Note- Letter Bee asked me to write this up, and help him out with the creation. He and I will review them once you all have made your's.
Magical Cantrips
What is a Cantrip?(For those who may not know.) Is is a small magical talent or activity. It can be something as simple as shining a light from the end of your finger, feeling the magic within someone close, making it seem as if you have eight fingers on one hand. They are small, minor magical abilities. Things that are innate to a classification of magic, but are unique to a caster like their spells.
These will not be number restricted or heavily pressed to be organized. HOWEVER! Note, Cantrips cannot be large, and cannot influence the world or things to the level a Spell would, as that is what Spells are for in the obvious case. The idea is for each of you, myself included to devise using Cantrips throughout the Rp as your character would do. They should be aesthetically pleasing to your character concept, and reasonably unique, without going out of the bounds of a Cantrip. I will aid you in your understanding, using some concepts that will be unique to Eric Maynard.(My Character.)
Eric's Cantrips
-Speaking to Animals he has grown accustom too, and spent time around. (This is a Cantrip, because to instantly speak to any and all animals, would take a spell, but like Druids in other Fantasy/magical Settings, should they spend enough time with a singular animal, they connect with it, and thus their magic is connected as a Druid. This applies to Eric, it is a cantrip, due to the limitations on it, rather than it's spell form.)
- Gathering Fire-Flies to produce light (Eric will be able to draw in Fire-Flies using a faint magical attraction, and this will draw a small, but decent enough, collection of Fire-Flies to produce light to see in most dark areas.)
- Extremely short range detection of Life (Detect Living/Life spells exist, and the full spell form is extremely powerful! However Eric isn't skilled in that spell[Yet maybe! Who knows! Maybe Cantrips can evolve into full spells! Character Development Kiddies!], the range is barely bigger than two bedrooms, a large foyer in a upper-class house at best. This allows him close range detection of living for survival situations and tracking. This also brings me to the next Cantrip.)
- Magical Echoing/Tracking (Eric can recall recent magical activity, or Magi through their auras even after they have left. However the time window is short, as it is a tracking cantrip, and can't be over-powered. He can only feel and track Magical Echos from about twenty minutes prior to his finding of the aura's echo.
These are Eric's current Cantrips. I hope this gives you all some great ideas! Remember not to make them too powerful! Letter Bee and I will always review them and notify you if something is up with a Cantrip that you do in the Rp! Now, you don't have to go making a big list about them like I just did! But we would both like it very much if you put a short summary or conceptual explanation of how your Character might use Cantrips!