Abjuration
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 (this only occurs if you currently have any summoned allies):
- Summon Butterflies
- 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.
History
 Abjuration
| |
|---|---|
| Level | 3 |
| School1 | Summoning |
| Source(s) | |
| 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.
