Pixie Dust — Elf
(Alteration)
Sphere: Combat
Reversible [[Revealing Dust-Elf]]
Level: 5
Range: 0
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 rd.
Duration: 2 rds./level
Area of Effect: 10-ft radius
Saving Throw: None
This spell creates a single handful of fine powder that can coat all creatures within a 10-foot radius, making them invisible. Creatures coated with pixie dust cannot be seen with normal sight, normal detection, or even magical means (such as [[Spells/Magic User/2nd Level MU/Detect Invisibility|Detect Invisibility]]). However, *dust of appearance* and [[True Seeing]] do reveal beings and objects made invisible by pixie dust.
Pixie dust must be employed immediately after the spell is cast, or the magic is wasted. The invisibility bestowed by pixie dust lasts for 2 rounds per level of the caster.
Attack while thus invisible is possible, always by surprise if the opponent fails to note the invisible creature and always by an Armor Class 4 better than normal (while invisibility lasts). Pixie dust remains effective even after an attack is made.
The reverse of this spell, [[Revealing Dust-Elf]], makes invisible beings and objects within a 10-foot radius become visible.
The material components are the priest's holy symbol and a pinch of dirt from the bower of the Seelie Court. The latter can usually be obtained, a pinch at a time, only by careful negotiation with one of the faerie races, and payment involving participation in some mischievous prank of the sylvan being’s devising is usually required.
Notes: Granted by the elven god Erevan Ilesere