Preparing words of power

[Red Leaf]

So in the book it says that you memorize your words the same as any other kind of spell, but would that include the target word as well? so if you had the "spark" word, would you have to decide to have that as a "select" target word or "cone" as you prepared them? I am wondering if you can prepare the words a head of time and decide the target word as the situation arises?

[Serisan]

Red Leaf wrote:

So in the book it says that you memorize your words the same as any other kind of spell, but would that include the target word as well? so if you had the "spark" word, would you have to decide to have that as a "select" target word or "cone" as you prepared them? I am wondering if you can prepare the words a head of time and decide the target word as the situation arises?

You must prepare the entire Wordspell, including the target word and any meta words you intend to use, when you prepare spells at the start of the day.

[LazarX]

Basically wordspells are identical to standard Vancian casting. Only you custom assemble them from the combinations of effect and target words.