Ice Shards

Fire is nice, but you know the true touch of death is cold. This spell allows you to manifest and shoot frosty ice shards at your enemies.

Effect

Expending 3 mana points: You create a single ice shard that is about 1 foot long. This shard hovers between your hands and then shoots across at the target you aim it at. It is a ranged attack to pierce through the target's armor. The ice shard does 1d4+1 frost damage per mana rank. The shard vanishes as soon as it hits the target.
Expending 6 mana points: This is a more powerful version but acts the same as the 3 mana point version. It deals 1d6+1 frost damage per mana rank.
Expending 10 mana points: This ice shard remains in the target for 1 round after it hits. The initial hit deals 1d6+1 frost damage per mana rank, the following round the target takes an additional 1d6+2 damage.
Expending 15 mana points: The ice shard now leaves a trail of ice from you to the target. This shard deals the same damage to the target as the 10 mana point version. The trail remains for 1d6 rounds. Anyone crossing the ice trail requires a reflex save to avoid taking 1d4 frost damage per mana rank.