Shadow Utility Level 4

Requirement You must have one specially prepared skull worth 1 ss within your reach.

Target A point in space you can see within medium range

Duration 1 hour


You must concentrate for 1 minute while casting this spell, during which time you must maintain contact with the target, causing runes scrawled on the skull to fl are with green light. At the end of this time, the skull moves to the target point and disappears, leaving behind an oval-shaped opening to the Underworld that remains open for 1 hour. The opening is 1 yard wide and 1 yard tall. It can have any orientation you choose. It has a front, but it does not have a back.

All natural light, as well as any light created by a rank 4 or lower spell, within medium range of the opening becomes shadows for the duration.

A creature can move through the opening and enter the Underworld. In the same way, creatures in the Underworld can move out from the opening where it appears there.

While the opening exists, you can speak the name of any dead creature. If that creature’s soul resides in the Underworld, it comes to the edge of the opening at the end of the next round, remaining there until the spell ends. If you offer the creature an ounce of warm, fresh blood, it will answer up to three questions, though it is limited to what it can remember from its life.