View table: Rituals

The sphere generates oxygen, enabling you to breathe underwater or in other areas with no fresh air (though as the sphere surrounds its recipient or object, it hampers movement in or under water).

This spell doesn’t protect against natural or magical effects occurring within the airsphere: for example, if a vial of acid is thrown into the sphere, it enters; if it breaks, its contents splash for their normal effects.

This ritual was specially crafted to guard against dragon breath; it will absorb and negate any breath weapon upon contact but is itself destroyed, instantly and harmlessly, in doing so.

It advances and awaits your bidding. You can mentally impress on the animal a certain place well known to you or an obvious landmark. The directions must be simple, because the animal depends on your knowledge and can’t find a destination on its own. You can attach a small item or note to the messenger.

The animal then goes to the designated location and waits there until the duration of the spell expires, whereupon it resumes its normal activities. During this period of waiting, the messenger allows others to approach it and remove any scroll or token it carries. The intended recipient gains no special ability to communicate with the animal or read any attached message (if it’s written in a language he doesn’t know, for example).

While affected by this spell, spells and abilities that target animals will also affect the subject. Any attempt to interact with the subject requires a Handle Animal check (DC 10 + your caster level).

You can freely pass your own arcane lock without affecting it.

If the locked object has a lock, the DC to open that lock increases by 10 while it remains attached to the object. If the object does not have a lock, this spell creates one that can only be opened with a DC 20 Disable Device skill check. A door or object secured with this spell can be opened only by breaking in or with a successful dispel magic or knock spell. Add 10 to the normal DC to break open a door or portal affected by this spell.

A knock ritual does not remove an arcane lock; it only suppresses the effect for 10 minutes.

If an invisible mark is made, the Divination Divine ability causes it to glow and be visible, though not necessarily understandable.

See invisibility, true seeing, a gem of seeing, or a robe of eyes likewise allows the user to see an invisible arcane mark.

If an arcane mark is placed on a living being, the effect gradually fades in about a month, otherwise it is permanent.

You know the location and power of all magical auras within your sight. An aura’s power depends on a spell’s functioning level or an item’s caster level, as noted under the Divine ability. If the items or creatures bearing the auras are in line of sight, you can make Spellcraft skill checks to determine the school of magic involved in each. (Make one check per aura; DC 15 + spell level, or 15 + half caster level for a nonspell effect.)

If you concentrate on a specific creature within 120 feet of you as a standard action, you can determine whether it has any spellcasting or spell-like abilities, whether these are arcane or divine (spell-like abilities register as arcane), and the strength of the most powerful spell or spell-like ability the creature currently has available for use.

As with detect magic, you can use this spell to identify the properties of magic items, but not artifacts.

The enhancement bonus provided by barkskin stacks with the target’s natural armor bonus, but not with other enhancement bonuses to natural armor. A creature without natural armor has an effective natural armor bonus of +0.

Animals are liable to attack or harass the character: birds fly around and peck at the character, cats trip him, and larger animals might do worse.

The curse bestowed by this spell cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a break enchantment, limited wish, miracle, remove curse, or wish spell.

• -6 decrease to an ability score (minimum 1).
• -4 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks.
• Each turn, the target has a 50% chance to act normally; otherwise, it takes no action.

You may also invent your own curse, but it should be no more powerful than those described above.

It works only in the caster’s home city, and in areas under the jurisdiction of the city watch. For example, if the watch patrols a shantytown outside the city walls but not the ruined subterranean tunnels that lie beneath the city, the spell works in the former area but not the latter.

Blossoming footsteps only functions in rounds when the druid moves. The plants do not hinder movement or provide cover on their own, nor does their growth damage the surface where they grow. They can, however, be targeted by spells such as entangle or plant growth.

When the spell’s duration expires, the plants either continue to live normally if the ground is suitable, or else melt away.

