Channels

You pull a sliver of stellar fire from the Rift and hurl it at a target within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage and the point of impact glows briefly, shedding dim light in a 5-foot radius until the start of your next turn.

A focused ray of solar fire lances toward a creature within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 fire damage and any flammable object it is wearing or carrying that isn't being held by another creature ignites.

You aim a needle-thin beam of stellar light at a creature you can see. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 4d8 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, the target is also blinded until the end of your next turn as its eyes flare with after-images.

You designate a point within range, where a miniature sunburst blooms into a 20-foot-radius sphere. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. Unattended flammable objects in the area ignite.

You raise a curtain of roaring fire on a solid surface within range, up to 60 feet long, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick. One side of the wall (your choice when you cast it) deals 5d8 fire damage to any creature that ends its turn within 10 feet of it or that enters the wall for the first time on a turn. Any creature in the wall's space when it appears must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half on a success.

You extend an arm and discharge a column of stellar plasma from your palm in a 100-foot line, 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d6 fire damage and 4d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. The line ignites unattended flammable objects and scores 1-foot-deep grooves in stone surfaces.

A churning sphere of solar fire forms at a point you choose within range. Any creature that ends its turn within 10 feet of the sphere or moves through its space must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half on a success. As a bonus action, you can move the sphere up to 30 feet in any direction, including upward; it can pass through small openings the size of a fist.

A churning vortex of fire and radiant light descends over an area you can see within range. When the storm first appears and at the start of each of your turns thereafter, each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d6 fire damage and 6d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. The area is heavily obscured to anyone outside it, and ranged attacks made into or through it have disadvantage.

You release a purifying detonation of stellar fire centered on a point within range. Each creature in the area must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 12d10 fire damage; on a success, half. Undead, fiends, and creatures animated by necrotic Rift Energy have disadvantage on the save and take an additional 4d10 radiant damage on a failure.

You reach into the Rift and tear loose a piece of a dying star, dragging it down on a point you can see or accurately describe within range. The falling star impacts as a brilliant column of fire and force. Each creature within 40 feet of the impact point must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 12d6 fire damage and 8d6 force damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. Structures in the area not warded against orbital energy take maximum damage. The impact crater glows for 24 hours and is considered difficult terrain.

Through a one-hour rite that draws a thread of stellar core directly through the Rift, you collapse a fragment of a sun onto a region you have surveyed. At the conclusion of the ritual, an area up to one mile in radius is rendered uninhabitable. Every structure within the radius is reduced to slag and ash; every unshielded creature is killed outright. The site emits lethal radiant Rift Energy for years afterward — no Tier IV or lower shielding survives prolonged exposure, and even Tier V shielding degrades within months. This channel is plot-grade: its use leaves a permanent geographic and political scar, and is almost always answered.

You pull a fist-sized stone from the ground or the matter around you and snap it at a target with rifted force. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage. You can also use this channel to shape loose stone or soil within reach into a simple form (a cup, a handle, a wedge) no larger than 1 cubic foot.

A curved slab of stone hurls itself into the path of an attack, granting the triggering target a +2 bonus to AC against the incoming hit and lingering as light cover for the remainder of the duration. While the shield persists, the protected creature gains +2 AC against ranged attacks so long as it stays within 5 feet of the slab. The shield crumbles if it takes 15 or more damage in a single hit.

A jagged column of stone erupts from any solid surface beneath a creature you can see within range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, it takes 4d6 piercing damage and is knocked prone as the spike lifts it briefly before retracting. On a success, it takes half damage and is not knocked prone. The spike leaves a 5-foot-wide patch of broken stone, which is difficult terrain until cleared.

You drive a pulse of seismic force through the ground in every direction from where you stand. Each creature other than you on the ground within 20 feet must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 4d6 bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a success, it takes half damage and stays on its feet. The ground in the area becomes difficult terrain until cleared.

You conjure a non-magical wall of solid stone within range, composed of up to ten 10-foot-by-10-foot panels you can arrange in any contiguous shape. Each panel is 6 inches thick, blocks line of sight, and has AC 15 and 30 hit points per panel. The wall is anchored to existing surfaces; when concentration ends, it crumbles to inert rubble. If you concentrate for the full duration, the wall becomes permanent.

