Petrification

Spell — see Magic and Spellcasting for the rules and the Spell Index for the full list.

Arcane 6 Type: death

Range: 180’ Duration: instantaneous

This spell can cause a target living creature, along with all its carried and worn equipment, to turn to stone. The target must make a Paralysis saving throw. If the save succeeds, the spell has no effect. If the save fails, the creature is petrified. Neither dispelling or remove curse can undo petrification.

Only the reverse spell, depetrification, can turn a petrified creature back to living flesh. If the creature’s petrified form was broken or damaged, then when it is depetrified it suffers equivalent damage or deformities. For instance, if while the petrified, the creature’s stone face had eroded away due to a thousand years of rain, then when depetrified the creature would have a horrific melted visage. (The Judge can choose whatever results on the Mortal Wounds tables he deems appropriate to apply to the hapless creature.) Otherwise, the depetrified creature is exactly as it was the moment it was petrified, with no memory of the intervening period. If depetrification is cast on stone that is not the result of a petrification spell or effect, it merely transforms a man-sized volume of stone into a gooey pile of organic matter. Depetrification is a white magical effect.