Deathmark

School: Necromancy [Death]
Components: V,S
Range: Medium
Target: One living creature
Duration: Instantaneous, after a 1 minute delay
Saving Throw: Fortitude (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes

Deathmark condemns a creature to an inevitable yet shortcoming death. The creature(s) that inevitably die, however, may not only be the initial subject of this spell. This spell instead promotes even more death by cursing the subject (on a failed Fortitude save) with an impending doom, which is highly contagious. All creatures near the subject (or subsequently affected creatures) within the next minute are subject to contracting the curse (on failed Fortitude saves). After the one minute duration of the epidemic-like spread of the curse, all affected creatures must make a Fortitude save or else die.