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Protection from Evil
(Abjuration)
Reversible
Level: 1
Range: Touch
Components: V,S,M
Duration: 2 rds./level
Casting Time: 1 segment
Area of Effect: Creature touched
Saving Throw: None
When this spell is cast, it creates a magical barrier around the recipient at a
distance of 1 foot. The barrier moves with the recipient and has three major
effects. First, all attacks made by evil (or evilly enchanted) creatures against the
protected creature suffer -2 penalties to attack rolls; any saving throws caused
by such attacks are made with +2 bonuses. Second, any attempt to possess (as
by a Magical attack) or to exercise mental control over (as by Vampire's
charm ability) the protected creature is blocked by this spell.
Note that the Protection does not prevent a Vampire's charm itself, but it
does prevent the exercise of mental control through the barrier. Likewise, a
possessing life force is merely kept out. It would not be expelled if in place
before the protection is cast. Third, the spell prevents bodily contact by creatures
of an extraplanar or conjured nature (such as Aerial Servants, Elementals,
Imps, Invisible Stalkers, Salamanders, Water Weirds, Xorn, and others). This
causes the natural (body) weapon attacks of such creatures to fail and the creatures
to recoil, if such attacks require touching the protected being. Animals
or monsters summoned or conjured by spells or similar magic are likewise
hedged from the character.
This protection ends if the protected character makes a melee attack against
or tries to force the barrier against the blocked creature. To complete this spell,
the magic-user must trace a 3-foot-diameter circle on the floor (or ground)
with powdered silver. This spell can he reversed to become Protection From
Good; the second and third benefits remain unchanged. The material component
for the reverse is a circle of powdered iron.
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