Pech Chant (Chant)

Sidebar Heart of the Forge The chant is favored by miners far more than by smiths, for it summons a group of pech—pale-eyed miners from the Elemental Plane of Earth—into a dwarven mine to assist the workers there. The pech chant summons as many pech as there are miners chanting: no more, and no fewer. The pech triple the mine's output as long as they remain working, and because they are expert miners, no unexpected explosion, flooding, or collapse occurs while the pech assist the dwarves. However, the pech can create a siege tunnel, breach a dam, or engage in combat, if so commanded by the lead cantor. As soon as they finish any destructive stonework, the chant ends and the pech return to the Plane of Earth.

If the pech are asked to perform only peaceful work, the chant only lasts as long as at least one of the dwarven miners is still chanting; as soon as a dwarf stops chanting he falls asleep. The pech remain by the dwarves' side, working steadily and silently, until the last of the dwarves who chanted them into the mine has fallen asleep. Then they return, unseen, to the Plane of Elemental Earth.

The material component for a pech chant is a pick-axe made of finest steel and inscribed with runes of dark alloy metal (200 gp).