Rituals
Wizard’s Home (Intelligence)
Range: Near
Duration: 1 month
Save: no
This ritual is the source of many legends and songs. When completed, it causes the caster’s home to become bigger on the inside than would seem possible.
Using this ritual, the caster can add one room (or its rough equivalent in size) per level to her dwelling. Particularly large rooms, like a feasting hall or barracks count as two “rooms” for this purpose. The home remains unchanged on the outside, but has become much larger to those inside its walls.
Furthermore, all parts of the caster’s home are always within touch range of her magic, regardless of actual distance.
This makes the mage a most formidable opponent while in her own home.
Most mages who practice this magic cast the ritual on their homes every month in order to maintain enough space for their libraries, accouterments, and oddities. If a mage should fail to do so, all items and furnishings from the magical rooms are lost. They might or might not be found elsewhere later.
Servants, guests, or friends who were in the rooms at the end of the ritual’s duration also end up in other places.
It is unwise to overstay your welcome in the dwelling of a homebody wizard.
Wizard’s Home must be cast beneath the same phase of the moon each month.
The components for the ritual are an old stone, a fresh brick, mortar, and a freshly-cut branch of yew. All of these items are consumed in the two-hour process of casting the
ritual as the mage goes from room to room, marking her boundaries, making secret signs, opening new doors, and muttering words of magic.