Tempest
Spell, Elemental Magic, level 7
Raises a ferocious storm across a very large area that sinks vessels, flattens light wooden buildings, puts out fires, grounds flyers and pelts creatures with debris.
From the book
The caster whips up a storm of fearsome power across as much as 1,000x1,000 ft., up to 1,000 ft. away, for 10 minutes. It is strong enough to sink small and medium boats and ships on rivers, lakes or the sea, to tear down small and medium wooden buildings such as barns, huts and small bridges, and to snuff out any fire left uncovered, magical ones included.
Inside the storm, creatures move at no more than half speed and see only 10-40 ft. No one can fly, domestic animals such as horses and dogs have a 50% chance of panicking and bolting or stampeding, and every creature takes 1-6 points of damage each minute from windblown dust, dirt and debris unless it finds shelter in a stone building or underground. There is no save.
At a glance
- Range
- 1,000 ft.
- Area
- Up to 1,000x1,000 ft.
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Effects
- Scuttles small-medium vessels; demolishes small-medium wooden structures; extinguishes uncovered fires (even magical); movement 1/2; visibility 10-40 ft.; flying impossible; domestic animals 50% panic
- Damage
- 1-6 per minute from debris unless sheltered (stone building or underground)
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Non-variable
- Restricted to
- Druids and practitioners of Elemental Magic only
A scene
Ska longships had anchored in the bay below the Starr camps, ready to raid at dawn, and the peaceful Starr would not fight. Cerys, a druid of Havar who had wintered with them, climbed to the headland at midnight and called up the storm. It fell on the bay like a fist: the ships snapped their anchor cables and went over one by one, and the raiders' wooden shelters on the beach burst into kindling. Their campfires went black. Horses stampeded into the dark. Anyone in the open was flayed by flying sand and splinters. The few pirates who crawled into a sea cave lived to see an empty morning.