Identify
Concentrating on the item in front of you, you're able to gain insight on its properties and history.
- Level: 1
- Category: Divination
- Component Cost: 5 gp
- Market Price: 25 gp
- Casting Time: 10 minutes
- Duration: Instantaneous
You choose one object that you must touch throughout the casting of the ritual. If it is a magic item or some other magic-imbued object, you learn its properties and how to use them. You learn whether any spells are affecting the item and what they are. If the item was created by a spell, you learn which spell created it.
As part of casting this ritual you may make an Arcana. This check counts as a History check to know the story of this item.
If you instead touch a creature throughout the casting, you learn what spells, if any, are currently affecting it.
Mage Armor
A shimmering barrier deflects the assassin's attack, taking him by surprise. You smirk with a grin a deliver a deadly counterattack.
- Level: 1
- Category: Abjuration
- Component Cost: 5 gp
- Market Price: 25 gp
- Casting Time: 10 minutes
- Duration: 8 hours
When beginning the ritual, choose one creature that must remain within 30' of you for the duration of the ritual.
For the duration of the ritual, the creature gains a +2 armor bonus to AC. If you are 11th level or higher when you perform this ritual, the bonus increases to +3. If you are 21st level or higher, the bonus increases to +4.
Comprehend Languages
As you finish the ritual, the guttural language of the creatures before you clarifies into something you understand.
- Level: 1
- Category: Communication
- Component Cost: 5 gp
- Market Price: 25 gp
- Casting Time: 10 minutes
- Duration: 24 hours
When beginning the ritual, choose a language you have heard or a piece of writing you have seen within the past 24 hours.
Using this ritual on a language you have heard allows you to understand it when spoken for the next 24 hours and, if your Arcana check result is 18 or higher, to speak the language fluently for the duration.
Using this ritual on a language you have seen as a piece of writing allows you to read the language for the next 24 hours and, if your Arcana check result is 18 or higher, to write the language in its native script or in any other script you know for the duration.
Using this ritual on a language you have both heard and seen as a piece of writing within the past 24 hours allows you to understand it in both forms for the next 24 hours, and an Arcana check result of 18 or higher allows you to speak and write the language.