Divine Spells

You hurl a mass of spiritual energy at a single creature or object as a ranged Arete attack. The appearance of this spectral missile varies depending on your faith. The target takes 1d8+Arete radiant or necrotic damage.

You grant one willing creature a moment of divine inspiration which manifests as a +1d4 bonus to a single skill check or saving throw of their choice made within the next minute. You can only have one instance of this spell active at a time.

You imbue one object of up to size medium with radiance of your chosen color for the duration. It sheds bright light to a radius of 30 feet and dim light an additional 30 feet. Covering the source of light with an opaque material blocks it. You can only have three instances of this spell active at a time.

You mend a single break or tear in an object. The tear or break can be up to 1 inch long, and repeated castings can fix larger breaks at the rate of 1 foot per minute. Prolonged channeling of this spell functions similarly to a welding torch that operates without heat.

While this spell is active you gain the ability to choose whether attacks made by your body and/or weapons deal damage and/or inflict pain. Thus you may choose to have your attacks deal no damage and cause no pain, or you may have them inflict pain without causing damage.

You briefly manifest a sweeping weapon of ghostly ectoplasm to make a melee Arete attack against a creature or object within 15 feet. The target takes 1d10+Arete slashing, piercing, or crushing damage. You may choose what the weapon looks like.

You create one of several different supernatural effects for the duration. You can cause your eyes to glow, magnify your voice up to triple its normal volume, open or close an unlocked portal or container, create a candle-sized flame of your chosen color, clean or soil a single creature or object no larger than size medium, create a brief gust of air, or cause a sudden sound up to 1 second long to emanate from a point within range.

You restore a single incapacitated and dying creature within range to 1 health point. A given creature can benefit from this spell's 1-health revival only once per encounter.

You channel divine judgment to augment a successful weapon attack made by an ally within range, dealing an additional 1d8 radiant or necrotic damage. This spell may only be cast after the attack succeeds but before damage is rolled. A single ally cannot benefit from this spell more than once per encounter.

One willing creature is protected from celestials, fey, fiends, spirits, qlippoth, and undead. Creatures of those types have disadvantage on attack rolls against the target, and the target gains advantage on saving throws against effects originating from them. The target also cannot be charmed, dominated, frightened, or possessed by them. Upcasting: Increases the duration by 10 minutes per spell level above 1st.

This spell analyzes the spiritual aura of a creature, object, or place within 30 feet. Doing so takes 1 full round of uninterrupted scrutiny. It reveals the presence of powerful (supernatural) alignments and magical enchantments. For example, a cleric using this spell to study an incubus disguised as a mortal would recognize the evil aura of a fiend.

This spell can also be used to sense the presence of magical items, illusions, and mystical traps, but not their specific nature or what they do. An experienced caster can use this spell in conjunction with the Arcana skill to deduce information about magical effects or objects they encounter. In addition to higher level divinations, this is the standard method of analyzing supernatural phenomena and performing mystic archaeology.

This blessing improves the luck of up to three willing creatures within range. For the duration of the spell, these creatures gain a +2 bonus on all attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks. Upcasting this spell increases the allowable number of targets by 1 for every spell level above 1st.

This spell represents a list of important spiritual and social rituals.

• Confirmation — allows a willing creature to adopt a divine patron, allowing that deity to claim their soul after death with no chance of error. • Marriage — allows two willing creatures who genuinely love one another to form a spiritual bond with subtle thematic benefits. • Blessed Water — allows a cleric to infuse divine energy into a ritually prepared water basin, creating holy water. • The Departed — soothes unquiet spirits and has a chance of laying non-hostile undead to rest. • Naming — allows a parent to endow their child with a true name at birth.

Other rites may exist as well, depending on the caster's culture and religious beliefs.

This spell allows the caster to speak a one-word command at one target. On a failed save the target obeys the command for one round, using its next action to comply to the best of its ability. Commands involving self-harm are never obeyed, and the target must understand the command to obey it. This spell is extremely powerful if used creatively.

This blessing improves the morale of up to three willing recipients in a 10-foot radius. The recipients are immune to supernatural fear and do not need to make morale checks for the spell’s duration, though they may consciously decide to flee or surrender if doing so is in their best interests. Upcasting this spell increases the number of targets by 1 for every spell level above 1st.

This divination allows the cleric to touch a creature and determine the exact nature of any ailments it suffers from. This includes poison, disease, injury, curses, parasites, and possession.

Destructive divine magic lashes out from your hands or eyes as a ranged Arete attack against a single target within range. On a hit, the target takes 2d10 + Arete necrotic or radiant damage (your choice). Upcasting: Deals an additional 1d10 damage for every spell level above 1st.

This spell causes healing light to emanate from the hands or eyes, touching a single target up to 20 feet away. The target then regains d10+Arete health. Upcasting this spell restores an additional d10 health OR targets an additional creature for every spell level above 1st. Upcasting this spell to 5th level restores 5d10+Arete health to any number of creatures you choose within 30 feet.

This is the baseline healing spell most zealots use to mend injuries.

This spell wards organic matter from natural rot, decomposition, or infestation for 10 days. It can be used to preserve dead bodies, protect food from spoilage, and similar. It does not restore organic material that has already rotted or spoiled, though it does prevent further decay. Corpses warded by this spell cannot be transformed into undead creatures for the duration.

This blessing wards the caster from harm as long as they take no hostile action against others. Any creature wishing to attack the caster must make a Will save. Failure means the attacker is unable to take direct hostile action against the caster.

This spell does not prohibit the use of damaging effects that would include the caster and other targets in the same area. This spell ends if the caster makes an attack roll or casts a spell of any sort.

This spell purges rotten organic matter such as dung, blood, sewage, rotting vegetation, dead flesh, and similar filth within 20 feet of the caster by transmuting all such materials into dust or pure water. It has no effect on bone.

Oozes, molds, slimes, and fungal monsters within this area take 2d10+Arete radiant or necrotic damage (caster's choice), or half as much on a successful fortitude save. In an environment where such contaminants are mixed with healthy organic matter, only rot is purged.

This spell charges the caster's next successful melee attack with divine power. The attack deals an additional 1d10+Arete radiant or necrotic damage. Upcasting this spell increases the damage by 1d10 for every level above 1st.

