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Secrets of Gravity Magic

Ever since the mage Einstein proposed his legendary theory of relativity, many
spellcasters have explored further into the nature of time, space and gravity, seeking to
harness these raw forces of nature. This compilation sheds light on some of the most
elusive and dangerous of these discoveries and what it would take to actually wield even
a fraction of the destructive power of the gods!

by @artofkarthik

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Secrets of Gravity Magic
E
ver since the mage Einstein proposed his
legendary theories of relativity, many
spellcasters have explored further into the
nature of time, space and gravity, seeking to
harness these raw forces of nature for their
own purposes.
This compilation sheds light on some of the most elusive
and dangerous of these discoveries and what it would take to
actually wield even a fraction of the destructive power of the
gods!
Discovery of Gravity Magic
All magic comes from the Goddess Mystra and her
magnificent spell-weave. However, after the goddess was
attacked by nefarious forces, a massive tear appeared in the
weave, causing surges of wild magic and a terrifying disease
known as the spell-plague began ravaging the lands.
Always the researchers, the Dark Elves of Menzoberranzan
first discovered the secrets of gravity magic when
experimenting with the spell-weave, finding that they were
able to manipulate it using one specific tear in the fabric of
the universe: a Sphere of Annihilation.
Many speculate about the true nature of this discovery. Is it
a doorway between multiple worlds? Is it a massive presence
that is warping the fabric of space-time in its vicinity? Is it just
an empty void?
Recommended Level
This module is intended for adventurers between
10-12th level, as the material component for
casting these spells requires a very difficult arcana
check to attune to.
A Dark Plan
Always the opportunists, the Dark Elves saw this newfound
power as a means to achieve great things. If they could create
a way to control the spell-weave using gravity magic, they
could create a new dark-weave, establishing their own spider-
deity Llolth as the new Goddess of Magic, and spreading
darkness throughout the world!
Partnerships
When the Dark Elves understood the true scope of their plan,
they realized that it would be impossible to accomplish it
without the right allies and resources. Other subterranean
dwellers soon partnered with the dark elves: Fire Giants,
Ogres, Orcs, Hobgoblins, Bugbears and Kobolds.
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A Hallowed Site
The Dark Elves had many possible locations to choose from,
but they settled on the mountains near the fabled elven city of
Silvery Moon as the perfect site for their ritual, owing to its
proximity to a great tear in the fabric of the spell-weave. This
would be the epi-center from which the waves of their world
domination would ripple out!
The Ritual
The Drow Spellcaster Xorlarrin (Archmage) has gathered an
inner circle to help with the casting of his profane ritual to
bind the broken spell-weave to the Spider Goddess Llolth:
10 Drow Mages
The Curse of Many Eyes (Beholder)
Abithriax The Skull Collector (Young Red Dragon)
The ritual requires 10 rounds to complete, requiring total
concentration from at least 7 mages each round. If the ritual
is interrupted during a round, the counter resets.
Random Encounters Approaching
The Ritual
d4 Monsters Encountered
1 Young Blue Dragon (Ozyrandion The Deadly), Orc
Warchief, 12 Orcs
2 1 Salamander, 4 Magmins
3 Young Black Dragon (Regiarax The Merciless), 10
Bugbears
4 Young White Dragon (Rynnarvyx The Dread Host), 10
Hobgoblins
Credit
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Written as a side quest/add-on for the legendary D&D 5e
adventure Storm King's Thunder
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Spells from the school of Gravity Magic
Galileo’s Greedy Grasp
2nd-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30ft
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
By compressing the space between you and an object
within a distance of 60ft, you reach out and grab the object
and then let space restore to its usual form, making it seem
like the object just vanished from its location and appeared in
your hand. If the object is in the possession of another
creature and you wish to stealthily take it, make a sleight of
hand check against the creature’s passive perception. Upon
success, you are able to grab the object without the target
noticing. Upon failure, the target notices the grasp and can
attempt a strength check against your spell save DC to try
and hold onto the object, losing it to you upon failing its
check.
