Permanency Prayer

This spell renders the enchantments on an item permanent. No known form of a permanency prayer renders an effect permanent upon a being.

The caster of the permanency prayer touches his or her holy symbol and the item to be affected and calls upon his or her deity to accept the item's service for eternity. A saving throw is then made. There is a 12 in 20 chance that the prayer is successful, cumulatively modified as follows: +1 if the caster casts the spell on an altar consecrated to the deity or at a spot sacred to the deity; +1 if the caster has performed an exceptional service for the deity's causes within the season (and not cast any other permanency prayer spells); +3 if the caster is preparing the item in accordance with the commands of the deity (whether direct commands or those given through visions or dreams); -1 if the caster intends to make any use of the item for personal gain or aggrandizement; and -2 if the item is flawed, damaged, or incomplete.

Whether or not the spell succeeds – and a caster knows if he or she has or has not by the feeling of exaltation or chill foreboding felt upon touching the item after the spell is done – the caster loses 1 point of Constitution (unless he or she has employed a blood link to transfer the loss of vitality to another being).