Vampiric Strain

This spell is a part of the Fang spell chain and can be found in the Fang rune stone.

Pain does not only give power to the necromancer's spells. Sometimes it gives something more immediate and more physical than that, a temporary reshaping of what the necromancer is, a brief and instructive glimpse of what they could become if they were willing to go further down this particular path. Vampiric Strain is Pain's first offering in that direction. An invitation, dressed up as a gift.

When this spell is cast Pain moves through the necromancer's body with a swiftness that is almost startling. The skin pales. The canine teeth lengthen and sharpen into something that was not there before. The necromancer feels the change arrive and settle, and with it comes something else. There is a pull, faint but unmistakable, toward the warmth and life of whatever living thing stands nearest. Pain has given them the means and provided the appetite. What the necromancer does with both is their own choice. Each round the necromancer may move into melee range and bite, which is a deliberate and slightly undignified act that Pain finds entirely appropriate. The bite deals 1d10 Vitality damage to the target, and every point of that damage flows back into the necromancer, restoring their own Vitality in equal measure. Pain takes nothing extra here. The feeding itself is the cost, it is  the necromancer choosing, round by round, how much of this they are willing to be. When the duration ends the fangs recede and the color returns, or most of it does. Pain leaves its marks in subtle ways. The necromancer may notice, for some time after, that their eye lingers a moment longer than it should on the pulse point of a throat.