fear Spells
Cantrip
| Name | Traits | Description |
Dirge of Doom ![]() | UncommonBardCantripCompositionConcentrateEmotionFearMental | Enemies within the area are Frightened 1. |
Scrounger's Glee ![]() | UncommonAuditoryCantripConcentrateFearHexMentalWitch | With a cruel laugh and a flash of your canines, you make a target understand that death is coming to claim it and that its demise will serve to strengthen another. |
1st Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Ancestral Touch ![]() | UncommonEmotionFearFocusManipulateMentalOracle | You touch a creature and force them to see and feel the ancestors surrounding you. |
Crescent Scepter ![]() | UncommonEmotionFearFocusManipulateMentalVisualWizard | You hold up any object, which takes on the appearance of glowing regalia in the eyes of those who look on you, representing the political or religious institute most feared by each creature. |
Deathly Scream ![]() | UncommonAuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearFocusMentalNecromancer | Your thrall lets forth a spectral scream that pierces the mind. |
Debilitating Terror ![]() | UncommonConcentrateFearFocusIncapacitationMentalWizard | You fill the target's mind with terrifying images to disrupt their combat focus. |
Fear ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | You plant fear in the target; it must attempt a Will save. |
Hollow Heart ![]() | RareClericConcentrateEmotionFearFocusManipulateMental | You stoke the target's ambition beyond reason, until it believes no one is capable of helping it, or that others aren't to be trusted. |
Lift Nature's Caul ![]() | UncommonClericConcentrateFearFocusManipulateVisual | With a wave of the hand, you cause all creatures in the area to see the world around them as if a gauzy film had been lifted away to expose the truth that lies below their perceived reality. |
Waking Nightmare ![]() | UncommonClericConcentrateEmotionFearFocusManipulateMental | You fill the creature's mind with a terrifying vision. |
2nd Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Blistering Invective ![]() | AuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | A heap of insults and invectives spew from your mouth-words so devastating your foes burn from the intensity of your diatribe. |
Cutting Insult ![]() | UncommonAuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearLinguisticManipulateMental | You utter an insult so offensive that it cuts your target to the quick. |
Horrifying Blood Loss ![]() | UncommonConcentrateCurseEmotionFearMental | You curse the target, filling it with terror at the loss of its blood. |
Teeth to Terror ![]() | UncommonConcentrateFearIllusionManipulateMental | The target believes its teeth are falling out, crawling along its face, stabbing into its body, and cramming themselves down its throat. |
3rd Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Agonizing Despair ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | Your target's mind tumbles down a deep well of dread, dwelling so intently on deep-seated fears that it's painful. |
Horrific Visage ![]() | UncommonConcentrateEmotionFearFocusIllusionManipulateMentalSorcererVisual | You briefly transform your features into the horrific visage of a hag, striking fear into your enemies. |
Impending Doom ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearIncapacitationManipulateMentalPrediction | You sift through myriad potential futures, seize upon one potential moment in which the target meets a particularly gruesome and fatal end, and then show it a vision of its impending demise. |
| Mind of Menace | ConcentrateContingencyEmotionFearManipulateMental | This spell wards against those who attempt to subvert your mind and turns mental magic back on them. |
Threatening Mimicry ![]() | UncommonConcentrateEmotionFearFocusIllusionManipulateMentalRanger | You appear larger and stronger to nearby creatures, appearing to possess threatening features like antlers, claws, or poison to their senses. |
4th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Fearful Feast ![]() | UncommonClericFearFocusManipulateMental | |
Friends to Foes ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | You draw upon your past experiences of betrayal to plant thoughts of a friend turning on them in a creature's mind. |
Implement of Destruction ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | You solemnly declare that the target weapon will bring death to a foe, implanting an irrational fear of the weapon into the target enemy's mind. |
Phantasmal Killer ![]() | ConcentrateDeathEmotionFearIllusionManipulateMental | You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the target. |
Spiral of Horrors ![]() | UncommonAuraConcentrateEmotionFearFocusManipulateMentalWizard | Shades and spirits howl and whirl around you in a display that strikes fear into the hearts of all who witness it. |
Vision of Death ![]() | ConcentrateDeathEmotionFearManipulateMental | You force the target to see a vision of its own death. |
5th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Ancestral Winds ![]() | UncommonConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMentalVoid | You call on the same energies that manifest ancestor storms, summoning wailing spirits to terrorize your foes. |
Belittling Boast ![]() | UncommonAuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | You boast about your skills or combat prowess, bolstering your own abilities and belittling your opponents. |
| Dread Ambience | UncommonConsecrationEmotionFearMental | In some places, it feels as if the very land doesn't want you there. |
Invoke Spirits ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMentalVoid | Ragged apparitions of the dead rise to stalk the living. |
Shock and Awe ![]() | AuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearIllusionManipulateMentalVisual | You create the illusion of cannons exploding, bullets and arrows flying, and magical ballistics firing, as an overwhelming torrent of information, both visual and auditory. |
6th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Dread Secret ![]() | UncommonConcentrateEmotionFearFocusManipulateMentalOracle | You utter a powerful secret at odds with the fundamental nature of the target creatures. |
Missed Cue ![]() | RareConcentrateEmotionFearManipulateMental | You make the spell's target believe they had something incredibly important to say but forgot to say it, and now they've missed their opportunity. |
7th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Mask of Terror ![]() | ConcentrateEmotionFearIllusionManipulateMentalVisual | The target appears to be a gruesome and terrifying creature. |
8th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Canticle of Everlasting Grief ![]() | AuditoryConcentrateCurseEmotionFearManipulateMental | You create a melody distilled from pure grief, conveying the inevitable loss of everything your target cherishes, audible to only them. |
Hypnopompic Terrors ![]() | RareConcentrateEmotionFearIllusionIncapacitationManipulateMental | You send a wave of nightmarish visions crashing over your targets, leaving them paralyzed by fear. |
9th Level
| Name | Traits | Description |
Unfathomable Song ![]() | AuditoryConcentrateEmotionFearIncapacitationManipulateMental | Fleeting notes of a strange and unnatural song fill the air, overtaking the mind. |
Unspeakable Shadow ![]() | ConcentrateDeathEmotionFearIllusionManipulateMentalShadowVisual | You alter a creature's shadow, transforming it into a terrifying monster out to devour the creature. |
Weird ![]() | ConcentrateDeathEmotionFearIllusionManipulateMental | You fill the targets' minds with terrifying images of fearsome creatures, each drawn from the targets' worst fears. |



