Word of Warning
Spell, High Magic, level 2
Places an invisible ward that alerts the caster at any distance when an intruder touches or enters; it fires once.
From the book
The caster sets an invisible magical ward on an object, device or area. When anyone touches or trespasses on it, the ward alerts the caster that an intruder has arrived, however far away the caster may be, though it gives no details about who or what the intruder is. Intruders are unlikely to notice it unless they cast Detect Magic on the spot. It lasts indefinitely but vanishes as soon as it is triggered.
At a glance
- Duration
- Indefinite until triggered
- Detection
- Only Detect Magic reveals it
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Non-variable
- Limit
- Relays no details about the intruder; distance is no factor
A scene
Before she left Findias for a year of study in Khitai, the wizard Irene laid a ward on the door of her tower: an invisible knot of magic that would tell her, wherever she was, if anyone touched it. Eight months later, in an inn in Tang, she sat bolt upright in the middle of the night. Someone had just touched her door, half a world away. She did not know who. The ward told her nothing more, and it was gone now, spent. She lay awake until dawn, wondering.