noclip
This particular spell is infamous for the sheer number of aspiring mages that it’s put into involuntary psychiatric care. The basic effect is simple: invoke this spell, and for the next minute or so (technically, for as long as you can hold your breath) you can move through walls, float in the air, sink under the ground, that sort of thing. It doesn’t give direct protection from injuries, but obviously being able to duck through a concrete wall is going to make it easier to not get shot. If the spell ends while the subject is inside a solid object, the spell shoves the subject to the closest open area; if in a liquid, the subject is now immersed in it. If the subject is merely suspended in mid-air, the subject falls.
So, why the psychiatric care? Because noclip hurts people’s brains, that’s why. The more you know about either magic or physics, the more disturbing this spell gets. Repeated use of the spell – as in, more than once in a very long while – puts the subject at risk of entering a dementia spiral of increasing detachment followed by self-destructive behavior as his psyche unsuccessfully tries to process the spell’s effect on reality itself. It would appear that only the gods themselves can safely handle God Mode…