Level
2nd
Casting Time
1 Action
Ritual
Range/Area
Touch
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
10 Days
School
Necromancy
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Warding
You touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can’t become Undead.
The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit of spells such as Raise Dead.
* - (2 Copper Pieces, which the spell consumes)
If we changed Bless and Protection from Evil and Good to be more thematic in their material costs, why did we change the spell that already had a thematic use for its material component to something nonsensical.
Why does it even cost 2cp if they're just consumed immediately? We're not covering the eyes anymore, so why 2cp?
There is nothing stopping you from putting the two copper pieces on the corpse's eyes as part of casting the spell.