Withering Cantrip

Area: Priestcræft, The Ethos of Gloomy DarknessGrade: 6Type: Cantrip

Time: 1 CT/10 STEEP specialArea: 1 or more subjectDistance: Touch or 1 rodMateria Cost: None

Other Heka Costs:

R&D: NilOther: Nil

E/F/M:

The Cantrip empowers the practitioner to cause withering in one or more subjects. The Effect being deliverable all at once or in lesser proportions. The entire dweorner is equal to the caster's STEEP in this K/S Sub-Area in years of aging. The caster's touch causes a single subject to wither arid age at the rate of one year per STEEP point. for as many years as the practitioner desires. up to the maxim um. If sent from a distance, it requires two points of aging to inflict one year Effect. Once all aging has been delivered, or the Time duration has run out, the Withering Cantrip is no longer active. but its effects on subjects remain until somehow removed. These effects are:

Note that this dweomer is effective even on subjects whose aging rate is longer than the human norm. Those with a shorter rate of aging will be slain by Withering in excess of their normal age expectancy. See also the Necromancy Casting, Withertouch in Chapter 9 of this book

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