The Vesper Ledger
A meticulous necromancer's grimoire holds the means to question, command, and protect the dead, while its owner searches for the truth behind a vanished burial procession.
Spellbook · Occult Wizard (Necromancer) · Level 6
The Vesper Ledger
A meticulous necromancer's grimoire holds the means to question, command, and protect the dead, while its owner searches for the truth behind a vanished burial procession.
Ex librisMara VesperOccult
At a glance
Level
6
Occult Wizard (Necromancer)
Spells
9
1 cantrip, 1 signature
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
9 spellsCantrips
1- Warp the target's vitality with void energy, dealing void damage on a failed basic Fortitude save.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- 1 living creature
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Basic Fortitude save
- Damage
- void damage per spell rank
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by per rank.
- Source
- Player Core
1st level
5- Fill the target with fear; the degree of its Will save determines the frightened condition and its duration.
- Duration
- Varies by save result
- Target
- 1 creature
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Will save
- Higher levels
- Heightened ranks can add targets.
- Conditions
- Frightened
- Source
- Player Core
- Sap the target's strength, imposing enfeebled according to the result of its Fortitude save.
- Duration
- Varies by save result
- Target
- 1 creature
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Fortitude save
- Higher levels
- Heightened ranks increase the spell's effectiveness.
- Conditions
- Enfeebled
- Source
- Player Core
- Summon an undead creature to fight for you; it acts as your minion while the spell lasts.
- Duration
- Sustained up to 1 minute
- Target
- 1 unoccupied space within range
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- No initial save; the summoned creature uses its own statistics
- Higher levels
- Heightening increases the level of undead that can be summoned.
- Source
- Player Core
- Temporarily animate a corpse or summon undead as directed by the spell, creating a minion that follows your commands.
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Target
- 1 corpse or an unoccupied space within range, as allowed by the spell
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- No initial save; the summoned creature uses its own statistics
- Higher levels
- Heightening increases the level of undead that can be summoned.
- Source
- Advanced Player's Guide
- Dark tendrils lash through a line, damaging creatures in their path.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- Creatures in a 30-foot line
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Basic Fortitude save
- Damage
- Void damage
- Higher levels
- Damage increases when heightened.
- Source
- Secrets of Magic
3rd level
3- Make a melee spell attack that drains vitality from the target and grants you temporary Hit Points based on the damage dealt.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- 1 creature
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Melee spell attack
- Damage
- Void damage
- Higher levels
- Heightening increases the damage.
- Source
- Core Rulebook
- Attempt to seize control of a mindless undead creature; on a success, it gains the minion trait for the duration.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Target
- 1 mindless undead creature of a level no greater than the spell's rank
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Will save
- Higher levels
- The target's level can be no greater than the spell's rank.
- Source
- Player Core
- Call forth a haunt of spirits that damages and harasses creatures in its area while you Sustain the spell.
- Duration
- Sustained up to 1 minute
- Target
- A 10-foot burst
- Components
- Somatic and verbal gestures and incantation
- Save or attack
- Basic Will save
- Higher levels
- Heightening increases the damage.
- Source
- Secrets of Magic
In the margins
3 notes
WarningA spirit is not a tool merely because it can be compelled. Ask first, whenever time permits.
DiaryThe bell rang three times beneath the sealed crypt. No wind could have moved it.
FormulaFor a controlled corpse: mark the brow, speak the name, then state the limit of the command.
The book itself
The pages smell faintly of cedar, dust, and rain on old stone.
Names of the dead are written carefully, never abbreviated.
A ribbon of grey silk marks the section on spirits.
The caster
OccultMara Vesper
Studies: Necromancy and spirit communicationManner: Soft-spoken, courteous, and exacting, especially around graves and memorials.Focus: A silver-handled tuning fork used to sound a steady note when addressing spirits.Quirk: She pauses before entering a room to greet any unseen occupants by saying, "Good evening, if you are here."Wants: Find the missing procession and learn why its names were erased from the town's burial register.Mara Vesper once kept records for a small-town cemetery. After a disputed burial left a family without answers, she studied occult magic to let the dead speak for themselves.
The book
A black-leather codex bound with tarnished silver clasps, its pages made from layered vellum and marked with neat ink diagrams of bones, grave goods, and spirit pathways. The book is a treasured working grimoire, not a collection of corpse parts.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatClasp-bound codex
ThemeNecromancy
Written by aOccult Wizard (Necromancer)
Caster level6
SystemPathfinder Second Edition
Plot hooks
1The vanished burial procession appears in the margins as a list of names, including one that has only recently been added in fresh ink.
2A local magistrate wants the grimoire's record of a murdered witness, but the spirit's testimony may expose the magistrate's own family.
3The codex's former owner has returned as an undead creature and claims one of its pages was stolen before their death.
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