Schwarzschild’s Warped Deflection
3rd-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 reaction
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Concentration, upto 1 min
For the duration of the spell, whenever you are hit by a
ranged missile attack, you can use your reaction to roll a
1d10 + your intelligence modifier to attempt to warp the
space around you to deflect the missile and reduce the
damage taken. If the damage is reduced to zero, then you are
able to successfully capture the missile in an orbit around
you for upto 1 min. You can capture as many missiles as your
spellcasting modifier.
As an action, you can dismiss this spell to fire any orbiting
missiles at one or more targets you can see within 30ft. Make
a ranged spell attack for each missile. On a hit, each missile
does a damage of 1d10 + your intelligence modifier.
For each higher level the spell is cast, you can capture one
additional missile.
Pound-Rebka's Slow Time
3rd-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Concentration, upto 1 min
You increase the gravitational field around you, making
time run slower for you. As a result, you disappear from view
of those around you with lower gravity, skipping ahead in
time to the beginning of your turn in the next round of
combat.
At the end of your next action, if you are still concentrating
on the spell, you may use your bonus action to skip further
ahead in time to your turn in the next round of combat.
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Eddington’s Warp Light
4th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 1 mile
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Concentration, upto 1 min
Targeting far away locations that you have a direct line of
sight on and having a medium between you and the location
through which light can traverse, you pull a focussed pocket
of space towards you, allowing you to instantaneously view
(but not hear) what is happening in this specific location. Due
to the compression of space, the light appears slightly blue-
shifted, allowing you to even see creatures that are invisible in
regular light.
Newton’s Slingshot
5th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 40 feet
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
You warp the space between you and one target, who must
attempt a strength saving throw against your spell save DC.
Upon failure they are pulled into an elliptical orbit around you
and are then flung in a direction of your choice, taking 2d6
force damage per 10ft of travel away from you, to a max of
8d6. Any targets in the path of this missile must attempt a
Dexterity Saving throw against your spell save DC, upon
failure taking the same amount of damage. Upon success, the
target avoids the missile.
When cast at higher levels, the range of the spell increases
by 10ft for each level higher than 5th level, dealing the
associated force damage for each 10ft.
Shapiro’s Force Step
6th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
Compressing the space between you and a location you
have direct line of sight on, you can step into the new location
and release the compressed space with a bang. Everything in
line between you and your final space of travel must make a
constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take
1d6 force damage for every 10ft travelled, to a max of 6d6, or
half as much on a success.
When cast at higher levels, the range of the spell increases
by 10ft for each level higher than 6th level, dealing the
associated 1d6 force damage for each 10ft.
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Hubble’s Traverse Space
7th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
Instead of you moving through space, you are able to make
space move through you. Compressing the distance between
you and a location on the same plane of existence you know
the direction of, you can traverse vast distances in a single
step, bending and weaving around obstacles as they occur. In
this manner, you may transport yourself and 8 other willing
creatures that fit within a 10ft sphere around you. If there are
obstacles along the way, check the following table for
outcomes.
No obstacles: Transported without issue
Minor obstacles (solid objectsthat could offer partial
cover): 5% chance of hitting it and shunted to the nearest
traversable location before it, otherwise bypassing it
Major obstacles (solid objects that could offer 3/4 cover):
10% chance of hitting it and shunted to the nearest
traversable location before it, otherwise bypassing it
Impassable obstacles: Shunted to the nearest traversable
location before it
Material Component
Sphere of Annihilation
This 2-foot-diameter black Sphere is a hole in the
multiverse created by a powerful gravitational
singularity, hovering in space and stabilized by a set of
magical bands surrounding it.
The Sphere obliterates all matter it passes through and
all matter that passes through it. Artifacts are the
exception. Unless an artifact is susceptible to damage
from a Sphere of Annihilation, it passes through the
Sphere unscathed. Anything else that touches the
Sphere but isn't wholly engulfed and obliterated by it
takes 4d10 force damage.
The Sphere is stationary until someone controls it or
attunes to it. If you are within 60 feet of an
uncontrolled Sphere, you can use an action to make a
DC 25 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a success, the
Sphere levitates in one direction of your choice, up to a
number of feet equal to 5 x your Intelligence modifier
(minimum 5 feet). On a failure, the Sphere moves 10
feet toward you. A creature whose space the Sphere
enters must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving
throw or be touched by it, taking 4d10 force damage.
