When a life nears its end, and the remaining time a soul has to live cannot be improved, a special ritual can allow the final days to be experienced as if in peak health.The caster lights the ritual candle while touching the target and intoning the incantation.
Necromancers use this spell to concentrate an ill or dying person's remaining vitality into a brief span of days: a number of days equal to the victim's original Constitution score, or one day per week the victim would otherwise live, whichever is shorter, with a maximum duration of 10 days. If used on an unwilling victim, the target may make a Charisma saving throw to negate all effects.
After being affected by this spell, the targeted person gets out of bed and wanders about, eats normally, and feels great. The person enjoys normal physical statistics and health during their calculated time. At the end of the time or when the candle is extinguished, whichever occurs first, the victim falls ill and dies within one hour. The victim gains no saving throw against the rapid degeneration, and not even a wish stops the victim's death at the end of the hour.
* - (a wax candle with a wick soaked in rare embalming fluids worth 100 GP, all of which is consumed by the spell)
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