Level: 2
Range: Touch
Duration: Permanent
Area of Effect: One corpse
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 turn
Saving Throw: Neg.
Explanation/Description:
By sprinkling
holy water or unholy water
(if the cleric is
evil) over a corpse killed
by an undead
while chanting the spell,
the cleric reduces
the probability that the
corpse will
rise as an undead at some
later time.
Further, it protects the
body from the
spell Animate
Dead that might be cast on
the remains at some later
time.
The corpse
is allowed a saving throw
based on its level in life,
but not to be
better than 12 on d20 in
any case, even
with modifications due to
spells or magic
items. Corpses failing the
appropriate
saving throw rise as the
appropriate undead in the normal manner. If the saving
throw is made, the corpse
crumbles into
dust and be forever useless
for any purpose. This applies to the victims of wights,
wraiths, spectres and even
vampires, in
addition to ghouls, ghasts
and other undead that “procreate” themselves.
While under the protection
of the Death
Prayer, the victim cannot
be contacted
via Speak With Dead unless
the caster of
that spell is of a higher
level than the
cleric who originally cast
the Death
Prayer. If Speak With Dead
is successful,
the protection is cancelled
and cannot
be replaced. While under
this protection,
the victim suffers a -25%
penalty to the
chance of success of a Raise
Dead or
Resurrection spell. Dispel
Magic will not
remove the protection, but
Wish or Limited Wish will. The fact that the spell is,
in fact, in place cannot
be detected by
anything less than Limited
Wish or Wish.
by Lenard Lakofka
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