Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Instantaneous
While casting the spell, you place a vial of quicksilver in the chest of a life-sized human doll stuffed with ash or dust. You then stitch up the doll and drip your blood on it. At the end of the casting, you tap the doll with a crystal rod, transforming it into a magen clothed in whatever the doll was wearing. The type of magen is chosen by you during the casting of the spell.
When the magen appears, your hit point maximum decreases by an amount equal to the magen's challenge rating (minimum reduction of 1). Only a Wish spell can undo this reduction to your hit point maximum.
Any magen you create with this spell obeys your commands without question.
Material Component:
vial of quicksilver [500gp] and a life-sized human doll (both consumed) and an intricate crystal rod worth [1500gp+] (not consumed)
Verbal Component:
Creo Vita Captius Mage'aan
Verbal Component (Alternative):
My simple creation, stand fast and observer; Protect, obey, watch over and serve
Class: Wizard
Source: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (page 318)
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Other Planes and Effects
Below is information about this spell as it relates to other planes and area of effects (i.e. underwater). Some of the information is pulled official D&D sources (such as books and the twitter feeds of D&D officials), but other information is derived from forums and online discussions. As always, it is up to the DM to decide how they wish to handle spell effects.
Underwater - Verbal Component
Official rules have been verified by Jeremy Crawford - "No rule prohibits verbal components from working underwater. Keep in mind that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath." Hence, while submerged underwater and holding its breath, a creature can cast a spell that requires a verbal component. After casting the spell, if the creature can't breathe underwater, it immediately runs out of breath. The creature can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round).
