Unhallow

School: Evocation [Evil]

Tier: 5

Casting Time: 24 hours

Range: Personal

Target: 40-ft. radius centered on caster

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: See text

Spell Resistance: See text

Unhallow makes a particular site, building, or structure an unholy site. This has four major effects.

• First, the site is warded by an Aligned Circle (vs. Good) effect.

• Second, the DC to resist negative channeled energy within this area gains a +4 sacred bonus, and the DC to resist positive energy is reduced by 4. Spell Resistance does not apply to this effect.

• Third, once per day, a caster may animate a free Hit Dice of undead in an unhallowed site, without it counting against their HD limit of undead normally imposed by spells such as Animate Dead. This free HD does not stack up - you cannot wait for 30 days to create a free 30 HD undead through an unhallowed area. Using this feature takes a Full Round Action and 5 MP.

• Fourth, you can fix a single spell effect to the unhallowed site. The spell effect lasts for 1 year, and functions throughout the entire site, regardless of the normal duration and area or effect. You may designate whether the effect applies to all creatures, creatures who share your faith or alignment, or creatures who adhere to another faith or alignment. At the end of the year, the chosen effect lapses, but it can be renewed or replaced simply by casting hallow again.

Spell effects that may be tied to an unhallowed site include Aid, Bane, Bless, Cause Fear, Darkness, Daylight, Death Ward, Deeper Darkness, Detect Alignment, Detect Magic, Dimensional Anchor, Discern Lies, Dispel Magic, Freedom of Movement, Invisibility Purge, Protection From Energy, Remove Fear, Resist Energy, Silence, Tongues, and Zone of Truth. Saving throws and Spell Resistance might apply to these spells’ effects (see the individual spell descriptions for details).

An area can receive only one unhallow spell (and its associated spell effect) at a time. Unhallow counters but does not dispel Hallow.