Ecdysis

Ecdysis was a divine alteration spell from the animal sphere that rapidly accelerated a dragon's molting process.

Effects
This spell was only effective against living dragons, dragonets, dragon turtles, dracohydrae, and draconic hybrids. A target affected by ecdysis began to rapidly shed their scales, becoming more vulnerable with each passing minute. The shed scales turned to dust quickly so could not be gathered for spellcasting purposes. The spell's effects could be stopped, but not reversed, by dispel magic, remove curse, and cure disease. The dragon's recovery could be accelerated by heal, wish, and limited wish, otherwise the dragon would regrow their scales naturally at a rate of ten percent per day.

Components
In addition to verbal and somatic components, this spell required as material components the priest's holy symbol and a scale from any reptile to cast.

History
This spell was only granted to dragons by Null, the Death Wyrm.