# Curse Ward

*2nd-level abjuration*  
**Casting Time:** 1 action  
**Range:** Touch  
**Components:** V, S  
**Duration:** 1 hour  
You reach out your hand and touch a willing creature within your reach, raising a smoke-like barrier around it. For the duration, the target has resistance to necrotic damage and can’t be cursed, possessed, or targeted by a hex. Also, its maximum hit points can’t  
be lowered. If the target is already affected by one of these effects, the effect is suspended until the spell ends.