Decontamination

Conjuration [Healing]

Lvl: Clr 9, Drd 8

Components: V, S, M

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: 0 ft.

Area: 1-mile-radius spread around the caster

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (harmless)

Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

 

Decontamination cures all living beings within the area from all diseases and parasitical infestations, including green slime and others. It also destroys germs, parasitical beings and disease-causing contaminants otherwise present within the area, including in soil, water, plants, air, food and manufactured objects. Creatures that use disease as a special attack can’t use that special attack for 24 hours if they were within the affected area at this spell’s casting, unless they succeed at a saving throw against this spell. Undead and constructs can be explicitly affected by this effect of decontamination, if they fail their saving throws.

Likewise, magical items that can cause disease through their magic are suppressed in that function for 24 hours if they were within the spell's area at its casting, provided the caster of decontamination succeeds in a caster level check (d20 + caster level) against a DC of 11 + the item's caster level.

Note that, since this spells du<ration is instantaneous, it does not prevent reinfection after a new exposure to any kind of disease at a later date, nor are contaminated materials or disease-bearing creatures affected, that enter the area after the spell’s casting. In the same instance, decontamination has no effect on spells or spell-like abilities causing disease that are not in effect during <i>decontamination’s casting.

Material Component: A handful of rare dried and powdered herbs and resins worth at least 1,500 gp.

 

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