Help me find a Cleric spell, please.

[Thaumaturge]

I'm looking for a spell which when cast upon a corpse prevents the corpse from being animated at a later date. Something similar to the Doomguide's Kelemvor's Boon. I remember having read the spell somewhere, but I can't find it.

I'm hoping the amassed powers of EN World can help me.


Thaumaturge.

 

[Nail]

Corpse Ward

(....I'll look up where in a sec)

 

[Nail]

Nope. That spell was in Book of The Righteous, by Green Ronin.

Hmmmmmm......

 

[coriolis]

Do you mean spawn screen?

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/spells&tablefilter=spawn

The subject does not rise as an undead spawn should it perish from an undead’s attack that normally would turn it into a spawn, such as from the bite of a ghoul. This spell doesn’t prevent the subject from perishing or provide anything other than insurance that the subject’s body and spirit cannot be hijacked by an acquisitive undead creature.

Hmmm... it doesn't specifically rule out animation through spells, but I think it would be a fair extrapolation.

Consecrate would also work if the corpse can be secured in the area:

Undead cannot be created within or summoned into a consecrated area.

 

[pawsplay]

Disintegrate.

 

[the_mighty_agrippa]

Burial Blessing from Defenders of the Faith (CLC 1).

 

[darthkilmor]

Disintegrate.

pawsplay ftw!

That spell sounds really familiar, maybe there was soemthing in SC..hmm

 

[Nail]

Burial Blessing from Defenders of the Faith (CLC 1).

That's the one.

 

[Sejs]

*nod* Burial Blessing.


Also, if animation as the undead is a threat: cremate the body. I would imagine in a culture where the threat of necromancy was a significant historical event, that would pretty much be the norm. You get a headstone or other icon, your body is reduced to ashes and the ashes are tilled into the earth or stored in some other way.

Morrowind had an interesting take on it, where people were buried in their family tomb, and the ashes of all the family's dead were stored in a big communal bowl. Mixed together. Can't animate it, because there's no way to distinguish which ashes are whose and you can't animate undead that's 1/2 uncle phil, 1/3 aunt betty, and 1/6 cousin oliver.

 

[Mistwell]

I imagine Burial Blessing would be a very popular spell with clerics that work in temples and graveyards and funeral homes. I mean, that would be one of those things that would get worked into pretty much any funeral ceremony for the Good and even Neutral religions, I would think. So would Gentle Repose.