Fleshblight (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 9

School: Necromancy

Casting

Casting Time: Standard Action, or the first attack of a Full Attack Action

Components: V, S, M (an unsprouted seed, worth 1 gp)

Effect

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./two lvls)

Target or Area: all creatures in target area (friend or foe) — a 7x7 square cone originating from a square in range

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Reflex partial
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

Upon snarling the vile, guttural words of the powerful Fleshblight spell, the caster reaches deep into the well of the Nascent Seed and for a mere instant, tears a portal into that place of dire, cthonic, fecundity. In the instant this hand-sized portal exists, a shower of billions of corpuscles of the life-stuff of creation pour forth like a torrent of black, spiky motes. Then the portal snaps shut, sealing away the root source of all existence.

The effects of this powerful and feared spell remain, however.

The caster of fleshblight chooses a square to which they have line of sight and line of effect within Close range (25 feet plus five feet per two caster levels). That square then has a 7x7 cone issue from it in any direction the caster chooses. From the origin square, all affected creatures must be within line of effect for the motes of dire black energy to have any effect.

All creatures, friend or foe, who are wholly or partially within the area of effect, suffer (Circle 7 damage): 1d6+2 points of damage per character level (max 20d6+40 at character level 20) of necrotic (energy, uncommon) damage and suffer 2 points of Charisma Ability Drain as the very structure of their existence is destroyed, corrupted, and terribly warped. Affected creatures are allowed to make a saving throw as described above to lower the damage inflicted by half and suffer only one point of ability damage. The anima-inducing qualities of this energy do not care if the target creatures are alive or dead, flesh, plant, stone, or any other composition. Indeed, the very ground and walls struck by Fleshblight will exhibit weird welts and buboes as they briefly stir with inimical existence.

Creatures who are struck by Fleshblight and survive almost always bear some mark from this experience unless they receive some form of magical healing to erase the effects.

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Mana Burn Circle Damage

Spell Circle	Burn Cost	Req'd Char Level	Base Dice	Max Dice
0	N/A	N/A	1d4 per 2 character levels	max of 4d4 at character level 8
1	N/A	1st	1d6 per character level	max of 4d6 at character level 4
2	+1	3rd	1d6 per character level	max of 6d6 at character level 6
3	+1	5th	1d6 per character level	max of 10d6 at character level 10
4	+1	7th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 12d6+12 at character level 12
5	+1	9th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 15d6+15 at character level 15
6	+1	11th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 16d6+32 at character level 16
7	+1	13th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 20d6+40 at character level 20
8	+1	15th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 21d6+63 at character level 21
9	+1	17th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 25d6+75 at character level 25
10	+1	19th	1d6+4 per character level	max of 25d6+100 at character level 25
11	+1	21st	1d6+5 per character level	max of 25d6+125 at character level 25
12	+1	23rd	1d6+6 per character level	max of 27d6+162 at character level 27
13	+1	25th	1d6+7 per character level	max of 27d6+189 at character level 27
14	+1	27th	1d6+8 per character level	max of 29d6+232 at character level 29
15	+1	29th	1d6+9 per character level	max of 29d6+261 at character level 29
16	+1	31st	1d6+10 per character level	max of 30d6+300 at character level 30
17	+1	33rd	1d6+11 per character level	max of 30d6+330 at character level 30
18	+1	35th	1d6+12 per character level	max of 30d6+360 at character level 30