Animate

Animate
Ultima VI Incantation: Ort Ylem Reagents: SA, MR, BM Circle: 4th

Animate endows inanimate objects with life.

Spell Description

Casting the spell Animate on an inanimate object will cause it to "come to life", in that it will wander around and react to outside influences. Furthermore, this newly incarnated device will retain many of its properties; for example, a lightning wand may still throw dangerous lightning bolts on its own.

Lore

“	Causes inanimate objects to come to life and wander about, though not under the caster's control. – from Compendium (Ultima VI)

Trivia

• This spell can be exploited to replicate multiple pieces of powerful items such as weapons or armour. Since the objects to which it is applied are deemed alive, they can then be subjected to the Clone spell. First discovered on Doug the Eagle's Ultima Pages.
• The spell was omitted from the C64-port of Ultima VI.

See Also

• Clone

Ultima VI Spells
1st Circle	Create Food ☥ Detect Magic ☥ Detect Trap ☥ Dispel Magic ☥ Douse ☥ Harm ☥ Heal ☥ Help ☥ Ignite ☥ Light
2nd Circle	Infravision ☥ Magic Arrow ☥ Poison ☥ Reappear ☥ Sleep ☥ Telekinesis ☥ Trap ☥ Unlock Magic ☥ Untrap ☥ Vanish
3rd Circle	Curse ☥ Dispel Field ☥ Fireball ☥ Great Light ☥ Magic Lock ☥ Mass Awaken ☥ Mass Sleep ☥ Peer ☥ Protection ☥ Repel Undead
4th Circle	Animate ☥ Conjure ☥ Disable ☥ Fire Field ☥ Great Heal ☥ Locate ☥ Mass Dispel ☥ Poison Field ☥ Sleep Field ☥ Wind Change
5th Circle	Energy Field ☥ Explosion ☥ Insect Swarm ☥ Invisibility ☥ Lightning ☥ Paralyze ☥ Pickpocket ☥ Reveal ☥ Seance ☥ X-Ray
6th Circle	Charm ☥ Clone ☥ Confuse ☥ Flame Wind ☥ Hail Storm ☥ Mass Protect ☥ Negate Magic ☥ Poison Wind ☥ Replicate ☥ Web
7th Circle	Chain Bolt ☥ Enchant ☥ Energy Wind ☥ Fear ☥ Gate Travel ☥ Kill ☥ Mass Curse ☥ Mass Invisibility ☥ Wing Strike ☥ Wizard Eye
8th Circle	Armageddon ☥ Death Wind ☥ Eclipse ☥ Mass Charm ☥ Mass Kill ☥ Resurrect ☥ Slime ☥ Summon ☥ Time Stop ☥ Tremor