A massive fist of compacted stone hammers up from the ground or surrounding rubble and slams into a creature within range. Make a melee channel attack with reach 60 feet for this strike. On a hit, the target takes 10d6 bludgeoning damage and is pushed up to 15 feet in a direction of your choice; if it strikes a solid object before the push ends, it takes an additional 2d6 bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone.

The ground in a 100-foot radius centered on a point within range begins to lurch and crack. When you cast this channel and at the start of each of your turns, each creature on the ground in the area must make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and take 3d6 bludgeoning damage from falling debris. Structures in the area take 50 damage at the start of each of your turns; freestanding structures of 0 hp collapse, dealing 8d6 bludgeoning damage to creatures beneath them (Dex save for half). At the channel's end, the area is reduced to broken, fissured difficult terrain.

Stone fingers as thick as siege beams surge out of any solid surface to seize a creature you can see within range. The target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, it takes 12d8 bludgeoning damage and is restrained for the duration. On a success, it takes half damage and is not restrained. While restrained, the target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. The stone has AC 17 and 80 hit points; destroying it frees the target.

You commit a minute-long rite that reshapes the ground itself across an area you can see. Within a 500-foot radius, you raise or sink terrain by up to 60 feet in elevation in any contour you describe — lifting a defensive ridge, opening a moat, collapsing a building's foundation, or burying a road. Structures sitting on shifted ground take 12d10 bludgeoning damage; creatures caught on shifting terrain must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 8d10 bludgeoning damage and be buried (treated as restrained until they dig out). The change is permanent.

You wrench a mountain peak — or a comparable mass of stone — out of place through the Rift and let gravity bring it down on a point within range. Each creature within a 30-foot radius of the impact must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 20d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half on a success. Structures in the area not specifically reinforced are destroyed. The impact leaves a permanent rubble field 60 feet wide that takes weeks to clear.

Through an hour-long rite drawing on the deep crust through the Rift, you split a landmass. The ritual carves a fissure up to 50 miles long, several miles wide, and reaching to the asthenosphere. Coastlines change. Rivers reroute. Cities along the fracture line are destroyed; trade routes vanish; whole regions become unreachable. The chasm is permanent: it does not heal in any timescale that matters to the people living there. This channel is plot-grade and reshapes maps; political and ecological consequences cascade for generations.

You draw moisture out of the air through the Rift and condense it into a low, drifting fog. A 10-foot-radius sphere of mist forms at a point you can see within range. The area is lightly obscured, and the mist clings to surfaces and clothing. Strong wind disperses it in one round.

A lance of supercooled water condenses in front of you and streaks toward a target within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 cold damage and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.

The temperature in a 15-foot cube within range plunges in an instant. Each creature in the cube must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 4d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failure, a target's speed is also halved until the end of its next turn. Standing water in the area freezes to a thin sheet of ice that acts as difficult terrain for one round.

You condense water out of the Rift into a barbed shaft of ice and hurl it at a creature within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 4d8 cold damage and 2d8 piercing damage, and its speed is reduced by 15 feet until the end of its next turn. The spike shatters on impact, leaving frost-scarred terrain in a 5-foot radius that is difficult terrain for one round.

You raise a wall of dense ice in an unbroken expanse up to 60 feet long, 10 feet high, and 1 foot thick. Any creature in the wall's space when it appears must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d8 cold damage on a failed save, or half on a success. The wall has AC 12 and 30 hp per 10-foot section; reducing a section to 0 hp shatters it into a 5-foot-wide field of jagged ice that deals 2d6 cold damage to any creature that enters or starts its turn in the field.

A wall of seawater surges out of the Rift in front of you, sweeping forward in a 30-foot line, 10 feet wide and 10 feet high. Each creature in the line must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 8d8 bludgeoning damage and is pushed 20 feet away from you and knocked prone. On a success, it takes half damage and is not moved. The line is left soaked and counts as difficult terrain for one round.

A howling blizzard descends over an area you can see within range. When the storm forms and at the start of each of your turns thereafter, each creature in the cylinder must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d8 cold damage on a failed save, or half on a success. The area is heavily obscured by driving snow, and creatures inside have their speed halved. Open flames are extinguished and ranged attacks into or out of the area have disadvantage.

