Gothic/Using magic

There are various magic spells. Magic can be used by anyone using one-time spell scrolls or by magicians using runes that can be re-used as often as one likes. Both methods drain the player's mana. Mana can be restored with potions of magic energy, eating dragon root/raven herbs/stone root/dark herbs or by sleeping. See also mana and magic skills/training.

Control
Available as a rune (4th circle) or spellscroll. Requires at least 30 mana to equip, but will generally drain more.

Allows you to take control of a human NPC. Takes very long to activate and doesn't work on all characters. If you press enter, you return to being yourself. Don't wander away too far. Killing or getting killed also seems to return you to being yourself.

There is a trick to obtain many kinds or armor with this spell. You can't open your inventory while controlling another NPC, but there is a workaround. For example, cast control on Gor Na Drak. Now find an animal carcass or a dead/knocked out human. (you may want to make sure there is one nearby before casting control..) Try to loot/harvest it, but instead of actually doing so, browse through "your" inventory and drop (use+down) your armor, weapons and whatever else you'd like to have. Switch back to Nameless and pick up the gear, simple as that. This way you can aquire Gor Na Drak's heavy templar armor (no matter which camp you joined) and his King's blade.