Private Plaza of Downcast Eyes

Cost: Template:20+m Target: Area

This spell wards a place against scrying and teleportation. It takes six hours to cast and requires the sorcerer make a procession through all of the areas to be warded, circling the area again and again for the duration of the casting. As he walks, the sorcerer sprinkles ground glass along the boundary and makes the Mudra of Separation. The spell wards an area with a radius equal to the sorcerer's (Occult + Essence) in yards.

Once cast, the spell remains in place for a number of days equal to (Occult + Essence). At any point during the spell's duration, any sorcerer who knows Private Plaza of Downcast Eyes may renew the spell, using a lesser variant of the ritual that takes one hour and another 20 motes. This resets the duration of the spell to the new sorcerer's (Occult + Essence), but the actual effect and area of the spell itself remain set by the original sorcerer.

The completed spell blocks any effect that allows clairvoyance or translocation into or out of the area. This prohibition includes any Charm, spell or supernatural power that enables a user's senses to perceive a location outside the bounds of mundane perception. Likewise, any effects—including spells such as The Faithful Ally or Charms such as Hurry Home—that would allow teleportation into or out of the warded area fail. Subjects are not transported to the border of the warding, they simply never leave their original location without explanation and with full expenditure of Essence. Only Black Faith (see The Black Treatise, p. 49) can trump this spell.