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 Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR.[1]
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.[1]
In aquatic environs only, the spell could summon a celestial cachalot whale or fiendish giant squid.[1]
More rarely, some black-hearted casters learned to summon solamiths using this spell.[5]
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.[1]
History[]
This spell was used by Dyrr, the Lichdrow of Menzoberranzan.[6]
Appendix[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams (July 2003). Player's Handbook v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 285–287. ISBN 0-7869-2886-7.
- ↑ James Wyatt (October 2001). Oriental Adventures (3rd edition). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 95. ISBN 0-7869-2015-7.
- ↑ Richard Baker (November 2004). Complete Arcane. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 95. ISBN 0-7869-3435-2.
- ↑ Richard Baker, Matt Forbeck, Sean K. Reynolds (May 2003). Unapproachable East. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 27. ISBN 0-7869-2881-6.
- ↑ (July 2007). Monster Manual V. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 29. ISBN 0-7869-4115-4.
- ↑ Richard Baker (October 2003). “Rogues Gallery: The Heroes of the War of the Spider Queen, Part 2”. In Chris Thomasson ed. Dragon #312 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 84–85.