Symbol of Sealing
Symbol of Sealing
Abjuration [force]Level: Cleric*/Oracle * 6, Sorcerer*/Wizard * 6, Warlock* 6
Components: V, S, M (mercury and phosphorous, plus powdered diamond and opal worth a total of 5,000 gp)
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: 0 ft. (see text)
Effect: one symbol
Duration: permanent
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: no
This spell allows you to scribe a potent rune of power upon or above a door or other opening measuring no more than 20 square feet/level in size. When the casting is completed, the symbol immediately triggers, glowing visibly and sealing the door or opening with an Invisible barrier of force. Destroying the symbol ends the effect, though destroying it once the symbol has been activated requires destroying the wall of force first. Once triggered, the wall remains for 10 minutes per Caster Level.
The barrier cannot move and is not easily destroyed. It can be damaged by spells as normal, except for Disintegrate (see below). It can be damaged by weapons and supernatural abilities, but the barrier has Hardness 30 and a number of hit points equal to 20 per Caster Level. Contact with a sphere of annihilation or rod of cancellation instantly destroys the barrier.
Breath Weapons and spells cannot pass through the barrier in either direction, although Dimension Door, Teleport, and similar effects can bypass the barrier. It blocks Ethereal creatures as well as material ones (though Ethereal creatures can usually circumvent the barrier by going around it, through material floors and ceilings). Gaze attacks can operate through the barrier.
When scribing a symbol of sealing, you can specify a password or phrase that allows a creature speaking it to bypass the seal and pass through the opening.
You also can attune any number of creatures to the symbol, but doing this can extend the casting time. Attuning one or two creatures takes negligible time, and attuning a small group (as many as 10 creatures) extends the casting time to 1 hour. Attuning a large group (as many as 25 creatures) takes 24 hours. Attuning larger groups takes an additional 24 hours per 25 creatures. Any creature attuned to a symbol cannot trigger it and is immune to its effects, even if within its radius when it is triggered. You are automatically considered attuned to your own symbols, and thus always ignore the effects and cannot inadvertently trigger them.
However, the force wall created by the symbol blocks attacks and line of effect even for creatures that know the password or are attuned-the password only prevents them from triggering the symbol, not from ignoring its effects if triggered.
A Disintegrate spell or similar effect can destroy the barrier created by the symbol if the caster makes a Caster Level check against a DC of 11 + your Caster Level. A Knock spell has no effect on a symbol of sealing or its force wall. A symbol of sealing cannot be dispelled, but Mage's Disjunction automatically destroys it.