| Level: | Sor/Wiz 4 |
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| Components: | V, S |
| Casting Time: | 1 standard action |
| Range: | Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) |
| Target: | One living creature |
| Duration: | Instantaneous |
| Saving Throw: | Will disbelief (if interacted with), then Fortitude partial; see text |
| 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 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.