Summon monster VIII

Summon monster VIII was a powerful arcane conjuration spell and one of the series of summon monster spells available to spellcasters. Its use was first recorded around the.

Effects
This spell summoned a powerful extraplanar monster to aid the caster. Besides greater elementals, it could summon lillends, hellcats, or vrocks. It also summoned celestial versions of dire bears or triceratops; fiendish versions of the largest monstrous centipedes, spiders as big as houses, dire tigers or tyrannosaurus could be summoned.

In aquatic environs only, the spell could summon a celestial cachalot whale or fiendish giant squid.

More rarely, some black-hearted casters learned to summon solamiths using this spell.

Components
In addition to verbal and somatic components, this spell required as its focus a small bag and tiny candle to cast. The candle did not need to be lit for the spell to function.

History
This spell was used by Dyrr, the Lichdrow of Menzoberranzan.