Detect Magic
(Divination)
Sphere: Divination
Range: 0 Components: V, S, M
Duration: 1 turn Casting Time: 1 rd.
Area of Effect: 10 ft. x 30 yds. Saving Throw: None

When the detect magic spell is cast, the priest detects magical radiations in a path 10 feet wide and up to 30 yards long, in the direction he is facing. The intensity of the magic can be detected (dim, faint, moderate, strong, or overwhelming). The caster has a 10% chance per level to determine the sphere of the magic, but unlike the wizard version of the spell, the type of magic (alteration, conjuration, etc.) cannot be divined. The caster can turn, scanning a 60 arc per round. The spell is blocked by solid stone at least 1 foot thick, solid metal at least 1 inch thick, or solid wood at least 1 yard thick.
The spell requires the use of the priest's holy symbol.

With this spell, the priest can attempt to locate common items or forces of nature that may be hidden from view. The material component for the spell is a wand cut from a ginkgo tree. The priest must state the particular item being searched for. Thereafter, the wand points in the direction of the item, pulling the caster along, provided the item is within the spell range. If an impenetrable obstacle is reached (the ground, for example) the wand presses against it and stops. The priest must hold the wand with both hands for the spell to work. If there is no item matching the description within the spell range, the wand does not react, although the priestcan move about searching for the item. Common uses include locating water, buried treasure, and stolen goods.

Detect Charm
(Divination)
Reversible
Sphere: Divination
Range: 30 yds. Components: V, S
Duration: 1 turn Casting Time: 1 rd.
Area of Effect: 1 creature/rd. Saving Throw: Neg.

When used by a priest, this spell can detect if a person or monster is under the influence of a charm spell, or similar control such as hypnosis, suggestion, beguiling, possession, etc. The creature rolls a saving throw vs. spell and, if successful, the caster learns nothing about that particular creature from the casting. A caster who learns that a creature is being influenced has a 5% chance per level to determine the exact type of influence. Up to 10 different creatures can be checked before the spell wanes. If the creature is under more than one such effect, only the information that the charms exist is gained. The type (since there are conflicting emanations) is impossible to determine.

The reverse of the spell, undetectable charm, completely masks all charms on a single creature for 24 hours.

Detect Life
Schools: Greater Divination
Lesser Divination
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: 1 creature
Casting Time: 1 rd
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 5 rds
Range: 10 ft/level
Saving Throw: None

By use of this spell, a priest can tell if a creature is alive. The magic detects life in the subject of a feign death spell, or someone in a coma, deathlike trance, or state of suspended animation. If cast upon the body of a creature that is engaged in astral travel, it reveals that the creature is alive. The spell works on plants and plant creatures as well as animals. The spell's range is diminished if more than one-inch thickness of wood or stone lies between the priest and the subject. Each inch of thickness of a wood or stone barrier is treated as 10 feet of open space. A barrier of metal of any thickness causes the spell to fail and be ruined. Any form of mental protection, including those of psionic or magical nature, likewise ruins the spell without anything being detected. The spell detects the first living creature that lies along the priest's line of sight (and within range), or else the first creature that crosses the line-of-sight path before the duration ends.

Detect Phase (Divination)
Sphere: Divination
Range: 0
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 1 round per level
Casting Time: 5
Area of Effect: Person touched
Saving Throw: None

When this spell is cast, the person touched can see and perceive any creature that is out of or in a different phase than that of the spell recipient. This means that the person touched will see clearly such creatures with special defenses such as displacement, blinking, duo-dimension, astral- or etherealness and those who can shift out of phase, such as phase spiders. Furthermore, if the person touched has means to attack such creatures, he will have none of the ill effects that normally occur when trying to attack (i.e., the person touched would know the exact location of a displacer beast, or where the phase spider is, etc.). The information cannot be communicated to anyone else by words. The recipient's sight is limited to 120 yards.

