Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Instantaneous
You hide a chest, and all its contents, on the Ethereal Plane. You must touch the chest and the miniature replica that serves as a material component for the spell. The chest can contain up to 12 cubic feet of nonliving material (3 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet).
While the chest remains on the Ethereal Plane, you can use an action and touch the replica to recall the chest. It appears in an unoccupied space on the ground within 5 feet of you. You can send the chest back to the Ethereal Plane by using an action and touching both the chest and the replica.
After 60 days, there is a cumulative 5 percent chance per day that the spell's effect ends. This effect ends if you cast this spell again, if the smaller replica chest is destroyed, or if you choose to end the spell as an action. If the spell ends and the larger chest is on the Ethereal Plane, it is irretrievably lost.
Material Component:
an exquisite chest, 3 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet, constructed from rare materials worth at least 5,000gp, and a tiny replica made from the same materials worth at least 50gp
Verbal Component:
Arca Absconditum
Verbal Component (Alternative):
Thieves and pickpockets I detest, I conjure forth my secret chest.
Classes: Wizard, Rogue, Artificer
Tags: Utility
Source: Player's Handbook [5th Edition] (page 254)
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Other Planes and Effects
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Underwater - Verbal Component
Official rules have been verified by Jeremy Crawford - "No rule prohibits verbal components from working underwater. Keep in mind that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath." Hence, while submerged underwater and holding its breath, a creature can cast a spell that requires a verbal component. After casting the spell, if the creature can't breathe underwater, it immediately runs out of breath. The creature can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round).
