Threads: 4 (ritual; see text)
Weaving Difficulty: 16/21
Casting Difficulty: 20
Range: Touch
Duration: Elementalist Circle days
Area of Effect: See text
Effect: Creates a fortress
Keywords: Earth. Ritual.
This ritual creates a stone fortress.
The spellcaster carves their personal glyph into a series of stones while weaving the threads. Each Thread Weaving test (or equivalent) takes 30 minutes. While weaving threads, the spellcaster Names up to their Elementalist Circle characters and declares a command word or phrase.
The spellcaster places the stones on the ground in front of them, arranging them to indicate the internal structure of their redoubt, and makes a Spellcasting (20) test.
If successful, a stone fortress emerges from the ground. This ziggurat is 20-yards tall and has a 30 × 30-yard base. It’s surrounded by 10-yard tall and 2-yard thick crenelated stone walls which can be accessed from within. The exterior of the wall is 40-yards long × 40 yards wide and has no obvious entrance.
Characters Named while weaving threads can state the command word and a 4-yard square entry opens on the closest wall until they pass through. If the character wishes for more characters to pass through first, they must wait outside of the wall. Another character can close an opening on the closest wall with the command word if necessary. The exact details (location of ramps and entrances, etc.) are unique to each spellcaster and remain consistent.
Increasing the area affects the dimensions of the ziggurat and walls equally.
The fortress is unfurnished.
Success Levels: Increase Duration (+2 days)
Extra Threads: Increase Duration (+2 days), Increase Area (+10 × 10 yards), Increase Area (+10-yards high)
None.