Level: Pestilence 6
Components: V, S, M, DF
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Humanoid touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
Dipping your hand in blood and then gripping the target fiercely, you call on the curse of lycanthropy to destroy your foe.
If the target fails its saving throw, it dies, and 1d6 wererats (in hybrid form) claw their way out of its body. The wererats do not attack you or your allies, but might attack nearby living creatures. If no target is available, the wererats scurry away to spread their lycanthropy.
Material Component: A pint of animal blood.
Source: Spell Compendium, page 57. Previously published in Complete Divine, page 160, in which is was a very different spell that caused temporary lycanthropy rather than having wererats burst from the subject’s dead body. Since the spell is only used as a 6th-level Pestilence domain spell, this is clearly a replacement and the Complete Divine version is superseded by this one. Changed “(in wererat form)” to “(in hybrid form)” in the descriptive text, although it might actually mean “(in dire rat form)”. DM’s call.