Truename
(Enchantment/Alteration)
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Effect: This spell
enables the magic-user to have great power over any living thing which
has a name,
generic or individual, known
to the spell caster.
Naturally, most true
names are not known (even by the creatures themselves),
for the common names of
most things are not their true and secret names.
True names are discovered
through hard work, spying, extensive use of legend lore and sagecraft
(at the most difficult levels).
The casting of a truename
spell requires the magic-user to call out the true name of the subject
and then begin a recitation of verse which encompasses the nature and/or
history of the subject.
This will require 3 segments.
Thereafter, still in verse
(and preferably rhyming or near-rhyming),
the caster must describe
the desired result of the truename spell.
Each possible result differs
in the length of time to effectuate it:
Multiple Suggestion:
The verses can contain 1 to 4 [suggestion] powers, just as if each were
a spell.
Each verse requires 1 segment
to recite. (See [suggestion] spell.) <edit?>
In a total of 7 segments
(including the time for the initial reading), 4 suggestions can
be made.
Weakness and Surrender
The verses recited cause actual loss of 1 point of strength (-1 to hit
and damage, -1 on movement rate) for each segment of recitation.
With the loss of each point
of strength,
the subject must save versus
paralyzation or meekly surrender.
Each verse must continue
for 1 segment.
Strength loss is recovered
in 2-8 rounds after recitation ceases,
and with recovery of strength
the subject regains its will to resist.
Polymorph: The verses
can cause the subject to change into something else,
just as if a [polymorph
any object] spell had been cast.
No system shock saving throw
is needed.
The length of time in verses
(1 segment per verse) to cause the polymorph depends on how radical
the change:
mineral
to animal = 10 verses
mineral
to vegetable = 9 verses
vegetable
to animal = 8 verses
monster
to normal = 7 verses
monster
to monster = 6 verses
other
to human = 5 verses
animal
to animal = 4 verses
vegetable
to vegetable = 3 verses
mineral
to mineral = 2 verses
The reverse of the preceding
cases also holds.
In cases not stated,
the DM is to use the closest
stated case as a guide.
The subject returns to its
natural form in time.
Duration is 6 turns per
level of the spell caster minus 1 turn for every verse required to effect
the polymorph.
The subject will think and
behave exactly as a non-polymorphed thing of the same type,
but have its original hit
points.
Transport: When the
transport
verses are recited,
the subject will be teleported
without error <link> or otherwise moved to some other place.
The number of verses required
depends on the location of the transport:
same
plane/100 mile range = 4 verses
same
plane/500 mile range = 5 verses
same
plane/2,000 mile range = 6 verses
one plane/world
removed = 7 verses
two planes/worlds
removed = 8 verses
The subject will automatically
be altered so as to be able to physically survive the normal conditions
of the place to which it is sent.
There is no saving throw
if the subjects are willing, even if they have magic resistance.
If at any time during the
recitation of the spell the caster is interrupted,
the magic fails and the
spell is lost.
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