That Guy With Control of Water

Today I was playing Tales of the Valiant with my kids. It was time for Stella to level up her character and that involved selecting new spells. As she reviewed the spells available to her now she saw one called “Control Water”. The main part of the spell says:

Until the spell ends, you control any freestanding water inside an area you choose that is a cube up to 100 feet on a side. You can choose from any of the following effects when you cast this spell. As an action on your turn, you can repeat the same effect or choose a different one.

The list includes:

• Flood
• Part Water
• Redirect Flow
• Whirlpool

She then read:

Part Water. You separate water in the area, creating a trench in the water. The trench extends across the spell’s area, and the separated water forms a wall to either side. The trench remains until the spell ends or you choose a different effect. The water then slowly fills in the trench over the course of the next round until the normal water level is restored.

And Stella said to me. “Oh! It’s like that story with that guy! He had all these people that he was leading and he went to the river and parted the water so they could go through and then when the bad guys were coming, he let the water go back and drown them.”

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