a small silver cup filled with the caster’s blood
Source: Deep Magic for 5th Edition
You fill a small silver cup with your own blood (taking 1d4 piercing damage) while chanting vile curses in the dark. Once the chant is completed, you consume the blood and swear an oath of vengeance against any who harm you.
If you are reduced to 0 hit points, your oath is invoked; a shadow materializes within 5 feet of you. The shadow attacks the creature that reduced you to 0 hit points, ignoring all other targets, until it or the target is slain, at which point the shadow dissipates into nothing.
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, an additional shadow is conjured for each slot level above 4th.
Ritual Focus. If you expend your ritual focus, the spell summons a banshee instead of a shadow. If you also use a higher-level spell slot, additional undead are still shadows.
About Shadowy Retribution
Shadowy Retribution is a Level 4 level spell from the school of Necromancy.
This spell has a casting time of 10minutes , and a range of Self . It has a duration of Instantaneous.
Spell Details
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Spell Details
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At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, an additional shadow is conjured for each slot level above 4th.
Casting Tips
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Casting Tips
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Tactical Use: Mid-tier spell with significant tactical impact. Great for resource management challenges.
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Ritual Casting: Can be cast as a ritual without using a spell slot. Takes 10 minutes longer.
School of Magic: Necromancy
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School of Magic: Necromancy
Necromancy spells manipulate life force, death, and the undead.
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