{
  "entry": "spells",
  "name": "continual flame",
  "level": 2,
  "type": "evocation",
  "classes": [
    "cleric",
    "wizard"
  ],
  "casting_time": "1 action",
  "range": "Touch",
  "components": "V, S, M (ruby dust worth 50 gp, which the spell consumes)",
  "duration": "Until dispelled",
  "text": "A flame, equivalent in brightness to a torch, springs forth from an object that you touch. The effect looks like a regular flame, but it creates no heat and doesn't use oxygen. A **_continual flame_** can be covered or hidden but not smothered or quenched."
}