5e 4th Level Spells

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4th-Level Spells	Summary
6/8 Time Beatdown	Gives your allies an extra attack once every three turns and boost their attacks
Abyssal Invocation	Wield borrowed power from an abyssal being.
Abyssal Invocation, Variant	Wield borrowed power from an abyssal being.
Accursed Strike	Empower your blade to strike a wound into a creature that won't heal.
Acquire Attendant	You gain the service of a humanoid attendant.
Agonizing Smite	The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack before this spell ends, the weapon sends waves of excruciating pain through the creature's body, and the attack deals an extra 5d8 necrotic damage to the target.
Al-Taraj's Fulgursphere	Detonates an electric blast that stuns targets for a short duration.
Al-Taraj's Shockspire	Summon a number of electrically charged spires in an area within range
Alice's Chaos Recall	Suddenly damage a creature attempting to teleport, and possibly stop it all together.
All Consuming Light	You begin to create a ball of energizing light, causing the sky and distant lands to look like nothingness and darkness.
Alpha Radiation
Amplify Damage	Curse enemies to take additional damage from a specific source.
Amplify Emotions	This spell beguiles the will to the unconscious demands of the soul.
Anesthesia	You end your target's pain, allowing them to keep fighting.
Animate Undead Worker
Anpumose's Amazing Arid Assault	Unleash a cone of dehydrating sand that damages targets and potentially give them exhaustion
Arachnid Transformation	Transform yourself into an arachnid visage.
Arcane Storage	You store a spell for later use, also allowing other creatures to cast it.
Atum's Guidance	Is this a spell that lets you read your opponents' souls for truth? YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Aura of Embers	You radiate an aura of comforting warmth out to a range of 30 feet, and for the duration this aura moves with you, centered on you.
Aura of Shade	You surround yourself with a thin aura of protective shadow
Aura of Solar Fire	Streams of sacred fire flow from the caster engulfing allies with weak healing energies and burning evil with solar fire
Aura of Victory	Righteous fury radiates from you in an aura.
Awaken Undead	Bless an undead with the gift of sentience. Maybe it will thank you for it.
Bakudo 81	You summon a wall made of spiritual pressure to block Ranged attacks or spells.
Bakudo77	Bakudō # 77: Tenteikūra (天挺空羅, Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air) is a Kidō spell.
Bane Bow	You touch a nonmagical ranged weapon that uses ammunition, infusing it with nature's power.
Bane Shot	You touch three pieces of ammunition, infusing it with the power of time.
Barrier	You send a protective barrier around a willing creature within range
Become Fear	You replace a creature's perception of you with its greatest fear.
Bind Creature Ritual
Black Arrow	Deal more damage with your arrows and potentially raise those slain by them as skeletons
Blade Bane	Choose one creature you can see within range, and choose one of the following damage types: bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing.
Blade Lightning	You create a sword made from lightning that lasts up to an hour.
Bleeding Ricochet	You throw needles of blood that bounce of a target, hitting other targets.
Blood Orb	You hurl an orb of blood at a creature or object within range.
Blood Rain	Rains blood in an area that inflicts necrotic damage, but rejuvenates undead
Blood Teleport	As a reaction to damage, you can teleport four times your full movement
Bolster	You bolster creatures with energy from the Plane of Shadows
Bolts of Tiamat	Hurl five glowing bolts of chromatic energy.
Bone Cleaves Steel	Risen soldiers are empowered by their master, increasing their damage, accuracy, and effectiveness against armored opponents.
Bone Pile	Reanimate bones to fight for you.
Bèta Radiation
Catoblepas' Breath
Celestial Storm	Summon a swirling storm of blinding light to hinder your enemies
Chaos Hand	You infuse your hand with destructive chaotic energy and touch a creature.
Charm of Hummingbirds	You cause hummingbirds to descend onto a 20-foot-radius around yourself, attacking creatures.
Chronoshift
Circumambulant Hedge	You conjure a massive rotating hedge to protect yourself and your allies.
Collective Unconscious	Grant temporary hit points to multiple targets
Comet	A large shard of crystal propels forth into a target.
Conjure Explosive	Causes a throwable magical bomb to appear in the caster's hand.
