Ashen Union

Necromancy

Level:  Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./ level)
Targets: One living creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude and Fortitude Partial
Spell Resistance: Yes
You drain all the moisture from the body of a living creature, dealing it 1d6 points of desication damage per 2 caster levels (maximum 10d6) A creature that makes a successful Fortitude save takes half damage. If the subject takes damage from teh spell (whether or not its first save was successful) equal to more than half of its current hit points, it must make another saving throw or die as its body expells all remaining fluid, leaving behind only a fragile husk that powders to ash at the least touch. A victims equipment is unnafected. A creature that is affected by the spell but not slain (ie takes any damage) by this spell is dehydrated.

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