The Vigil of Returning Stars
A stargazing healer's treasured grimoire holds a path to restore a fallen constellation before its light is lost forever.
Spellbook · Level 14 Cleric of the Celestial Vigil · Level 14
The Vigil of Returning Stars
A stargazing healer's treasured grimoire holds a path to restore a fallen constellation before its light is lost forever.
Ex librisSister Vespera SolenneClerical devotion to the Celestial Vigil
At a glance
Level
14
Level 14 Cleric of the Celestial Vigil
Spells
9
1 cantrip, 1 signature
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
9 spellsCantrips
1- A touch restores a small amount of vitality and steadies a creature that is conscious but shaken.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- A holy symbol
- Save or attack
- Willing creature only
- Higher levels
- Healing increases modestly with the caster's tier.
- Source
- Original Creation
1st level
2- A soft celestial glow illuminates a creature and helps it recover from fatigue or minor pain.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- A holy symbol and a bead of clear water
- Save or attack
- No save
- Higher levels
- The radiance brightens with the caster's tier.
- Source
- Original Creation
- A halo of pale light guards one creature, reducing harm from the next incoming attack.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- A holy symbol
- Save or attack
- Willing creature only
- Higher levels
- Protection improves with the caster's tier.
- Source
- Original Creation
2nd level
1- A star-shaped mark offers its bearer a brief flash of insight on one challenging task.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- A holy symbol and a pinch of salt
- Save or attack
- No save
- Higher levels
- The caster may guide additional creatures at higher tiers.
- Source
- Original Creation
3rd level
1- Celestial light clears mundane visual impairment and grants the ability to perceive in dim light for a short time.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- A holy symbol and a silver thread
- Save or attack
- Willing creature only
- Higher levels
- The restored sight lasts longer at higher tiers.
- Conditions
- Blinded
- Source
- Original Creation
4th level
1- For 3 turns, the target regenerates a number of d6s of vitality each turn, as determined by the caster's tier. A successful Sageness or Medicine check is needed to guide the renewal each turn.
- Duration
- Up to 3 turns
- Target
- One living creature
- Components
- A holy symbol and a star-shaped crystal
- Save or attack
- No save; make a Sageness or Medicine check each turn
- Higher levels
- At this spell's tier, the target heals each turn for 3 turns. Increase the healing by per turn for each tier above 4, to a maximum of per turn.
- Source
- Original Creation
5th level
1- A quiet celestial harmony steadies nearby allies and helps them resist fear.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- Up to three willing allies
- Components
- A holy symbol and a small silver bell
- Save or attack
- No save for willing allies
- Higher levels
- The number of affected allies increases with the caster's tier.
- Conditions
- Frightened
- Source
- Original Creation
6th level
1- A concentrated ray of starlight strikes one creature, dealing radiant damage.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- A holy symbol and a fragment of meteorite
- Save or attack
- Ranged spell attack
- Damage
- Radiant damage
- Higher levels
- Damage increases with the caster's tier.
- Source
- Original Creation
7th level
1- A solemn rite calls a willing soul back to its body, restoring life to a creature that died very recently.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One recently deceased creature
- Components
- A holy symbol, a silver mirror, and a vow spoken beneath open sky
- Save or attack
- No save; the soul must be willing
- Higher levels
- At the highest tier available to this cleric, it can restore a recently deceased creature whose body is sufficiently intact.
- Conditions
- Dead
- Source
- Original Creation
In the margins
3 notes
WarningRegeneration must be guided, not hurried. Keep the patient warm, and do not mistake a bright pulse for a steady one.
DiaryThe western star answered again last night. It remembers the names of the children I could not save.
FormulaThree silver arcs, one for each turn of renewal. Close the final arc only when the wound has stopped weeping.
The book itself
The book's silver lettering brightens beneath open sky.
Its pages smell faintly of rain on warm stone.
Every healing prayer is accompanied by a tiny, distant chime.
The caster
Clerical devotion to the Celestial VigilSister Vespera Solenne
Studies: Celestial healing and protective radianceManner: Gentle and observant, she speaks softly but becomes immovable when someone is in danger.Focus: A silver astrolabe worn as a pendant, used to trace constellations in the air.Quirk: She checks the position of the stars before making any difficult promise.Wants: Restore the lost star in her celestial chart, whose light she believes can guide her to a cure for a spreading wasting sickness.Vespera was once a battlefield medic who followed a falling star to a ruined shrine. She now tends the sick and studies the heavens for signs of lives she may yet save.
The book
A star-blue leather codex bound with silver wire, its translucent pages shimmer like dawn and bear faint constellations that shift when read by candlelight.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatSilver-threaded codex
ThemeCelestial
Written by aLevel 14 Cleric of the Celestial Vigil
Caster level14
SystemGeneric Fantasy
Plot hooks
1One star in the book's shifting celestial diagrams has gone dark, and the nearby village's dead no longer rest peacefully.
2A celestial order claims Vespera stole the silver-threaded codex from their sealed observatory and demands its return.
3The book's pages show a new constellation that matches the scars of a missing healer.
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