Conjure Glass Eye	You create glass eyes to spy for you
Conjure Lesser Dream Creatures	Lesser servant beings from The Dream appear at your behest.
Consume the Fallen	Call upon the rotting power of spores to grant you vitality.
Control Air	Manipulate air to your advantage
Corrosive Aura	A corrosive green mist pours off from you in an aura with a 10 foot radius.
Creation of Wings	Grants you and only you easily destroyed wings for 1 hour.
Critical Blood Transfusion	You transfer blood to a deceased creature, bringing it back to life.
Crystalline Chamber	You open a portal to a miniature demiplane connected to a gemstone.
Cut Down	Strike at your opponent as if they had no defences.
Dalamar's Antilife Dome	You create a dome of antilife around yourself, crippling enemies nearby.
Damian's Wanderer's Mark	You teleport to a previously marked place
Dareun's Overexertion	Create a loop of power, which grows stronger as the target strains.
Dark Nebula	You create an inky void that blocks light.
Death Armor	You shroud yourself and up to five other creatures within range in protective energy.
Defender of Life	You radiate a field of protective magic out to a range of 15 feet, which preserves life. This area moves with you, centered on you.
Denaliah's Dark Chains	You trap the soul of a fallen humanoid, making it your servant
Dimensional Anchor	A green ray springs from your outstretched hand at a creature or object you can see within range, causing it to become anchored to its current plane.
Disable	get rid of that annoying trait of those insufferable enemies
Discern Lies	You hone your mind and sense when those around you lie.
Divine Power	Calling upon the divine power of your deity, you imbue yourself with strength and skill in combat.
Divine Punishment	Using both an action and a main action and movement, The user will call to tehre god and slam there hands with an explosion of holy flames destroying there foes. Doing 4d10 Holy Flame damage. Dealing damage to his enemy's, his allies and himself.
Divine Spark	You envelop two creatures within range with electrified holy energy
Doppelganger	Create a phantom clone of yourself, capable of mirroring you movements to deadly effectiveness.
Dowse Location	You create a tool which guides its holder to the location from which you cast this spell.
Draconic Domain	A domain that strengthens draconic beings
Echoes	Choose one creature you can see within range. For that creature, every sound is amplified and reverberates with distressing loudness.
Elemental Blessing Rune	Places a rune on an ally or willing creature that grants elemental immunity and elemental damage of caster's choice.
Elixir of Life	Very effective healing Elixir
Elixir of the Alchemist	Transmute matter
Elixir of the Gods	Improves your abilities
Enchanted Quiver	Enchant a quiver with bottomless ammunition.
Enroot	You invoke the power of the forest in order to root creatures in place.
Enspell	Empower allies' weapons with the power of the elements.
Expecto Patronum
Expiate	Expel sin from within a creature.
Explosion of Death	You make a blast of death that kills creatures and animates them into zombies under your control
Explosive Ghostflame	Calls forth an explosion of ghostflame that leaves behind trails of ghostflame.
F-Bomb	You command your construct to launch a bomb with a random effect.
False Vision	Cast upon becoming aware that you or something else within 30 feet of you are being magically spied upon, you create an illusory image or thoughts that will be detected instead.
Fantasy Seal	You create six multicolored orbs of divine energy, and then direct each one to hit a creature of your choice that you can see within range.
Fayne's Fiery Flagellation	Send burning waves to char your enemies to ash.
Fayne's Transmuted Fire	cause special effects to your spells that deal fire damage
Find Lesser Dragon Familiar
Fire Avatar	Create a sphere of whirling fire that deals damage on creation and shoots bolts of fire
Fire of Cupid
Five Sided Shelter	'By completing The Trial of the Green Lion from the Five Faced King, you are granted a space to seek refuge from the elements and rest peacefully'
Flame Blast	Summon a fiery rune on the ground that detonates in a delayed explosion at the start of your next turn
Flames of Destruction	Shoot flames from your hands to destroy enemies and objects.
Flurry of Magic	Allows a spell caster to rapidly cast many minor spells.
Flurry Rush	You narrowly dodge a creature's attack, striking at them rapidly in its confusion.
Fog From the Void	Your word shapes the universe to form a black fog that is impossible to see or hear through.
Fool's Gold	You touch a pile of up to 150 copper coins or an object made out of copper, brass, or bronze, you turn them into gold.