The Ceremonial Servant counts as a Secondary Caster with 1 caster level, and fulfilling all sphere requirements of the ritual.

Holy incense is used to summon a servant that can aid in divine magic, and titan's teeth are used to summon a servant that can aid with arcana magic.

Within the ritual's duration you may as an immediate action change any one event, occurring within line of sight, and affected by a die roll. The result of the die roll is rolled again, and you pick which result of the two actually happens. Once that is done the ritual ends.

Change fate can affect attack rolls, critical hits, critical failures, initiative checks, saving throws, damage dice (even multiple damage dice, such as 5d6 from a fireball), healing dice (from cure spells, for example), skill checks, ability checks, and caster level checks. It cannot affect your roll for hit points when you gain a level. If it affects an event associated with a roll of multiple dice, you must choose either set of dice rolls; you cannot choose to replace individual die rolls.

You can wait to choose whether to affect a die roll until after it is actually rolled, but must state your intention to alter a die roll before any other actions or rolls occur. You cannot alter the past; you can only shape the present as it slips by.

If whoever caused the action has spell resistance you must overcome that resistance.

The ritual must be physically performed on the path that you wish to adjust. Upon completion of the ritual, you may begin to walk along the path at a rate of 100 miles per day. While walking you may:

• Make a section the path longer or shorter, but no more than twice, or less than half, its original length.
• Make as many twists and turns as you like within the resulting length.
• Make the path wider or narrower, but no more than twice, or less than half, its original width.
• Change the route of the path, so that it passes through different settlements and locations than previously.

Once you reach the end of the path, the end may be located in a different place than originally.

Shifting and warping reality around its new path, the path affected by change the path moves structures and creatures out of its way harmlessly, pushing objects apart or pulling them together, narrowing and widening the new street to suit the result that the spellcaster designates. This includes warping the ground to create tunnels or bridges where necessary.

The ritual cannot alter any other objects other than the path itself, and cannot affect magical structures. The ritual only affects a single path or road (subject to DM's adjudication).

Creatures who can read lips might still be able to determine what is said, but no Perception check can possibly allow one to overhear the conversation.

If desired, you may hold the charge after casting the spell, in which case the targets will be you and one creature (intentionally) touched before the end of the duration. The duration continues to run while you are holding the charge.

Even after the spell fades, the target remains as familiar with your religion as if she had actually read its holy book or the equivalent repository of dogma and lore (make untrained checks of DC 15 or lower for one month).

A nonintelligent undead creature gets no saving throw against this spell. When you control a mindless being, you can communicate only basic commands, such as “come here,” “go there,” “fight,” “stand still,” and so on. Nonintelligent undead won’t resist suicidal or obviously harmful orders.

Any act by you or your apparent allies that threatens the commanded undead (regardless of its Intelligence) breaks the spell.

Your commands are not telepathic. The undead creature must be able to hear you.

The ritual lasts a total of 24 hours divided in 1-hour increments among the creatures touched.

Endure elements doesn't provide any protection from fire or cold damage, nor does it protect against other environmental hazards such as smoke, lack of air, and so forth.

Written material can be read at the rate of one page (250 words) per minute. Magical writing cannot be read, though the ritual reveals that it is magical. This ritual can be foiled by certain warding magic (such as the secret page and illusory script spells). It does not decipher codes or reveal messages concealed in otherwise normal text.

The lanterns must stay within a 10-foot-radius area in relation to each other but otherwise move as you desire (no concentration required): forward or back, up or down, straight or turning corners, or the like. The lanterns can move up to 100 feet per round. A lantern winks out if the distance between you and it exceeds the spell’s range. If you have more than one corpse lantern ritual running, you can only control the movement of one at a time.

Water weighs about 8 pounds per gallon. One cubic foot of water contains roughly 8 gallons and weighs about 60 pounds.

This spell has no effect on plants with CR ½ or higher.

