ton of rules on casting 10th+ level spells 1:12 "This is why people are sure such power will never be achieved again" Wizards/Clerics/Druids: *laughs in Epic Spellcasting*

I managed to cast a tenth level spell by creating an undead computer

Mystra: *breaths* WotC: "And I took that personally"

I play a wizard in my AD&D campaign... Maybe it’s time to seek such power for myself...

So if Mystra was the one who set these limitations, and each god is restricted to their Crystal Sphere, does that mean 10th+ level spells are able to be cast in other settings?

What happened to the other ways of casting 10th level spells? I thought the elves had high elven magic that also allowed them to do so, even after the ban.

10th level casting...when Mystra really starts about thinking to demonitize a wizard.

Thanks for the work done DR. Yildep. the great spell caster you're a great specialist ..

It is absolutely fine to do a bit of Meta, you’re doing principle lore stuff, but a little mechanics in each episode is nice.

Answer: Have your DM lose his mind

Your explanations on why things are the way they are in dnd and how that came to be are so detailed that I almost forgot these things didn't actually happen.

Something to ask: From what I remember of the lore Midnight didn't get revived as herself but she was revived using the divine peace that was left of Mystra... so the new Midnight/Mystra is technically a new reincarnation of old Mystra.

When you are finished with this spell franchise which by the way is Amazing I would love to see more on space and spell jammers thank you so much for all the hard work you have put in to D&D lore And can't wait for more

I am *obsessed* with this serie! The lore is super interesting, especially for someone like me that recently started delving into dnd, and your exposition is just so well structured and misterious!

Sounds to me like this could be the start of an interesting campaign: The Return Of Netheril, where the heroes help to create a NEW magic empire! But will Mystra stay silent? With the old evils that brought the Netherese low return? Will they even survive its success?! Side note: if the use of 10th level spells needs WISDOM, then what would the amount have to be? By level 20, any wizard worthy of the title should have an Intelligence of 20 NATURALLY to be able to even UNDERSTAND what the 10th level spell even IS, but I think to cast it the’ll need between 18 and 20 Wisdom. Only less - to a minimum of 16 - if the spell itself has “plot armor,” and is necessary for the campaign.

Do a video on the Shadow Weave. The Shadow Weave would avoid Mystra's detection, in exchange for making a pact with Shar, or becoming a worshiper of Shar and permanently losing a part of your soul. So before the spell plague, you would be able to make a deal with Shar to cast a 10th level spell. But 10th level spells still wouldn't be able to be strong enough to do anything that could avoid the gods and let you cast 10th level spells indefinitely.

What if you're a level 20 Arcane domain Cleric of Mystra and used Divine Intervention to ask permission to cast a 10th-12th level spell, or to ask Mystra herself to cast it?

Watching these vids on higher magics are really putting ideas in my head for my campaigns... Sweet job with the vids Rhexx

This recent set of videos has given me a lot of inspiration for the campaign I'm writing. So thank you for making such great videos!

Yes! More on the spells above 9th level. Epic spells would be a nice video too. Hmm I think there was Epic spell crafting in there somewhere awhile back.

"no views", this is a first for me

I just want to say I do appreciate you churning these out really quickly. I know these are not that easy to make.

This last few episodes were so GOOD, I love the concept of these 10th level spells and just the general history of Mistra in general.

1:23 Mystra says no restoring 8 health, no drawing 3 cards.

Here's a tip that might help some wizards cast 10th level spells for personal reasons without getting feebleminded by the gods in their attempts. Go to sigil. As long as you don't do anything to the city or cast any teleportation or planescaping spells, the Lady of Pain won't really stop you. And the gods can't go to sigil either.

Around 5:35 you state something to the effect that some people dislike it when you go meta in these videos. That's crazy! All of my friends that watch this have actually played D&D since at least 2nd edition (others since BECMI). We LOVE it when you dive deep into what the game effects entail! Keep up the great work and ignore the haters!

Love the dramatic finish, great video :)

I would opt to try to cast a 10th level spell with the Shadow Weave instead. Shar would LOVE to boast that the Shadow Weave was more powerful than the Spell Weave. The act alone would cause many arcane users to start using the Shadow Weave instead which would super power Shar. This would almost certainly cause her to grant you the powers of a Chosen, Exarch, or even be granted a portion of her increased power to become a Demigod.