Force Bulwark
Frenzy	Whip up creatures nearby into battle fervor.
Gemstone Sentinel	You summon a guardian formed from gemstones.
Gender Bend	Forcefully change the gender of the target
Genetic Reshuffle	Turn normal people into massive blobs of meat.
Gilded Wave	You strike the ground, creating a burst of divine energy that ripples outward from you.
Glacial Blast	Exhale a blast of frigid mist and ice upon your enemies.
Glass Cannon
Golden Wind	A spell that imbues life into whatever you touch.
Grasping Shadows	For the duration, shadowy tentacles fill a 20-foot square on ground that you can see and turn it into difficult terrain.
Gravity Hammer	Crush your foes to death with highly localized gravity fields.
Great Lightning Spear	A miracle that launches a great spear of lightning. Said to be the legacy of an ancient clan whose leader was revered as the God of Sun.
Great Scorching Bolt	Scorch your opponents with a mighty fiery bolt
Greater Blade of Grass
Greater Blood Orb	Draw the blood of nearby creatures to fire a massive blood orb at an opponent within range.
Greater Transference	This is a method of casting requiring a group of casters of the same style to imbue magical energy into another caster, who is then granted with a temporary surge of magical energy, allowing the use of spells and spell levels typically beyond the bounds of normal magic
Hado 32	You launch a beam of light foward pushing your enemies back.
Halaster's Blackcloak	Increases your base AC and become immune to a choice spell.
Hand of Workers	summon a spectral worker’s hand that assists in tasks or combat.
Hands of Elements	Your hands become engulfed with energy that you can toss towards your enemies.
Harmfield	You are surrounded by rings of light which disrupt the life force of whatever touches them.
Healing Flame
Heavy Mage Armor	You touch a willing creature, and they are protected by overlapping plates of rigid magical force.
Hell Storm	You create a series of black clouds that orbit a point you can see within range, raining hellfire down upon your foes
Hellfire Chains	Summon hellfire chains to restrain your foes.
Hell’s Gaze	You emit a horrid glare, enough to blind those that make eye contact.
Hermit's Wisdom	A spell that brings forth knowledge and wisdom, through purple vines that extend from the spellcaster's arms.
Hunger/Thirst	A cruel curse that inflicts unending hunger or thirst
Icelance	Send a lance made of ice hurling towards your target
Illumination	You create a bright light that augments sight and reveals what is hidden.
Imbue Personality
Imbue with Spell Ability	Give the gift of magic
Incinerating Impacts	A melee weapon in range begins to visibly glow a dim red color, and its strikes can become empowered with flame.
Instant Audience
Instrument of Life	A spell which whenever an ally hears it, it gives them life but if an enemy hears it, it gives them death.
Inumaki Word Variant Eviscerate	Force a creature to adhere to your word and be slices.
Invoke Boargeist	You invoke the spirit of a slain Wereboar.
Jalthier's Impending Boom	A versatile sticky bomb designed to be fun at parties.
Jumpstart	Temporarily cause a person to die in order to fully revive them.
Kinetic Fusillade	Create a stream of projectiles that you direct.
Know the True Form	One creature you touch gains the ability to see the original form of any creature that has changed its shape or had its shape changed by another effect, such as through shapeshifting, polymorphing, or transformation via lycanthropy.
Laborer's Bane	Eliminate payrolls and invalidate manual labor jobs with this one simple spell.
Lafayette's Lavish Blade
Lances of Condemnation	You conjure three glowing lances to fall upon your foes.
Lava Burst	You throw a ball of lava or molten earth.
Lava Line	You create a small arrangement of tiles into a lava pit.
Leafify	Transform a Large or smaller unattended object into a Tiny, pocket-able leaf.
Lesser Control Weather	The takes control over the weather to cause minor alterations.
Lethargy	You touch a creature and cause a wave of lethargy to wash over them, slowing them down.
Life Drain	You attempt to drain the life out of a creature within range.
Light Beam	Fire a beam of light that deals damage, and is more effective against creatures with lower hit points.
Lightning Leap	You launch a lightning blast and teleport through it.
Lightning Strike
Limited Sight	Get a limited fortelling of the future.