The material component of this spell, in addition to the priest's holy symbol, is a lens of calcite crystal which must be viewed through for the spell to have effect. It does not disappear at the end of the spell.

Deafening Thunderclap
Sphere: Weather
Range: 10 yards per level
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Instantaneous
Casting Time: 5
Area of Effect: 20-foot radius sphere
Saving Throw: Negates

After the casting of this spell a strong thunderclap occurs in the area of effect. It automatically deafens all creatures in the target area for two rounds. Moreover, all creatures subject to the thunderclap have to roll a successful saving throw versus spell in order to remain standing. Creatures that fail their saving throw are knocked over by the force of the movement of air and may be stunned for up to one round if the surface they hit is hard (stone or metal, for example).

Deafened creatures suffer a -1 penalty on surprise, a +1 penalty on initiative, and any spells they cast requiring a verbal component has a 20% chance of going awry. If the creature is stunned, it cannot even defend itself, let alone cast spells.

Large creatures get a +3 on their saving throw, small creatures suffer a penalty of -3, and tiny creatures have to save at -6. Huge or gargantuan creatures are immune to the spell's effects. Note that the caster is not in any way protected against the spell's effects. The spell can be used to scare or confuse a group of creatures and to disperse swarms of flying insects. Used defensively, Thunderclap can deafen the party on purpose so as to avoid the adverse effects of Harpy songs and the like.

The priest needs a small inflated balloon which he has to destroy at the end of the casting by clapping his hands.

Detect Ambush
Schools: Abjuration
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: Special
Casting Time: 5
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 1 turn/level
Range: 50 yds + 10 yds/level
Saving Throw: None

This spell detects sentient creatures of hostile intent within range that mean to do harm to the caster by lying in ambush. It does not detect traps that might surprise the caster or hostile creatures that might do harm to the caster if encountered; only those expecting the caster and lying in wait to harm him or her are detected.
The reverse of this spell, undetectable ambush, makes one sentient being waiting in ambush proof against this spell or any other divination spell (from the school or the sphere) that would have the same effect. For example, undetectable ambush would prevent an ambush from being detected by a detect evil or detect magic spell.
The material component for this spell is a possession taken from an enemy (not necessarily the one who is lying in ambush).

Detect Curse
Schools: Greater Divination, Lesser Divination
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: 1 object or being/rd
Casting Time: 6
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 rd/level
Range: 10 yds
Saving Throw: None

This spell enables the caster to magically examine an item or creature to see if it has been subject to a curse spell. To the spellcaster, such cursed items or beings appear to be radiating a black aura. At 12th level, the caster is able to determine if a curse spell so detected is bestow curse, major curse, dying curse, bane, or some other similar spell. This spell does not detect magical items that have malign effects, such as a necklace of strangulation.

Detect Cursed Item
Schools: Greater Divination, Lesser Divination
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: 1 item or person
Casting Time: 1 rd
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Range: Touch
Saving Throw: Neg.

A priest using this spell may be able to tell if an item is cursed. The priest must touch the item (in some cases this might release the curse effect). Cursed scrolls must be opened, but not read, for the spell to have an effect. Artifacts give no reading to this spell in any case. This spell does not detect charm effects; though it can detect a curse on a creature. An unwilling subject receives a saving throw vs. spell to negate the effect.
The basic saving throw of an item is 13, though a very powerful cursed item might have a saving throw as low as 5 (the DM decides saving throws on an item-by-item basis). Failure to detect a curse means the caster has no chance to cast this spell successfully upon the item or creature before gaining another experience level.
Casting this spell affects the priest so strongly that no other spells can be cast for four hours, though currently memorized spells are not lost.

