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{{Flavour|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.}}
 
{{Flavour|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.}}
  
'''Abjuration''' is a smite-targeted Level 3 Summoning spell that shortens the life duration of a single summoned creature, dependent upon spell power. A sufficiently powerful cast versus a sufficiently diminished monster will unsummon it altogether.  
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'''Abjuration''' is a [[smite]]-targeted level 3 [[Summonings]] spell which attempts to dispel a hostile summoned creatures in your [[line of sight]]. The affected monster has its remaining duration in this world drastically reduced; if this reduces its duration to zero or less, the monster is unsummoned entirely. Casting it at higher [[spell power]] reduces enemy duration to a greater extent. Be aware that summoned enemies visible through transparent [[wall]]s are unaffected by this spell.
  
An upgraded version of this spell, [[Mass Abjuration]], is a Level 6 Summonings spell that affects all summons in your LOS.  
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An upgraded version of this spell, [[Mass Abjuration]], is a level 6 Summonings spell that affects all summoned creatures in your line of sight.
  
Monsters never use this spell. Instead, they have a 50% chance of abjuring (only if you have any summons out, and acting like Mass Abjuration) instead of performing certain summons:
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==Monster Version==
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No monsters actually know this spell. However, all monsters which know certain other Summonings spells have a 50% chance of Abjuring instead of casting these spells (this only occurs if you have any summons out, and affects all summons in line of sight like Mass Abjuration):
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*[[Summon Butterflies]]
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*[[Summon Eyes]]
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*[[Summon Drakes]]
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*[[Summon Greater Demon]]
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*[[Summon Mushrooms]]
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*[[Summon Scorpions]]
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*[[Summon Ugly Thing]]
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*[[Summon Demon]]
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*[[Summon Elemental]]
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*[[Shadow Creatures]]
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*[[Summon Undead]]
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*[[Summon Horrible Things]]
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*[[Haunt]]
  
* [[Summon Butterflies]]
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One side effect of this is that low-level summons can be used to decrease the danger posed by particularly dangerous summoners, as an [[ancient lich]] will gladly spend a turn abjuring your summoned [[quokka]] rather than summoning [[fiend]]s. However, spending more than one turn summoning such chaff monsters is usually unwise.
* [[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]]
 
 
 
One side effect of this is that low-level summons can be used to decrease the danger posed by particularly dangerous summoners, as an [[ancient lich]] will gladly spend a turn abjuring your summoned [[quokka]] rather than summoning [[fiend]]s. However, spending more than one turn summoning such chaff monsters is usually unwise.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
Pre-[[0.10]], there was but one Abjuration spell and it had the effect of the current Mass Abjuration spell.
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Prior to [[0.10]], only the level 3 Abjuration spell existed, and it had functioned like Mass Abjuration.

Revision as of 21:12, 27 February 2014

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Abjuration.png 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.

Abjuration is a smite-targeted level 3 Summonings spell which attempts to dispel a hostile summoned creatures in your line of sight. The affected monster has its remaining duration in this world drastically reduced; if this reduces its duration to zero or less, the monster is unsummoned entirely. Casting it at higher spell power reduces enemy duration to a greater extent. Be aware that summoned enemies visible through transparent walls are unaffected by this spell.

An upgraded version of this spell, Mass Abjuration, is a level 6 Summonings spell that affects all summoned creatures in your line of sight.

Monster Version

No monsters actually know this spell. However, all monsters which know certain other Summonings spells have a 50% chance of Abjuring instead of casting these spells (this only occurs if you have any summons out, and affects all summons in line of sight like Mass Abjuration):

One side effect of this is that low-level summons can be used to decrease the danger posed by particularly dangerous summoners, as an ancient lich will gladly spend a turn abjuring your summoned quokka rather than summoning fiends. However, spending more than one turn summoning such chaff monsters is usually unwise.

History

Prior to 0.10, only the level 3 Abjuration spell existed, and it had functioned like Mass Abjuration.