Vision Stone
Vision Stone
Divination
- Level: Sor/Wiz 4
- Components: V, S, M
- Casting Time: 1 standard action
- Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
- Target, Effect, or Area: One gem or item / level
- Duration: Permanent until discharged
- Saving Throw Special
This spell enables the caster to enclose a telepathic message in a gem or other object. The caster is able to set the conditions under which the message will be revealed, under the same criteria and limitations as a magic mouth spell. When a creature meeting the specified conditions holds the object, it glows and pulses, and the message is delivered mentally to the creature. The message remains in the object until its magic is dispelled or the conditions for its delivery are met. Each casting of this spell can imbue up to one object per caster level; all affected objects must carry the same message and respond to the same triggering condition.
Vision stone enables the caster to place a 50-word mental message or a one-minute vision into the designated object. The delivery is inaudible, ‘heard’ only in the mind of the recipient. The vision stone cannot trigger magical effects, but posthypnotic suggestions (implanted via the Hypnosis skill) may be activated in this way. A sufficiently distressing vision or message may suffice to trigger a Fear or Horror save. Recipients of a vision stone’s signal can still perceive and react to their surroundings.
The content of a vision stone is entirely up to the caster, who may incorporate real, hypothetical, or wholly fantastic experiences into a vision. Visions may be experienced from the point of view of the recipient, from some other creature’s perspective (e.g. a vision of being a dragon or ghost), or as an omniscient, intangible observer. Likewise, messages may be ‘heard’ in the voice of the caster, that of some other creature (including the recipient), or an anonymous, genderless drone.
Items worth 100 gp or more (either gems or fabricated items) may be imbued with vision stone at up to caster level 14. At caster levels of 15 or higher, gems or crafted items of any value may be imbued with such an effect. Only non-magical items may be endowed with messages in this way, and the affected object disintegrates immediately after the message is delivered.
Material component: An eyelash and a tooth from any creature.
Reference
Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer, p260
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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