Harvest the Defiled Soul
System: Pathfinder | SRD
Level: 5
School: necromancy
Casting time: 5 hours; see text
Components: V, S, M (one candle worth 10 gp per 5 feet of the area’s perimeter), F (special alchemist’s lab whose components have handles made from bone), SC (up to the Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier of the primary caster [whichever is highest])
Skill checks: Knowledge (arcana or religion) DC 29, 5 successes
Range: close
Duration: 1 hour/character level of the primary caster
Saving throw: none
Spell resistance: no
Backlash: All casters take 1d6 points of Constitution damage.
Failure: All casters take 1d6 points of Constitution drain.
Formulated and perfected by the Whispering Way’s most twisted minds, this ritual allows the caster to perform a number of fell rites that thoroughly defile the metaphysical soul of a specific haunt or incorporeal creature, causing its essence to coalesce into a refined ectoplasmic material that can be used to craft especially powerful magic items and artifacts. Before she can begin casting this ritual, the primary caster must draw necromantic sigils around the area to be affected and adorn them with candles, a 12-hour process. Each secondary caster participating in the ritual reduces this time by 1 hour, to a minimum of 1 hour. During the ritual, one specific incorporeal undead creature or haunt must be present within the affected area for its entire casting time. Upon completing the ritual, the primary caster can harvest material components from the specific creature or haunt as if she had the Haunt Scavenger feat, though the creature or haunt need not be destroyed or neutralized. If she already has this feat, she gains a +20 competence bonus on skill checks to harvest material components from the specific creature or haunt and the gp value of those components doubles. This process doesn’t destroy or neutralize the creature or haunt, and can be used on a specific creature or haunt only once per month.
Source: Haunted Heroes Handbook pg. 17