This spell has no set duration, so it is commonly cast well before combat to increase the effectiveness of the first blow the caster strikes once a fight breaks out. Martial zealots make heavy use of this spell, and it is part of their expected burst damage at the beginning of combat.

This spell can have two effects. First, it allows the caster to pour 10 gallons of fresh water from their cupped hands at the rate of 1 gallon per round. Second, it can conjure a violent rainstorm in a 30-foot radius lasting 1 minute. Creatures caught in the area of effect are drenched in water and suffer disadvantage on missile attacks while the storm lasts. Fires in the area are extinguished.

Upcasting this spell produces 10 additional gallons of water OR causes the rainstorm to last an additional minute for every spell level above 1st.

Transform nearby remains into obedient undead minions. A minion’s Tier can never exceed your PROF.

• Animate One Minion: Spell level sets max Tier: Lvl 1: Tier 1–2 • Lvl 3: Tier 3 • Lvl 5: Tier 4 • Lvl 7: Tier 5 • Lvl 9: Tier 6. • Animate Horde (Lvl 4+): Instead of one minion, animate Tier 1–2 undead equal to your Arete. • Telepathic Command: Mentally command minions within 100 feet. They obey without question. • Control Limits: You can only control up to your Arete in Tier 3+ minions. Excess minions become free-willed (only free undead create spawn).

You grant yourself preternatural swiftness and an innate sense of avoidance. You gain +20 speed and do not provoke attacks of opportunity for the duration.

It is legal to cast this spell with a bonus action, attack with a standard action, and run away with a move action during the same turn. That is what this spell is for. It does NOT allow the caster to move through occupied spaces.

This blessing grants up to 3 willing creatures within 10 feet the ability to survive and breathe comfortably in dangerous environments as though they were native to them. Such environments include (but are not limited to) the depths of the ocean, sweltering lava tunnels, or even the cold void of outer space.

This is the spell used to enable underwater adventures, travel at extreme altitudes, survival of deadly snowstorms, etc. Because its usefulness is situational but extremely important, many mystics craft scrolls and potions that confer its benefits.

This blessing grants 10 temporary hit points to up to three willing creatures for the spell's duration. Upcasting this spell grants an additional 5 temporary hit points for every spell level above 2nd.

This spell is widely used by zealots to gain an 'insurance cushion' of health to help them survive the beginning of combat, particularly during ambushes.

This spell creates a floating spectral force in front of you. The spectral force remains for the duration, or until you cast this spell again. Every round on your turn you can use a bonus action to cause the manifestation to fly up to 30 feet and make a single Arete attack roll. On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to 1d10 plus your Arete.

The force can take whatever form you choose: a weapon, a spirit, glowing teeth, a mass of light, etc. This is the baseline combat spell most zealots use to manifest spiritual forces to attack their foes.

This blessing cures the poisoned condition and grants ongoing resistance to poison for the spell's duration. Upcasting this spell with a 5th-level spell slot grants poison immunity instead of resistance. Poisonous monsters are very dangerous, and this spell is vital when fighting them.

This divination petitions one powerful and helpful otherworldly sentience for advice about a course of action you plan to take within the next hour. The entity will tell you whether this action is likely to bring weal, woe, both, or neither. It does not consider last-second changes made after the divination that may alter the outcome. You cannot cast this spell more than once every 24 hours.

This spell is mainly used before the start of a raid or similar undertaking to determine whether the party will be outclassed. A "woe" result implies very powerful enemies, a trap, an ambush, or other considerable danger. It is a quick litmus test for how confident or paranoid they need to be.

You cause a mote of light to appear before one willing creature in range. The mote shows this creature what direction you are in, radiates light like a torch, and follows the target as they travel. While the mote lasts, you also know what direction the creature is in. The mote does not alter its behavior based upon topography, nor does it help the target find a safe route to you. Please note that while the mote SHOWS what direction you are in, the creature is under no obligation to follow it.

This spell can just as easily be used as a hands-free magical light source for exploration, with the added benefit that it allows the target to know what direction the caster is in. If confronted by a shapeshifter or other creature disguised as the caster, the mote reveals the deception.

You do not need to be close to the target to cast this spell, so it is useful for finding lost allies. The light it produces is highly visible, so an ally who is hiding from danger may choose not to accept the spell.

This divination locates a specific object or material familiar to the caster within 1000 feet. If it is moving, you know the direction of the movement. Alternatively, you can locate the nearest example of a particular type of object: a hat, sword, ring, etc. This spell is blocked if the object sought is enclosed by lead of any thickness.

Upcasting this spell with a 4th level spell slot allows you to detect a specific creature or the nearest creature of a specific type.

This blessing enhances one of a willing creature's six core statistics. For the spell's duration the target gains advantage on skill checks and saving throws involving that statistic, but not attack rolls. The enhancement also grants certain additional benefits based on the statistic improved.

Might doubles carrying capacity. Agility negates damage from falls less than 30 feet. Endurance grants 20 temporary bonus hit points. Intellect grants perfect recall of anything the target has experienced in the last 24 hours. Spirit grants advantage on initiative rolls and the ability to act during the surprise round. Charisma makes one look impressive to other creatures of compatible racial and cultural sensibilities.

This curse inflicts a sensory disability on the target for the duration. The caster can choose between three disabilities: blindness, deafness, and muteness. The penalties for these disabilities are listed elsewhere in this book.

Upcasting this spell to 5th level makes it last an hour. Upcasting this spell to 8th level makes the effects indefinite until dispelled.

You restore 10 health and cure a single target of all poisons, diseases, and ability drain. It also removes all levels of exhaustion. While this effect can be used to temporarily circumvent the need for rest, it does not confer the magic-restoring benefits of real sleep.

This is the baseline curative spell zealots use for ailments other than physical wounds. It is NOT a substitute for the nourishment offered by food or water.

This spell causes one humanoid within range to become paralyzed. At the end of each combat round, it can attempt another save to break free. Upcasting this spell affects one additional humanoid for each spell level above 2nd. Upcasting this spell to 5th level allows you to target a single non-humanoid creature.

This spell qualifies as a mind-influencing effect, so creatures protected from such magic are not affected.

You curse a target with martial vulnerability. On a failed Will save, its Defense and Soak are reduced by your Arete bonus for the duration. Upcasting: Targets an additional creature per spell level above 2nd.

