3rd-level necromancy
- Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S, M (a vial of corpse wax)
- Duration: 8 hours
You touch a willing creature, charging it with necrotic magic and allowing it to mimic death. The target gains 10 temporary hit points for the duration.
As an action, or as a reaction to being hit with an attack or taking damage, the target can appear dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine the target’s status. If the target breathes, its respiration is undetectable.
While in this false state, the target drops prone, can see and hear normally, and has resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The false state ends if the target moves or takes an action, bonus action or reaction.
The spell ends once the target has left the false state. Additionally, you can use an action to touch the target and dismiss the spell.
If the target is diseased or poisoned when you cast the spell or becomes diseased or poisoned while under the spell’s effect, the disease and poison have no effect until the spell ends.