Warding
Spell, Divine Magic, level 5
A touch that protects one person from a single chosen weapon type, one elemental force, or one specific spell for an hour.
From the book
Protects the caster or one other individual, who must be touched, against one chosen threat for 1 hour. It can be one specific weapon type (daggers, say, or long swords or light crossbows), which become useless against the subject; one elemental force such as fire, ice, wind or lightning; or one particular spell. If that spell can be cast in several modes, the ward covers only one of them.
At a glance
- Options
- 1 One specific weapon type; 2 One elemental force; 3 One specific spell (one mode only)
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Non-variable
A scene
The minister of rites in Tang has received three warnings that the dark monks will come for him at tonight's banquet, and he refuses to stay home. His chaplain, an old priest of Shang-Ti, touches his wrist in the carriage and prays a single ward: daggers. Halfway through the soup a servant lunges from behind a screen with a thin black blade. It strikes the minister's ribs and skids off his silk robe as if it had hit polished stone. The minister, who is not a brave man, faints anyway.