canon spell: timeheal

[Alice Raizel]

This spell is adapted from Dragonlance. In the world of Carnelian, only characters with levels in the chronomancer prestige class can make use of this spell, or any spell in the chronomantic evocation subschool. Our players may recall the use of this spell by Émile René, père, in the course of Frédéric Mervis' early experiments in the industrial conjuration of planar substances.

Timeheal

Evocation (chronomancy)
Level: chronomancer 5
Components: V, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell takes the creature it is cast upon and "reverses time" to a point where it was in better health, thus simulating a healing ability without using clerical powers. Time is of the essence in the timeheal spell, for the greater the amount of time that has passed, the greater the chance of failure.

Each level of the caster guarantees reversing time to one minute before the spell was cast. Thus, a 9th-level wizard casting this spell is guaranteed to be able to reverse the condition of a wounded character to the character's condition nine minutes earlier.

For every additional minute that must be reversed to heal the character, there is a 5% cumulative chance of spell failure. Note that this is added to the chance of arcane spell failure if the caster is wearing armour (see Table 7-5: Armour in the Player's Handbook). Thus, if the 9th-level wizard tried to reverse 20 minutes of time for a wounded comrade, that would be 11 minutes further than he could guarantee success (20 minutes minus 9 minutes for his level), causing a 55% chance of spell failure - or even higher if he was wearing armour.

Multiple timeheal spells cannot be cast to increase the reversed time that can be guaranteed. In the examples above, the 9th-level wizard could not cast three successive timeheal spells to reverse 27 minutes of time for his comrade without fear of failure.

It is also possible to use this spell offensively, by reversing time on a character who has just received magical healing, although this is usually not as effective as an attack spell of similar power. This is resolved in exactly the same way as detailed above.

Timeheal will not recall a spirit from death; if it is cast upon a corpse, the dead character may be healed of wounds, but he remains dead as his spirit has departed. However, if cast upon a disabled or dying character, timeheal can bring them back to full consciousness.