Sympathetic Magic I

This spell allows the caster to make a divination about a specific person or thing, if some portion of the subject is available to the caster.

The caster can roughly perceive the current location and condition of the subject (dead or alive, healthy or wounded, etc.). If a creature is strongly aligned with good or evil, this is also learned. If the subject is on another plane, out-of-phase, in another dimension, traveling in time, or similarly absent only this fact is perceived. This divination is blocked by any magic of equal level or greater that wards against divinations.

The spell requires some material focus associated with the creature or object. This can be, for example, a lock of hair, fingernail parings, a sliver of wood or metal, and the like. The material is destroyed in the casting.