A column of glacier ice surges up around a creature you can see within range, locking it in place. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it takes 12d8 cold damage and is restrained as the ice fuses around it. On a success, it takes half damage and is not restrained. A restrained creature can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns; the ice has AC 15 and 60 hit points, and shattering it frees the target.

You tear open a vertical pocket from the Rift and flood it with crushing seawater. A 30-foot-radius, 20-foot-deep volume of dense black water materializes centered on a point within range. Each creature inside when the pool forms must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 8d10 cold damage on a failed save, or half on a success. Creatures that begin a turn inside the pool must hold their breath or begin suffocating (per the suffocation rules). At the end of the duration, the water collapses back through the Rift, leaving the area soaked and slick.

A vortex of black seawater 60 feet across opens at a point within range, dragging the battlefield inward. When the maelstrom appears and at the start of each of your turns thereafter, each creature in the area must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 20d6 bludgeoning damage and is pulled 20 feet toward the center and knocked prone. On a success, it takes half damage and is not pulled. Creatures pulled into the center are submerged and begin to suffocate. The terrain inside the maelstrom is treated as difficult, swirling water.

Over the course of an hour, you anchor a rift to deep ocean and let it bleed. A flood of seawater equivalent to a sustained tsunami pours through, drowning lowlands within the targeted region under tens of feet of water. Coastal cities are inundated; rivers reverse; entire low valleys become permanent inland seas. The new shoreline does not recede. Inhabitants who do not evacuate before the ritual completes are presumed lost. This channel is plot-grade and rewrites the geography and economics of a region.

A spectral hand of compressed Ether forms within range. You can use an action to manipulate the hand: lift, carry, or move an unattended object weighing up to 10 lbs, open an unlocked door or container, or pour the contents of a vial. The hand cannot attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 lbs.

A bolt of compressed Ether streaks toward a target within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On hit, the target takes 3d8 force damage as the bolt punches through their personal field.

You wrap a willing creature in a fold of Ether, smearing their signature across the local field. For the duration, the target is heavily obscured to sight, scrying, and most sensor sweeps. Direct physical contact, area-of-effect detection, or Tier IV+ field analyzers can still locate them.

You collapse the rising Rift signature of another channeler before it stabilizes. The triggering channel automatically fails if its level is 3 or lower. If it is 4th level or higher, make a channel ability check against a DC of 10 + the channel's level; on a success, the channel fails and its slot is consumed.

You target a creature, object, or zone carrying an ongoing channel effect. Any effect of 3rd level or lower ends. For an effect of 4th level or higher, make a channel ability check against a DC of 10 + the effect's level; on a success, the effect ends.

You collapse the distance between two points in local space. You and one creature you touch (or only yourself) shift up to 500 ft to a location you can clearly visualize from prior firsthand experience. The destination must be on the same plane and not enclosed in a sealed Rift-shielded space.

You unleash a focused wave of cognitive overload along a 30-ft cone. Each creature in the area must make an Intelligence saving throw, taking 10d8 psychic damage on a failed save and half as much on a success. Creatures that fail are also stunned until the end of your next turn.

You attempt to fold a target out of local reality and into a stable pocket of the Ether plane. The target must make a Charisma saving throw or vanish for the duration. While banished, the target is incapacitated and cannot interact with the local plane. If concentration ends or the duration expires, the target returns to the space it left, or the nearest unoccupied space.

You open a stable Rift corridor and step through with your party. You and up to eight willing creatures in physical contact translate to a destination you can clearly visualize — a known plane, a charted system, or a location of personal significance. The corridor closes immediately behind you.

You alter one fact about the immediate scene by reaching into the local Rift substrate and editing it directly. You may add or remove a single small object, change what a creature within range just said or did, replace the contents of a container, or shift a minor environmental detail. The change must be plausible within the scene and cannot directly kill, fully heal, or undo a death. The GM is the final arbiter of scope. The cost is severe: you take one level of exhaustion and cannot cast Rewrite again until you finish a long rest.

You reach past surface reality and unravel something fundamental from the Rift weave itself. Choose one target: a single building or vessel is permanently erased and the space around it forgets it ever stood; a named individual's lineage is edited out of recorded history, leaving only those who witnessed the ritual able to remember them; a city's name is forgotten by every mind that does not currently speak it. The effect is permanent and cannot be reversed except by an equal-tier ritual response. The caster permanently loses 1d4 levels of exhaustion capacity (max exhaustion is reduced) and is marked by the Rift — Ether-sensitive beings recognize them on sight.

