Breath of Life

School conjuration (healing); Level 5

CASTING

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S

EFFECT

Target creature touched
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will (harmless) or Will half; Spell Resistance yes

DESCRIPTION

This spell cures 5d8 points of damage + 1 point per caster level (maximum +25).

• It can bring a creature back to life that has died within 1 round. If the healed creature’s hit point total is at a negative amount less than its Constitution score, it comes back to life and stabilizes at its new hit point total.
• If the creature’s hit point total is at a negative amount equal to or greater than its Constitution score, the creature remains dead.
• Creatures brought back to life through breath of life gain a temporary negative level that lasts for 1 day.
• Creatures slain by death effects cannot be saved by breath of life.
• Like cure spells, breath of life deals damage to undead creatures rather than curing them, and cannot bring them back to life.