Description
- School: illusion / phantasm (fear, mind-affecting)
- Domains: Madness 6
- Classes: arcanist 4, bloodrager 4, magus 4, medium 3, mesmerist 4, psychic 4, sorcerer 4, spiritualist 4, witch 4, wizard 4
- Casting Time: 1 standard action
- Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
- Target: one living creature
- Duration: instantaneous
- Save: Will disbelief, then Fortitude partial; see text
- Components: V, S
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the subject simply by forming the fears of the subject's subconscious mind into something that its conscious mind can visualize: this most horrible beast. Only the spell's subject can see the phantasmal killer. You see only a vague shape. The target first gets a Will save to recognize the image as unreal. If that save fails, the phantasm touches the subject, and the subject must succeed on a Fortitude save or die from fear.
Even if the Fortitude save is successful, the subject takes 3d6 points of damage.
If the subject of a phantasmal killer attack succeeds in disbelieving and possesses telepathy or is wearing a helm of telepathy, the beast can be turned upon you. You must then disbelieve it or become subject to its deadly fear attack.