Link
(Alteration)
(Dimension)
Level: 10
Range: 10 yds.
Components: V, S, M
Duration: 1 turn/level
Casting Time: 10
Area of Effect: Two 5-ft. diameter disks
Saving Throw: None
This spell creates twin portals linking two different locations on any two planes of existence that the caster has visited personally. The portals can appear wherever the caster desires in the planes in which they form. Thus a caster could link his front garden to a shady area under a huge tree in the Beastlands if she so desired.
The portals created by the link spell appear as two faintly glowing vertical disks 5 feet in diameter, each in the location chosen by the caster. Through the portal facing the caster the terrain beyond can clearly be seen, yet the portal on the other side remains a neutral gray color, displaying nothing to show what lies beyond its borders. This effect always follows the caster, thus when she steps through the portal she passed through would fade to gray, while she could look back through at where she came from, or better yet, what is following her through. The portals will not form in an area already occupied, although they will form upon the closest flat area where no immediate objects will come into contact with it within 10 feet of where the caster desired it to appear.
The caster can also have either one of or both of the portals become invisible, this effect can be changed as desired by the caster anytime she wishes. Creatures can pass through the portals freely from one side to the other; although nonliving matter will not pass through it unless a living being takes it though. Each portal maintains its own environment, so that one forming at the bottom of the ocean would not spill its contents through the link, thus someone of the other side remains completely safe, unless they enter into the dangerous area.
The portals appear in the exact area chosen by the caster, unless his knowledge of the area is not precise. In such cases, the portals appear in the same location that a teleporting creature using the teleport without error spell would.
The caster can dispel a link instantaneously at will anytime she desires. Otherwise it can only be brought to an end by a successful dispel magic or greater magic scouring effect, or by the spell duration expiring. Any living being caught in either of the portals as they collapse must make a successful Dexterity check or be sliced in twain, falling in two separate halves in the two locations the portals occupied, killed instantly.
The material component for link is a handful of earth or the equivalent from the current location of the caster.
Notes: Rare spell.