You choose one of the following effects:

• All Craft, Knowledge, and Profession checks made within the settlement’s borders automatically fail.
• The settlement and all within are hidden from sight and divination, as if affected by the screen spell. Those who leave the settlement and then attempt to return are also subject to this effect.
• All within the settlement suffer from a continuous modify memory effect, which causes them to forget that anything exists outside the settlement’s borders.
• All within the settlement’s borders take a –8 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks (excluding those that automatically fail, as noted above).

You may also invent your own curse community, but it should be no more powerful than those listed above.

The GM determines the community’s effective borders. The GM also has final say on the curse’s effect.

This ritual cannot be dispelled, but it can be removed with a miracle or wish.

The ritual may be cast with different components which may be used in part or combined for added effect; Verbal, Somatic and/or Focus.

Upon the completion of the ritual, all creatures within long range of the caster learn whether the target is a god. This is not to mean whether or not the object or creature is worshiped as a god, whether the target deserves to be worshiped, or if the target is as powerful as (or greater than) a god, but rather whether such a target has in fact ascended to godhood or has inherent divinity.

In addition to the effects listed above, the caster may divine the strength of the target’s divinity aura.

The effect is immobile, but it can be cast on a movable object.

This spell has no effect on magical light sources of any level, and a spell with the light descriptor of any level counters and dispels this spell.

The target animal or magical beast, which must not have more hit dice than you, gains a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength, a +4 enhancement bonus to Constitution, and a +2 enhancement bonus to natural armor. All of the target’s natural weapons improve as if it possessed the Improved Natural Attack feat. (The effect of this spell stacks with the actual feat, but not other magical sources.)

This spell does not provide you with any additional way of controlling the animals affected, and indeed, it tends to make them more aggressive (increase Animal Empathy DC by +5, and it gains a second chance to break any charm or compulsion effects).

A successful Reflex save (DC 15) halves this damage. After the third cone of flame, the ritual ends.

A ritual scroll of this ritual costs only 25 gp x caster level to create (or twice that to buy), but has a duration of only 1 round/caster level.

The target must sleep for at least 1 hour to gain the benefits of this spell. Being awakened during this period interrupts the spell and cancels its effects.

• Air: The conjured air disperses into air or fire. However, if used underwater or underground, it creates a bubble of breathable air, allowing a character to breathe for 1d6 rounds before it is spent.
• Earth: The conjured earth forms into a block of stone, crumbling into dust after 1d3 rounds. You can drop it on an opponent, given the right conditions (treat the stone as weighing 15 lbs.), or you could use it as a stepping stone or for any number of other possible uses.
• Fire: The conjured fire snuffs out in 1 round. If used against an opponent and the opponent fails a Reflex save, the fire deals 1d3 points of damage. Conjured fire can ignite combustibles, which burn for 1d2 rounds before extinguishing.
• Water: Conjured water can snuff small fires (fireplace or smaller) or provide drinking water. If not used immediately, the conjured water evaporates in 1d6 rounds.

Endure elements doesn't provide any protection from fire or cold damage, nor does it protect against other environmental hazards such as smoke, lack of air, and so forth.

Large and larger creatures don’t need to attempt a Climb check to climb over it.

At your discretion, you can make the structure half as long but thicker by forming it into a berm consisting of a steep slope on each side. Characters moving uphill (to an adjacent square of higher elevation) must spend 2 squares of movement to enter a square of steep slope. Characters running or charging downhill (moving to an adjacent square of lower elevation) must attempt a DC 10 Acrobatics check upon entering the first steep slope square. Mounted characters attempt a DC 10 Ride check instead. Characters who fail this check stumble and must end their movement 1d2 × 5 feet later. Characters who fail by 5 or more fall prone in the square where they end their movement. A steep slope increases the DC of Acrobatics checks by 2.

The earth excavated by this spell is ordinarily distributed harmlessly around the hole, but you may choose to place it in a single pile.