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Ligo’s Destruction Beam
8th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
You open the protective bands around your Sphere of
Annihilation a little, sucking in gaseous matter around you
into the singularity, crushing it into super-hot plasma, and
releasing a beam of energy 5ft wide in a direction of your
choice. All creatures in a 60ft line must make a Dexterity
saving throw against your spell save DC, upon failure taking
15d6 radiant damage, or half as much on success. Any
darkness created in the path of this beam is dispelled.
Einstein’s Gravity Vortex
9th-level Gravitomancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60ft Radius
Components: V, S, M (sphere of annihilation)
Duration: Instantaneous
You unleash the power of the Sphere of Annihilation,
warping all of space, time and light around you, pulling in all
untethered objects and creatures towards the singularity. A
60ft bubble of total darkness and a 600ft bubble of partial
darkness are created around the caster. All creatures within
60ft radius of you must make a Strength saving throw against
your spell save DC, upon failure getting sucked in towards
the singularity and taking 20d6 force damage and 20d6
necrotic damage. On a success, the creatures only take the
necrotic damage.
Legendary Artifact (Requires Attunement)
If you attempt to control a Sphere that is under another
creature's control, you make an Intelligence (Arcana)
check contested by the other creature's Intelligence
(Arcana) check. The winner of the contest gains control
of the Sphere and can Levitate it as normal.
If the Sphere comes into contact with a planar portal,
such as that created by the gate spell, or an
extradimensional space, such as that within a Portable
Hole, the DM determines randomly what happens,
using the following table.
d100 — Result:
01-50 — The Sphere is destroyed.
51-85 — The Sphere moves through the portal or
into the extradimensional space.
86-00 — A spatial rift sends each creature and
object within 180 feet of the Sphere, including the
Sphere, to a random plane of existence.
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Background & Historical References
I
have always imagined a school of magic involving the
manipulation of gravity, but I realised that the actual
science of gravity is super strange, and has tons of
potential to be expanded upon for new spellcasting. I
took some of these strange aspects of Gravity and
converted them into spells.
We understand a great deal of how gravity works, but there
are still a lot of mysteries to be uncovered. We've gotten this
far only because of the research of several hard-working
individuals across hundreds of years of history, and I wanted
to pay some form of tribute to some of them!
Galileo
During the early 17th century, the Italian Astronomer Galileo
Galilei observed that all objects tend to accelerate equally
when falling towards the ground. This was later
observationally verified by dropping objects in a vacuum.
Schwarzschild
The Schwarzschild Solution, as proposed by the German
Physicist Karl Schwarzschild in the 20th century, described
the nature of spacetime surrounding spherically symmetric
rotating massive objects.
Hubble
In the early 20th century, American astronomer Edwin
Hubble confirmed the rapid and continuous expansion of the
universe.
Newton
Later in the 17th century, the English Mathematician Isaac
Newton deduced the three laws of kinematic planetary
motion, and hypothesized that the force of gravity between
two celestial objects was the product of their masses,
reciprocal to the square of the distance between them. These
laws were used to mathematically discover the planet
Neptune well before it was observed via a telescope.
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Shapiro
In the mid 20th century, the American astrophysicist Irwin
Shapiro first identified the time delay of light passing close to
a massive celestial object.
Eddington
English Astronomer Arthur Eddington verified the deflection
of light from a quasar by the strong gravitational force of the
Sun as seen from the Earth, confirming the effects of
gravitational lensing.
Pound-Rebka
The experiment carried out by Robert Pound and Glen A.
Rebka confirmed that time runs slower at lower potentials, by
comparing the rate at which atomic clocks ran when on the
ground vs on a speeding aircraft.
Ligo
In the early 21st century, the LIGO experiments directly
detected and confirmed the existence of gravitational
radiation emitted through space-time from two colliding
black holes.
Einstein
In the early 20th century, Swiss Physicist Albert Einstein
proposed the groundbreaking theories that would forever
change our understanding of the universe: The light
wave/particle duality, The existence of subatomic particls via
Brownian Motion, The constancy of the speed of light via the
Special Theory of Relativity, and lastly the famous
equivalence of mass and energy summed up by the equation
E=MC^2.
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