Dread Word
3rd-level evocation (Sorcerer,Warlock,Wizard)
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V
- Duration: Instantaneous
You speak five words of a forgotten language of terrible evil, striking pain in the mind of your target as the world seems to darken around you. Choose one target within range. The target takes 10d6 necrotic damage, and you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your own spellcasting DC. You take 5d6 necrotic damage on a failed saving throw or half as much on a successful one. Whether you succeed or fail, you are lightly obscured by darkness until the start of your net turn. The decision to speak the forbidden tongue this spell requires should not be made lightly. Besides the immediate danger, it also makes the caster known to certain eldritch beings whose