[HoH:S] Sword from the Unseen Scabbard

Games Discussion Ars Magica
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I'd like to check this spell for its adherence to guidelines and get some feedback on it.

The Creo Terram guidelines in the corebook state that you add a magnitue to create elaborate shapes. All core spells only create rather formless lumps of matter, other than Conjuring the Mystic Tower (which actually adds three magnitudes for elaborate shape). So shouldn't Sword from the Unseen Scabbard also add a magnitude for creating a "formed" item (making it a CrTe20 spell)? On the other hand it wouldn't need a finesse roll, since - as far as I know - Creo magic always creates a "perfect" specimen of its target.

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I would likely leave the spell be. The spell Wall of Protecting Stone makes a wall of granite, which isn't really a formless blob of stone. And I can argue that a sword is no more elaborate than a wall, after its own fashion. Conjuring the Mystic Tower adds three magnitudes because the tower isn't just a big wall. It has stairs, multiple floors, windows, book shelves, fireplaces, etcetera.