Your hastily inscribed hermetic circle flares, creating a barrier to hedge out your enemies.

Daily   ✦     Arcane, Implement, Zone
Standard Action      Close burst 2

Effect: The burst creates a zone that lasts until the end of your next turn. While in the zone, you and your allies gain a +4 power bonus to all defenses against attacks that originate outside the zone. Moving into a square in the zone costs an enemy 4 extra squares of movement.

Sustain Minor: The zone persists until the end of your next turn.

Published in Dragon Magazine 420.