Limited Spell Immunity
Lloyd's Lie Whisper
Love Stealer	the perfect spell for bards
Lunae
Lunar Branding
Magic (Mobius)
Magic Resistance	The air around you ripples with waves of magic, lessening the effects of magic around you.
Magic Ship	Using enough magic, you turn an ordinary ship into a flying one.
Major Stasis	You point at a creature or object within range that weighs 2,000 pounds or less and cause it to become stopped in time.
Makankōsappō	Beam of energy that pierces anything in its path
Mantle of Command	Impose your will upon your followers, and show them the path to victory!
Marty’s Miraculous Self Improvement	Improve upon a few of your weaknesses.
Matrix Dodge	You can dodge strikes with incredible agility.
Medusa's Gaze	Harness the legendary and deadly power of a medusa's petrifying gaze.
Mending Sinews	A slow healing effect that can be used to stave off grave injury for a while.
Message Connected
Might of Giants	A creature you touch gains the strength of a giant for a limited time.
Mind Blast	You emit a psionic blast in a 5-foot radius around yourself.
Mind Freeze	Touch another creature with the power of cold and freeze its mind
Mineralize Weapon	Imbue your weapon with the strength of minerals.
Minor Mark	Sigils appear to bolster a target creature in one of several ways.
Mirage
Mirage of Despair	You affect one target in range that you can see. That target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature sees everything around it in the worst possible light.
Mithral Form
Moonburst	You release the aura of a cold moon in a single burst.
Mordenkainen's Force Missiles	You create powerful missiles of magical force, which darts from your fingertips and unerringly strikes their designated targets.
Mummify	Embalm a corpse, protecting it from tampering indefintely.
Necromancer's Enervation	You release a black ray of crackling negative energy from your pointed finger that suppresses the life force of any creature it strikes.
Necrotic Breath	You exhale a deadly black mist of negative energy that the target breaths in.
Necrotic Overchannel	You concentrate masses of necrotic power into your blows, causing those unfortunate enough to be layed low by them to burst.
Necrotic Reconstruction	Break down, and rebuild.
Nightmare Hex	Hex that allies can benefit from
No U	Sends any spell cast at you back at the caster lmao
Nuclear Missile	A bombardment of nuclear energy destroys the very essence of your enemies.
Obfuscation	Shadows gather around your opponent, interfering with their perception of the world
Ostrichize	Humiliate your foes by slowly making them transform into an ostrich!
Otto's Drums of Despair
Otto's Rousing Anthem
Otto's Silver Tongue
Otto's Tin Soldiers
Otto's Tonal Attack
Otto's Warding Tones
Pancea	An all around healing for persisting afflictions, while not necessarily fixing wounds.
Pebble Blink	Blink with the party to the place where you picked up a pebble earlier in the adventure.
Phantom Orchestra
Poison Kill	a spray of poison hits the target
Poof	When a hostile creature approaches you, you momentarily become invisible.
Poof, Variant	When a hostile creature approaches you, you momentarily become invisible.
Port Port	You and only you teleport to any place along the edge of a body of water whose shore you are standing on.
Positive Energy Aura	You project an aura of positive energy that makes healing more effective. Do not cast it while fighting trolls.
Prayer of Protection	You beseech your god, praying for additional protection.
Prayer of Strength	You beseech your god, praying for additional strength of arms.
Precognitive Perception
Psychic Hammer	You blast the mind of one or more creatures, leaving them off-balance.
Putrid Gale	You summon a necrotic storm which heals undead and deals AoE damage
Pyre Siphon	You draw the flame from an object or creature within range.
Quintessa's Dweomershield	You touch a willing creature. Until the spell ends, the target ignores the effects of one common magic item, either on hand or specified by name, history, description, or indentified by some other manner.
Radiant Absorption	Raising your hands to the sky, you begin to absorb the positive energy surrounding you.
Radiant Aura	A brilliant light erupts from your hand, rejuvenating your allies and castigating your enemies.
Ragnaul's Rewritten History	Time is everflowing, the future is never set in stone.
Rebuild Item
Reflect Spell
Reflections of Things that Were	Shadows rise at your call and alter a targets mind and memories
Remote Comfort	A Bone Collector may affect a prepared target at any distance with any supporting spell not requiring a saving throw
Rend
Renew Life (5e spell)	Alter your physical being to temporarily become an embodiment of life.