You discharge a tight pulse of static through a touched target. Make a melee channel attack. On hit, the target takes 1d8 lightning damage and any Tier IV or lower electronic device on or carried by the target briefly seizes — a single function (sensor, weapon, comm) shorts out until the start of your next turn. This channel's damage increases by 1d8 at 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

A narrow lance of charged plasma snaps from your hand toward a target within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On hit, the target takes 3d8 lightning damage and cannot take reactions until the start of your next turn.

You fire a tuned arc beam designed to overload neural conductance. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 3d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half as much on a success. On a failed save, the target is also stunned until the end of its next turn.

You strike a primary target with a high-voltage arc that jumps to nearby conductors. The primary target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. The arc then leaps to up to two additional creatures within 30 ft of the primary target; each makes its own save, taking 2d8 lightning damage on a failure and half on a success.

You condense a charged stormhead at a point within range. The 20-ft radius cloud is lightly obscured and crackles with potential. When a creature enters the cloud for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 4d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. As a bonus action on later turns, you may move the cloud up to 30 ft.

You compress an atmospheric column and call down a single devastating strike. Choose one target you can see within range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d8 lightning damage and 2d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. The thunderclap is audible for up to a mile.

You charge a column of atmosphere into a sustained ionized field. The 60-ft radius cylinder is heavily obscured and treated as difficult terrain for non-flying creatures. When a creature enters the field for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 6d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. Ranged attacks passing through the field have disadvantage.

You call a synchronized barrage of strikes onto a wide kill zone. Choose up to six targets you can see within a 100-ft radius point in range. Each target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 12d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. The strikes ignite flammable terrain in each impact square.

You pull a vertical column of charge from the upper atmosphere into a single point. The primary target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 16d10 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. Each other creature within 20 ft of the primary target must make the same save, taking 8d8 lightning damage on a failed save and half on a success. The strike obliterates unprotected structures in the impact area.

You tear open the upper atmosphere and bind a regional storm to your will. A 200-ft radius cylinder of howling weather forms over the chosen point. Each creature in the area when the storm forms takes 20d6 lightning damage (Dexterity save for half). On each of your subsequent turns, you may use a bonus action to call a lightning strike on a creature in the area for 8d8 lightning damage (Dex save for half). The storm is heavily obscured, treats the area as difficult terrain, and prevents ranged attacks across its width.

You bind an entire planet's atmospheric charge to a single point of release. A civilization-scale storm forms above the target region and discharges for hours. Tier IV power grids are crippled — substations, fusion taps, and orbital tethers within range fail and require years of replacement work. Every Tier III or lower vehicle, sensor, and weapon in the region is dead silicon. The local weather pattern is permanently destabilized, producing chronic storms for at least a decade. The caster cannot channel Arc effects for one year afterward.

You force a sliver of Rift-bound heat into a small flammable object within range — a torch, a rag, a fuse — and it catches instantly. Alternately, you may strike a creature in range with a focused thermal lance; make a ranged channel attack for 1d8 fire damage on hit. This channel's damage increases by 1d8 at 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

You compress a sliver of superheated Rift matter into a narrow lance and hurl it at a target. Make a ranged channel attack. On hit, the target takes 3d8 plasma damage and any unprotected flammable material it carries ignites.

You sear a wounded creature with controlled heat, closing bleeders and forcing tissue to knit. The target regains 2d8 + your channel ability modifier hit points and any active bleeding or ongoing piercing/slashing damage ends. The treatment is brutal: the target takes 1d4 fire damage as part of the procedure, which it cannot resist.

You touch a melee weapon and sheath its edge in stable plasma. For the duration, the weapon deals an extra 1d8 fire damage on a hit and sheds dim light in a 10-ft radius. The wielder may dismiss the effect as a bonus action to release the stored heat, dealing 4d8 fire damage to a creature within 5 ft (Dexterity save for half).

You hurl a compressed Rift-charge that detonates into a spray of molten metal. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d6 fire damage on a failed save and half on a success. The area is coated in cooling slag and becomes difficult terrain for the duration; a creature that starts its turn in the slag takes 1d6 fire damage.

