A large spectral guardian appears and hovers for the duration in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range. The guardian manifests with a shape representing a deity, such as a pillar of gleaming light or a sword and shield emblazoned with a holy symbol.

Until the spell ends, the guardian alerts you mentally whenever a creature comes within 60 feet of the guardian as long as you are on the same plane of existence. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures the guardian will not alert you about. Any creature hostile to you that moves to a space within 10 feet of the guardian for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw. The creature takes 20 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The guardian vanishes when it has dealt a total of 60 damage.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage the guardian can deal before the spell ends increases by 20 for each spell level above 4th.