Renewed Servitude	Extend your control.
Reshape Terrain	You reshape the terrain to your will.
Restore Time	Uttering the Astral words for Fate and Heal you slam your Astral Weapon into the ground and a light-blue aura radiates from the ground.
Riddle’s Reenactment	Animate some puppets in order to gain insight into an event
Rising Dragon Soars the Sky	You surge through the air, and land with a colossal strike.
Rorim's Lingering Presence	Create a psychic construct that enacts your will when you aren't around.
Rumplestiltskin's Catch Missiles	Tired of Weeb Space communists blasting you at range? This spell will catch any projectile that comes your way!
Rusting Grasp	You touch a creature or a nonmagical object no more than 5 feet in any dimension composed primarily of metal and cause it to become rusted and pitted, effectively destroying it.
Sacrificial Summons
Sanguine Defender
Sasha's Rapid Bolts	Rapidly, and consistently, fire off swarms of inaccurate bolts.
Scream of Agony	Your pain is felt by those who would seek to do you harm.
Sentinel
Separate Energy	Separate positive from negative, and have them crash back together.
Shadow Blur	You shift between the shadows, becoming untouchable.
Shadow Hand	A hand that reaches from the shadows to leach life from your opponent.
Shadow Shift	Become one with the darkness.
Shadow Well	You spit out the words of the spell, and the shadow of your foe darkens, becoming a solid black pit. Your opponent pinwheels its arms as it topples backward into the darkness.
Shadow Well, Variant	The shadow of your target stretches and darkens, becoming a gateway into the Shadowfell.
Shadows Fade	You draw the reflection of a magical effect near you, and bring it forth to cancel both out.
Shadowy Servants	Summon Shadows to do your bidding.
Shake Earth	Shake the earth to cause creature to be knocked prone and take damage
Shapechange Redesigned (5e Variant Rule)
Sheikah Meditation	A willing creature you touch enters a potentially endless meditative state.
Shell Bomb	Send forth an animated explosive shell to decimate a far-away foe.
Shield, Hyrulean	you have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage
Siren's Call	Use your magical music to trick people into drowning
Skeletal Warhorse	Create a skeletal warhorse from the bones of a large horse or horse-like creature.
Smite Rune	You brand a rune on the target for a period of time that makes them more susceptible to radiant damage.
Softwood	Choose one humanoid you can see within the spell's range. The target is encased in a layer of wood.
Solid Fog	You create a 20-foot-radius sphere of fog that is so thick, it’s difficult to move through.
Sorrel's Helpful Harpoon	The divine soul sorcerer Sorrel Glintwing created this spell to manifest javelins of positive energy, to keep its allies alive, while destroying his undead foes.
Sorrel's Inevitable Impalement	Create and throw a massive force missile, which doesn't vanish on contact.
Sorrel's Magic Ballista	Sorrel Glintwing's massive magic blast of force.
Sorrel's Missile Swarm	Sorrel Glintwing's idea of a set it and forget it kinda spell. make sure your friends don't enter its area and it's not bad.
Soul Tide	Conjure a barrage of lost souls, who create more in their wake.
Soul-Stealing Fist	Your fist rips energy from a creature you use to bolster your defenses, leaving it stunned.
Spatial Distortion	You twist space in a large volume, adding more of it or taking some away.
Spell Rebirth
Spike Stones	Rocky ground, stone floors, and similar surfaces shape themselves into long, sharp points that blend into the background.
Spiraling Overgrowth	Conjure plants which won't stop growing.
Split Causality	Using the Astral Energy that flows around all creatures you can temporarily split the conscious mind from the instinctual mind.
Splitting Orb	You hurl an orb of life-draing energy to strike a creature in range, and rip the life from a radius around that creature.
Starry Revelations	You surround yourself in a stargazing shield of twilight, which extends out from you in a 40-foot radius and moves with you, remaining centered on you.
Static Shackles	Tether two creatures together using static electricity.
Steal Voice	With a silent motion, you prevent a creature from speaking intelligently.
Step into Shadow	You step into your own shadow, which stretches and moves, and you step out at the other end
Stone Sphere	You create a polished sphere of stone, 5 feet in diameter.
