Conjuration (Calling); Level: 6th
| Components: | V, S, F (F: either an object once possessed by the spirit or entity called, or the name of the spirit or entity called) |
| Secondary Casters: | Up to 8 |
| Casting Time: | 10 minutes/stage (6 stages; 60 minutes) |
| Skill Checks: | Persuasion DC 31, 2 successes; Theology DC 31, 4 successes |
| Range: | Primary caster |
| Effect: | Call on the spirit of a single deceased creature or extraplanar entity |
| Duration: | Concentration of the primary caster |
| Saving Throw: | Will negates |
| Spell Resistance: | No |
| Backlash: | All casters become exhausted and gain 1 temporary negative level (DC 16 + Ritual Modifier to remove after the 1st day). |
| Failure: | All casters gain 1 permanent negative level and are exhausted until that negative level is removed. |
The primary caster attempts to compel the spirit of a specific individual or extraplanar entity to manifest from its final rest or extraplanar location. Unwilling spirits or entities can resist the summons by succeeding at a Will save. If a spirit or entity succeeds at the saving throw, it doesn’t manifest, but the ritual is still considered a success. Spirits or entities that fail or forgo this save are summoned into the primary caster’s body, where they speak by way of the caster’s voice, which takes on an otherworldly timbre.
Though the spirit or entity speaks through the primary caster, it has no further control of that caster’s mind or body, and can’t use any spells, spell-like abilities, or even purely mental supernatural abilities it may have. It must leave the primary caster when that caster ends his concentration.
While the spirit is speaking through the primary caster, the secondary casters can ask it questions at a maximum rate of 1 question per round (regardless of the number of secondary casters). The spirit or entity speaks in a language it knows or knew while it was alive and can refuse to answer questions or attempt to deceive its questioners and the primary caster using Deception. It is not otherwise beholden to the ritual casters.