I would love to see a full lore video on the Time of Troubles

Your videos are really cool I like the perspective you give! I'm glad I stumbled upon your series :-)

i love it. a new era for magic has started. i love magic and spell casting but more over i loke the high level spells. Definitely Playing D&D from now on. :)

I have home brewed most of my campaigns so that if the players put time gold they can create spells higher than 9th level but it will always end in a die roll of a d100. I still use Mistras ban on high magic but do to time she has gotten lax with her lock down on that magic do to her belief that mortals have just given up on 10th lv and higher spells. Witch has led to some epic spell that have dramatically change the face of my semi home brew faerun.

The Goddess who comes back at the end of the plague is the restoration of Mystra(the one between Mystryl and Midnight). At the end of the last Novel, Storm calls her Mother and Elminster is fond to have her back

I was just searching for this right before work, glad I got something good to watch on break

This is a beastly video essay, I learned a lot. I don't think the topic could be explained much more succintly. Pretty sure Rhexx is just Oghma tbh

When Mystryl dies she gets reincarnated immediately and when midnight dies kind of just nothing happens for 10 years? Also if any goddess of magic can feel what a caster is trying to do with his spell. Mystryl couldve just.... not let karsus kill her??

Meanwhile, in my local D&D group (We're Brazilian and i am the only one in the group with a good understanding of english, so i can't send them this video)... My friend is DMing a adventure about Elminster, apparently, going bat-shit crazy and working together with a multiplanar circus from Eberron(Where the player characters of the DM live) to find and collect all powerfull Magic items in Faerun, and beyond, so he can use their magic to create a rune so he can cast a 13th level spell for whatever reason. That might seem like a somewhat bad story by itself, but it's united with the power of the weeb soul of the DM. So, with that combination, the players are the nominally weakest of a group of 100 parties helping in this task, under the lead of a Monk named Natsu, with a doll called Happy by his side, qnd together they do nothing but watch while our lvl 1 party fights against lvl 3 parties (the DM makes every humanoid npc have a player character sheet) and almost die every battle

I'm 14 now and 6-7 years ago when i was in 3rd grade I used to watch your arena videos, I saw them again and it gave me so much nostalgia your videos are doing pretty well, gl in the future

These videos rock. Keep it up, man.

I have never seen a man with so much powers as *Dr Ikenga* he's blessed with spiritual powers

sorry i was about to write something meaningful but i must go play dnd now:)

Great video as always! I didn't know how recent your other ones on magic were so I had no hope of this coming out any time soon. I'd be really interested in a video on the other methods to cast higher magic, like the elf sacrifice that you mentioned a while ago or epic magic and how that works or how you would justify it still existing.

Bro all these lore videos are helping me with my campaigns thank you so much

So this is the elven breed of Magic that you mentioned in an earlier level

So this is why the 3.5 Epic Level Handbook has them as doable?

I love it when you provide your in-game META critique. As a DM, it gives me wonderful ideas for my games, and occurrences that I could include for some nice flavor. As well as being basically by the book, so my rules lawyer player cannot even attribute a more than a slight argument against it. (3.5e)

Oh my god! So good! so much inspiration! I can't get enough!!!

Can you please make a video on how the elves made their epic magic after the ban?

This is the earliest I've ever got a video recommended to me. It says 1 minute ago

I just found a core to my magic based campaign. Thank you so much for posting this :D

I have always been interested in the magic of D&D. In my games I try to find lore and gather information about it, but have never played a wizard, outside of DMing. Inspired by your videos, I decided to take a wizard class for the first time, and will be starting up soon in a long journey to restore the age of magic, and 10th level spells =D I love your content, thank you for creating. I look forward to the video on space and spelljammers.

sounds like a lich could learn how with minimal down side since they are already dead and already use the life force of others to survive

Guys what about going on a spelljamer to space beyond the mystra territory and cast 10 lvl or higher spell will IT work ? its much easier than 100 years of trainig and a sacrafice what do you think?

Beautiful video, you are amazing my dude!

Thanks for all these lore vids. I never played dnd myself, but I do enjoy the rich world and how lots of fantasy genre bases from it. Would be awesome to listen ur ver of dnd's view of death, undead, lich, etc. Again, thanks for the vids!

What are "levels" in the forgotten realms anyway? like what does determine how high of a level a certain spell is?

*- SpongeBob SquarePants:* _"With imagination, you can be anything you want. 🌈"_

Thank you for all your work! Because of you, I am now able to legitimize my campaign!

This is exciting! I did not consider the events of the Time of Troubles at all! This is quite mind blowing!

Would it be possible, through time travel or through some magic battery, to use the weave from the Netheril Age to bypass the rules?

Pumping out some quality content my guy, sometimes you really have to appreciate youtube recommendations.

