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Love's Lament

School: Enchantment
Subschool: Compulsion
Descriptor: Mind-Affecting
Level: Bard 3
Components: Verbal
Casting Time: 1 Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: Cone-shaped burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
Music has great power to enhance emotion. In particular, the emotions of joy and despair seem to be particularly tied to music. With this spell, you create a cone of music that draws upon the sadness, guilt, and despair of those within its area of effect. All creatures in the area who successfully resist the spell can still hear music and suffer a -4 penalty on Listen checks for 1 round.

Those who fail to save against Love's Lament are reminded of all their lost loves and disappointments in life. The music seizes upon these feelings and magnifies them, so that the victims of the spell take 1D6 points of WIS damage and are nauseated for 1D4 rounds.