Price (Item Level): 100,000 gp (20th)
Body Slot: —
Caster Level: 13th
Aura: Strong; (DC 21) conjuration
Activation: Full round (command)
Weight: 3 lb.
This large container is usually fashioned from blue or green semiprecious stone (malachite, lapis lazuli, azurite, turquoise, peridot, or sometimes jade). It is about 1 foot in diameter, half that deep, and relatively fragile. When the bowl is filled with fresh water, and certain words are spoken, a Large water elemental appears. The summoning words require 1 full round to speak. In all ways the bowl functions as the summon monster VI spell. Only one elemental can be called at a time. A new elemental requires the bowl to be filled with new water, which cannot happen until after the first elemental disappears (is dispelled, dismissed, or slain).
If salt water is used, a Huge water elemental rather than a Large one appears (as if summon monster VII had been cast).
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, summon monster VI, summon monster VII.
Cost to Create: 50,000 gp, 4,000 XP, 100 days.
Source: Dungeon Master’s Guide (version 3.5), page 250.