Index of Spells by Domain - VDarkness

Deities: Falazure (NE), Graz'zt (?), Lolth (CE), Mask (NE), Orcus (CE), Set (LE), Shar (NE), Shargaas (CE), The Patient One (NE), The Xammux (?)

Name: Vile Darkness

Granted Power: You gain the Blind-Fight feat.

Name
School Casting Time Source Book
Save - Res Level Comps
Dur Range Recharge
Effect
Expensive Focus
Expensive Material
XP Cost
Description
Full Description
Darkvision
Transmutation 1 standard action SRD
None - Yes (harmless) Arc 3, BVal 3, Duskblade 2, HotD 2, Rgr 3, Sor/Wiz 2, VDarkness 1 V, S, M
1 hour/level Touch 6 hours
Target: Creature touched

See 60 ft. in total darkness.

The subject gains the ability to see 60 feet even in total darkness. Darkvision is black and white only but otherwise like normal sight. Darkvision does not grant one the ability to see in magical darkness.

Darkvision can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

Vile Darkbolt
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Arc 2, Clr 2, Sor/Wiz 2, VDarkness 2  
    General

Deals 1d8 damage/2 levels and stuns 1 round.

Deeper Darkness
Evocation [Darkness] 1 standard action SRD
None - No Adp 3, Arc 3, Asn 3, Blg 3, Blk 3, Clr 3, Shadow 3, Slayer of Domiel 3, VDarkness 3 V, M/DF
1 day/level (D) Touch 24 hours
Target: Object touched

Object sheds supernatural shadow in 60-ft. radius.

This spell causes an object to radiate shadowy illumination out to a 60-foot radius. All creatures in the area gain concealment (20% miss chance). Even creatures that can normally see in such conditions (such as with darkvision or low-light vision) have the miss chance in an area shrouded in magical darkness.

Normal lights (torches, candles, lanterns, and so forth) are incapable of brightening the area, as are light spells of lower level.

If deeper darkness is cast on a small object that is then placed inside or under a lightproof covering, the spells effect is blocked until the covering is removed.

Daylight brought into an area of deeper darkness (or vice versa) is temporarily negated, so that the otherwise prevailing light conditions exist in the overlapping areas of effect.

Deeper darkness counters and dispels any light spell of equal or lower level, including daylight and light.

Damning Darkness
    Lords
  Arc 4, Clr 4, Sor/Wiz 4, VDarkness 4  
    General

Darkness deals either 2d6 or 1d6 damage per round.

Black Tentacles
Conjuration (Creation) 1 standard action SRD
None - No Blackwater 3, Slime 5, Sor/Wiz 4, VDarkness 5, Wmg 4 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) Medium General
Area: 20-ft.-radius spread

Tentacles grapple all within 15 ft. spread.

This spell conjures a field of rubbery black tentacles, each 10 feet long. These waving members seem to spring forth from the earth, floor, or whatever surface is underfoot including water. They grasp and entwine around creatures that enter the area, holding them fast and crushing them with great strength.

Every creature within the area of the spell must make a grapple check, opposed by the grapple check of the tentacles. Treat the tentacles attacking a particular target as a Large creature with a base attack bonus equal to your caster level and a Strength score of 19. Thus, its grapple check modifier is equal to your caster level +8. The tentacles are immune to all types of damage.

Once the tentacles grapple an opponent, they may make a grapple check each round on your turn to deal 1d6+4 points of bludgeoning damage. The tentacles continue to crush the opponent until the spell ends or the opponent escapes.

Any creature that enters the area of the spell is immediately attacked by the tentacles. Even creatures who aren't grappling with the tentacles may move through the area at only half normal speed.

Wall of Force
Evocation [Force] 1 standard action SRD
None - No Artificer 5, Force 5, Sor/Wiz 5, VDarkness 6, Wuj 5 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) Close General
Effect: Wall whose area is up to one 10-ft. square/level

Wall is immune to damage.

