You place a protective ward around the fundamental identity of one creature you touch, shielding its mind, body, soul, and essential nature from hostile magical alteration.
The ward remains dormant until the target would be subjected to a hostile magical effect that would alter, control, corrupt, transform, possess, curse, or fundamentally influence it.
Qualifying effects include, but are not limited to:
- Becoming Charmed or magically controlled
- Magical madness or insanity
- Curses
- Possession
- Magical corruption
- Magical transformation or forced alteration of the creature's form
- Alteration or removal of memories
- Magical changes to alignment, personality, emotions, or loyalties
- Magical alteration of the creature's soul or essential nature
- A wish or similar effect attempting to directly alter the protected creature
When such an effect would affect the protected creature, the ward activates before the effect resolves.
The protected creature is completely unaffected by that effect. No saving throw is required, and the effect is treated as though it had failed against that creature.
The creature responsible for the triggering effect immediately takes 6d10 Psychic damage as the ward violently reflects the invasive magic back against its mind. This damage ignores resistance to Psychic damage.
The ward then immediately ends.
The ward protects only the affected creature. If the triggering magic targets or affects other creatures, those creatures are affected normally.
This spell does not activate against effects that merely deal damage, move the creature, restrain it, create environmental hazards, or otherwise harm it without magically altering its body, mind, soul, or identity.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the Psychic damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.
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