Available to Magic-User 1+ and Bards 2+. A faintly-visible field forms around you and endures for the remainder of this round, plus the next X rounds where X is equal to your overall caster levels. Any corporeal melee or ranged attack that hits you for the duration has its incoming damage reduced by Y, where Y is equal to the sum of your Intelligence modifier and one other ability score's modifier of your choice (minimum '1' result). Exception: on the round in which the shield forms, it blocks (Y + Z) damage, where Z is the ability score modifier of a third Ability Score not yet selected (minimum Z value of 1). Each time the shield thus reduces incoming damage, there is a cumulative one-percent chance that you gain 1 percentile point to an Ability Score of your choice.

Arcane Adept — Arcane Adept is a trait that can be taken by mage and mage-subclass characters. The Arcane Adept trait can be used in skill checks regarding a contest of wills between two spellcasters. It may be added to arcane research checks, checks to learn new spells, and checks involved with the creation of magic items. The hero Feyre Archeron possesses this trait.

Arcane — Having to do with magic; eldritch forces; possessed of a dweomer; of a rare or esoteric quality such that one might consult a learned sage regarding.