A wall of force spell creates an invisible wall of force. The wall cannot move, it is immune to damage of all kinds, and it is unaffected by most spells, including dispel magic. However, disintegrate immediately destroys it, as does a rod of cancellation, a sphere of annihilation, or a mage's disjunction spell. Breath weapons and spells cannot pass through the wall in either direction, although dimension door, teleport, and similar effects can bypass the barrier. It blocks ethereal creatures as well as material ones (though ethereal creatures can usually get around the wall by floating under or over it through material floors and ceilings). Gaze attacks can operate through a wall of force.

The caster can form the wall into a flat, vertical plane whose area is up to one 10- foot square per level. The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object or creature, the spell fails.

Wall of force can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

Shadow Walk
Illusion (Shadow) 1 standard action SRD
Will negates - Yes Beguiler 6, Brd 5, Halfling 7, Shadow 6, Sin-S 7, Sor/Wiz 6, VDarkness 7 V, S
1 hour/level (D) Touch 24 hours
Targets: Up to one touched creature/ level

Step into shadow to travel rapidly.

To use the shadow walk spell, you must be in an area of shadowy illumination. You and any creature you touch are then transported along a coiling path of shadowstuff to the edge of the Material Plane where it borders the Plane of Shadow. The effect is largely illusory, but the path is quasi-real. You can take more than one creature along with you (subject to your level limit), but all must be touching each other.

In the region of shadow, you move at a rate of 50 miles per hour, moving normally on the borders of the Plane of Shadow but much more rapidly relative to the Material Plane. Thus, you can use this spell to travel rapidly by stepping onto the Plane of Shadow, moving the desired distance, and then stepping back onto the Material Plane.

Because of the blurring of reality between the Plane of Shadow and the Material Plane, you can't make out details of the terrain or areas you pass over during transit, nor can you predict perfectly where your travel will end. Its impossible to judge distances accurately, making the spell virtually useless for scouting or spying. Furthermore, when the spell effect ends, you are shunted 1d10x100 feet in a random horizontal direction from your desired endpoint. If this would place you within a solid object, you are shunted 1d10x1,000 feet in the same direction. If this would still place you within a solid object, you (and any creatures with you) are shunted to the nearest empty space available, but the strain of this activity renders each creature fatigued (no save).

Shadow walk can also be used to travel to other planes that border on the Plane of Shadow, but this usage requires the transit of the Plane of Shadow to arrive at a border with another plane of reality. The transit of the Plane of Shadow requires 1d4 hours.

Any creatures touched by you when shadow walk is cast also make the transition to the borders of the Plane of Shadow.

They may opt to follow you, wander off through the plane, or stumble back into the Material Plane (50% chance for either of the latter results if they are lost or abandoned by you). Creatures unwilling to accompany you into the Plane of Shadow receive a Will saving throw, negating the effect if successful.

Utterdark
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Demonic 8, Sor/Wiz 9, VDarkness 8  
    6 hours

100-ft/level radius of darkness that evil creatures can see through.

Screen
Illusion (Glamer) 10 minutes SRD
None or Will disbelief (if interacted with); see text - No Arc 8, Beguiler 8, Gnome 7, Illusion 8, Shu 8, Sor/Wiz 8, Trickery 7, VDarkness 9 V, S
1 day Close 24 hours
Area: 30-ft. cube/level (S)

Illusion hides area from vision, scrying.

This spell combines several elements to create a powerful protection from scrying and direct observation. When casting the spell, you dictate what will and will not be observed in the spells area. The illusion created must be stated in general terms. Once the conditions are set, they cannot be changed.

Attempts to scry the area automatically detect the image stated by you with no save allowed. Sight and sound are appropriate to the illusion created.

Direct observation may allow a save (as per a normal illusion), if there is cause to disbelieve what is seen. Even entering the area does not cancel the illusion or necessarily allow a save, assuming that hidden beings take care to stay out of the way of those affected by the illusion.