Hidden within every tongue spoken or written lie fragments, syllables, and sounds that survive from the moment of creation, when powers ancient and terrible imposed order on substance. The Evocation tradition allows casters to extract the secret words of power and give voice to them. The spells presented here are but a fraction of those that exist, producing effects useful to those who explore dangerous places and confront deadly challenges.

Novice Evocation spells offer the ability to voice sounds, mere syllables of words of power. Expert spells give casters the ability to speak words, while master spells string words together into phrases capable of producing devastating outcomes.

Evocation Spells

You must be able to hear in order to cast an Evocation spell, and creatures must be able to hear your voice. In addition, when you cast a spell, you choose to whisper, speak, or shout. The volume at which you pronounce the syllable, utterance, or recitation determines its effects as noted in the spell’s descriptions.

Novice Evocation spells, and only such spells, enable you to cast them without having to use an action to do so. In fact, you need do nothing more than speak the syllable. While you remain free to do other things on your turn, after you cast any Evocation spell, you must wait until the start of your next turn before you can cast another one.

A caster is never subject to the effects of an Evocation spell they cast.

Command: If you can speak and you lack the con fused, controlled, stunned, and unconscious afflictions, you can use this talent at the start of your turn. Target one creature within 5 yards. The target makes a Will roll. On a failure, you can issue one command to the target. Choose one of the activities that normally require the use of an action from those described in Chapter 2. On the target’s next turn, it must use an action to perform this activity. If it cannot, the target becomes confused (luck ends). You can use this talent once, twice at level 3, and three times at level 7. You regain expended uses after you rest.

Numinous Benediction: The study of the uncanny has fortified your psyche. You can use a reaction when you would become confused, controlled, or stunned to make a luck roll. On a success, you do not gain the affliction.

Polyglot: You can speak, understand, read, and write in any language.

Word of Breaking: You can use an action to speak the Word of Breaking. Target one creature or object within 5 yards. The target takes 1d6 damage. At level 3, the target takes 2d6 damage. At level 7, the target takes 4d6 damage.