This spell creates a 20-foot radius zone of silence centered on a creature or object within range. Anything inside the sphere is immune to thunder damage and cannot make sound. Creatures in this area are deafened and cannot cast spells with a verbal component. If you cast this spell on an object you are holding the silence moves with it.

In situations where there is no opportunity for creatures to see the recipients of this spell, success on stealth checks is automatic. This spell also prevents affected creatures from hearing their surroundings, so it can be detrimental too.

This spell creates a spiritual link between the cleric and any number of willing creatures within 10 feet. For the spell's duration, the cleric knows the exact distance, direction, health, and emotional state of these creatures, regardless of physical barriers or distance. If a bonded creature enters an area that is occulted or warded against scrying, the spell is suppressed for that creature until it leaves.

This spell allows the caster to sense the presence of any trap within 120 feet that is within the current line of sight, though not the exact location or nature of the trap. A trap qualifies as anything manufactured with the intent to inflict sudden or unexpected harm. Thus, the spell would detect a mechanical trap or a warding glyph, but not an unstable ledge or an impending mudslide.

This curse creates a 10-foot radius zone centered on the caster. All creatures in this zone cannot speak a deliberate lie unless they first make a Will save.

It IS possible to mislead others by speaking half-truths or not technically lying, so the caster must be careful to phrase questions in such a way that this is difficult. The caster does not know if a creature saves against this spell. While this spell is in effect the caster cannot lie.

This divination allows the caster to see and hear a remote location in their mind's eye while meditating for the duration of the spell. The location must already be known to the caster, and the spell creates a spectral eye-shaped sensor with a 360-degree field of vision. Only fixed locations can be viewed with this spell; it has no ability to locate specific creatures or objects unless they appear at the target location.

While this spell can be used for spying on events the caster knows are currently taking place, its primary benefit is for scouting. The sensor can be created any place the caster is familiar with, including high in the atmosphere for long range mapping. Spies use this spell to write long messages in hidden locations, because they can then be read by anyone casting the spell to view the agreed upon site.

This blessing creates 50 pounds of food and 50 gallons of potable water on the ground or in containers within reach of the caster. This food is sufficient to sustain twenty-five medium sized humanoids for 24 hours. The food created by this spell is of moderate quality and consists of fruits, vegetables, nuts, bread, cheese, and similar. This spell cannot be used to create meat.

In some cases, the ethos of the caster may allow them to produce special provisions using this spell. Dwarven zealots might be able to create ale for example, or the worshippers of a deity who values luxury might produce pies or pastries.

This curse can manifest differently depending on the spell level used. The caster must declare the effects of the curse, the reason it was laid, and the conditions under which it will naturally end. If the effect, precedent, and termination clause of the curse are not appropriate or do not coincide with the caster's ethos, the curse does not take effect (at the narrator's discretion). Suitable effects by spell level are found elsewhere in this book.

Curses created by this spell end when their duration ends, their terms are met, or they are lifted by a Decurse spell cast using a spell slot one level higher than the one used to lay the curse. Because of this, 9th-level curses cannot simply be dispelled.

Fate plays a significant role in the power of this spell. Petty curses are fairly simple to cast, but powerful curses with major debilitating effects must be thematically appropriate to succeed. Casters who use this spell too often or who levy powerful curses against others for petty or nonsensical reasons become plagued with bad luck. The general belief among mystics is that curses should be used sparingly and only in response to major crimes or momentous events, to avoid danger to themselves.

You create a 40-foot radius sphere of bright light that emanates from a single point you designate within range. Upcasting this spell to 6th level causes the light to deal 1d8 radiant damage per round to undead creatures that enter or begin their round in it (no save). Upcasting this spell to 8th level causes the light to become true sunlight.

You lift the effects of a single curse on the target. If the curse stems from a magical item, the object retains its properties, but the victim is freed from its magic. Lifting powerful curses requires a spell level one level higher than the spell used to cast it. In some situations, removal of a curse may also require a sacrifice or special material component.

You negate a single magical effect within range. This can be a spell cast on a creature or object, an active spell manifestation, or similar. If the targeted magic is higher than the third level, you must make an Arete check equal to 8 plus the opposing caster's Arete. If the effect being targeted is permanent or extremely well established, the difficulty is 13 plus the opposing caster's Arete.

Upcasting this spell to 5th level causes it to target ALL eligible magical effects on a single creature or within a 10-foot radius. Upcasting this spell to 7th level increases the radius to 30 feet and allows the caster to choose which effects will be removed. This is the general catch-all spell for getting rid of undesirable magic, including spells that control or incapacitate others.

You create a magical glyph on an immobile surface or closed container. The glyph releases a pre-cast spell effect when triggering conditions are met within 10 feet of the mark. You can choose whether this glyph is visible or invisible. If used as a magical trap, the difficulty of locating and disarming this glyph is 10, plus the caster's Arete. If the spell placed in the glyph is concentration-based, the glyph is treated as maintaining concentration for the full duration.

The triggering condition must be based on moral alignment or some physically witnessable phenomena such as appearance, actions, passwords, or similar. Casting this spell requires gem dust worth at least 250 silver, which the spell consumes.

This spell has a wide variety of uses, and its utility and tactical applications are vast. It can be used to create traps, store healing spells, teleport a triggering creature elsewhere, and so on.

You summon a continuous stream of healing energy from your holy symbol for one minute. This energy can be directed into nearby willing creatures by touch every round. The health restored each round is equal to your Arete bonus, and you can change the recipient round by round if desired.

Outside of combat this spell is extremely efficient because its benefits can be distributed among multiple targets with minimal waste. Abilities that increase the efficiency of healing magic (such as the Life domain) apply to the health this spell restores each round.

You restore life to the corpse of a creature killed within 1 hour. This window of opportunity increases to 1 day if the caster personally witnesses the target's death. The creature returns to life with 1 health. This spell cannot restore life to a creature that has died of natural causes, and the corpse must be generally intact. Missing limbs remain missing, but soft tissue and organs are restored.

Casting this spell requires gem dust worth at least 250 silver, which the spell consumes. This is the spell most adventurers use to revive comrades killed in battle. Its situational usefulness often leads mystics to create potions and scrolls imbued with its effects, though these items do not revive a subject who has been dead longer than 1 hour.

