Summon spectator was a divine conjuration spell used by priests devoted to Helm, enabling them to create the ultimate guardian.[1]
Effects[]
This spell summoned the spectator–a large orb with a central unblinking eye and four eyestalks to monitor each direction. The spectator was corrupted by evil forces during ages past, leading to the formation of the beholder race.[1]
Once summoned, a spectator would serve a single task involving guarding for 101 years. The spectator would only allow its summoner or another priest of Helm to enter the area it was guarding. Its impressive telepathic abilities allowed the spectator to see through false claims quickly.[1]
The spectator would remain at its post unless slain or blinded in all five eyes. If blinded, the spectator would return to Mechanus to regenerate for a full day before returning to its post. However, upon its return if the spectator realized its post had been breached, it would then return permanently to Mechanus.[1]
Components[]
In addition to verbal and somatic components, this spell required as material components the priest's holy symbol and a steel gauntlet blessed by Helm to cast. The gauntlet was consumed during the casting.[1]
History[]
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 summon spectator within city limits due to a raging unnatural storm at the time called the Soulstorm, threatening arrest for those that broke this decree.[2][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.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Julia Martin, Eric L. Boyd (March 1996). Faiths & Avatars. (TSR, Inc.), p. 71. ISBN 978-0786903849.
- ↑ Daniel S. Donnelly ed. (August 1998). The Trumpeter 2, no. 8 (link). (RPGA), p. 2.