Deryni magic is ceremonial and involves rituals. High Magic also involves invoking the Guardian Angels.
- Binding a person's soul to their dead body (DR) (SC)
- Body Preservation spell
- Candle Spell for rapport between two people (CC) (CTH)
- Cording Lore
- Creation of Transfer Portals
- Death charm (the call to Baazaam) (DC)
- Duel Arcane (Ritual magical combat)
- Fatigue Banishing
- Love spells (DC)
- Manuscripts (The Protocols of Orin)
- Materialization of objects (Rhydon of Eastmarch encanted a spell causing a cloak to materialize about his shoulders.) (HD)
- Naming Ritual (whereby a child, usually around 8 gets their magical name. Donal Haldane used Alaric's naming ceremony to also bind Alaric to his service.)
- Power Assumption (the Haldane kings as well as Duke Lionel d’Arjenol and Bran Coris all have assumed powers) (HD) (CC) (CTH)
- Reading sealed letters (TKJ)
- Shape Changing
- Shower spell (HD)
- Sound Dampening spell (ITKS)
- Long distance telepathic contact
- Warding (with and without the Ward Major cubes) (SC) (CH) (HG) (DR)
- Weather magic (Ariella) (SC) (HD)
The Deryni also have other abilities that aren't technically magic but are actually psychic or psionic in nature such as -
- Auras
- Clairvoyance
- Rapport and/or Control of Animals (DR) (DC) (TBH) (TKJ) (QSC)
- Handfire
- Healing
- Power Blocking (CH) (HG)
- Killing via psychic "hand around heart"
- Mind ripping
- Pyrokinesis (Lighting candles, firewood etc.)
- Scrying (Morgan used this to try and find out the condition of Dhugal.) (TBH)
- Shields (CC) (SC)
- Telekinesis (also includes unlocking doors)
- Telepathy
- Using a transfer portal
- Truth Reading (determining if a person is lying) (SC) (CC) (CH) (DR) (DC) (HD) (TBH) (TKJ)
- Truth Saying (forcing someone to speak truthfully) (TBH)
Key To Abbreviations[]
- BP = The Bastard Prince
- BH = The Bishop's Heir
- CC = Camber of Culdi
- CH = Camber the Heretic
- CM = Childe Morgan
- DC = Deryni Checkmate
- DR = Deryni Rising
- HD = High Deryni
- HG = The Harrowing of Gwynedd
- ITKS = In the King's Service
- KJY = King Javan's Year
- KKB = King Kelson's Bride
- KD = The King's Deryni
- KJ = The King's Justice
- QSC = The Quest for Saint Camber
- SC = Saint Camber