Zone of Truth

Divination School – Level 1

Type: Ritual Spell

Material: A tongue of a beast, fey, or fiend creature

Casting Time: 5 minutes

Reach: 60 feet

Duration: 1 hour, using Concentration

Effect: You magically create a zone that blocks lies.

Choose 1 point within reach. All creatures within 30 feet of that point must succeed on a Deception Save, or become unable to lie until the spell ends or until they leave this reach.

While under this spell effect, a creature automatically fails any Deception Check, and any creature immediately notices that the creature was trying to lie.

If a creature that succeeded on this Save makes a Deception Check while 30 feet from that point, it must then repeat this spell Save before it makes that Check.

Spell List: Bard, Cleric, Paladin