6th Level Abjuration (Ritual)
1 Minute+Casting Time
10 minutes
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (A sprinkling of holy water, rare incense, and powdered ruby worth at least 1,000 gp.)
Duration
24 hours
Draconic
“Thulakthraxul Zixradomrith Lumiraththraxul Dethixdomrith”
Elvish
“Turma Helcë Anarórë Núrnen mi-menel”
The grandest and most labor-intensive of protective rituals. The caster walks the entire perimeter of the area to be warded — up to 40,000 square feet — sprinkling holy water and burning rare incense at regular intervals. At each corner and entrance, they inscribe a powerful warding sigil using a mixture of powdered ruby and holy water. The chant is continuous and exhausting, a rolling prayer of exclusion and sanctification that must not falter. The caster is building a wall — not of stone but of divine will, layer upon layer of prohibition woven into the fabric of reality itself. Planar travel into the warded area is sealed; creatures of specified types feel the ward as a physical barrier, a burning repulsion. The caster can attune the ward to a password, spoken aloud, that allows passage. The completed forbiddance is invisible but palpable — a heaviness in the air, a sense that this place is claimed, protected, consecrated. If cast in the same location for 30 consecutive days, the ward becomes permanent.
You create a ward against magical travel that protects up to 40,000 square feet of floor space to a height of 30 feet above the floor. For the duration, creatures can't teleport into the area or use portals, such as those created by the gate spell, to enter the area. The spell proofs the area against planar travel, and therefore prevents creatures from accessing the area by way of the Astral Plane, Ethereal Plane, Feywild, Shadowfell, or the plane shift spell. In addition, the spell damages types of creatures that you choose when you cast it. Choose one or more of the following: celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. When a chosen creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the creature takes 5d10 radiant or necrotic damage (your choice when you cast this spell). When you cast this spell, you can designate a password. A creature that speaks the password as it enters the area takes no damage from the spell. The spell's area can't overlap with the area of another forbiddance spell. If you cast forbiddance every day for 30 days in the same location, the spell lasts until it is dispelled, and the material components are consumed on the last casting.