Death's Door
 Death's Door
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| Level | 8 |
| School1 | Charms |
| School2 | Necromancy |
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| Casting noise | 6 |
| Spell noise | 0 |
| This spell is extremely powerful, but carries a degree of risk. It renders living casters nigh invulnerable to harm for a brief period, but can bring them dangerously close to death. So close in fact, that the body believes itself to be dead - healing effects will do nothing.
The caster will receive one warning before the spell expires. Being more skilled in Necromancy leaves the caster more resilient. Undead cannot use this spell. |
Death's Door is a level 8 Charms/Necromancy spell which protects the caster from almost all harm for its duration (around 16-27 turns), but which immediately reduces your health to Necromancy/2 + Kiku piety/15 HP (up to 13+13). Death's Door blocks any form of healing, except Borgnjor's Revivification; casting that will affect you as normal, but will also paralyze and confuse you (though stasis and clarity can prevent those side effects). Also, you will be unable to fuel Sublimation of Blood with your own life as long as the invulnerability lasts. Death's Door will not prevent death by starvation, drowning, or falling into lava, as the spell only protects against HP loss, and these deaths occur regardless of HP.
Casting Death's Door renders you exhausted for the duration of the invulnerability plus 1-3 turns, preventing you from casting the spell again immediately after it wears off. This exhaustion also prevents you from going berserk.
Strategy
This spell makes you invincible, but you should be very careful when it ends, since it cannot be re-cast immediately. In particular, one should be careful if there are smiters around, since without Kiku your HP will be low enough for them to finish you off in one shot. Sources of hellfire are even worse. Characters fighting multiple tormenting monsters may prefer Necromutation instead, since that at least allows the use of a wand of healing and leaves you at full health afterwards.
The cooldown for this spell is fairly short at 1d3 turns. While you should never rely on being able to recast it quickly, if you find yourself still alive but in a dangerous situation when the cooldown expires, simply casting it again can often be a good option.
Furthermore, since being under the effect of Death's Door prevents a character from using Sublimation of Blood, make sure that Death's Door's 8 MP cost will leave you with sufficient magical reserves to finish the job or that you have some other way of regaining MP. Otherwise, Death's Door may simply be delaying the inevitable.
History
Prior to 0.7, being healed in any way while using Death's Door caused confusion.
