Atlantean Trilogy Archive
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Sphere of Confusion

Spell, High Magic, level 4

Creates a zone where creatures who fail a Perception save wander about disoriented.

From the book

The caster gives off a 20 ft. radius sphere of confusion. Anyone inside who fails a save vs Perception becomes completely disoriented, too muddled to do anything decisive, and wanders about aimlessly until the effect ends 10 minutes later. The spell is Non-variable.

At a glance

Area
20 ft. radius
Duration
10 minutes
Save
vs Perception
Spell type
Non-variable

A scene

At the harvest festival in Channu-Daro, a gang of thieves worked the crowd, and the wizard Anjali had watched them lift three purses. When they drew knives on her in a quiet corner behind the dancers, she spoke the word, and the sphere spread out around her like ripples in a pond. The four thieves stopped, turned around, and began to wander off in different directions, one into a sweetmeat stall, another in circles. The fifth, a sharp-eyed girl, stared at her friends in dismay and fled. The others would be muddled for ten minutes.

Written for this archive, not from the book

Find it in the spellbook of High Magic