Blood Sorcery
540 XP
MP Cost: 40
Threshold: 3
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Components: V, S, M
Range: Touch
Target: One animal sculpture
Duration: 1 hour per caster's magic attack bonus
Saving Throw: None
Prerequisites:
After casting this spell, you pour a few drops of your blood and saliva into the mouth of the animal sculpture material component, temporarily giving it life. The animal is bonded to you as if it were a familiar, and it has the abilities of a familiar. If your blood sentinel is slain, you take 2 points of Intelligence drain and the blood sentinel's body becomes a destroyed statue. This spell has no effect if you already have a familiar or another blood sentinel.
Material Components: A life-sized animal sculpture of a familiar made of clay, cloth, stone, or wood, plus mandrake root worth 25sp.