You reawaken the mind of a corpse or haunt within range, allowing it to posthumously speak and answer questions. The target speaks whatever languages it knew in life, and its answers are normally brief and cryptic. If the entity is malicious or regarded you as an enemy in life, it can lie if it wishes.

If used on a corpse, this spell only summons an echo of the original creature's spirit. Thus, it cannot learn new information or speculate on future events. If used on a haunt or incorporeal undead, it temporarily shocks the spirit into full awareness, allowing it to hold a full conversation with the caster.

Casting this spell requires possession of the target's intact skull, without which it fails. Upcasting this spell to 7th level can elevate a semi-sentient haunt or lesser incorporeal undead to full self-awareness, transforming it into a ghost with knowledge of its fetters (if any).

You send a short telepathic message lasting 12 seconds or less to a creature you are familiar with. The recipient recognizes you if it knows you and can answer in a like manner immediately. Creatures with an intellect of at least 1 will understand the meaning of the message, even if they do not share a common language with you. This spell can reach any being in the cosmos with no chance of error, including those on other planes of existence.

You launch an agonizing spiritual assault against the mind of a creature within range, dealing 5d6 + Arete psychic damage (Will save for half). Upcasting: Deals +1d6 psychic damage per spell level above 3rd.

You grant all creatures in a 10-foot radius fluency in the languages of all creatures they attempt to communicate with for the duration. Recipients of this spell only gain knowledge of a language if the native speaker is within line of sight. If such a creature leaves line-of-sight the knowledge fades until contact is restored.

You attempt to curse one creature, barring it from dimensional movement for the duration of this spell. Examples of dimensional movement include such effects as Blink, Plane Shift, Teleport, Trapdoor, Succor, Return, and similar. The target can make a Will save with advantage to resist.

You attempt to banish one creature within range to another plane of existence. If the target is native to the plane you are on it is banished to a gray featureless void for the duration or until you stop concentrating, after which it reappears in the spot where it vanished. If the target is native to a different plane than the one you are on, it is banished back to its home plane instantly.

You touch a creature and attempt to inflict it with a terrible disease. The onset is immediate and the effects manifest within one round. The disease runs its course naturally and can be overcome with magic, successful fortitude saves, medicine, or similar. Sample diseases are found elsewhere in this book.

You cloak yourself in an aura of destructive spiritual energy cosmetically appropriate to your mythos. This energy emanates from you out to a 15-foot radius. Creatures you choose are unaffected by this aura, but all other creatures entering or beginning their turn inside the aura take 2d8 + Arete radiant or necrotic damage. Upcasting this spell deals an additional 1d10 damage per spell level above 4th.

This is an extremely dangerous spell because it has the capacity to mow through large numbers of minions or weak enemies in a single round. Its effects are also prolonged. Those familiar with this spell understand that it requires concentration, so they will target the caster with spells and missiles to end it before it can do too much damage.

You touch a creature and bless it with protection from death. The next time it would be reduced to zero health or killed outright as a result of taking damage, the target takes no damage and the spell ends. While this spell remains active the target is immune to any effect which would permanently lower its maximum health, such as the touch of certain undead creatures. While Deathward remains active, the caster's maximum mana pool is reduced by the spell's mana cost (6 mana). The reserved mana is restored once the ward is triggered or dispelled.

Casting this spell requires a sacrifice worth at least 25 silver. Because this spell has no fixed duration, zealots of suitable power apply it liberally to themselves and their allies as an insurance policy to make them harder to kill.

You make mental contact with a powerful extraplanar entity through meditation. You may ask it a single question about a goal, event, or activity anticipated within the next 10 days. The spirit's reply manifests itself as a brief wordless burst of insight. Entities of this sort typically possess godlike intellect and divine awareness, so even if they possess no direct knowledge of the event in question their counsel is usually sound.

You cannot cast this spell more than once every 72 hours. Casting this spell requires a sacrificial offering of a sort that the contacted entity would desire, which the spell consumes. The offering must be worth at least 100 silver, potentially more at the game master's discretion.

You gird one willing creature in a suit of divine, weightless force armor. The target's base Defense becomes 16 + AGI, and it gains a +2 bonus on all saving throws against hostile magical effects. If the target is already wearing armor, that armor vanishes while this spell persists and reappears when it ends.

A vertical column of divine fire roars down from above. Creatures in the area take 5d8 + Arete fire, radiant, or necrotic damage in whatever proportion you choose. Upcasting: Deals +1d8 damage per spell level above 4th.

This spell comprises a variety of techniques for summoning, brokering, and binding otherworldly entities into service. To cast it you must first inscribe a summoning circle of the appropriate type onto a flat surface and cast this spell while standing within 10 feet of it. The summoned entity must either be named by you, or you must clearly describe the exact type of being you wish to summon. If the entity is willing to appear it does so immediately. If it is unwilling, it can make a Will save to resist this spell. If you know the entity's true name it has disadvantage on the save.

Once the entity appears in the circle it is contained there, unable to leave or act until the negotiation is concluded or the perimeter of the circle is broken or covered. If the circle is ever broken or the entity is harmed or forced to make a saving throw, it can emerge and act freely.

This negotiation typically goes one of four ways: the caster has a conversation with the entity and then releases it back to its native realm; the caster threatens or tortures the entity into agreeing to perform some service; the caster offers payment and bargains with the entity for service; or the caster negotiates a mutual trade of favors with the entity. Once a pact is struck, the entity (and caster) are both compelled to make a good-faith effort to fulfill the terms of the deal. If either party reneges, they immediately suffer the agreed-upon penalty (usually destruction).

If the summoner acts in bad faith or attempts to subvert the spirit of the deal, fate punishes the caster by imposing disadvantage on all attack rolls, saves, and skill checks the caster makes for the next 10 days. Once the negotiations are finished or the terms of the pact are honored, the entity is free to return to its home plane. It is not obligated to do so unless returning to its home plane is included in the terms of the deal.

You control any freestanding water in a 100-foot radius. You can cause the water to rise by up to 20 feet, create a 20-foot tall wave that moves in a direction of your choice, part the water to create a trench where the separated water forms walls to either side, cause the water to flow in a direction of your choice (to the limits of the area), or create a whirlpool 50 feet in diameter and 25 feet deep which sucks in any creature or object in the water within 30 feet of the edges and deals 2d10 crushing damage per round to any creature caught within it (Athletics check against your Save DC to escape).