Expeditious excavation has no effect on solid rock or earth creatures.

You and any characters you specifically instruct can read the protected writing without triggering the explosive runes. Likewise, you can remove the explosive runes whenever desired. Another creature can remove them with a successful dispel magic or erase spell, but attempting to dispel or erase the explosive runes and failing to do so triggers the explosion.

The bug counts as a magical sensor for the purpose of detecting divination magic.

The target gains 1 permanent negative level while under the effect of this spell; this negative level goes away when the target dies.

The target still counts as a dead corpse (but not undead) for the purpose of magic that revive dead creatures.

The disk floats approximately 3 feet above the ground at all times and remains level. It floats along horizontally within 5 ft. and will accompany you at a rate of no more than 30 ft. each round. If you move more than 5 ft. from the disk, it remains stationary.

The disk winks out of existence when the spell duration expires. When the disk winks out, whatever it was supporting falls to the surface beneath it.

When moving in and among trees, the target gains a +5 circumstance bonus on Acrobatics, Climb and Stealth checks. Characters with a favored terrain ability can also add their favored terrain bonus on such Acrobatics, Climb and Stealth checks.

In addition, the target gains a +5 competence bonus on Stealth checks in areas of medium to dense vegetation, and a +5 competence bonus on all Diplomacy checks made to influence plant and fey creatures.

The sentry has a BAB equal to the caster’s level and adds the caster’s casting ability modifier. The sentry may provide an ally a flanking bonus, but does not benefit from one.

The sentry is discharged after being successfully struck for 25 hp of damage. It has saves equal to the caster’s.

Using the wings requires only as much concentration as walking, so the subject can attack or cast spells normally. The subject can charge but not run, and it cannot carry aloft more weight than its maximum load, plus any armor it wears. The subject gains a bonus on Fly skill checks equal to 1/2 your caster level.

Should the ritual duration expire while the subject is still aloft, the magic fails slowly. The subject floats downward 60 feet per round for 1d6 rounds. If it reaches the ground in that amount of time, it lands safely. If not, it falls the rest of the distance. Since dispelling a ritual effectively ends it, the subject also descends safely in this way if the fly ritual is dispelled, but not if it is negated by an antimagic field.

The ritual grants each subject damage reduction 2/magic. Humans who leave the area and reenter regain the damage reduction.

The ritual is suppressed if the object is moved from its place, but resumes if the object is put back. Its duration continues to elapse while it is suppressed this way.

Normally, the area of effect is 40 feet from the touched object. If the touched object is a monument to human achievement, the area increases to a 60-foot radius.

Creatures outside the area cannot sense any activity going on inside the area—they cannot smell campfires or cooking food, they cannot hear conversation, loud noises, or spells being cast, and they cannot even feel heat or a rush of wind coming from the area. Those inside the area can see out normally.

Once a creature steps into the area of the spell, it can see everything in and around the area normally.

The imbued ritual may be from a scroll, but the scroll is consumed as part of the casting (though in this case you do not need to supply any additional material components).

The imbued ritual triggers as soon as any creature eats even a single bite of the food. The spell targets only the creature that ate it but otherwise acts normally (including saving throws, spell resistance, etc). Once the spell is triggered any remaining part of the food is harmless.

This enhancement bonus increases by 1 for every 4 caster levels above 3rd, to a maximum of +7 at 15th level.

While you’re under the effects of this spell, if an opponent confirms a critical hit or sneak attack against you with a physical weapon (not a spell or magical effect), you can dismiss this spell to negate the critical hit or sneak attack and treat it is as a normal hit. Dismissing the spell in this way is not an action, but you must be conscious and aware of the attack to do so.

When you complete the casting of this spell, make a caster level check against the DC of the lock with a +10 bonus. If successful, knock opens up to two means of closure.

This spell opens secret doors, as well as locked or trick-opening boxes or chests. It also loosens welds, shackles, or chains (provided they serve to hold something shut).

