Kestrel's Skill Eraser
(Necromancy)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  Special
Casting Time:  5
Area of Effect:  Person touched
Saving Throw:  Negates

This spell makes a character completely forget a single weapon or nonweapon proficiency. The character thus affected forgets any knowledge about and loses any abilities granted by that particular proficiency, and may elect either to relearn that proficiency or to learn a new one. This learning process, however, takes the remainder of that character's present level. Basically, he will gain a proficiency slot when he attains his next level.
Each application of this spell only affects a single proficiency slot. For example, if a character had specialized in a weapon, the first use of the spell would erase the benefits of specialization but not the proficiency, and another use of the spell could then be used to erase the proficiency. Similarly, a proficiency requiring two slots (healing, for example) would only be reduced to half its normal ability check through a single use of this spell.
Use of this spell on an unwilling recipient requires a successful to-hit roll, and the subject still receives a saving throw versus spell. A priest's restoration spell or a wish can restore the lost proficiency slot immediately, if no new proficiency had been learnt yet. The material component is a leaf from a rubber plant, which must be rubbed on the person to be affected.

