Spell - Scarlet Writ

Scarlet Writ


Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]

Level: Bard 3, Sorcerer/Wizard 3
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One humanoid creature
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

With a stern invocation and a gesture of formal decree, you conjure a cascade of shimmering crimson leather ribbons inscribed with arcane sigils resembling seals, signatures, and official writs of authority. These spectral bindings lash outward and coil tightly around the target.

If the target fails its saving throw, it is bound fast by the conjured writ and rendered paralyzed, held in rigid compliance as though compelled by an unassailable legal order. The creature remains conscious but is unable to move or act, its body locked in place by the weight of arcane authority.

The writ continuously reinforces itself, tightening and re-inscribing its sigils as if processing an endless chain of binding clauses. Any effort to resist only causes the spectral bindings to constrict more firmly.

At the end of each of its turns, the affected creature may attempt a new Will save to break free, as though successfully contesting or overturning the writ. Success ends the effect immediately.

Material Component: A small strip of red-dyed parchment or leather bearing a wax seal, which blackens and crumbles to ash upon casting.

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