You create a spiritual bond between yourself and up to three willing creatures within range. For the duration of this spell, you are aware of their health and location and can cast touch spells on them from up to 1 kilometer away, including healing spells. You also know whether the target creatures are conscious or alive.

You transact a pact between two free-willed creatures not acting under duress. The nature of this pact requires that payment or service be rendered by both parties, and the terms of the agreement can be as simple or as detailed as you wish.

Once the pact is agreed to it is written and sealed in blood, and if either party reneges on the agreement they suffer whatever penalty was agreed to in the terms of the pact (usually destruction or a curse with no save).

You summon a protective barrier of light shaped like a 20-foot-radius dome or a wall 60 feet long and 20 feet high. The wall has any orientation you choose and can be free-floating. Nothing can physically pass through the wall. It can withstand Arete × 10 points of damage before vanishing. Every time a creature damages the wall with a melee attack, it suffers Arete radiant damage.

You summon a wave of spiritual force that scythes through a 10-foot radius centered on a point within range. Make one Arete attack roll against any number of creatures you choose within this area. A successful hit deals 2d8 + Arete radiant or necrotic damage. You can choose what this force looks like.

You summon a spiritual force construct cosmetically appropriate to your mythos at a point within range. The spiritual force is medium size and attacks unauthorized creatures that intrude upon a 10-foot radius area it is assigned to protect. The construct has a reach of 10 feet and makes one attack a round, either as a reaction in response to a creature entering the warded area or on your initiative.

If multiple targets are in this area you may choose which one the construct attacks, otherwise it chooses randomly. The construct attacks using your Arete and deals 1d8 + Arete force damage.

You touch a mass of stone up to 5 feet in diameter and form it into any shape you wish. You can use this spell to create simple tools, furniture, giant bowling balls, openings in walls, and similar. You can also alter the stone surrounding a door to seal it shut or cause it to fall away from its frame. You cannot create stone objects involving anything more complex than a basic hinge or latch. This spell is very useful if used creatively.

You grant one willing creature the power to ignore effects that would restrict its movement. This includes paralysis, manacles, rough terrain, swimming underwater, grappling, and similar. Any attempt to impede the target's normal movement speed automatically fails, as do effects that would unfavorably arrest the target's movement.

The target may choose to be affected by such a spell however (such as with the Feather spell while falling, for example).

You touch one willing creature and light a specially blessed torch or candle costing 50 silver worth of materials. This flame continues to burn indefinitely until either the magic is dispelled or the target dies. The flame is suppressed if submerged or smothered, but reappears if released.

Organizations use this spell to know if their agents are still alive, but adventurers can also use it to create permanent torches or lanterns that require no fuel as long as the user remains alive.

You summon a brief storm of spectral rain in a 30-foot radius, centered on a spot you indicate within range. All undead, fiends, spirits, and fey within this area suffer 5d6 + Arete radiant damage. Upcasting this spell deals an additional 2d6 damage per spell level above 5th.

You bestow motive force upon one inanimate object of up to size large. This object must be freestanding, and it must fit inside a 10-foot radius. The object gains the statistics of an animated object its size, and it obeys your telepathic commands until it is destroyed or the spell ends. Objects of size small or less gain a fly speed of 10 mph.

Some animated objects have special statistics based upon their form. Wagons move faster because they have wheels, swords deal weapon damage, etc. The storyteller has final say on what makes sense.

When you finish casting this spell the world appears to drain of color and time seems to stop. You then make mental contact with a powerful extraplanar entity and ask a total of five questions. The answers to these questions must be yes, no, likely, unlikely, or unknown. The entity possesses godlike intellect and divine awareness, so even if it has no direct knowledge of the matter in question its counsel is usually sound.

You can bring up to five other creatures into the divination as witnesses if you like. Witnesses may telepathically speak to one another and can hear the entity's replies, but only you are able to address the entity. Because this communication takes place in a split second, none of the participants can move or take any actions apart from telepathic speech.

You cannot cast this spell more than once every 72 hours. Casting this spell requires a sacrificial offering worth at least 250 silver, which the spell consumes.

You meditate in the midst of a group of sleeping creatures to greatly enhance their recovery. Any number of creatures you choose who remain within 60 feet of you for the hour it takes to cast this spell regain all lost health and recover from any diseases and poisoning the next time they take a full rest.

You perform a lengthy ritual to infuse an area with divine magic, making it sacred or profane. The area can have a radius of up to 100 feet. This spell has three effects.

First, celestials, spirits, fey, fiends, and undead cannot enter the area. They also cannot charm, possess, or exert mental influence over creatures within it. You can exclude any or all of these types of creatures from these effects if you wish.

Second, you can enchant the area with a special blessing that only affects creatures you designate. This blessing can take any one of the following forms: Courage (as the spell), Darkness (as the spell), Daylight (as the spell), Preservation (as the spell), Sanitize (as the spell), Fear (as the spell), Silence (as the spell), or Tongues (as the spell).

Third, interdicted creature types cannot use dimensional methods of travel to enter, leave, or move about within the area.

You briefly tap into the web of fate and access the underlying memory of the cosmos, bringing to mind a brief summary of significant general lore about a person, place, or object you name. If the subject of your inquiry is not of legendary importance, nothing is revealed. The more you know about the subject already, the more detailed the information you receive is.

While the information you gain is accurate, it is often veiled in symbolism and metaphor. You cannot use this spell to gain information on the same topic more than once per year. Casting this spell requires an offering worth at least 250 silver, which the spell consumes.

This spell does not reveal a target's future importance in the scheme of fate, only the impact it has already had. So a child destined to bring about world peace would remain anonymous, while a great statesman who founded a nation would yield plenty of information.

You summon a cloud of spectral locusts in a 30-foot radius centered on a point within range. The cloud spreads around corners. The area becomes heavily obscured, and creatures that enter or begin their round within the cloud suffer 4d10 piercing damage per round. This spell deals double damage to vegetation (including crops) and plant-based creatures.