You conjure a wall of stable plasma at a point within range. The wall is up to 60 ft long, 20 ft tall, and 1 ft thick, and fully blocks line of sight. When a creature enters the wall's space for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it takes 8d8 fire damage (Dexterity save for half). Creatures on the opposite side of the wall take 5d8 fire damage when within 10 ft.

You pull a column of magma through a Rift-tap beneath the target and drive it upward. One creature you can see within range must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 12d8 fire damage on a failed save and half on a success. On a failure, the target also begins to burn, taking 2d8 fire damage at the start of each of its turns until a creature uses an action to smother the flames.

You ignite an ionized cell of unstable plasma at a point within range. Each creature in the 40-ft radius cylinder when it forms must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 12d8 plasma damage on a failed save and half on a success. On each of your subsequent turns, you may use a bonus action to force every creature in the area to repeat the save, taking 6d8 plasma damage on a failed save and half on a success.

You reach into the substrate and reshape the battlefield itself. Within a 100-ft radius of a point you can see, you may convert open ground to molten rock, collapse a stone wall into rubble, fuse loose metal into a barricade, or harden magma into cooled glass. Any creature in an affected square must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 14d6 collateral damage (fire or bludgeoning, as appropriate) on a failed save and half on a success. The terrain change is permanent.

You tear open a sustained Rift-tap to a stellar core and bind its output into a contained sphere. Each creature in the 60-ft radius when the furnace forms takes 20d6 fire damage (Constitution save for half). Each creature that starts its turn in the area takes 8d6 fire damage with no save. Non-magical metal in the area softens and warps; non-magical wood, cloth, and flesh ignite. Tier IV armor begins to fail after 1 minute of exposure.

You graft a planet's mantle to a Rift-tap and force the wound open. A region of up to fifty square miles becomes a permanent molten zone: surface temperatures exceed survival thresholds for unshielded life, magma fields and slag plains overwrite the prior landscape, and any settlement caught in the area is destroyed. The zone remains active for years and cannot be sealed except by an equal-tier ritual response. The local biome will not return within a generation. The caster's skin permanently bears the heat-mark of the working and they cannot enter the zone they made without taking ongoing fire damage.

You lay a hand on a metal object no larger than a longsword and exert a small, precise pulse of Metal-rifting. Choose one effect: restore the object to a mirror polish, removing tarnish, soot, and surface grime; smooth out a single dent or burr up to a quarter inch deep; or briefly raise a buried marking — a serial number, a maker's stamp, an erased inscription — back to legibility for one minute. The channel does not repair structural damage, alter alloy composition, or affect objects under active magical concealment.

You impose a sharp directional pull on a body of ferrous metal within range. Choose one target: an unsecured or loosely held metal object weighing up to 25 lb, which flies directly into your free hand or to a point you choose within 5 ft of you; or a creature wearing significant metal armor or carrying significant metal gear, which must make a Strength saving throw or be pulled 10 ft directly toward you in a straight line, ending its movement if it strikes a solid obstacle. A creature pulled into a solid surface takes 2d8 bludgeoning damage from the impact.

Filaments of conjured alloy weave through the surface of your skin and the layer beneath it, hardening into a flexible plating that moves with you. For the duration, your AC increases by 2 and you have resistance to slashing damage from non-magical sources. The plating is visible — your skin takes on a dull metallic sheen — and creatures with the ability to sense Rift-active material can identify the effect on sight. If you are reduced to 0 hit points or your concentration ends, the plating dissolves into fine inert flakes.

You conjure a tapered alloy spike, longer than a forearm and edged at the tip, and drive it through the air at a creature you can see within range. Make a ranged channel attack. On a hit, the target takes 6d8 piercing damage and the spike lodges in its body; until the spike is removed (an action by the target or an adjacent creature; on the target's turn this triggers an additional 1d8 piercing damage from the extraction), the target's speed is reduced by 10 ft. A target with no significant tissue (an animated construct, an undead skeleton, a stone-bodied entity) takes full damage but is not impaired.

