You cut your own body in a ritualistic manner, causing similar damage to a creature in your line of sight. These cuts are superficial and cause 1d4 slashing damage to you; however, the wounds that open up on our target's body are far deeper. The targeted creature takes 5d8 slashing damage; a creature that critically fails this saving throw also takes scaling bleed damage. If you cast this as a three-action spell, the spell instead affects a 5-foot burst.
Heightened (+1) Increase the damage dealt to the target by 1d8, and increase the persistent bleed damage by 1.
Traits
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can't perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.