Valda's Spire of Secrets
Gahoul’s Glorious Gothic
8-level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range/Area: 1 mile
Components: V, S, M
Materials: a decorated gothic manor miniature worth at least 1,000 gp
Duration: 7 days
A rift opens, pouring forth tons of brick and
stonework that neatly and quickly assemble into
a vast gothic estate. The estate consists of a manor
containing a vault, a spacious 200-by-200-foot
courtyard, and a 10-foot high wrought iron fence
around the perimeter. Any creature within the
estate’s area is escorted away by harmless but forceful
specters.
You can create any floor plan you like for the
manor, but the space can’t exceed 50 cubes, each
cube being 10 feet on each side, or five stories in
total, including basements. The manor is adorned
with barred windows and decorative gargoyles, but
is furnished and decorated as you choose. Once the
manor is first created, these details are recorded in the miniature manor used to cast the spell and can’t
be changed. The manor is staffed by 50 skeletons
obedient to you, and contains enough food to serve
50 people each day for a week. The skeletons can
perform any task a normal human servant could
perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that
would directly harm another creature.
The manor contains a 15-foot cube vault, which
is an extradimensional space. Items placed within the
vault will be present next time you cast this spell.
The courtyard is drenched in necromantic
magic, such that any humanoid buried in its grounds
rises 24 hours later as a ghoul under your control, as
per the spell animate dead. When the spell is cast, 3
ghouls are animated in the courtyard. These undead
are under your control, but can’t leave the estate.
They patrol the estate if given no other instructions.
Undead can’t be turned within the estate.
The estate crumbles into dust and bone after 7
days, and all items placed within the manor appear
safely in the space the manor occupied. If cast in the
same place once every 7 days for a year, the estate
becomes permanent.
Available for: Necromancer