Dude!!! These are coming so much faster now!!!

Isn't there a way for elves to circumvent the restrictions?

9:45 Looks like a battle royale barrier.

Thank you heaps! I had a undead wizard who was left alone at the end of the campaign for 30 years, when she came back for a Camo she was still at 13th level...now I know why...she's been meddling in 10th level spellcasting and level drained herself over and over again trying to make it work. :)

As always a great video. So many more to get too.

Hypothetically, couldn't you just leave Wildspace, the crystal sphere of Toril, and cast the spell outside of every god's domain?

I have had nvr been a believer of such things. But after I had a break , and then I wanted to reunite with my ex ,I tried love spells. Honestly speaking was completely speechless with the spiritual power of Dr ikenga. Everything happened as he said to me

Thanks my dood! Loved this cuz I got the Spellplague timing confused! I thought it happened after Karsus

I've just watched 3 videos in a row of this channel, and now I realized i know nothing about D&D's lore. And also, I'm addicted to this channel.

I've been waiting for this.

This is quite interesting. Personally after seeing your First video so long ago about 10th Level Magic, I started to work on a system for the use of magic beyond 9th Level Spells. It’s a lot less restrictive than this, but by consequence, Magic beyond 9th level is weaker than before. It’s still stronger then 9th level, but not on the level of before. All Spells beyond 9th are considered “Mythic” Level. That basically means there beyond the highest level and often become subjects of Myth. There are restrictions as before and special rules: -Each Spell requires more then 1 Spell Slot. The total level of the Spell Slots needed depends on the spell (Ex: 12, 14, 16). -No Spell can grant one Apotheosis. -You can only Cast 1 Mythic Spell every so often. It can be as often as 1/Day to 1/Week. -Sometimes you won’t be able to cast a Spell of a level higher than any of the spells slots used. You can still use the spell slots, but cannot use spells of those levels. (Ex: If you used a 6th Level Spell Slot as part of it, You can’t cast any spells of 6th Level or Higher, but can cast a 1st-5th Level using the 6th Spell Slot). This lasts until you finish a Long Rest and can’t be cured by anything. Not even Wish. You have to recover naturally. -There’s no bypassing the Components at all. There incredibly expensive and difficult to obtain. -No magical items can recreate a Mythic Spell nor can any Creature innately cast them. They can help in casting it like other spells, they cannot grant the spells themselves. You’re not gonna find them on a Staff or available to be cast by a creature innately. Only a God could recreate there effects -Etceteras. If you wanna hear more, just ask.

Nice read and digging into those old books

Great video , again you prove yourself as a " Lore Master Sage "

Another great one video! Thanks a lot, especially for enumarate all Mystra incarnations /successors. But... It was stated, that NewNetheril's arcanists from Shade was fixing their Mythalar, and the ones found from another enclaves. Doing so so I think they used the 10th lvl spells in the process. Also they use high lvl (some belive it is also 10th lvl kind) spells to melt Icefields north of Anauroch ang begun terraforming it. At the start of the 4th edition the terraforming process is already done, and the Anauroch is no more sandy desert. It is the moment before Mystra "was bring back to live". So in the absence of Mystra, the ban itself was not maintained. We all waiting for FR campaign guide for 5th ed, or another adventure/campaign, lore book to give us a hint what is the state now. But... we are missing one thing: To become master in arts, one must spend a lot of training, a lot of. And as it was told in this video, during the Spellplague almost all powerfull spellcasters died/went mad. And a 105-115 years is a way to short time to populate any nation to be full of high level arcane casters. Those who survived the Spellplague and dont went mad had to learn "the new wave" again to be able to cast even single spells. An this take time... So healed Mystra have time to be ready to power the ban again, or to alter it with something else. One should mention also, that the forging of new Tablets of Fate by AIO and SecondSunderring could have also some effect on this matter.

i love these videos, i love your channel.

So, Mystra is just the DnD deific equivalent to the Sean Bean meme. Also, thank you so much for making these Videos. I originally watched these when they were released, and am now revisiting them in order to plan out a possible way for how the campaign I currently master could go.

A very useful video would be describing the events and lore leading up to Horde of The Dragon Queen so players have a good sense on what they're walking into. It would actually be helpful to both DM and player alike as the DM needs one last handout and players can make more campaign appropriate characters.

Great video, very informative

Thanks for all your videos! I'm researching 9th+ level magic for my campaign, and I sometimes wish I could listen to these on the go. Have you ever considered doing a podcast? :)

You should be da best dm ever, I love lore and it seems you would make an epic lvl company with all this nerd knowledge