Constrict

This spell is a part of the Mourning Bell spell chain and is found in the Mourning Bell rune stone.

Pain does not always announce itself as a strike or a blade or a sudden force. Sometimes Pain arrives as a presence - something that wraps itself around you slowly, deliberately, with the particular patience of something that knows it has already won. That is the nature of Constrict, and it is why the necromancer who reaches for this spell does so not in desperation but with a cold and quiet certainty. 

When the necromancer casts Constrict, they draw upon the dark symbol of death magic, Pain, coaxing it outward from their runic soul and directing it toward the target with focused intent. Pain obliges, manifesting as a dense, suffocating cloud of death magic that descends upon the target and begins to tighten. It wraps the arms, the torso, the chest - everywhere that effort and will and the act of fighting requires. It does not immobilize the target entirely. The target can still move, still place their feet, still turn to face what is coming. But every attempt to raise their arms, to swing, to strike, to reach for a weapon is met with the full crushing weight of the spell pressing inward. The magic does not merely restrain. Pain also punishes the attempt. Each round the target is held within Constrict they suffer 4d10 magic damage as the death magic feeds upon them, tightening further with every breath, every futile struggle against it. Pain, after all, has always been most interested in those who still insist on fighting back. The necromancer winces each time Pain deals damage to the constricted, not out of empathy but because each time Pain harms the target, Pain takes a little from the necromancer - dealing 1d10 magic damage to the necromancer each time. Pain always collects its due, no matter how much Pain is enjoying its work.