Spell:Summon Elemental

Source: Book of the Emerald Circle by Brian Hon/Limited Reagent

Cost: 10+m, 1wp

Circle: Emerald

Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)

Keywords: Banish, Component, Obvious, Servitude

Duration: Instant (one month or varies)

This spell is much like Demon of the First Circle and uses, generally, the same rules, with the following exceptions:

● It summons an elemental and not a demon.

● It can be cast at any time—the spell's dramatic shaping action requires four hours of effort, but it need not start at sunset or end at midnight.

● The Abscissic Limits are described in the Roll of Glorious Divinity I, p. 78-85.

● The roll to banish the elemental if the binding fails is difficulty 1, not difficulty 3.

● The elemental will not serve for more than a lunar month (28 days), and it cannot be set to tasks that take longer than a year and a day. This effect is still an unnatural Servitude effect, and elementals do not spend Willpower to break free of it.

The kidnap and enslavement of elementals can outrage the Celestial Bureaucracy. Characters who mistreat their servants or bind the servants of powerful gods are likely to earn the ire of the spirit world. Elementals are seen somewhat as the "poor relations" of the powerful gods of Heaven. A little mistreatment won't raise eyebrows, but callously burning out elemental servants for the sorcerer's purposes forces Heaven to act.

The sorcerer chooses what elemental or species of elemental he summons. Certain elementals (theoretically those important to the function of the world, though in practice any strong enough to force lesser elementals to swear oaths agreeing to serve as proxies) have the right to send a proxy in answer to the sorcerer's call rather than answering it themselves.