Domain: Madness Domain: 6; Nightmare Subdomain: 4
Level: Arcanist: 4; Bloodrager: 4; Magus: 4; Sorcerer: 4; Witch: 4; Wizard: 4
Components: V, S
Casting time: 1 standard action
Range: medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Duration: instantaneous
Saving Throws: Will disbelief, then Fortitude partial; see text
Spell Resistance: yes
Target: one living creature
Description: Fearsome illusion kills subject or deals 3d6 damage.
You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the subject simply by forming the fears of the subject's subconscious mind into something that its conscious mind can visualize: this most horrible beast. Only the spell's subject can see the phantasmal killer. You see only a vague shape. The target first gets a Will save to recognize the image as unreal. If that save fails, the phantasm touches the subject, and the subject must succeed on a Fortitude save or die from fear. Even if the Fortitude save is successful, the subject takes 3d6 points of damage.
If the subject of a phantasmal killer attack succeeds in disbelieving and possesses telepathy or is wearing a helm of telepathy, the beast can be turned upon you. You must then disbelieve it or become subject to its deadly fear attack.