If used to open an arcane locked door, the spell does not remove the arcane lock but simply suspends its functioning for 10 minutes. In all other cases, the door does not relock itself or become stuck again on its own.

Knock does not raise barred gates or similar impediments (such as a portcullis), nor does it affect ropes, vines, and the like.

The ritual is effective in any environment in which “north” exists, but it may not work in extraplanar settings.

Additionally, for the duration of the spell you can make Knowledge (geography) checks regarding the affected area as though you were trained in that skill.

Upon completion the ritual instantly lights a small fire roughly equivalent to the size of a torch.

So, if the ritual has a duration of 2 hours, the spell will cover any tracks made up to 2 hours before the casting of the ritual. When half an hour has passed, the ritual covers tracks up to 1½ hours past, or 1 hour before the casting of the ritual. The tracks are slowly revealed, until finally they catch up to the user, once the duration ends.

Trying to follow obscured tracks increases the DC of any Survival checks by 2 per level of the caster.

For example, a fog cloud spell does not provide any concealment miss chance against your attacks. All non-visual effects of the spell work normally (for example, a stinking cloud nauseates you if you enter it; a solid fog slows you, and so on).

The mount is AC 18 (-1 size, +4 natural armor, +5 Dex) and 7 hit points + 1 hit point per caster level. If it loses all its hit points, the phantom steed disappears. A phantom steed has a speed of 20 feet per two caster levels, to a maximum of 100 feet at 10th level. It can bear its rider’s weight plus up to 10 pounds per caster level.

After hearing your request, if the creature has an appropriate Knowledge skill it can attempt a check to provide the information it has. If it lacks such a skill, the called creature leaves for 1d4 hours to gather this information. Upon its return, you roll 1d20 plus your caster level and use the result to determine what information the creature has gathered about the subject (as if using Diplomacy). The called creature stays for up to 10 minutes as it relays this information to you, after which it departs to its home plane.

If the creature is attacked or damaged at any time during the ritual's duration, the ritual ends and the creature returns to the plane from which you summoned it.

When you cast this ritual, you can choose a specific kind of outsider to call, even calling an individual creature by name. The kind of outsider called doesn’t alter the effects of the ritual, but when you use planar inquiry to summon a creature with an alignment or elemental subtype, it is a ritual of that type.

At any time afterward, you (and only you) can touch the plant and experience the information stored within it. Once you have accessed the information, you cannot do so again. The plant’s “senses” are the same as a normal human’s (regardless of the race of the caster) — it cannot see in the dark, it cannot see invisible creatures, and so on.

The precipitation blocks all sight (including darkvision) beyond 5 feet. A creature 5 feet away has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance), while creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target). In addition, each type of precipitation has an additional effect:

Rain: Small, unprotected mundane flames (such as candles, torches, and campfires of Tiny size) are extinguished by the driving rain. There is no effect on fire creatures or magical flames.

Sleet: Ground in the area becomes slick and icy, so creatures can move safely only at one-half speed. Creatures moving at full speed must make an Acrobatics check DC 10, with failure indicating that the creature cannot move on the ice, and failure by 5 points or more meaning that the creature falls prone.

Snow: Ground in the area becomes icy and snow accumulates. Creatures can move only at one-half speed, and no running or charging is possible. Even moving at one-half speed, a creature must make an Acrobatics check DC 10, with failure indicating that the creature cannot move and failure by 5 points or more meaning that the creature falls prone.

For the duration of the spell, food, water, plants, and other perishable objects affected by the spell remain as fresh as they were when the spell was cast. The spell also protects these objects against spells of the same level or lower that cause spoilage, such as putrefy food and drink. When the duration of preserve expires, the objects resume aging at their normal rate.

The spell also works on severed body parts and the bodies of small creatures as per gentle repose, provided that the weight of the creature or part does not exceed the spell’s limit.

