Background: Althor the One Armed is well known as a master spell creator specializing in force field spells of great elegance and complexity. He was started down this path when he barely survived a gnoll attack as a young fighter mage (Ax Specialist) by improvising a V only magic missile spell to kill the gnoll that had just ripped off his right arm. He went on to develop a whole class of force field based spells of which perhaps the best known are his Althor's Arm, Althor's Return and Althor's Ax spells.
Casting Restrictions: All of Althor's 1st level spells require at least a 15 INT to learn and cast. All of them are cast as a 1 minute ritual which embeds a spell pattern into the creature or item to be affected or who will be triggering the spell. Once the ritual has been cast the spell can be triggered as either a reaction or an opportunity action by EITHER a quick 1 hand gesture OR a single keyword as a reaction. If cast as a full ritual (11 minutes cast time) the spell counts as a standard ritual spell. If the shorter ritual is used, then a spell slot is used up.
Spell: Althor's Audible
Once triggered the spell creates a field of force surrounding the coin owner that negates any silence or similar effects within it as well as any excessive (Thunder) sounds so that the coin owner can hear and cast normally and is immune to thunder attacks unless the attack would normally overwhelm a standard silence spell.
* - EITHER a quick 1 hand gesture OR a single keyword ** - (Either a 1 minute or 11 minute (full) ritual is used to embed the spell structure into a reusable copper coin)
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