Stone Tell	You gain the ability to speak with stones, which relate to you who or what has touched them as well as revealing what is covered or concealed behind or under them.
Storm of Swords	Creates a tornado of swords that surround the caster.
Stormstrike	Mark your foe to be stricken down by the wrath of the storm.
Summon Merchant	You summon a magical merchant
Summon Ooze	Call forth an ooze to your aid.
Summon Shapeshifter	Call forth a shapeshifting spirit to assist you.
Summon Tree Nymph	You summon a tree nymph to heal allies
Sun Ward	You call upon the life-giving power of the sun to protect yourself.
Swiftbolt	A bolt of focused and accelerated magical lightning springs from your pointing finger, hitting a creature of your choice you can see within range without chance of failure.
Thardion's Frigid Spikes	Emit a line of icy spikes to freeze creatures in place and create an obstacle.
Thrust
Thumb Trick	Be a disgusting necromancer, you sick sick weirdo.
Thunderbolt	Create a lightning that can stun a creature on impact
Thuryl's Temporal Torment	Dome of random time change that deals damage to creatures vulnerable to aging.
Tiamat's Draconic Temple	Raises the Temple of Tiamat from the ground.
Tides of Blood	You draw blood from nearby creatures.
Time Dilation	Speed up time around yourself while the rest of the world remains at normal time.
Total Craft Variant	You tightly weave together strands and twists of Shadowfell energy to manifest in this world as a perfect imitation of a physical object.
Touched by the Sun	You use the power of the sun to heal and protect yourself.
Touched by the Sun, Variant
Toxic Fumes	Make a large cloud of gas from a vial of poison.
Transfer Ability	You touch a creature, and attempt to drain one of its abilities to enhance one of yours.
Trappus Cardus Eroticus	You activated my trap card Boy!
Tri-Disaster	You speak, commanding your chosen elements to wreak havoc on a targeted area.
Twilight's Reflection	Creates an illusion of a creature that turns their abilities against them.
Twin Bolts of Demonfire	You summon two churning bolts of dark-colored liquid fire from the lower planes and hurl them at targets within range.
Umbra Maledictum
Un-Blight	Transmutation energy covers a creature of your choice that you can see within range, moisturizing and giving vitality to it or causing entropic creatures to be damaged.
Undead Manual Work Force	You create an undead only capable of manual, dumb labour
Valkyrie Strike	You summons spirits shaped like valkyries, made of energy that attack one or more targets.
Veil of Compressed Time	Closing your eyes and outstretching your arms and muttering a few Astral words a blue glow envelops your entire body, this extra layer constantly shifts to where any impact is found.
Viktor's Soul Extraction	4th Level Necromancy Spell
Virgil's Thunderous Lightning Strike	You call down a bolt of lightning on your foes.
Virion's Viscous Diarrhea	A creature of your choice that you can see within range suddenly experiences uncontrollable, explosive bowel movements.
Virulent Plague	Conjure a rapidly spreading disease.
Wall of Tentacles	You create a wall of tentacles on a solid surface within range.
Warden's Volley
Warp Spell	You banish your foes spell to the plane of shadows
Warp Truename
Warping Step	You bend space to teleport to a space you can see within range, dealing force damage to all in your path.
Warrior's Vigor
Web of Alarms	This spell allows the caster to place 6 advanced alarms within 300 feet.
Whirligig	You summon powerful rotational forces which affect everything in a cube.
Whisper of Despair	Leaning close to the ear of your target, you utter their true name, doom filling their mind.
Wild Burst	A tiny blue flame that is shot out of your finger like a gun, the flame becomes bigger as it goes farther.
Wild Focus	You attempt to forcefully shift any number of creatures within range.
Windflower Wind Barrier	A protective wind barrier protects the caster from damage.
Winds of Change	Move creatures around using the power of wind
Wrath of the Gods	Throw back foes with primal force.
Xenae's Waterspout	Creates a large waterspout.
Zantetsuken	You teleport to an enemy and slash them with a blade, rending them apart.
Zeno's Death Summon
Zone of Silence	You manipulate sounds waves in a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on yourself to protect against eavesdroppers while allowing those within to converse normally.
Ætherstorm	You hurl a sphere of astral energy, which pulls everything towards it.