You impose purpose on a small unattended metal or stone object within range — a wrench, a candlestick, a fist-sized shard of casing, a length of pipe — and rouse it to motion as a minor construct ally under your command. The animated object becomes a Tier I construct with the following stats: AC 14, 20 hit points, walking speed 30 ft (or climb 20 ft if it lacks legs), and one melee attack with a +5 attack bonus that deals 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage as appropriate to its shape. The construct acts on your initiative count and takes the actions you mentally direct (no action required from you to direct it). If you lose concentration or the construct is reduced to 0 hit points, it falls inert.

You conjure a solid wall of dense alloy within range, composed of up to six 10-foot-by-10-foot panels you can arrange in any contiguous shape. Each panel is 3 inches thick, blocks line of sight, and has AC 17 and 60 hit points per panel. The wall is anchored to existing surfaces; on a horizontal arrangement it can support its own weight as a ceiling or floor. The wall blocks lightning damage that would pass through it and is not flammable. When concentration ends, the wall fades to inert metal flakes within 1 minute. If you concentrate for the full duration, the wall becomes permanent and rusted-real — a structure that can be salvaged, machined, or destroyed by normal means.

You hurl a fistful of scrap into the air above a point you can see within range; the Rift seizes it, multiplies it, and accelerates a thousand metal fragments outward in a screaming spherical storm. Each creature within a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes 10d8 piercing damage; on a success, it takes half damage. Unsecured cloth, paper, and brittle materials in the area are shredded. The ground within the sphere is left covered in metal slivers and counts as difficult terrain until cleared.

You impose a Rift-anchored magnetic field on a 60-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within range. For the duration, each creature wearing medium or heavy metal armor within the sphere must make a Strength saving throw at the start of its turn; on a failure, it is restrained until the start of its next turn (its armor is pinned to the nearest large ferrous surface), and on a success its speed is halved until the start of its next turn. Unsecured ferrous objects up to 1,000 lb (including most ground vehicles and small craft) within the sphere are pulled toward the field's center at 60 ft per round; on a contested check, a piloted vehicle can resist with a vehicle-handling check at disadvantage. The first time a creature enters the area on a turn or starts its turn there, it takes 12d8 bludgeoning damage from the field's torsion if it failed its save.

You raise a Tier III construct ally from gathered scrap, salvaged plating, and a Rift-forged core. The construct appears in an unoccupied space within range with the following stats: AC 19, 180 hit points, walking speed 30 ft, immunity to poison and psychic damage, resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical sources, vulnerability to lightning damage. It has two attacks per Attack action, each at +9 to hit, dealing 2d10 + 5 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your choice when summoned, based on its frame). The construct understands you but cannot speak. It acts on your initiative count and obeys your spoken or mental commands. If you lose concentration or the construct is reduced to 0 hit points, it collapses into inert components.

You crown a willing creature (yourself or another) with a Rift-forged sovereign panoply — a great helm, full plate, and a paired weapon, all conjured around the wearer in a single seamless instant. For the duration: the wearer gains 100 temporary hit points (any temp HP from another source is replaced if lower); the wearer's AC becomes 22 if it was lower; the wearer gains a +3 bonus to attack rolls with weapons forged as part of the panoply (one melee, one ranged, both at the wielder's existing proficiency); the wearer has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, frightened, or compelled while crowned. When the duration ends, the regalia discorporates into inert filings. The channel can only crown one creature at a time; if cast again, the previous Iron Crown ends.

Over the course of an hour-long rite conducted at a site of significant metalworking — an industrial foundry, an ancient forge, a starship's drive core — you bind a region of the Rift directly to its iron. At the ritual's conclusion, the half-mile radius around the focus becomes a Living Forge: every unattended metal structure, vehicle hull, weapon, and architectural component within the area can be reshaped at the will of the ritual's anchor (the caster, or a designated successor named at the rite). Once active, the anchor may, as an action while within the area, animate any single unoccupied vehicle or large metallic construct in the area as a Tier IV ally (commander stats determined by the GM; typical chassis: 300 HP, AC 20, three attacks at +12 for 4d10 + 6 damage); up to three such animations may be active at any time. The area produces finished weapons, plating, and machined parts at ten times normal industrial speed, requiring no operators. The Living Forge is permanent until the focus is destroyed, the anchor renounces the rite by spending an hour at the focus, or another Living Forge claims the same ground. The site is plot-grade: a Living Forge changes the strategic balance of any region it claims, and ownership of its anchor is a setting-level prize.