DRAGON DESCENDING salts Incomplete remains will return as a creature School necromancy; Level Casting Time full-round action Components V Optional Components F (the Necronomicon gives a +10 insight bonus on casting skill checks) Skill Check Knowledge (nature) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 15 + target's HD, success Range close (25 ft + ft./2 levels) Target creature or corpse subject to essential salts Duration instantaneous Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no Backlash none Failure none whose body is as incomplete as when they were first may be cast upon the mere dust or ashes of a creature, such as an incinerated body, but unless the skill check results exceed the DCs by an amount equal to the victim's Hit Dice, the revived creature is so incomplete that it dies immediately If essential salts is dispelled, the creature or dust returns to the form of a living creature or remains, as it was when essential salts took effect When a creature resurrected by this ritual dies This brief incantation reduces a corpse or creature again, it must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw or affected by the essential salts ritual to essential salts that the ritual's duration ends (at which point the creature can be restored as described in that ritual is simply a mundane corpse) The DC is 10 + subject's ESSENTIAL SALTS School necromancy; Level Casting Time hours (no penalty for interruption, but disturbing the remains causes automatic failure) Components V, S, M (alchemical metal shavings worth 5,000 gp for diagram) Optional Components F (the Necronomicon gives a +5 insight bonus on casting skill checks; at the GM's discretion, other texts with hints might give +1 to +3), SC (up to 10, chanting from text; +1 bonus on non-diagram ritual skill checks for every 2) Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 15, success (diagram); Knowledge (nature) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15 + target's HD, success Range close (25 ft + ft./2 levels) Diagram an outline of the target, generally filling its space Target one creature or its remains Duration permanent Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no This ritual enchants a creature or corpse so that it can be reduced to a small amount of finely powdered essential salts at any time by reciting an incantation called dragon descending While in salt form, the target can be restored to life by reciting dragon ascending or by spilling a few drops of blood from a creature of the same species as the enchanted corpse on the 138 enchanted, similar to the spell raise dead This ritual HD Even if the creature succeeds, it gains permanent negative level and remains dead until it is again reduced to essential salts and revived HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED School evocation; Level Casting Time round Components V Skill Checks Knowledge (geography) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 34, success Range personal and unlimited Targets you and Hastur Duration instantaneous Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no This insidious ritual to draw Hastur’s attention is a simple and often rapid repetition of Hastur’s name Due to its simplicity, it requires only hour of study to learn and takes almost no time to perform, but it can only succeed if the caster understands the significance of the action Upon completion of the ritual, there is a percent chance equal to the caster’s ranks in Knowledge (geography) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) that the magic sends a message instantaneously across interstellar space to draw Hastur's attention The message can only arrive if Hastur could conceivably draw a line of sight to the