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Sphere: Necromantic Range: 10yds/level Components: V, S Duration: Instantaneous Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: 1 undead Saving Throw: Neg. The living dead -- those whose souls still reside within their bodies, even though their bodies are dead -- are the antithesis of all that Curiss stands for. A Stantion of Curiss can thus cast soul suck in order to sever the living dead's contacts with the realm of mortals, and take that negative planar power into themselves, converting it into their own life's energy. Thereafter, the soul remains within the body of the Stantion, giving him strength and a sense of purpose. Upon his death, the souls within the Stantion, including his own, travel to their separate afterlives, herded there by Curiss and his archons. For every level of the caster, the priest can affect one hit-die of undead. Thus, a 1st-level Stantion can soul suck a sentient, 1HD skeleton, and an 8th-level Stantion can soul suck a death knight. The Stantion invokes a prayer to Curiss, and at the limit of his faith's range, he can take the unliving soul into himself (provided it fails a save vs death magic). The soul remains his prisoner until his death, and can never harm him or others outside of its living prison. The Stantion can, of course, release the soul at will, though this is usually done within the confines of a church or temple that can deal with banishing the soul into the afterlife. The destructive capacity of this spell against the undead makes the Stantion -- and all priests of Curiss -- primary targets by the sentient undead. Liches and dread knights have been known to turn and flee from these priests because of their power to soul suck.
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