Great Light

Great Light
Ultima VII Part Two Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: 2nd Ultima VII Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: 2nd Ultima VI Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: 3rd Ultima V Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: 3rd The Forge of Virtue Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: unknown The Temper of Wisdom Incantation: Vas Lor Reagents: MR, SA Circle: unknown

Great Light is the strongest illumination spell available to a mage.

Spell Description

The Light spell is very useful, but sometimes, things have to be illuminated even more. Then Great Light comes in handy. Once spoken, a light as bright as a second sun will scare away the shadows, leaving no place for creatures of darkness to hide. This light source also lasts much longer than the ordinary Light spell, thus making the investment into the needed mandrake root for the spell worth it.

History

Already in the Age of Darkness, mages experimented with stronger light spells, as seen with the spells Dag Lorum and Sominae in Ultima III. Such experiments strangely did not continue with the start of the Age of Enlightenment. It was only in Ultima V that this spell was finally created to get a much better duration time for the illumination. By the time of Ultima IX, the Day spell had replaced this one.

Lore

“	Vas Lor conjures a great light. This light is equivalent to In Lor's in quality and range, but Vas Lor lasts longer. Its endurance comes from mandrake root. Mix the prepared root with sulphurous ash and proceed as if making In Lor. – from The Book of Lore (Ultima V)

“	Provides long lasting illumination. – from Compendium (Ultima VI)

“	This spell is a more potent version of the First Circle spell Light, and has a substantially longer duration. – from The Book of Fellowship (Ultima VII)

“	This spell performs like the Light spell, but with four times the duration. – from Beyond the Serpent Pillars (Ultima VII Part Two)

Ultima Saga

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After touching the temporal curtain created by Balthan at the end of The Forge of Virtue, Jordan is blinded by magic. The spell scrolls used to construct the time wall are An Tym, Xen Corp and Vas Lor.

They attempted to fight Jordan's magical blindness using In Lor. Balthan was preparing to add mandrake root to his spell to increase its potency, which (assuming he used the Vas incantation) would have created a Great Light spell. This would have been the second Third Circle spell that Balthan had cast, even though he was only prepared for Second Circle magic.

Trivia

• Light spells in Ultima VII and Ultima VII Part Two differ from all other light sources in the games by using the palette 6, which results in much nicer colors without a red tint. This mechanic for some reason was broken in Exult right from the start, where the spells instead used the palettes 11 and 12 like all other light sources. This was finally fixed in 2020.

Gallery

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  Great Light scroll found in Ultima VII Part Two

See Also

• Light
• Glimmer
• Day

References

Ultima V Spells
1st Circle	An Nox ☥ An Ylem ☥ An Zu ☥ Grav Por ☥ In Lor ☥ Mani
2nd Circle	An Sanct ☥ An Xen Corp ☥ In Wis ☥ In Xen Mani ☥ Kal Xen ☥ Rel Hur
3rd Circle	In Flam Grav ☥ In Nox Grav ☥ In Por ☥ In Zu Grav ☥ Vas Flam ☥ Vas Lor
4th Circle	An Grav ☥ Des Por ☥ In Sanct ☥ In Sanct Grav ☥ Uus Por ☥ Wis Quas
5th Circle	An Ex Por ☥ In Bet Xen ☥ In Ex Por ☥ In Zu ☥ Rel Tym ☥ Vas Mani
6th Circle	An Xen Ex ☥ In An ☥ In Vas Por Ylem ☥ Quas An Wis ☥ Rel Xen Bet ☥ Wis An Ylem
7th Circle	In Nox Hur ☥ In Quas Corp ☥ In Quas Wis ☥ In Quas Xen ☥ Sanct Lor ☥ Xen Corp
8th Circle	An Tym ☥ In Flam Hur ☥ In Mani Corp ☥ In Vas Grav Corp ☥ Kal Xen Corp ☥ Vas Rel Por

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

Ultima VII Spells
Linear	Awaken ☥ Douse ☥ Fireworks ☥ Glimmer ☥ Help ☥ Ignite ☥ Thunder ☥ Weather
1st Circle	Awaken All ☥ Create Food ☥ Cure ☥ Detect Trap ☥ Great Douse ☥ Great Ignite ☥ Light ☥ Locate
2nd Circle	Destroy Trap ☥ Enchant ☥ Fire Blast ☥ Great Light ☥ Mass Cure ☥ Protection ☥ Telekinesis ☥ Wizard Eye
3rd Circle	Curse ☥ Heal ☥ Paralyze ☥ Peer ☥ Poison ☥ Protect All ☥ Sleep ☥ Swarm
4th Circle	Conjure ☥ Lightning ☥ Mark ☥ Mass Curse ☥ Recall ☥ Reveal ☥ Seance ☥ Unlock Magic
5th Circle	Charm ☥ Dance ☥ Dispel Field ☥ Explosion ☥ Fire Field ☥ Great Heal ☥ Invisibility ☥ Mass Sleep
6th Circle	Cause Fear ☥ Clone ☥ Fire Ring ☥ Flame Strike ☥ Magic Storm ☥ Poison Field ☥ Sleep Field ☥ Tremor
7th Circle	Create Gold ☥ Death Bolt ☥ Delayed Blast ☥ Energy Field ☥ Energy Mist ☥ Mass Charm ☥ Mass Might ☥ Restoration
8th Circle	Armageddon ☥ Death Vortex ☥ Invisibility All ☥ Mass Death ☥ Resurrect ☥ Summon ☥ Swordstrike ☥ Time Stop