Maintain

The effect of some Enchantments can be maintained by the caster at an upkeep cost of 1 Energy degeneration.

Maintained Enchantments are shown on the Upkeep Monitor on the game screen.

Maintained Enchantments last until the caster decides to end the Enchantment (by double-clicking its icon in the Upkeep Monitor), the caster and target are separated by too large a distance, or the caster runs out of Energy or goes over 10 pips of energy degeneration, at which point the enchanments which have upkeep costs that can no longer be paid are lost.

Simply being reduced to 0 energy will not necessarily end a maintained enchantment - all but the first N such enchantment will be lost, where N is the number of pips of energy regeneration the caster has.

The maximum number of enchantments you can maintain is enough to put your energy at -10 degeneration.

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 * Upkeep skills quick reference