Abjuration

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Reduces the remaining duration of any nearby hostile summoned creatures.

Abjuration is a monster-only spell which attempts to dispel all summoned creatures hostile to the caster in their line of sight. The affected monsters have their remaining duration drastically reduced; if this reduces their duration to zero or less, the monsters are unsummoned entirely.

No monsters actually know this spell. However, all monsters which know certain other Summoning spells have a 33% chance of Abjuring instead of casting these spells (if you currently have any summoned allies):

• Summon Eyes
• Summon Drakes
• Summon Greater Demon
• Summon Mushrooms
• Summon Scorpions
• Summon Ugly Thing
• Summon Demon
• Summon Elemental
• Shadow Creatures
• Summon Undead
• Summon Horrible Things
• Haunt

In theory, this means that an ancient lich may spend a turn abjuring your summoned quokka rather than summoning fiends. In practice, deliberately summoning such chaff is unwise: the monster usually loses at most one turn, which is the same time you spent casting the spell, and it may lose no turns if one of its summons takes care of your distraction.

Player Version

Players may get a form of abjuration via Yara's Violent Unravelling. This spell always fully dispels summoned creatures, and then creates an explosion which damages nearby enemies.

History

Abjuration
Level	3
School1	Summoning
Source(s)	Book of Summonings
Casting noise	3
Spell noise	0

This spell attempts to send hostile summoned creatures to the place from whence they came, or at least shorten their stay in the caster's locality.

• Prior to 0.17, Abjuration was a level 3 spell available to players.
• Prior to 0.14, summoning monsters had a 50% chance of casting mass abjuration instead of summoning.
• Prior to 0.10, Abjuration targeted multiple creatures instead of a single target; this effect was given to Mass Abjuration.