You emit an aura of ethereal light out to a 30 foot radius, centered on yourself. This spell effect moves with you and has two effects. First, you and all creatures in the area enjoy the effects of the feather spell. Second, any water exposed to the light becomes incorporeal and acts as breathable air. This spell negates the deadly effects of extreme pressure at depth. It doesn't flow around corners, so the effect is restricted by narrow terrain such as caverns or buildings. Please note that falling into a deep body of water while this spell remains active will cause you and any creatures near you to "drift" slowly to the bottom (so it's a bad idea to jump into the deep ocean without a way back up to the surface before the spell wears off).

Upcasting this spell increases the duration by 1 hour per spell level above 5th.

You return a corpse to life, provided it has been dead no longer than 1 year. This window of opportunity increases to 1 century if the caster personally witnessed the target's death. If the soul is willing and able to return, the creature returns to life with 1 hit point. This spell cures any poisoning or diseases that affected the corpse at the time it died, and it restores missing soft tissue (but not bone).

Returning from death is traumatic. The target suffers disadvantage on all attacks, saves, and skill checks for 3 days after its return. This spell has no effect on creatures that have died of natural causes.

You grant a single creature resistance to one form of damage for the duration.

You use a reflective surface to remotely perceive a target creature somewhere on the same plane of existence for the duration of this spell. The target makes a reflexive subconscious Will save to resist scrutiny. If successful the spell fails, and it becomes aware of the attempt.

If the spell succeeds, you must roll your Arete against the target's alertness or it senses it is being watched. If the target knows you are casting this spell it can waive its saving throw if it wishes to be observed.

If successful an invisible sensor appears within 10 feet of the target, moving with the creature for the spell's duration. You can perceive the world through this sensor as though you were present.

You conjure a blast of burning sunlight in a 30-foot radius centered on a point in range. Creatures you choose within this area suffer 6d8 fire or radiant damage in whatever proportion you wish. This spell deals no damage to terrain, natural flora, or inanimate objects if you do not wish it. The light summoned by this spell is true sunlight.

You grant one willing creature the ability to see through supernatural illusions, invisibility, darkness, and the true forms of shapeshifted, polymorphed, or transmuted creatures or objects out to the limits of your natural (unaugmented) sight. This spell does not negate concealment or expose things hidden by mundane means such as disguise, fog, normal secret doors, or similar.

You conjure a sacred draught into a ritually prepared chalice, jug, or similar container. Up to ten creatures can consume this draught during a pitstop. Any creature doing so is cured of all disease and poison and regains health equal to 7 times your proficiency modifier.

The drinker also gains immunity to fear, poison, disease, and makes all Will saves with advantage for the next 24 hours. Casting this spell requires an offering worth 1000 silver, which the spell consumes.

You may not cast this spell more than once every 48 hours.

You summon a swirling wall of blades made of magical force. The wall can be up to 100 feet long and 20 feet high, or it can manifest as a ring up to 60 feet in diameter and 20 feet high. It provides heavy cover to creatures behind it. Any creature passing through the wall sustains 5d8 + Arete slashing damage.

You cause one creature within range to immolate with divine fire, taking 8d8 + Arete fire, radiant, or necrotic damage in any proportion you choose. If this damage kills the target their body and all non-magical possessions they carry are completely reduced to ash. Creatures destroyed in this fashion can only be restored to life by magic that would recreate their entire body.

You command a single creature to perform a non-suicidal service or forbid it from some course of action. The creature must understand you and accept of its own free will (magical coercion causes the spell to fail). The creature must obey the word of your instructions (not the spirit) until its task is completed. Deviation will cause it to lose 1d6 points of endurance per day until it dies. If the deviation ceases and the creature returns to its task, the endurance loss stops.

If this spell requires a task that is nonsensical or impossible, it ends. Upcasting this spell to 7th level makes it last a decade. Upcasting this spell to 8th level makes it last a century. Upcasting this spell to 9th level makes it last indefinitely. A geas can only be lifted by a Wish or a Decurse spell upcast to 9th level.

This blessing is identical to the Hallow spell with three important differences. First, it can be used to ward away any type of creature the caster wishes. Second, instead of preventing warded creatures from entering the area this spell deals 5d10 radiant or necrotic damage the first time they enter or begin their turn there. Third, this spell can ward an area up to 50,000 square feet and 40 feet high against spells and powers involving location, remote viewing, and dimensional movement.

You sense the shortest and most direct route to a location that you are familiar with on the same plane of existence. This knowledge includes distance and direction. The route you sense will be traversable by whatever normal means you possess, so if traveling by land it will adhere to paths and roads unless taking these would be more time consuming than the alternative.

You transport yourself and up to 8 other willing creatures to a location you have prepared ahead of time using a jewel worth at least 1000 silver (which the spell consumes) and one full day of ritual work. The transportation is safe and instantaneous. Substantially altering the foundations of the recall site (such as burning a building, collapsing a cavern, or similar) ruins this magic. The divine version of this spell can be used to return to a location treated with the Hallow spell.

One creature regains health equal to 10 times your Arete and is cured of all poisons and diseases. This spell also removes parasites, evicts possessing entities, regenerates soft tissue (not bone), restores petrified creatures to flesh, and ends any derangements caused by madness. A creature can benefit from this spell only once per full rest.

Each round for the duration of this spell you can unleash a 5-foot wide beam of sunlight out to a range of 120 feet. This beam is not temporary or recurring: it is a continuous laser-like ray of white energy that incinerates all in its path. Creatures and objects entering, passing through, or caught in the beam suffer 4d8 + Arete radiant damage.

The beam cannot damage a creature more than once per round. Undead make this save with disadvantage. Flammable objects struck by this spell melt or ignite.

You and up to ten willing creatures become incorporeal and gain the power to fly at a speed of 30 miles an hour or at the prevailing speed and direction of existing wind, whichever is higher. While in this form you cannot interact with physical objects, and the only actions you can take are movement, speech, or ending the spell voluntarily.

When the spell ends all participants become corporeal over 1 minute. After this spell ends the recipients also gain the benefits of the Feather spell for 1 hour.

You emit the glorious peal of a celestial or infernal bell, trumpet, horn, or other instrument. Choose any number of creatures within 30 feet. Each creature that can hear you sustains 6d8 + Arete thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. A successful Fortitude save halves this damage and negates the deafness. Non-native creatures that fail this save are also banished back to their home plane.

