Chapter 10 · Magic
Move Earth
Elemental (earth) 6th-level
- Level
- 6
- Casting Time
- 1 action
- Range
- 120 feet
- Components
- V, S, M (an iron blade and a small pouch containing a mixture of soils - clay, dirt, and sand)
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 2 hours
Choose an area of terrain no larger than 40 feet on a side within range of the spell. You can reshape dirt, sand, or clay in the area in any way you like for the duration of the spell. You can raise or lower the area’s elevation, create or fill a trench, raise or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of such changes can’t exceed half the area’s largest dimension. So, if you affect a 40-foot square, you can create a pillar up to 20 feet high, raise or lower elevations in the square by up to 20 feet, dig a trench up to 20 feet deep, and so on. It takes 10 minutes for these changes to be completed.
At the end of every 10 minutes you spend concentrating on the spell, you can choose a new area of terrain to affect.
Because the transformation of the terrain happens slowly, creatures in the area normally can’t be trapped or injured by the ground’s movement.
This spell can’t manipulate natural rock or stone construction. Stones and structures move to accommodate the new terrain. If the way you changed the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse.
Similarly, this spell doesn’t directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries plants along with it.
