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As of DSB 0.26, the rendering and handling of the magic spell dialog is handled by Lua, and the magic system is thus a lot more open.

The only thing the core engine stores now is rune numbers, which can be drawn by your renderer however you like. It can also store up to 8 runes, so if designers want to add another level to the magic system, or completely revamp it, they can.

The key variables are: I've made one significant change to the spell tables, so keep this in mind if you're creating new spells: Due to the ability to now have a (more or less) arbitrary number of runes in a spell, I decided that storing the spells as three-digit numbers (the three runes other than power) was not practical anymore, so any trailing zeros have been eliminated. Thus, spell [400] is now [4]. Spell [440] is now [44], etc. Three-digit spells are the same. This means that if you added a set of fifth runes, new spells could be written by simply putting four-digit numbers into magic.lua.