Dancing Lights

Dancing Lights is a cantrip (Evocation). It creates magical orbs of light that brighten an area.

Description

Illuminate a 9 m / 30 ft radius.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Details

 Range: 18 m / 60  ft

AoE: 9 m / 30 ft (Radius)

Creates Area: Dancing Lights

 Concentration

At higher levels

Casting this spell at a higher level grants no additional benefit.

Technical details

UID

Target_DancingLights

Spell flags

CannotTargetItems, HasHighGroundRangeExtension, HasSomaticComponent, HasVerbalComponent, IsConcentration, IsSpell

Condition: Dancing Lights

 Dancing Lights

Duration: 10 turns

Illuminates a 9 m / 30 ft radius.

Area: Dancing Lights

 Dancing Lights

Duration: 10 turns

AoE: 9 m / 30 ft (Radius)

Illuminates 9 m / 30 ft radius.

Type: Summoned

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 1: Bard, Sorcerer, and Wizard
• Class level 3: Eldritch Knight, and Arcane Trickster
• Class level 5: Druid (via Wild Shape: Deep Rothé)

Races:

• Character level 1: High Elf, High Half-Elf, Drow, and Drow Half-Elf

(Character level is the sum of all class levels for a multi-classed character.)

Granted by features:

•  Magic Initiate: Bard
•  Magic Initiate: Sorcerer
•  Magic Initiate: Wizard

Granted by items:

• Komira's Locket

Notes

• Unlike the tabletop version, the magical orbs can only function as one light source instead of having the option to spread them out in a chain of four separate lights. They also have the option to move them each turn as a Bonus Action.
  • Additionally, the combined light has a far greater Area of Effect than the tabletop version which instead only has a 3 m / 10 ft radius of dim light.
• Dancing Lights can be cast without breaking stealth (Confirmed for Drow race version)
• Dancing Lights has two incantations: Fiat Lux, Latin for "let there be light", and Sol Invictus, Latin for "unconquered sun".

External links

• Dancing lights on the Forgotten Realms Wiki