Quote Originally Posted by pendell View Post
I do not dispute the rest of your post, but how did it take out Sabine? The spell's description does not imply any particular damage to devils or demons beyond the standard damage to all characters, and if I understand class & level geekery correctly , she's on par level with Nale and company, so would not suffer anything but deafening.

Respectfully,

Brian P.
She's a nongood extraplanar creature. Holy Word banishes those back to their home plane and prevents them from coming back for 24 hours. A successful will save can prevent this, but it's a substantially harder save than normal thanks to a special -4 penalty.