Elemental Protection

The priest casting elemental protection renders one creature immune to the effects of one specific type of element (chosen by the priest at the time of casting) for the duration of the spell. The level of protection is determined by the type of damage the creature suffers. For purposes of this spell, there are two types of damage: passive and active.

Passive damage is environmental damage. Passive fire damage is from heat from nearby fires or burns from falling into a fire pit, The fire is not wielded with intent to do damage. The recipient of the spell is completely immune to this type of damage.

Active damage is the result of an attack. A red dragon’s breath, fireball spells, boiling oil poured from the top of a wall, fire elemental strikes, and similar attacks are active fire damage. The recipient of the spell suffers only half damage from such attacks. Any saving throws against this type of damage has a +4 bonus.

This spell was developed by a planewalker priest who frequented the Elemental Planes, hut it has also come into use by planewalkers visiting dangerous areas on the Great Ring the icy layer of Stygia on Baator or the fiery layer of Muspelheim on Ysgard, for example. Although protection from fire is a fine spell, elemental protection is much longer lasting and, over all, more effective. (This spell does not provide the ability to breathe on the plane, however.)

Type of Magic

Priest

Spell Level

5th

School

Abjuration

Sphere

Elemental (all), Protection

Reversible?

No

Range

Touch

Components

V, S, M
The material component is the caster's holy symhol.

Duration

1 hr./level

Casting Time

1 rd.

Area of Effect

1 creature

Saving Throw

None