Holy World

You know what this is? Number eighteen in the series of thirty-six of these pocket genre worlds. Halfway there! Hallelujah!

Sacred Magic: Level 5 & 6 Spell List

The upper two levels of sacred magic, before we get on to the Great Mysteries.

Some of these spells are controversial ... O Death (and her little sister Level Drain), where is thy sting? James Raggi left raise and restoration effects out of his Lamentations rules entirely, to make the scary stuff scarier. The level drain argument has been hashed over many times - in a world running rife with wights, wraiths, vampires, spectres and so on, is it really fair to let drained levels stick? I figure it is easier to include the appropriate spell and let DMs exclude it, than the other way around.

Divine Intervention, if it was just Word of Recall, would properly be Silver magic. I've added more creative ways for the Divine to get you out of trouble, closing the lions' mouths, building a cage of fire around you ... of course, the god/DM is the one who chooses.

LEVEL 5

#	Name	Color	Range	Duration	Save

1	Restoration	Gold	0’	None	None
Returns one drained level
2	Drain Life	Black	30’	None	Body (Con)
Drains one level from target
3	Life Protection	White	0’	1 day	None
Protects from black magic and level drain
4	Raise Dead	Gold	0’	None	None
Returns to life a body dead for up to 1 day/2 caster levels, with 1 hp; takes 1 hour to cast; may only cast once/caster level
5	Slay Living	Black	5’	None	Body (Con)
Kills a living being
6	Consecrate/Desecrate	White/Black	0’	Perm.	None
Renders a 30’ square area permanently holy with bless effect for holy beings and reverse bless for unholy; Desecrate is vice versa

LEVEL 6

1	Heal	Gold	90’	None	None
Restores all hit points to living being, removing all diseases and poisons
2	Harm	Black	30’	None	Body (Con)
Removes all hit points except one from living being
3	Holy Word/Unholy Word	White/Black	90’	Special	None
Kills (2HD or less), blinds for 3 turns (6HD or less) or stuns for 3 rounds (7HD+) all hearers in range not of caster’s religion/alignment
4	Symbol	White/Black	30’	1 round	Will (Wis)
Causes incapacitating pain, sleep or charm for 2d10 turns to all who see the symbol within 90’ and do not save
5	Regeneration	Gold	0’	None	None
Regrow missing limbs/organs for living person, or restore full dead body from bones or parts
6	Divine Intervention	White	30’	None/  1 day	None
For caster and up to 5 others, either teleports to known sacred location in 30 miles, or creates other peaceful solution to danger for 1 day

Sacred Magic: Level 4 Spell List

With little commentary ... the fourth level.

1	Mass Cure	Gold	0’	None	None
Heals 2d8+2 damage to each living being in 10’ radius
2	Mass Protection	White	0’	3 hrs	None
Gives 2d8+2 extra hit points to each living being in 10’ radius (unholy sources do half damage against them)
3	Mass Wounding	Black	30’	0	Body (Con)
Does 2d8+2 damage to each living being in 10’ radius from target
4	Cure Poison	Gold	0’	None	None
Removes the effects of poison from a living target
5	Protection from Poison	White	0’	1 day	None
Makes a living target immune to poison
6	Poison	Black	5’	None	Body (Con)
Poisons a single living being
7	Banish Unholy/[Holy]	White/[Black]	30’	1 day	Will (Wis)
Sends unholy [holy] being to its own plane, or to its lair for a day if it is of this plane. Save is at +/-1 for each HD/level of difference.
8	Holy[Unholy] Weapon	White/[Black]	0’	1 day	None
Gives weapon +1 per 4 caster levels to hit and damage, bonuses doubled against unholy [holy] creatures
9	Cure Critical Wounds	Gold	0’	None	None
Heals for 6d8+6 points of damage
10	Cause Critical Wounds	Black	30’	None	Body (Con)
Wounds for 6d8+6 points of damage

Sacred Magic: Level 2 Spell List

And now, back to magic. A few notes.

Prayer is a less wimpy buff even as a level 2.
Sympathetic Healing is inspired by Meditations on the Tarot (for that matter, so is Constraint/ Break Constraint) and is an attempt at a powerful but more strategic healing spell for level 2.

1	Evoke Auras	Black/White	30’	3 min	None
Causes visible light or darkness to outline holy or unholy beings, places and objects within sight range
2	Constraint	Black	90’	1 min	Mind (Wis)
Stops one being from moving or speaking
3	Drain Light Wounds	Black	30’	None	Body (Con)
Living being takes 1d6+1 hp damage, heal the same amount of caster’s hp damage.
4	Prayer	[Black]/White	30’	3 min	None
Allows target's controller to reroll one die for an attack, save or action within the spell’s duration
5	Restore Object	Gold	0	None	None
Physically mends a broken or corroded object
6	Slow Ailment	Gold	0	1 day	None
Delays the effects of poison or disease
7	Sympathetic Healing	Gold	0	None	None
Heals 3d6+3 hp, caster takes the middle die rolled as hp damage; or transfers poison or disease to caster, new saving throw
8	Break Constraint	White	90’	None	None
Loosens physical or magical restrictions on movement or speech; if magic, 5% to fail per level of difference vs. higher level caster