DRAGON DESCENDING School necromancy; Level 5 Casting Time 1 full-round action Components V Optional Components F the Necronomicon gives a +10 insight bonus on casting skill checks Skill
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School necromancy; Level 5
Casting Time 1 full-round action
Components V
Optional Components F (the Necronomicon gives a +10
insight bonus on casting skill checks)
Skill Check Knowledge (nature) or Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15 + target's HD, 1 success
Range close (25 ft + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target creature or corpse subject to essential salts
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
Backlash none
Failure none
This brief incantation reduces a corpse or creature
affected by the essential salts ritual to essential salts that
can be restored as described in that ritual
ESSENTIAL SALTS
School necromancy; Level 5
Casting Time 2 hours (no penalty for interruption, but
disturbing the remains causes automatic failure)
Components V, S, M (alchemical metal shavings worth
5,000 gp for diagram)
Optional Components F (the Necronomicon gives a
+5 insight bonus on casting skill checks; at the GM's
discretion, other texts with hints might give +1 to +3), SC
(up to 10, chanting from text; +1 bonus on non-diagram
ritual skill checks for every 2)
Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) or Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15, 1 success (diagram);
Knowledge (nature) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery
philosopher) DC 15 + target's HD, 1 success
Range close (25 ft + 5 ft./2 levels)
Diagram an outline of the target, generally filling its space
Target one creature or its remains
Duration permanent
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
This ritual enchants a creature or corpse so that it
can be reduced to a small amount of finely powdered
essential salts at any time by reciting an incantation
called dragon descending While in salt form, the target
can be restored to life by reciting dragon ascending
or by spilling a few drops of blood from a creature
of the same species as the enchanted corpse on the
salts Incomplete remains will return as a creature whose body is as incomplete as when they were first enchanted, similar to the spell raise dead This ritual may be cast upon the mere dust or ashes of a creature, such as an incinerated body, but unless the skill check results exceed the DCs by an amount equal to the victim's Hit Dice, the revived creature is so incomplete
that it dies immediately If essential salts is dispelled, the
creature or dust returns to the form of a living creature
or remains, as it was when essential salts took effect.
When a creature resurrected by this ritual dies again, it must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw or the ritual's duration ends (at which point the creature
is simply a mundane corpse) The DC is 10 + subject's
HD Even if the creature succeeds, it gains 1 permanent negative level and remains dead until it is again reduced
to essential salts and revived
HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED School evocation; Level 9
Casting Time 1 round Components V Skill Checks Knowledge (geography) or Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 34, 1 success
Range personal and unlimited Targets you and Hastur Duration instantaneous Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
This insidious ritual to draw Hastur’s attention is a simple and often rapid repetition of Hastur’s name Due to its simplicity, it requires only 1 hour of study to learn and takes almost no time to perform, but it can only succeed if the caster understands the significance of the action Upon completion of the ritual, there is a percent chance equal to the caster’s ranks in Knowledge (geography) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) that the magic sends a message instantaneously across interstellar space to draw Hastur's attention The message can only arrive
if Hastur could conceivably draw a line of sight to the