# Curse of Death
#pf2e/focus_spell/level_5 #pf2e/class/witch #pf2e/school/necromancy 
==[Uncommon](../../../Traits/Uncommon.md)== ==[Curse](../../../Traits/Curse.md)== ==[Death](../../../Traits/Death.md)== ==[Hex](../../../Traits/Hex.md)== ==[Necromancy](../../../Traits/Necromancy.md)== ==[Witch](../../../Traits/Witch.md)==
*Source* Advanced Player's Guide pg. 237 2.0
**Lesson** lesson of death
**Cast** ►► somatic, verbal
**Range** 30 feet; **Targets** 1 creature
**Saving Throw** Fortitude; **Duration** sustained up to 1 minute

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You focus your malevolent gaze on a target, causing their heart to seize in dread. The target must attempt a Fortitude saving throw. Regardless of the result, the target is temporarily immune to further castings of curse of death for 1 day.

**Critical Success** The target is unaffected.
**Success** The target is afflicted with the curse of death at stage 1, and the stage of the curse can't increase beyond stage 1.
**Failure** The target is afflicted with the curse of death at stage 1.
**Critical Failure** The target is afflicted with the curse of death at stage 2.

**Curse of Death** (curse) This curse ends immediately when the spell ends; **Stage 1** `dice: 4d6|avg` negative damage and [Fatigued](../../../Conditions/Fatigued.md) (1 round); **Stage 2** `dice: 8d6|avg` negative damage and fatigued (1 round); **Stage 3** `dice: 12d6|avg` negative damage and fatigued (1 round); **Stage 4** death

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**Heightened (+1)** Increase the negative damage taken on a success and during the first three stages of the curse by `dice: 1d6|avg`.