Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Sorcerer 7, Wizard 7, Wu Jen 7
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: 10-ft.-radius emanation centered on a point in space
Duration: 1 hour/level
Saving Throw: Will negates; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes
With a declaration, you finish your casting. Immediately, beings in the affected area cease moving, standing as still as statues.
This spell causes any Medium or smaller humanoids within the area of the spell to become paralyzed. When casting the spell, you must specify a condition that will end it (“Wait here until the dragon arrives”), even if that condition can never feasibly be met (“Stay here until the sun shines at night”). Subjects in the area that fail their saves immediately become aware of the condition, but they cannot communicate it due to their paralyzed state (although someone could use a spell such as detect thoughts to ascertain the condition). For every hour the creatures are transfixed before the condition is met, they are allowed another saving throw to break free of the spell’s effect.
As long as the spell operates, any Medium or smaller humanoid that enters its area must make a successful saving throw or become transfixed with the same exit conditions (they too become aware of the exit conditions on becoming transfi xed). Likewise, any creatures removed from the area are freed from the spell’s effect.
An affected creature that is attacked gains a new saving throw to break free of the enchantment.
Material Component: A drop of pine resin.
Source: Spell Compendium, page 222. Previously published in Complete Arcane, page 116, as a 6th-level spell. “Wu Jen 7” added back to Level entry, adjusting the level to match the new one.