Invocations

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Invocations denotes how skillful your character is at beseeching a deity for help. It improves the power and/or success rate of most god-given powers. (For some gods, piety also has this effect.)

Invocations also increases your maximum MP, but does not stack with Spellcasting and is only half as effective.

Aptitudes

At	Ba	Co	DE	Dg	Ds	Dj	Dr	Fe	Fo	GC	Gr	Gn	Hu	Ko	Mf	Mi	MD	Mu	Na	Op	On	Po	Re	Sp	Te	Tr	VS
0	-1	-2	1	N/A	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	9	1	1	1	0	3	-1	1	1	2	-1	1	0	-1	-1	0

Applicable Gods

Invocations skill is useful when worshipping one of the following gods:

• Beogh
• Cheibriados
• Dithmenos
• Elyvilon
• Fedhas Madash
• Hepliaklqana
• Lugonu
• Makhleb
• Nemelex Xobeh
• Okawaru
• Qazlal
• Sif Muna
• The Shining One
• Uskayaw
• Yredelemnul
• Zin

The remaining gods do not use Invocations skill:

• Kikubaaqudgha's abilities are powered by Necromancy.
• Ashenzari, Gozag, Ignis, Jiyva, Ru, Trog, and Wu Jian give abilities that are independent of skills.
• Vehumet and Xom don't provide any active abilities.

History

• Prior to 0.26, you could train this skill only if your god used it or if you had a manual of Invocations.
• Prior to 0.19, Nemelex Xobeh's abilities were based on Evocations.
• Prior to 0.14, Jiyva's abilities were based on Invocations.
• Prior to 0.12, Invocations required 80% as much XP in order to train, but all species' aptitudes were 1 lower.