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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9566359" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20672/Behind-the-Spells-Cure-Wounds?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Behind the Spells: Cure Wounds</a>3.5Undead Servant: ?Intelligent Undead: ?Undead, Undead Creature: ?Lich Lord: The pantheon decided to structure divine magic a bit differently than arcane. Prospective clerics needn’t learn obtuse rituals or gather bric-a-brac to cast a spell. All they would need would be faith (surely, an enticing lower bar for spellcasting).To promote awareness of their new gift to the mortals, they decided to spearhead the effort with both a useful and visual spell—one that allows healing by touch (in this case, cure light wounds)! One deity, however, was less than thrilled with the banner spell: the god of death, Jelluk. He and his followers (not to mention his many undead servants) had virtually no use for any type of cure spell. The pantheon deliberated on Jelluk’s cry of “unfair treatment” and eventually reached a compromise. The spell would retain its effects under the original parameters but now include a necromantic pattern which allowed it to be reversible. As a result, the cure light wounds spell could find use by any divine spellcaster no matter their moral tendencies and, most importantly, came under the school of necromancy thanks to the new configuration. This latter point was actually the intended goal of Jelluk the whole time. The death god knew that, even without this new spell available to his followers, mortals would be even more inclined to throw themselves into dangerous circumstances since their allies had the power to heal their wounds. More foolhardy mortals inevitably made for a status quo of dead mortals despite the new spell. Oh, no, reversibility of cure spells was just an added bonus. For you see, Jelluk’s added necromantic pattern allowed for every casting of the spell, no matter its form (healing or harming) to pay some amount of lip service to the death god. Each of these spells thus drew a very minute amount of energy from him with a reciprocal amount of “worship” returned (albeit unknowingly from the caster).To keep secret this “pseudo-worship,” Jelluk created a complex network of energy conduits around his planar home. When these bits of worship-power reached his realm, the conduit system absorbed and dispersed them to predefined locations. In the process, the energy was converted back into tiny bits of necromantic power—nothing that could be easily traced even by a deity’s prying eyes, mind you. Use of cure spells over the many centuries has added up to quite a bit of hoarded necromantic power for Jelluk. So just what is the god doing with it? Several theories have been bandied about by mortal minds, two of which have been verified. The first is that some of the energy is creating and maintaining a number of “lich lords” whose forms do not require phylacteries and possess increased vitality and power.</blockquote>

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