These quills cover the majority your body and do not harm you, or hinder your movement or any other actions. The quills sprout out of natural and leather armor but remain harmless under other types. The quills are fine enough as not to cause damage to clothing or other items worn.

Creatures swallowing or constricting you take 3d6 points of damage each round while you remain swallowed or constricted.

The Receive Ritual ritual is simple enough to be memorized by an appropriate practitioner.

The time and cost of the ritual depends on the ritual that the practitioner is to receive from their patron. Choose a level and a ritual and consult the table below. Note that a deity might might not wish or be able to provide certain rituals, depending on its domain.

Alternatively you may decide to just set a level and let your deity decide the ritual to provide. In this case the casting time is divided by 10.

• Calm: You cannot fly or levitate, but you can fall or jump down a distance of 30 feet or less as a move action, provided you carry only a light load.
• Light Wind: You can levitate if you carry no more than a light load, descending up to 40 feet or ascending up to 20 feet as a move action, or simply hovering in place. Alternatively, you can fall safely (as above) while carrying up to a medium load.
• Moderate Wind: You can fly at a speed of 30 feet with good maneuverability so long as you carry no more than a light load. If you carry no more than a medium load, you can levitate (as above), or can fall safely if you carry a heavy load.
• Severe or More Powerful Wind: As moderate wind. You are still susceptible to special wind effects (such as being blown away or knocked down), but wind affects you as though you are flying even if you aren’t.

If the creature moves faster than walking speed (half base land speed) the ritual ends.

The ritual can be cast on multiple creatures by multiplying the component cost by the number of creatures. This does not change the casting time.

Creatures with a reason to suspect deception may make a Will Saving Throw to realize that the corpse was altered. If you chose to make the corpse look like a specific individual anyone who knows that individual can make a Will save to realize that the corpse is not actually that person. However, if a creature fails its Will save by 5 or less they believe the corpse is that of someone who closely resembled the person they knew rather than a deliberate fake.

This spell merely changes the appearance of the corpse. Any spell or effect that targets the corpse (such as speak with dead or raise dead) treats it as if it still had its original appearance.

The ritual does not reveal the method used to obtain invisibility. It does not reveal illusions or enable you to see through opaque objects. It does not reveal creatures who are simply hiding, concealed, or otherwise hard to see.

First, it creates a portal between the Titans' Corpus and The Shadow, allowing travel between those two planes in either direction.

Second, you may then call a particular individual or kind of being through the gate.

The gate itself is a circular hoop or disk from 5 to 20 feet in diameter (caster’s choice) oriented in the direction you desire when it comes into existence (typically vertical and facing you). It is a two-dimensional opening into The Shadow, and anyone or anything can move through freely to the other side.

A gate has a front and a back. Creatures moving through the gate from the front are transported to The Shadow; creatures moving through it from the back are not.

Calling Creatures: The second effect of the gate spell is to call an extraplanar creature to your aid. By naming a particular being or kind of being as you cast the ritual, you cause the being to become aware of the ritual, and it may begin moving towards where the gate will open under its own power. You may pass a short message to the creature in question to entice it to make the journey. If the creature has 2 Intelligence or lower it will instinctually move towards the location of gate. You do not automatically control a creature summoned in this way. An uncontrolled being acts as it pleases.

This use of the ritual has an additional material cost of 10,000 gp in rare incense and offerings.

If you choose to call a kind of creature instead of a known individual, you may call either a single creature or several creatures. In either case, their total HD cannot exceed twice your ritual caster level.

The sentry has a BAB equal to the caster’s level and adds the caster’s casting ability modifier. The sentry may provide an ally a flanking bonus, but does not benefit from one.

The sentry is discharged after being successfully struck for any damage.

You arrive in The Shadow directly across from the Titans' Corpus. Shadow Walk transports creatures instantaneously and then ends. The creatures need to find other means if they are to travel back (including casting Shadow Walk again).