Gold Dust (Pr 4/Wiz 4; Alteration)
(Metamagic)
Sphere: Wards
Range: 40 yds.
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Special
Casting Time: 4
Area of Effect: Special
Saving Throw: None
This spell grants the recipients the ability to wander around the keep and surrounding premises of Spelldance Keep, the location and dwelling of Piper and his Golden Enclave. This protects the individuals bearing this blessing from the wards and guardians of the Enclave. It also allows them to teleport to within an area of half a days travel from the keep to inside the keep. (Piper wisely chooses who he lets have teleport access into the keep proper, the others are merely granted the ability to arrive within a relatively dangerous trip to the Enclave grounds.)
This spell can affect up to one creature or object per level of the caster. These targets of the spell must also be within a “stones throw” of each other, which for Piper is 40 feet easily. Thus all beings within this area can be affected as the caster desires, up to the limit for his level. This spell may last any where from one week up until a full year, as desired by the caster.
The material component for gold dust is a gold piece for every being to be affected by the spell. This gp is then crushed in the caster’s hand and lands glittering on the spell’s recipient, before disappearing into their body, allowing them the above privileges.
Notes: Known only to the wizards and priests of the Inner Circle of the Golden Enclave; rare (although none but Piper himself can grant access directly into the keep proper, the others can allow access to the lesser buildings however).
