Soul Magic

So, You found my book! Hopefully you aren't some meat-head barbarian and are instead a clever boy or girl (or anything else) that knows a thing or two about magic. In this tome I present a few spells of my own creation that fall in my field of arcane speciality: Souls. If you can manage to make it out of the Tomb you found this in, I encourage you to practice and flaunt your new special skill. What's the catch of accepting a gift from an evil Archlich you ask? Nothing! All I ask of you is to tell whoever asks where you found this tresure, and to encourage them to delve into my Tomb. If they are clever like you, they too will make it out alive with mighty treasure. If they aren't so clever, their souls would make an eccelent breakfast for myself.

—Acererak The Eternal

Soul Punch

1st-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Class: Warlock, Wizard

You send a blast of ethereal energy into a creature, punching its soul. Target creature within range must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or take 3d8 force damage, taking half as much on a successful save.

Creatures that do not have souls, (such as most constructs and zombies) and creatures whose souls are in another location than their body (such as liches) are immune to this spell. Undead that have the Incorporeal Movement trait have disadvantage on the Charisma saving throw.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Soul Sheath

2nd-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
• Class: Warlock, Wizard

You fragment a bit of your soul off into a melee weapon that you are holding, sheathing it with ethereal energy. When you cast this spell, you take 2d4 necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum is reduced by the amount of damage you took (this damage cannot break your concentration for the spell). For the duration, the weapon you cast the spell onto deals an additional 1d10 force damage. If the weapon leaves your grasp the spell ends.

When the spell ends, the reduction to your hit point maximum caused by the spell ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th or 5th level the necrotic damage you take increases to 4d4, and the force damage the weapon deals increases to 2d10. When you cast the spell using a spell slot of 6th or higher, the necrotic damage you take increases to 6d4, and the force damage the weapon deals increases to 3d10.

Soul Transplant

7th-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 hour
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a black diamond worth at least 1,000 gp, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Class: Warlock, Wizard

You speak the name of a humanoid that has been dead for no more than a century, attempting to call it forth to inhabit a humanoid corpse which has been dead for no more than 10 days that you touch when casting the spell. If the target that you named is free and willing, it returns to life, possessing the body used in the spell. If the target’s soul isn't free or willing to do so, the spell fails.

The transplanted creature recalls its former life and experiences. It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it exchanges its physical ability scores with those the corpse had before death, and it exchanges its original race for the race of the corpse, changing its racial traits accordingly.

This spell also neutralizes any poison and cures nonmagical diseases that affected the corpse at the time it died. This spell doesn't, however, remove magical diseases, curses, or similar effects, if these aren't first removed prior to casting the spell, they take effect when the creature returns to life.

This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn't restore missing body parts. If the corpse is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival - its head, for instance - the spell automatically fails.