Dinik’ineti

Spell of the Day

Dinik’ineti is a level three divination spell with a ten-minute casting time, a ten-minute duration, and a range of one mile. The spell requires a transparent sphere to cast, such as a marble, and concentration to maintain.

To cast this spell, hold the material in hand, and for ten minutes, a connection will build between your dominant eye and the sphere. Afterward, place the sphere in a location and you can move up to a mile away and use it as a remote eye. But this connection begins to fade immediately and will dispel after ten minutes.

Due to the short duration, and the availability of modern technology and the much more efficient spell, occularis proxima, this spell has a low level of recorded use. The most common use is for surveying and search and rescue. Once cast, the sphere is placed in a slingshot and launched high into the air, allowing a brief, birds-eye view of an area.

Dinik’ineti was discovered in Ethiopia around 200 BCE. This spell was kept secret for centuries as the Ethiopian people felt they were specially chosen by God to know it. So powerful was their belief in this that they based their society around it, even saying that their day did not begin until sunrise when there was enough light for the spell to be used. Today, most of the superstition has fallen away, but Ethiopians still begin their day at six in the morning instead of midnight like the rest of the world.