Tasso's Shriek
- SchoolIllusion/Phantasm
- ComponentsV
- Range10 yards/level
- AreaHearing range
- Casting time1
- Duration1 round/level
- SaveSpecial
This specialized form of an audible glamer spell is released by the caster with only minimal utterance. Its casting is all but silent and untraceable, requiring a minimum of concentration (thus enabling it to be cast during melee or when the caster is in pain, constrained, or the like). The magic produces a shrieking, crying, shouting, or other verbal utterance. Once cast, the sounds cannot be ended before the spell expiration.
The sounds carried by this magic are limited to those produced by the caster's voice (although mimicry is possible), and are typically used to produce shouted warnings or cries to suggest a fight or attack "offstage," or the presence of unseen intruders, so as to distract opponents of the caster. The spellcaster must emit all of these sounds while memorizing the spell, and cannot later alter them.
Notes: Very rare spell from the Forgotten Realms setting. Known to be in Tasso's Arcanabula.
Sources: Dragon Magazine · Pages From the Mages · Wizard's Spell Compendium