Mists of Strangling
Spell, Black Magic, level 4
Conjures choking gray vapor that deals constriction damage each minute and prevents spell casting; only leaving the cloud helps.
From the book
Conjures a 10x10x10 ft. cloud of dense gray vapor, plus another 10x10x10 ft. per level, that the caster can send up to 100 ft. Anyone who enters or is caught in it takes 1-6 choking, constricting damage every minute. The only escape is to get out of the cloud, by running or with certain magic items, since no spells can be cast inside it. The mist lasts 1 minute per level of the caster.
At a glance
- Area
- 10x10x10 ft. (+10x10x10 ft. per level)
- Range
- Travels up to 100 ft.
- Damage
- 1-6 per minute
- Duration
- 1 minute per level of caster
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Variable, as stated
A scene
The paladins of Quechua have the witch cornered on the temple stair, and she no longer bothers with subtlety. Coyllur flings her arm down and a gray fog boils up from the steps below her, swallowing the first rank of warriors whole. At once they are choking, clawing at their throats as the vapor tightens like a noose. One of them tries to shout a prayer and cannot get a word out. The survivors have only one hope, and they take it: they run blind out of the mist.