You enter the border ethereal plane, which overlaps your plane of origin. This plane looks like a ghostly analog of the realm you just left. You can spy on your plane of origin out to a range of 60 feet, but everything appears bleached of color.

While on the border ethereal, you gain a fly speed equal to your foot speed and can only be affected by other creatures on that plane or by certain special effects that extend into the ethereal (such as the gaze of a basilisk). You ignore objects and effects not on the ethereal plane, and can move through such things on your plane of origin (such as walls) by pushing through them.

If the spell elapses and you reappear on your plane of origin in a space occupied by a solid object, you are shunted into the nearest available open space and take force damage equal to the number of feet you were displaced. Upcasting this spell allows you to take three additional creatures with you for every spell level above 7th.

You summon a rainstorm in a 40-foot radius, centered on a point within range. The raindrops are motes of fire. Creatures within the area suffer 8d6 + Arete fire damage. This spell does not affect the landscape (trees, buildings, etc.) unless you wish it to. Upcasting this spell deals an additional 1d10 points of damage per spell level above 7th.

Using words of creation first conceived by the gods at the dawn of the cosmos, you create one nonmagical item within range. This item can be up to size Huge and must have a value of 1000 silver or less. If the item requires significant skill to produce, you must have proficiency in the appropriate toolset to make it.

Though permanent, objects created by this spell are magical constructs and will disappear if dispelled. Casting this spell requires a jewel worth at least 500 silver, which the spell consumes.

You conjure a magical catamaran with sails. This vehicle can have any cosmetic appearance you wish. The vessel provides full cover to those within, and acts as a sturdy shelter from harsh weather. The ship can easily pass through earth and difficult terrain if desired, leaving no trace. It cannot sail through trees, buildings, artificial terrain (such as cobbled roads), or up slopes greater than 45-degrees.

The ship has 200 health, 10 soak, 20 defense, and self-repairs at the rate of 1 health per minute. It moves with the prevailing windspeed (as a real catamaran would) or PROF miles an hour, whichever is higher. The ship can hold Arete tons of cargo and has adequate seating for up to Arete*2 medium-sized humanoids. Medium or smaller creatures caught in the path of the vehicle must make a reflex save to avoid being knocked aside for 6d8 crushing damage. Those who save dodge out of the path of the vehicle.

While riding in or on the vehicle, you can mentally make seamanship checks to control it using Arete. Alternately, you may grant any number of willing creatures the ability to physically drive the ship using land or water vehicle tool checks. Casting this spell requires a ritually prepared figurine of a catamaran, worth 2000 silver. Upcasting this spell increases the duration by 1 day per spell level above 7th.

You transport yourself and any number of willing creatures within range to an alternate plane of your choice. You may specify a target destination if desired, but the storyteller selects exactly where you appear. Alternatively, you may appear at a recall circle you are attuned to on the target plane.

If you do not choose a specific destination, the terms of this spell guarantee that you appear in a spot that is not immediately damaging or lethal. Random travel to innately dangerous planes incompatible with organic life (water, fire, void, etc.) has a 25% chance of delivering you to a spot on the target plane that is protected somehow, such as in the City of Brass on the plane of fire. Otherwise, the spell fails.

This spell can be used as an (expensive) substitute for the Recall spell by simply choosing a recall circle on the same plane you currently occupy.

You restore a destroyed building or manufactured structure to a state of wholeness over a span of 10 minutes. The structure must occupy a radius of 60 feet or less. If it is larger than this, the spell only restores the portion of the structure within the given radius. Broken furniture and manufactured objects of size medium or larger are also made whole.

If materials from the structure have been removed beyond the spell's radius, they turn up missing from the structure after its restoration.

You endow a single creature with regenerative powers for the duration. Every round the target regains 1 health (10 health per minute). Lost body parts regenerate over a span of 10 minutes.

If the target suffers damage from fire or acid it stops regenerating for 1 minute. The target dies only if it starts a round with 0 health AND does not regenerate.

You return a dead creature to life using a piece of its corpse as a focus, provided it has been dead no longer than 1 century. If the soul is willing and able to return, the creature returns to life at full health. This spell cures any ailments that affected the corpse at the time it died, and it restores the subject's body completely.

You do not need the complete corpse to cast this spell; any piece of flesh or bone will suffice regardless of size. Returning from death is traumatic. The target suffers disadvantage on all attacks, saves, and skill checks for 3 days after its return. This spell has no effect on creatures that have died of natural causes.

You enchant a ritually prepared clay necklace or bracelet with a potent spell that instantly transports its wearer back to a specific hallowed site when broken. Only the creature you gave the talisman to can use it in this fashion; if it is taken and used by another creature the spell fails. Breaking the talisman is a bonus action.

Creating this talisman requires a sacrifice worth at least 1000 silver, which the spell consumes. You cannot have more than three such talismans in existence at any time. If you attempt to create another, the oldest talisman loses its magic.

You inscribe a powerful glyph on a surface or inside a closable object or container no larger than 10 feet in diameter. This glyph is a trap, and it activates when whatever triggers you specify take place within 20 feet of it. You can make these triggers as elaborate as you wish (including passwords), but they must be physically observable.

Once triggered the glyph fills a 60-foot radius sphere with magical radiance lasting 10 minutes, and any creature inside the sphere is affected by it. A list of symbols are provided in the section of this book detailing traps.

You create an invisible 10-foot radius field around yourself, which is cut off from the magical forces of the cosmos. This spell cannot be dispelled or countered by magical means. All magical effects within this field are suppressed; spells cannot be cast, summoned creatures vanish, and magical items become non-magical.

Magic of artifact-level power or greater is not suppressed, and pre-existing magic with a duration longer than one round resumes if the field leaves its former area of effect. Likewise, summoned creatures vanish within the zone and reappear once the space they occupy is no longer within the radius. Instant effect spells (such as battle magic) cast into or through the area are consumed and harmlessly nullified.

You cause an earthquake in a 100-foot radius surrounding a point within range that you can see. Every round each creature standing on the ground in this area must make an Acrobatics (balance) check with a difficulty of 15 or fall prone. Structures in this area suffer severe damage and may collapse at the narrator's discretion.

