> [!note|no-i] # Phylactery of the Undying > **Range:** Special > **Duration:** Special > > *Phylactery of the Undying* is an example of Ritual Magic (p.111). This particular ritual requires seven weeks to enact, and seven special reagents from the *Ritual Magic* table. Once complete, you bind your soul into an object (the phylactery) within Melee range. Once within the phylactery, you may spend an action to project your life force and possess the bodies of other creatures, provided they remain within Close range of the phylactery and fail a *Luck* (Will) save. You may return your life force to the phylactery at any time, and if a body you control is slain, your life force returns to the phylactery. If the phylactery is broken while your soul inhabits it, the [[Spell List|spell]] ends and you die. If your body is destroyed while your life force inhabits the phylactery, you are trapped until you can possess another body. If your soul returns to your own body the [[Spell List|spell]] ends. The forbidden art of phylactery imbuement is particularly complex, taxing, and dangerous. Each time you possess a body you trigger a [[Dark and Dangerous Magic|DDM]] suffer a Madness, and lose 1 point of *Luck*.