[[Category:]] Spirit annihilation was a divine magic spell available to priests of Bane, the Black Hand. It completely destroyed the spirit of a dying or recently dead creature so it could never return or reveal information via speak with dead. After Bane's supposed death in the Year of Shadows, 1358 DR, Cyric granted spells to Banite priests for a decade, so it was possible this spell could be found within the church of Cyric. Otherwise, the only sources for this spell were scrolls penned in previous centuries and hidden in former Banite centers of power.