Shatter

[diaglo]

don't mind the maggots...go ahead bite the big apple...uh huh...shadoobie...

sorry, rolling stones song always comes to mind when i see this spell.

 

[0-hr]

You shatter things like glass and crystal, and only sunder other things. I think a sundered holy symbol could be fixed fairly easily (ie. Mending).

 

[MerakSpielman]

I presume you are interpreting Sunder to mean that there is only one fracture? The item is "Split in Twain," as it were? A reasonable assumption, especially when considering that the spell talking about sundering an object as opposed to Shattering it.

But I think Shattering involves reducing the object to thousands of splinter-sized bits - Mending won't really be practacle. Sundering might be fixible with Mending, yes, but I think the object would still be reduced to multiple, large chunks and need several Mendings.

Of course, this particular nuance I don't think is specifically covered in any rules, so we're left making our own interpretations.

 

[Dr_Rictus]

I'm not sure I'd say it isn't spelled out in the rules. To "sunder" means to sever or separate. It is a much more specific word than, say, "break." It fairly strongly implies a single fracture.