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RsrchSp
This order allows a character with mage skill to attempt to research a new spell. The character must be in one of their own population centres, and their nation must already have the required gold in its vaults. Furthermore, they already know any prerequisite spells required for the spell being researched. Success, and proficiency in the spell if successfully learned, is based on the character's mage rank and the difficulty of the spell being learnt. To research a spell costs 1000 gold, which must be available in the nation’s reserves (not the individual product store of the population centre where the character is located), and is used even if the order fails. If two spells are researched on the same turn, the spell to be researched first is chosen at random. Therefore it is possible, for example, to attempt to learn Wall of Fire (Spell 206) and Fire Bolts (Spell 232) on the same turn. But as it is necessary for a character to know the Wall of Fire spell before they can learn the Fire Bolts spell, if the Fire Bolts spell is researched first then this will fail (because Wall of Fire is not yet known), and only the Wall of Fire spell will then be learned.
angul, 705, 428