Saw that in the Restoration spells list and never heard of it. Anyone?

What are you asking exactly?

A restoration spell. There are several of them starting from lesser ward.
This is the ingame description of lesser ward: "increases armor rating by 40 points and negates up to 40 points of spell damage or effects"

What I at least still don't know is if you have to sustain them (like detect life) or if it is a cast-and-forget type of spell.

Edit: wow! first time I ninja'd somebody. Feels good! jaja

A spell that increases your armor and also negates some amount of magical damage that hits you.
Example :
Lesser Ward( the weakest )
40 bonus to armor, 40 negated magic damage

EDIT:

"what is a ward?"

That's what I said

I did not see that must be my iPod or something.

Thanks

and thank you too

lol

On topic:
You dont have to sustain it. In description it says that the ward need several seconds to activate ( saw that on loading screen in some footage ).

Why dont these questions show up on iPods?

oh, thanks for this bit of info. I'm really struggling to decide between alteration and restoration as my "anti-mages" skill and that helped.
Wouldn't you happen to know if alteration shield/elemental shield spells are sustained? (just trying to figure out the difference between "ward spells" and "shield spells"

A mage nerd here so I would like to know about that but unfortunately I don't