Whispers of the Past

You hone your mind on the very essence of time passing through the focus. Within a 40 foot sphere centred on the focus, beams of light emanating from the focus form monochrome holographic images in a colour of your choosing, that play out an historical event that happened within the confines of the sphere.

• At 3rd level, you may view a 2 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 1 day ago.

• At 4th level, you may view a 5 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 1 week ago.

• At 5th level, you may view a 10 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 1 month ago. As part of the casting of this spell, you must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or the spell fails, and you become insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. If the timeframe you are accessing is beyond 1 week, you take 1d4 psychic damage for each day accessed beyond this time.

• At 6th level, you may view a 15 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 3 months ago. As part of the casting of this spell, you must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or the spell fails, and you become insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. If the timeframe you are accessing is beyond 1 month, you take 1d6 psychic damage for each day accessed beyond this time.

• At 7th level, you may view a 20 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 1 year ago. As part of the casting of this spell, you must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or the spell fails, and you become insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. If the timeframe you are accessing is beyond 1 month, you take 1d8 psychic damage for each week accessed beyond this time.

• At 8th level, you may view a 30 minute sequence of events that happened no longer than 100 years ago. As part of the casting of this spell, you must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or the spell fails, and you become insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. If the timeframe you are accessing is beyond 10 years, you take 1d12 psychic damage for each year accessed beyond this time.

• At 9th level, you may view a 1 hour sequence of events that happened in any previous timescale of your choosing. As part of the casting of this spell, you must succeed a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or the spell fails, and you take a d12 psychic damage for each century of history accessed beyond 1000 years, and you become insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. If the timeframe you are accessing is beyond 1000 years, you take 1d12 psychic damage for each century accessed beyond this time.

If the damage suffered by the adverse effects of this spell is enough to kill the caster, they are disintegrated, as if by the disintegrate spell.

The adverse effects of the spell can be dispelled with a greater restoration spell.