Yokebond
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (two links of a broken chain, which the spell rejoins)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute (concentration)
Description
You touch two willing creatures within range, or one other creature and yourself, and bind their fortunes together with a weightless yoke of warded light. The bond stretches between them like a slack chain of glass, and neither creature's movement is hindered by it.
While the bond holds, whenever either bonded creature takes damage, that creature can choose to share the burden. It takes half the damage (rounded down) and the other bonded creature takes the remainder. Damage transferred this way cannot itself be halved, redirected, or reduced by another casting of this spell, and it does not trigger the bond a second time.
The yoke shatters, ending the spell, if the bonded creatures end their turns more than 60 feet apart, if either drops to 0 hit points, or once the bond has transferred a total of 30 damage.
At Higher Levels
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the yoke can transfer an additional 10 damage before it shatters for each slot level above 3rd.
Spell List
Artificer, Cleric, Paladin