Permanent Silence?

[Tr011]

I need a permanent silence field around a creature.
NPC spellcasting and items only.
Of course, as cheap as possible.
Ideas?

//note: useactivated would be an option, too, and it would be nice if I could turn it on/off.

[darqueseid]

a custom, eternal wand made by an incantantrix or other caster that applies persist to the spell.

a caster can theoreticaly get -5* to persist. so she could theoretically make a persistent eternal wand as a 3rd level spell that you can cast every day(and it lasts all day) with a Use Magic Device check.  Itd be the same price as a 50 charge 3rd level wand +100gp

*An incant with easy metamagic class feature,  arcane thesis, metamagic school focus(illusion), practical metamagic(persist) , and and the halruuan elder prc reduction could do it, among DMM or other methods, etc.   

you can't turn it off though

[Tr011]

Hm, since Incantatrix are not allowed for us as PCs I think my DM would have problems with me doing that trick. But eternal wands are a nice starting point since it's a CL 3 4.420gp 2/day item, but it needs a command word to start working.

If I can get the persisted silence into a wand, it would only have CL 5, so it would be easy to dispel it with another item. But I can't activate a wand with dispel while the silence wand is active, anyone got a solution to that?

[darqueseid]

If you can get persisted silence into a wand you can certainly get silent dispel magic into one....

it doesn't have to be an incantantrix to do it, there are several builds that can get there, I just threw it out as an example.  Also there's epic caster builds that could do it just as easily.  I guess the point is that it IS capable of being crafted.  it doesn't really matter who does it.

as far as caster level is concerned I don't think it matters, because you can always dispel your own spell effects if memory serves (even ones that you created from wands)

[darknighthg]

Does it have to be Permanent or could it be 24 hs?
If it can be 24 hs you can use the bard spell "zone of silence" which has h/lv duration, extended: 2h/lv.