Invocations

Invocations denotes how skillful your character is at beseeching a deity for help. It improves the power and/or success rate of most god-given powers. (For some gods, piety also has this effect.)

Invocations also increases your maximum MP, but does not stack with Spellcasting and is only half as effective. Template:Skill aptitudes

Applicable Gods

Invocations skill is useful when worshipping one of the following gods:

• Beogh
• Cheibriados
• Dithmenos
• Elyvilon
• Fedhas Madash
• Hepliaklqana
• Lugonu
• Makhleb
• Nemelex Xobeh
• Okawaru
• Qazlal
• Sif Muna
• The Shining One
• Uskayaw
• Yredelemnul
• Zin

The remaining gods do not use Invocations skill:

• Kikubaaqudgha's abilities are powered by Necromancy.
• Ashenzari, Gozag, Ignis, Jiyva, Ru, Trog, and Wu Jian give abilities that are independent of skills.
• Vehumet and Xom don't provide any active abilities.

History

• Prior to 0.26, you could train this skill only if your god used it or if you had a manual of Invocations.
• Prior to 0.19, Nemelex Xobeh's abilities were based on Evocations.
• Prior to 0.14, Jiyva's abilities were based on Invocations.
• Prior to 0.12, Invocations required 80% as much XP in order to train, but all species' aptitudes were 1 lower.