Detect Illusion
Schools: Greater Divination, Lesser Divination
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: The caster
Casting Time: 6
Components: V, S
Duration: 2 rds/level
Range: 0
Saving Throw: None

This spell enables the caster to see any illusion for what it is, and banishes phantasms from the caster's mind. Further, while the spell lasts, the priest can allow one creature per round a new saving throw vs. spell against any illusion or phantasm created by a spell of 6th level or less. To do this, the caster must touch the creature (which might require a successful attack roll) taking no other significant action in the round.

Dismiss Lesser Elemental
Schools: Conjuration/Summoning
Spheres: Elemental, Air; Elemental, All; Elemental, Earth
Elemental, Fire; Elemental, Water
Area of Effect: Special
Casting Time: 3 rds.
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 1 turn + 1 round/level
Range: 30 yds.
Saving Throw: Special

With this spell, a priest can freely summon a lesser elemental from his own elemental sphere. The lesser elemental will do anything within its power to aid the caster. A priest cannot summon an elemental from an opposing sphere (that is, a water priest cannot summon a fire elemental). Only clerics and druids can cast this spell; templars cannot conjure lesser elementals.

Once cast, there is a 50% chance for one to three 2 Hit Die elementals to appear; a 25% chance for one or two 4 Hit Die elementals; and a 25% chance that one 6 Hit Die elemental will appear. The lesser elemental can be sent back by the caster, one at a time or all at once, at any time. It automatically returns to its home plane when the spell ends.

Conjured lesser elementals must be controlled by the priest; otherwise, it will simply assume a defensive posture until it returns to its plane. Lesser elementals won't attack the priest when uncontrolled. Lesser elementals can be controlled up to 30 yards away per level of the caster. Lesser water elementals are destroyed if they are ever more than 30 yards from a large body of water.

This spell requires a handful of material representative of the elemental being's home plane:

· Lesser Air Elemental: Breath of the caster

· Lesser Earth Elemental: Dirt, dust, or other earth

· Lesser Fire Elemental: Any burning object

· Lesser Water Elemental: Liquid, water, sweat, spit, and so on.

Divine Purpose
Schools: Greater Divination
Lesser Divination
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: The caster
Casting Time: 1 rd
Components: S, M
Duration: Instantaneous
Range: 0
Saving Throw: None

This spell helps the caster to discern the purpose of an item, even if it is broken or only a part of it can be examined. The caster must establish direct flesh-to-item contact with both the mystery item (which can be of any size, but must be solid, not a gaseous cloud, illusion, or visual effect) and his holy symbol, then utter a specific prayer. Neither the item nor holy symbol is altered by the spell. Through divine guidance, the caster can glimpse a vision of what the mystery item once was a part of, or how it is used or functions. Whether or not the spell succeeds, it drains 1 hit point from the caster (which can be regained readily through rest or magical healing).
The chance of learning something about an item has a base of 1% per level of the caster, plus 1% per point of the caster's Wisdom, plus 5% if the item was made by beings of the same race as the caster, plus 10% if the item is or was wholly nonmagical in its functioning (not necessarily in its making), plus 10% if the item performs a function or has an end effect similar to one personaly familiar to the caster. (For example: If the caster has shoed horses, an unfamiliar smithy tool concerned with horseshoes would gain this modifier.)
The DM must determine how clear or extensive is the vision gained. This spell is very good at showing the nearby location (if such exists) where an item was used or allied items lie, but it is very poor at showing the identities of past users of an item. A priest can only work divine purpose on a given item once; subsequent castings fail.
The material component of this spell is the priest's holy symbol.

