====== Destruction ======

**School:** Necromancy [Death]

**Tier:** 7

===== Casting =====

**Casting Time:** 1 Standard Action

**Range:** Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 CL)

===== Effect =====

**Target:** One creature

**Duration:** Instantaneous

**Saving Throw:** Fortitude partial

**Spell Resistance:** Yes

===== Description =====

This spell instantly delivers 10 points of damage per caster level. If the spell slays the target, it consumes the remains utterly in holy (or unholy) fire (but not its equipment or possessions). If the target’s Fortitude saving throw succeeds, it instead takes 10d6 + your Caster Level points of damage. The only way to restore life to a character who has failed to save against this spell (and was slain) is divine intervention or equivalent magic.

Using this spell against a helpless target denies them the saving throw.