Greater Oculus Electricum (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 8

School: Evocation

Casting

Casting Time: Standard Action, or the first attack of a Full Attack Action

Components: V, S, M (An eye, carved out of amber, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

Range: Long (200 ft. + 20 ft./lvl)

Target or Area: one target creature, struck by a splash attack as you choose

Duration: Until the end of your next full night's rest

Saving Throw: No saving throw granted
 Save DC: -

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

You hold an amber eyeball as you snarl the hissing, crackling phrases of this weird magic. The amber eye glows golden, then searing, actinic blue, then dissolves into lightning in your grasp. You raise the searing ball of lightning to your face and press it into your eyes, blinding you.

While under the effects of this spell, you may choose to 'store' the power of the dweomer in your own eyes. This has the effect of giving you the Blind condition to all visual-based senses for as long as the magic resides. In exchange, you gain Heartsight with a range of 120 feet, and living creatures cast their Heart-Light in a radius of 10 feet from the edges of their space. This means you walk through a black void, unable to see walls, floor, or anything else further than 10 feet from your space, or the space of any other living creature within 120 feet of you. Within 10 feet of yourself or any other living creature, you can see perfectly, ignoring all other conditions that affect light or dark.

This effect is more disorienting than useful, until you get used to seeing the world in pulsing shades of electric blue, the bright, beating hearts and spark-lit brains of your allies like beacons in the utter night you stride through. But the 'secondary' effects of Greater Oculus Electricum make this spell deadly indeed.

As a standard action (which may be combined with the action of casting this spell if desired (yes, you may Quicken this spell and cast it and attack as a swift action)), you may release the contained electric charge in your eyes. A searing orb of electricity soars forth. This orb is treated as a splash weapon, with a maximum range equal to the spell range above and no range modifiers to-hit. You are considered to be proficient with this splash weapon. When it lands, it inflicts (Circle 8 damage): 1d6+3 points of damage per character level (max 21d6+63 at character level 21) of lightning (energy, common) damage to its direct target, and half that amount as splash damage to all squares adjacent to the targeted square. Even worse, all affected targets gain the dazzled condition, without benefit of save.

This spell lays an arcane charge on its target(s). If the targets are something other than you or another creature (such as an object or area), the spell lays an arcane charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have an arcane charge present must choose which to keep if the new spell has the same charge type. Only one arcane charge can ever be present on a target at a time.

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Mana Burn Circle Damage

Spell Circle	Burn Cost	Req'd Char Level	Base Dice	Max Dice
0	N/A	N/A	1d4 per 2 character levels	max of 4d4 at character level 8
1	N/A	1st	1d6 per character level	max of 4d6 at character level 4
2	+1	3rd	1d6 per character level	max of 6d6 at character level 6
3	+1	5th	1d6 per character level	max of 10d6 at character level 10
4	+1	7th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 12d6+12 at character level 12
5	+1	9th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 15d6+15 at character level 15
6	+1	11th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 16d6+32 at character level 16
7	+1	13th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 20d6+40 at character level 20
8	+1	15th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 21d6+63 at character level 21
9	+1	17th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 25d6+75 at character level 25
10	+1	19th	1d6+4 per character level	max of 25d6+100 at character level 25
11	+1	21st	1d6+5 per character level	max of 25d6+125 at character level 25
12	+1	23rd	1d6+6 per character level	max of 27d6+162 at character level 27
13	+1	25th	1d6+7 per character level	max of 27d6+189 at character level 27
14	+1	27th	1d6+8 per character level	max of 29d6+232 at character level 29
15	+1	29th	1d6+9 per character level	max of 29d6+261 at character level 29
16	+1	31st	1d6+10 per character level	max of 30d6+300 at character level 30
17	+1	33rd	1d6+11 per character level	max of 30d6+330 at character level 30
18	+1	35th	1d6+12 per character level	max of 30d6+360 at character level 30