Witch's Banishment

One of the most potent abjurations known, witches'banish instantly hurls a single creature or object to a randomly determined lower Plane. The spell is nearly infallible; magic resistance is completely useless against it, and the only creatures that can resist its effects are those whose levels or Hit Dice equal or exceed the caster's own. Even these suffer a -8 penalty to the saving throw vs. spell.

Instead of employing this spell against an enemy, the caster can choose to banish a single object of up to 8,000 cubic feet (for example, a 20-foot cube) in size. To strip an item from an individual, a lock of the individual's hair or equivalent is required. An object is worn or carried by a creature is allowed its owner's saving throw. For example, a vorpal sword carried by a 14th-level ranger could be banished with no saving throw, since its owner is of lower level than the 18th-level wizard required to cast this spell.

When this spell clashes with other effects of equal strength or potency: powers of demigod level, artifacts, spells or devices providing complete and absolute protection, the results are unpredictable. The DM adjudicates such conflicts.

The plane the creature or item is sent to is determined by a roll on the chart.

Lower Planes Destination 1d8 | Plane ----+--------------------------------------- 1 | Acheron 2 | Baator 3 | Gehenna 4 | The Gray Waste 5 | Carceri 6 | The Abyss 7 | Pandemonium 8 | Limbo or Mechanus (50% chance of each)

The creature or object is transported to a random location in a random layer of the plane indicated; the witch has no idea where the banished person or item may go. The spell is permanent in that the subject won't return to the Prime Material Plane through the action of this spell, although the plane of banishment can be left by whatever other means prove expedient.

The material component is a brass key, set with a ruby worth at least 500 gp. The witch discards the key as the spell is cast-it is annihilated by the casting of the spell. The spell must be cast by a circle of witches (at least seven), and the level of the abjuration is the level of the circle leader.