- Casting Time
- 1 hour (ritual)
- Duration
- Permanent (years)
- Range
- extreme · regional
- Components
- V · S · F · M (A Tier V Molten-class core, a quantity of refined Rift-iron equal to the caster's weight, and a willing creature's lifelong vocation surrendered as catalyst.)
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.