Alec Smith: "Light" Grenades - Arcane Arms

Description:
These grenades are a form of Arcane Arms founded on the concept of original primitive grenades in that they are used to house a collection of potential energy, often gunpowder, and have it set off at a given time to release force, a gas, or something similar. However, instead of an explosion or the like, these grenades release a blinding Light.

Design:
Traditional Arcane Arms have the gold inlays placed inside the barrel, but these grenades have the inlays wrapped around a core in a sphere or cylinder, depending on design specifications. These are made in sphere pattern. Underneath these sits a core of swirling gold patterns that only holds the standard amount of energy for a spell. A portion of this swirl is left incomplete. A button on the outside of the grenade is attached to a switch on the side which flips a small golden strip into a position that completes the pattern. Finally, depending on design specifications, the grenade may have a steel chain-wrap, or weaker leather coating, held in place by minor gears and locks which come loose shortly after the weapon is primed, thrown, and impacts something. Unfortunately, this kind of Arcane Arms cannot behave like the item it was originally modeled after as the gun-based ones do.

Function:
First, energy must be channeled and contained into the object to ready the spell. Only a mage can do this. A mage that knows the spell is capable of adding modifications at the cost of additional energy. Now, it's ready to be used. To use it, one pushes the button; when the button is pushed, the object is primed, and begins to wrap itself around in the Weave and greatly amplify the amount of energy it gathers. Depending on the design of the swirling pattern, the time this takes can vary. These have an activation time of six seconds. Now, the grenade is tossed; if the core is covered, the when it impacts something, the gears release the chain-wrap or leather coat and expose the core. This model does not use a covered core. The spell is then released in a focused burst that is concentrated in a specific radius, whose bounds it can never exceed, except by design or modification of the original spell, though not through any further power increase.

Due to the exceedingly high amount of energy that is released after gathering, the gold inlays are heated, melted, and distorted beyond re-use. They can be recycled to cut down on expenses, but the grenade is no longer fit for use and cannot be repaired by any simple means, only stripped down and recycled.

Spell:
Light is a basic evocation spell. It produces a 20 ft. radius of bright light, blinding if you look right into the source, and a 20 ft radius of dim light. Light is typically touched to an object to apply it to said object. It lasts for a number of minutes based on the skill and ability of the caster to funnel energy into the spell from the Weave, typically in increments of 10 minutes. Casting the spell itself takes little to no energy.

Specifications:
The Light spell is amplified in radius by this grenade, being a radial spell when originally cast. The new base radius is 40 feet bright illumination, and 40 dim. Though they are of master craft, the finely made device is gifted no additional benefit by the precision, but do naturally increase the time of the spell by 10 minutes, just by the design of Arcane Arms. They can be modified with additional power to double that radius.

Quantity, Cost and Construction:
These are five in quantity. These are relatively cheap for a spell as basic as Light; each grenade costs 30 shillings in resources, bringing the total cost up to 1 noble and 5 crown. However, Alec has managed to halve the costs by recycling five old grenades, bringing the costs down to 7 crown and 5 shillings. He has been working on these since the 13th, and expects to complete them by the 18th.