Dream Vision
Schools: Invocation/Evocation
Spheres: Divination
Area of Effect: 1 creature
Casting Time: 1 turn
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Special
Range: Touch
Saving Throw: None

By means of this spell, the priest is able to send messages to others in the form of dreams. At the beginning of the casting, the priest names whom the message is for. The priest must know the identity of the recipient or identify him by some title that leaves no question as to the recipient. For example, the priest could send a dream to the governor of Changtai Province, even if he has never met the man, since there is only one governor of that province. However, he could not send a dream to the sail-maker of a village in that province, since there might be several sail-makers in that village.
Upon completing the physical casting of the spell, which requires but a turn, the priest falls into a deep, trancelike sleep. At this point his spirit leaves his body and travels instantaneously to the recipient. Thereupon, the priest is able to enter the dreams of the recipient and deliver his message unless the recipient is magically protected from spirits. If the recipient is awake when the spell is cast, the priest can choose to remain in his trancelike sleep until the recipient goes to sleep or he can choose to cancel the spell. The priest does not learn anything about the current activities or whereabouts of the recipient, only whether he is asleep or awake.
Once the priest enters the dream of the recipient, he can deliver a message of any length desired, which the recipient remembers perfectly upon awakening. The communication is one way - the recipient cannot offer informatoin or ask questions of the priest. Neither can the priest gain any information by observing the dreams of the recipient. Once the message is delivered, the priest's spirit returns instantly to his body. If the body is disturbed in any way while using this spell, the priest's spirit becomes lost. The body remains in its comatose state until some means is found to rejoin the priest's spirit with his body, such as a restore spirit spell.
The duration of this spell is the amount of time required for the priest to enter into the dreams of the other and then deliver the message. Thus, the duration could be as short as one round or as long as several hours.
The reverse of this spell, nightmare, allows the priest to send a hideous and unsettling vision to the subject. The identity of the subject must be known, as stated above, and the subject must be asleep. This nightmare prevents restful sleep and causes the victim to lose 1d10 hit points. Since the individual has not rested, he is fatigued as if he had not had the night's sleep and is unable to regain spells. The subject is allowed a saving throw vs. spell to avoid the effects of the nightmare.
The material components for this spell are a bowl of incense and a robe of red (or white for the reverse) silk cloth.

Druid's Decay
Schools: Alteration
Spheres: Animal
Plant
Area of Effect: 1 dead creature or 10 cu ft of dead plant material
Casting Time: 6
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Instantaneous
Range: 30 yds
Saving Throw: Special

Upon casting this spell, the caster can cause a single dead creature to decompose into dust. Alternatively, the spell can decompose 10 cubic feet or less of dead plant material, including objects made of wood. Items or constructions made entirely or partially of plant material (such as wood) must make a successful item saving throw vs. lightning or be destroyed. An item worn or held by a creature is unharmed unless the owner fails a saving throw vs. spell; upon failure the item must save vs. lightning or be destroyed.
This spell doesn't affect living matter. A single corporeal undead creature of up to 10 Hit Dice can be destroyed if it fails a saving throw vs. death magic. The spell cannot affect noncorporeal undead (ghosts, shades, wraiths, etc.) or undead with more than 10 Hit Dice.
The material component is the priest's holy symbol.

Dust Shield
Schools: Invocation/Evocation
Spheres: Elemental, Earth
Area of Effect: 1 square yd/level
Casting Time: 6
Components: V, M
Duration: 1 rd/level
Range: 0
Saving Throw: None

This spell causes a scintillating, invisible wall of force by causing the dust particles in the air to form an unbreakable barrier. During the casting, the priest must mentally picture the shape, size, and orientation of the barrier, but it must be two-dimensional. Once cast, the barrier is immovable and unaffected by magic except for a dispel magic spell or the mental command of the spellcaster, who can dismiss it at will. Priests of Geb commonly use this spell to shore up collapsing mine shafts, thus allowing miners time to escape.
If the barrier is smaller than 1 square yard, the priest can specify during casting that the dust shield attach itself to his or her left or right forearm. The priest can then use the barrier as a full "body" shield, providing a +3 (total) bonus to Armor Class. Such a shield cannot be dropped (as it is not actually held), but its presence does not allow the priest to do anything with the shield arm that someone holding a real shield could not do. The spell cannot be used this way in conjunction with a regular shield or a shield spell.
The material components of this spell are a handful of dust thrown into the air and the priest's holy symbol.