Dark Reawakening

You harness the forbidden power of blood to perform a twisted form of resurrection. This spell requires a ritual conducted over the course of 3 hours, during which you must take the lives of three humanoids of good alignment, and one willing humanoid sacrifice of any alignment. Creatures killed by this spell cannot be brought back by any means, save for a wish spell or a True Resurrection spell, and do not decay until the spell is completed. When the ritual is completed the bodies of the sacrificed beings crumble into ash, disintegrating into a fine black dust, while their blood pools around the caster's feet. The ash floats in the air momentarily, suspended by unseen forces, before dispersing into the surrounding environment.

Upon completion of the ritual, you touch a dead creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years. The spell draws upon the essence of the sacrificed beings to restore life to the touched creature. In doing so, the sacrificed creatures' blood pools around the target before it submerges them their blood.

The target creature returns to life with 1 hit point. However, the dark nature of this resurrection comes with a heavy toll. The revived creature gains one level of exhaustion, representing the trauma and disruption caused by its return from the realm of the dead. In addition, the target must roll a d100. On a 25 or below, the creatures alignment shifts to an evil alignment. If the target is already evil, the inverse is true.

If the caster is the willing sacrifice, they live until the spells completion. After the target is resurrected, the caster then crumbles into ash.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the maximum time since the target creature's death increases by 100 years for each slot level above 5th, and the required sacrifices and time to cast also increase.

• 6th Level: 5 sacrifices, 5 hours to cast, 400 years
• 7th Level: 10 sacrifices, 10 hours to cast, 600 years
• 8th Level: 15 sacrifices, 15 hours to cast, 800 years
• 9th Level: 25 sacrifices, 25 hours to cast, 1000 years