Fields of Death
Skill: apportation/darkness 21
Backlash: 14
Difficulty: 11
Effect Value: 15
Bonus Number to: duration
Range: 12 (250 meters)
Duration: 32 (one month)
Cast Time: 14 (10 minutes)
Manipulation: cast time, duration, control
This focused spell of darkness causes an area of land to become incapable of sustaining plant life. Once cast, it slowly kills all plant life existing in the zone and prevents any new vegetation from growing for the duration of the spell. It attacks all plants with the spell's effect value every round for the duration. The spell cannot kill animal life, but any small creatures living within the area of effect usually die or move away from lack of food. The zone is disk shaped, 500 meters in diameter with a height of 25 meters.
The height is divided in half at ground level, creating one cylinder 12-1/2 meters below the ground and one 121/2 meters above the ground. Fields of death may only be cast at night. The mage walks the circumference of the area that the spell is to deaden and then journeys to the center of the circle. There he plucks some native vegetation from the ground and crumples it. He raises his arms high and then lowers them toward the ground as if to pull the night sky down with them. Darkness falls from the sky and settles within the parameters thus set by the mage.