Sands of Time

(Alteration) Reversible Level: 7th Range: 10 yards Components: V, S, M Duration: 1 round Casting Time: 8 Area of Effect: Up to 10 cubic feet/level Saving Throw: Neg. With this spell, a wizard can reverse the effects of ageing and erosion on any non-living, material object. The amount of ageing that can be so reversed depends upon the level of the caster. LevelReversed Papyrus Wood Metal 9 30 days Faded 10 1yr Fragile 11 2yrs Brittle Faded 12 5yrs Crumbled Fragile 13 10yrs Dust Brittle 14 20yrs Crumbled Paint 15 50yrs 16 100yrs Dust 17 200yrs 18 500yrs Paint 19 1,000yrs 20 2,000yrs 21 5,000yrs Dust 22 10,000yrs 23 20,000yrs 24 50,000yrs 25 100,000yrs 26 200,000yrs 27 500,000yrs 28 1,000,000yrs 29 2,000,000yrs 30 5,000,000yrs Dust Soft StoneHard Stone Etching Relief Form Paint Etching Relief Form -

Etching Relief Form Dust -

The table also indicates the average effects of time and the elements on various materials (items protected from the elements might take longer to erode, but use these times for all restoration). Papyrus and wooden objects fade over time and become difficult but not impossible to read or identify surface features. Fragile objects must survive vs. a crushing blow.

Crumbled items are unusable but still identifiable as papyrus or wood; dust is completely unidentifiable and unusable. Stone and metal items wear away over time and their shapes smooth out until the item is completely worn away. Paint indicates that artificial coloration is gone or unrecognisable; etching means carved letters or pictures are worn away; relief indicates that deeply carved letters or images are severely eroded; form indicates that time has eroded away all but the basic form of the original stone or metal. The fractions and tell when the item has lost that much of its original mass. Dust means that the original item is completely gone, eroded away to nothing. An 18th level caster could, for example, turn even a pile of dust back into the new, clean piece of papyrus it once was, or turn the crumbled remains of a staff back to its original form, or even restore a painted map on the wall of a temple constructed of soft stone. This spell cannot restore damage done to an object by anything other than ageing or erosion. Use the table as a guide for other objects that dont exactly fit into these categories. The reverse of this spell, Accelerate Erosion, allows the caster to speed up erosion on any non-living material object. The material components for this spell are a tiny hourglass (during the spell, the sands run up) or, for the reverse, a miniature sundial that timed the passage of at least one year.