Mystic Ambit Incant

Mystic Ambit Incant artifact pickup found on Hub 1: Winnowing Hall.

The Mystic Ambit Incant is an artifact in Hexen. It is a scroll with a blue rune on it, and activating one has a different effect depending on which class is using it:

• The Fighter gets a boost of one point to his armor class by adding durability to one of the four armor pieces. Like the Dragonskin Bracers, this is allowed to surpass the maximums for individual armor pieces, capped only by the class's total armor maximum.
• The Cleric regains a significant portion of his health, if injured. (50 points plus an additional random amount from 0 to 49)
• The Mage gets more mana. If the player can have any more blue mana, it will be added there. Green mana is given only if the blue was already full. (50 points plus an additional random amount from 0 to 49)
• Pigs get no effect.

The effect will also be applied to all nearby players in co-op, thus it makes sense to gather together when using the Incants to get the most of them. Perhaps because of this multiplayer nature of the item, Incants, at least in the original game's maps, do not appear in single player.

Data

Mystic Ambit Incant data
Thing type	10120 (decimal), 2788 (hex)
Appears in	Hexen
Radius	20
Height	16
Sprite	HRAD
Frames	16 (A—P)
Class	Item Pickup

Appearance statistics

In the IWADs the mystic ambit incant is first encountered on these maps per skill level:

Cooperative
Game / Hub	1-2	3	4-5
Hub 1: Seven Portals	Hub 1: Winnowing Hall	Hub 1: Winnowing Hall	Hub 1: Winnowing Hall
Hub 2: Shadow Wood	Hub 2: Shadow Wood (map)	Hub 2: Shadow Wood (map)	Hub 2: Shadow Wood (map)
Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary	Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary (map)	Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary (map)	Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary (map)
Hub 4: Castle of Grief	Hub 4: Castle of Grief (map)	Hub 4: Castle of Grief (map)	Hub 4: Castle of Grief (map)
Hub 5: Necropolis	Hub 5: Necropolis (map)	Hub 5: Necropolis (map)	Hub 5: Necropolis (map)
Expansion Hub 1: Blight	Hub 1: Ruined Village	Hub 1: Ruined Village	Hub 1: Ruined Village
Expansion Hub 2: Constable's Gate	Hub 2: Constable's Gate	Hub 2: Constable's Gate	Hub 2: Constable's Gate
Expansion Hub 3: Nave	Hub 3: Nave	Hub 3: Nave	Hub 3: Nave
Expansion Hub 4: Transit	-	-	-

The IWADs contain the following numbers of mystic ambit incants per skill level:

Cooperative
Game / Hub	1-2	3	4-5
Hub 1: Seven Portals	19	19	19
Hub 2: Shadow Wood	22	22	22
Hub 3: Heresiarch's Seminary	26	26	26
Hub 4: Castle of Grief	21	21	21
Hub 5: Necropolis	20	20	20
Hexen	108	108	108
Expansion Hub 1: Blight	9	9	9
Expansion Hub 2: Constable's Gate	6	6	6
Expansion Hub 3: Nave	6	6	6
Expansion Hub 4: Transit	0	0	0
Deathkings of the Dark Citadel	21	21	21

Trivia

• "Ambit" means a sphere of influence or scope of actions/thoughts/words. This fits well with the multiplayer effect. Latin root: ambitus (circuit). You could roughly translate the item as "magical sphere-of-influence spell".
• Due to incorrect programming, the fighter and mage effects are less potent than they should have been. It appears that the fighter's incant was intended to grant four points of armor (similarly to the Dragonskin Bracers), while the mage's would have given equal amounts of both blue and green mana.