If you wish, this spell can also open a fissure 1d10×10 feet deep and 10 feet wide, extending from one edge of the spell's area to the opposite side (200 feet across long). Creatures standing in a spot where the fissure opens must make a reflex save or fall in, and structures located above the fissure area automatically collapse.

This spell manipulates the raw force of life in the cosmos.

• If you cast this spell on a barren creature it regains the ability to reproduce for a year and a day if it could ever previously do so. • If you cast this spell on a pregnant female it guarantees the offspring is healthy and free of congenital defects. • If you cast this spell on a willing female it becomes pregnant, and the offspring is a plane-touched member of its parent race appropriate to whichever plane your divine magic stems from. • If you cast this spell on land, it becomes wildly fertile in a 1-mile radius for 1 year. • If you cast this on a plant, it grows up to three times its regular size over a span of 1 month. • If you cast this on a normal animal, it transforms into a dire animal over a span of 1 week.

You perform a series of divinations for a single creature, telepathically providing it with magical advice regarding its future. The conscious mind cannot internalize true knowledge of its own future, so after the spell ends both you and the target forget what was said.

Within the next year the target will experience 1d10 situations where they make an important d20 roll of some sort (determined by the narrator). In these situations, the target gains a premonition of its own future, and the roll is made with advantage.

You cannot cast this spell on yourself. After a creature benefits from this spell, it must wait a year before it can do so again. Casting this spell requires a sacrifice worth at least 1000 silver, which the spell consumes.

You project a divine aura identical to that of a deity's avatar, gaining several potent benefits for the duration of the spell.

First, you gain advantage on all saves against magic and resistance to non-magical sources of damage. Second, any time a creature attacks you it must make a Fortitude save or be blinded for one round. Third, hostile creatures within 60 feet that can see you must make a Will save or become terrified for 1 minute. Fourth, allied or neutral creatures within 60 feet that can see you must make a Will save or choose between leaving your presence immediately by the most direct means or falling to their knees in awe for 1 minute.

The psychological effects of this spell cannot affect a creature more than once per casting, and any creature that makes its save becomes immune for the remainder of the duration.

You must be standing under the open sky to cast this spell. You control the weather within an 8-mile radius of yourself. Every time you choose to alter the climate, the effects take place over a span of 30 minutes. When you change the wind, you can alter its direction.

The weather has three traits: temperature, precipitation, and wind. Each trait is measured on a scale of 1–5, and you can alter each trait by a maximum of one step in either direction.

• Temperature — Sweltering · Hot · Mild · Cold · Arctic. • Precipitation — Clear · Hazy · Overcast/Fog · Rain/Snow · Blizzard. • Wind — Calm · Breeze · Windy · Gale · Hurricane.

You raise a sunken ship from the floor of the ocean. You must know the vessel's name if it has one, or have seen it before by some means. If the ship is within 5 miles of you and at least 50% intact it rises to the surface of the ocean and travels to you under its own power, at its normal sailing speed, by the most direct route.

If you are standing on dry land and the ship cannot reach you, it beaches itself as close as possible and the spell ends. Although this spell restores a destroyed ship to perfect condition, it does not repair the cargo or contents. If a creature is inside the wreck when it travels to you, it is brought along. If the ship is destroyed again while en route to you, the spell ends prematurely, and the ship sinks again.

Casting this spell requires a sacrifice worth 3000 silver, which the spell consumes.

By speaking the name of a single willing creature that either you or a creature you touch are personally familiar with, you learn that creature's general location. This spell can find a target anywhere in the cosmos, including on other worlds or planes of existence. If the creature does not have a name, this spell fails.

This spell can only be blocked by Mind Blank, Wish, or similar magic of at least 8th level. The location of the target creature is described to you in general terms and is accurate to a radius of 1 mile. If the target is inside a building or other structure, the spell imparts this knowledge to you. After using this spell to locate a creature you must wait a full year before you can use it to find the same creature again.

You speak a word of power and unleash powerful bolts of lightning from your body in all directions. These bolts lash out at any creatures you choose within a 40-foot radius of you, dealing 8d10 lightning or psychic damage in any proportion you choose and stunning them for one round.

A successful Fortitude save halves this damage and annuls the stunning effect. This spell has no effect on nearby inanimate objects and does not harm creatures you wish to exclude from damage.

Brilliant sunlight floods a 60-foot radius, centered on a point you choose within range. All creatures in this radius take 8d10 radiant damage and are blinded for 1 minute. A successful Fortitude save annuls the blinding effect. Undead and oozes have disadvantage on this save.

Creatures blinded by this spell can attempt a new Fortitude save every round to end the blindness. This spell dispels any darkness in range, magical or otherwise.

You and any number of willing creatures within 10 feet project your souls into the astral plane. The bodies of the travelers go into stasis, during which time they lose all sensation and cease to age. Subjects in stasis also do not require air, food, or water.

An astral body looks like a ghostly copy of the traveling creature, including equipment. Projecting souls are connected to their bodies by a fine silvery strand that fades away inches from the projecting creature's head.

You summon a massive surge of primal life energy, fully restoring any creatures you choose within 30 feet of you. This energy removes all poisoning, diseases, temporary derangements, and regenerates any lost soft tissue (but not bone).

You open a portal in an unoccupied space you can see within range. This portal leads to a precise location elsewhere in the cosmos. You can orient the portal in any direction you choose. It remains open for the duration of the spell.

Travel through the portal is possible only by moving through its front. Anything doing so is instantly transported to the other side, appearing in an unoccupied space nearest to the portal. Deities and other planar rulers can prevent portals created by this spell from opening in their presence or anywhere in their domains.

You create destructive resonance in a creature's body, dealing 8d8+40 crushing damage. If it is killed by this damage it collapses in on itself and vanishes permanently. This spell has no effect on gaseous or incorporeal creatures.

By invoking the true name of a dead creature and performing a lengthy ritual involving sacred fire and objects that were important to it in life, you create a new body for the creature and restore it to life. This spell cannot be used to restore a creature that died of old age. If you do not know the creature's true name and possess at least three such objects, the spell fails.

You siphon life force from a single target within range. The target sustains 9d8 necrotic damage and you regain an equal amount of health. If this damage kills the target it transforms into a wight or draugr under your control. Damage dealt by this spell does not heal naturally; it can only be restored by magical means.