Rotting Corpse

2nd-level · Necromancy

Casting Time 10 minutes

Range Touch

Components V, M (a rotting piece of flesh from an undead creature)

Duration 3 days

Classes Cleric, Warlock, Wizard

Your familiarity with the foul effects of death allows you to prevent a dead body from being returned to life using anything but the most powerful forms of magic.

You cast this spell by touching a creature that died within the last 24 hours. The body immediately decomposes to a state that prevents the body from being returned to life by the [raise dead](https://api.open5e.com/spells/raise-dead) spell (though a [resurrection](https://api.open5e.com/spells/resurrection) spell still works). At the end of this spell’s duration, the body decomposes to a rancid slime, and it can’t be returned to life except through a [true resurrection](https://api.open5e.com/spells/true-resurrection) spell.

At Higher Levels

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can affect one additional corpse for each slot level above 2nd.

Source: Deep Magic 5e · OGL/Open