Bloodcurse

5th-level necromancy (hemomancy)

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Touch

Components: S

Duration: Varies (see below)

You touch a creature’s open wound and bestow a curse. As you spend a number of hit points to cast the spell, that creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed. During the casting of the spell, you can make a Charisma (Deception) check against the target’s Wisdom (Insight) check to attempt to conceal the spell’s true nature, such as pretending to bandage their wound.

The curse has no effect until after 1 hour. Thereafter, the curse lasts for a number of days equal to the number of hit points spent, and for that duration the cursed creature can’t regain hit points and is poisoned. Every 8 hours the creature is cursed, they take 3d4 necrotic damage as the curse rots away at them.

A remove curse spell ends this effect.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 5th.