Speak with Stone

Choose a stone object or surface within 30 feet of you that is no larger than a 30-foot cube. You imbue the target with limited sentience and animation, giving it the ability to communicate with you. You can question the stone about events that occurred within 60 feet of it within the past day, gaining information about creatures that have passed, weather, and other circumstances. When you cast the spell, you can also turn difficult terrain caused by earth or stone within range into ordinary terrain, which lasts for the duration. Or you can turn ordinary terrain where earth or stone are present within range into difficult terrain, which lasts for the duration, causing fissures and unstable ground to hinder pursuers, for example. For the duration, you can speak and understand Terran. This spell also makes you aware of any creatures within range that are merged with stone by the meld into stone spell, and at your command, you can cause the stone to harmlessly expel such a creature, ending that spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the size of the object or surface you can target and the amount of time into the past you can ask questions regarding increases, as shown in the table below.