Heart of Ice

necromancy [Cold, Death]
Level: Winter 4
Duration: Instantaneous or one turn per level
Action: full-round action plus standard action
Range: touch
Save: Fortitude partial

You channel the killing stillness of deepest winter, freezing the warmth of life at its core.

After a turn of harsh concentration as a full round action, you must make a successful melee touch attack in your following turn. On a hit, the target’s skin blackens and their chest blooms with killing frost. The effect is different for Believers and Heretics as described below.

Heretics:

The target must succeed on a Fortitude save or its heart freezes solid and shatters — it dies instantly. On a successful save, the target takes 1d6 cold damage per caster level (max 15d6) and becomes entangled for 1 turn per level.

Believers:

The target receives +4 moral bonus on saving throws against moral effects and when they deals damage leaving creatures below their creeping threshhold, they kill the creature instantly and without saving throw.

Focus: None

Material Component: None