You touch a creature and grant it a measure of protection from death.
This spell has 4 effects:
- The first time the target would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, the target instead drops to 1 hit point, and this effect ends.
- When the target is subjected to an effect that would kill it instantaneously without dealing damage, that effect is instead negated. In case of a vorpal sword on a roll of 20 the target is not killed but instead takes normal damage as if the enemy's weapon has no vorpal property. This protection lasts for the whole spell duration.
- The target is immune to necrotic damage. This protection lasts for the whole spell duration.
- Any creature that strikes the target with a melee weapon or is within 5 feet of the target takes 2d8 necrotic damage.
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