Spell of Humility

The Spell of Humilty is a spell cast by the Roman Magus in C.E. 10 causing gargoyles' clothes and other items on their person to enter stone sleep with them, thus preventing nudity upon awakening at dusk. The spell was clearly quite powerful since it managed to affect every gargoyle in the world (including those the Roman Magus was presumably unaware of such as the Mayan Clan) and continues to affect them throughout all time beyond C.E. 10. The Roman Magus used a combination of various magical artifacts to achieve this amazing feat.

It seems the spell has specific limits however. If a gargoyle is holding a living creature, that creature will not turn to stone with them. Even certain items will not turn to stone if (from the gargoyle's point of view) the item is not their property. This explains why Hudson's sword sometimes does and sometimes does not turn to stone (Hudson comandeered the sword from a Viking in 994).

This spell occasionally caused complications such when Brookyln was transported by the Phoenix in his first Timedancer trip to 994. There, he traveled to Castle Wyvern to attempt to recover Goliath's portion of the Phoenix Gate to attempt travel back to modern Manhattan. Unfortunately, the item was in Goliath's belt pouch which was sealed at the time of the Magus' casting of the stone sleep spell, which meant the Gate was encased in a container of stone courtesy of the humility spell. Since Brooklyn didn't dare to attempt to force open the package for fear of inadvertently damaging Goliath himself in the process, the young Gargoyle was forced to find another means of escaping the time period.

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Behind the scenes, the spell was a convenient plot device used by Greg Weisman to explain why an otherwise natural process would have such an unusual and unnatural side effect. Weisman has joked that the Roman Magus "must have had the backing of ALL of Rome's Standard's and Practice's Executives". [1]

Rumor has it that Brooklyn may be in Caesar Augustus' court as the spell is cast on his TimeDancer journey.