Akheta
Spell Name: Age Detection Charm
Incantation: Akheta
Pronunciation: uh-CHET-tah
Spell Branch: Charms
Magical Discipline(s): Enchantments
Appearance: The casting is invisible, but when the spell takes affect on an object, it begins to grow, starting with a brilliant white and shifting through the prismatic rainbow as time goes on.
Description: Can be used to determine the age of an object. As the color shifts through the spectrum and eventually stops, the spellcaster can use the final shade to estimate when the object was first created. Though it gives a good ballpark estimate, it can be almost impossible to estimate exactly. Many investigators match the colors to predetermined charts, but even these are not always precise and hard to determine, especially when getting into very small or very large units of time.
- White: Indicates minutes and hours
- Pink: Indicates days
- Red: Weeks
- Orange: Months
- Yellow: Years
- Green: Decades
- Blue: Centuries
- Purple: Millennia
- Indigo and Black: Even older
Regulations: Legal
Skill Level: Advanced
Etymology: From the Aramaic root t4q, for "rainbow"
References:
- Raizel Cohen uses it to determine the age of a skeleton [1]; she uses it again to estimate the age of a music box [2]
Notes:
- Since knowledge of the etymology is needed to cast it effectively, it is practiced mostly by graduates of Beit Gaddol or others who have studied Semitic spell families.
