Spirit Guardians

This article is about the spell. For other uses, see Spirit Guardians (disambiguation).

Spirit Guardians is a level 3 conjuration spell. It allows spellcasters to call forth spirits to damage nearby targets and slow their Movement.

Description

Call forth spirits to protect you.

Nearby enemies take 3d8⁠⁠Radiant or 3d8⁠⁠Necrotic damage per turn, and their Movement Speed is halved.

Caster can't become  Invisible while Concentrating on this spell.

Properties

Cost

 Action +  Level 3 Spell Slot

Details

 WIS Save (On Save: Targets still take half damage.)

 Range: Self

 AoE: 3 m (10 ft) Radius

 Concentration

At higher levels

When the spell is cast using a 4th Level spell slot or higher, damage increases by 1d8⁠⁠Radiant or 1d8⁠⁠Necrotic damage for each spell slot level above 3rd.

Technical details

UID

Shout_SpiritGuardians

Spell flags

HasSomaticComponent, HasVerbalComponent, IsConcentration, IsHarmful, IsLinkedSpellContainer, IsSpell

Variants

•  Spirit Guardians (Radiant)
•  Spirit Guardians (Necrotic)

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 5: Cleric and War Domain (Domain Spell)
• Class level 6: College of Lore (via Magical Secrets)
• Class level 9: Oath of the Crown (Oath Spell)
• Class level 10: Bard (via Magical Secrets)

Notes

• Spirit Guardians ends immediately if  Sanctuary is applied to a caster concentrating on this spell.
• Unlike most spells, Spirit Guardians will not damage (and thus kill) knocked-out enemies.
• The incantation for Spirit Guardians is Ira Et Dolor, Latin for "Anger and pain".

Bugs

• When upcast to spell slot level 4, the description status tooltip for the Necrotic damage variant incorrectly links to the Radiant damage variant, and vice versa.
• When upcast to spell slot level 5 or 6, the description status tooltips for both the Necrotic and Radiant damage variants incorrectly link to the spell slot level 3 variants.

External links

•  Spirit guardians on the Forgotten Realms Wiki