Exaltation was a spell used by Helmite priests to protect others.[2]
Effects[]
When cast, the spell removed a negative effect from a single other being. The touched being would be stripped of hunger, pain, nausea, intoxication, insanity, unconsciousness, and feeblemindedness, as well as the effects of the fear and sleep spells. For the rest of the spell's duration, the recipient would be protected against effects that caused such conditions. This duration scaled with the power of the priest.[2]
Beings of a different alignment or faith had a reduced chance of gaining the effects of exaltation. Those of the same alignment and faith automatically gained the effects, had their morale raised, and glowed in a white, blue, or amber light.[2]
Components[]
The spell required verbal, somatic, and material components. The material components were a vessel of holy water and a powdered sapphire or diamond worth at least 1000 gp.[2]
History[]
Exaltation was found in the 27-spell tome known as the Hand of Helm.[1]
In the month of Eleasis, of the Year of the Unstrung Harp, 1371 DR, Chief Prelate Dayspring of the Clerical Circle of Ravens Bluff declared it illegal for priests to cast exaltation within city limits due to a raging unnatural storm at the time called the Soulstorm, threatening arrest for those that broke this decree.[3][note 1]
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Notes[]
- ↑ The events of the Living City Ravens Bluff campaign took place on a timeline that advanced together with the real world's time. Even though all Living City adventures and issues of Ravens Bluff Trumpeter were dated with real-world dates, there were events that received a DR year. The Living City timeline can be derived from Myrkyssa Jelan's historic events of the late 14th century DR. Myrkyssa Jelan attacked Ravens Bluff in 1370 DR, according to The City of Ravens Bluff and Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition; these events are chronicled in an in-and-out of universe issues of Ravens Bluff Trumpeter. This places the real world year 1997 as 1370 DR, and in 1998 (1371 DR), Myrkyssa was at last arrested and tried and said to have been executed, only to reappear in 1372 DR in The City of Ravens novel. As the real world's months and the Calendar of Harptos are virtually identical, we can also date all events of the Living City Ravens Bluff as close as an in-universe month.
Appearances[]
Video Games
External Links[]
Exaltation article at the Icewind Dale Wiki, a wiki for the Icewind Dale game.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ed Greenwood (December 1990). “Arcane Lore: Pages From the Mages, Part VI”. In Roger E. Moore ed. Dragon #164 (TSR, Inc.), p. 62.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Julia Martin, Eric L. Boyd (March 1996). Faiths & Avatars. (TSR, Inc.), p. 70. ISBN 978-0786903849.
- ↑ Daniel S. Donnelly ed. (August 1998). The Trumpeter 2, no. 8 (link). (RPGA), p. 2.